Moonlight Valley Farm, LLC

06/01/2026

Our first Temminck's Tragopan Pheasant chick hatched yesterday (incubated in a MaticoopX Incubator) and it is resting comfortably in the brooder with a few Reeves Pheasant chicks and some newly hatched Silkie chicks. 🐣🐥

05/31/2026

Here are a few pics and videos from around the farm from yesterday and this morning (additional pics and videos in comments). Our wild waterfowl are still nesting and laying eggs. We just turned on another GQF cabinet incubator for the wild waterfowl eggs after filling another GQF yesterday. All of our smaller incubators are also full of pheasant and wild waterfowl eggs, so hoping for good hatch rates and fertility.

We still have 1 blonde female and 4 blonde male emu chicks available. We have 3 more emu eggs due to hatch this week and then these will be the last emu chicks for this season and we won't have anymore available until next season. https://www.moonlightvalleyfarm.com/emu-rare-white-emus-c-29/

We also have started Lady Amherst pheasant chicks available for local pickup at our farm in Aspers PA (we do not ship). https://www.moonlightvalleyfarm.com/waterfowl-pheasants-c-49/

05/27/2026

I've been taking advantage of the rainy days and have been DNA testing some of our young waterfowl. However, I quickly realized that an 8 sample PCR thermal cycler isn't nearly enough, so another is on order to double the amount of samples we can run at one time. Here are some pics of some of the young waterfowl and their DNA results. Some of these will be available in the coming weeks (however, the ones noted NFS are not for sale).

05/25/2026

05/24/2026

Here are a few of the little ones from this weekend's hatches.

Common Shelducks, Marbled Teal, Rosy Billed Pochard and Lady Amherst pheasants. 🐣

05/20/2026

Mid Week Farm Update:

Temps have been in the mid 90's the past several days, so we added a misting fan to our large aviary a few days ago. We won't be needing it for the rest of the week though, as temps will drop back down to the 50's and 60's this weekend. Our Red Breasted Geese stood near the fan and in the shade to stay cool during this early heat wave. One of the Red Breasted geese has laid a clutch of 4 eggs. We removed a 6 ft black snake from the aviary today after he consumed 3 Common Shelduck eggs and 2 Rosy Billed Pochard eggs, unfortunately. We are grateful that he didn't find the Red Breasted goose nest!

We had 2 White Female Emu chicks hatch a few days ago and they have been added to the website this evening. We still have DNA'd blonde males and blonde female emu chicks available from last week's hatch as well as a 3 week old white female and the 2 newest white female emu chicks. We are down to the last emu chicks for this season as there are just a few more eggs due to hatch around 6/4 (with only 3 eggs showing signs of viability so far).

‼️REMINDER: We are still offering a Memorial Day Multi Emu Chick discount pricing tier until Monday May 26, 2026. For details, visit our website at: https://www.moonlightvalleyfarm.com/emu-rare-white-emus-c-29/?disp_order=8

Here are a few pics from around the farm today...

05/17/2026

The website has been updated with availability of emu chicks that hatched this past week. There are 18 emu chicks available from this weeks hatch (plus a white female from the last hatch) -- this is the best selection we've had so far this season and these are some of the final emu chicks for the 2026 season as we only have a few more eggs in the incubator ‼️‼️

Their pickup dates are: Tuesday 5/26/26 through Sun 6/7/26.

Reminder: We are having a special Memorial Day Multi-Emu Chick SALE from NOW UNTIL MONDAY 5/26 for any emu chick orders placed during that time. Discounts will automatically apply during the checkout process. See photo in comments for the discount tiers.

https://www.moonlightvalleyfarm.com/emu-rare-white-emus-c-29/

05/16/2026

Busy busy day....as I forgot to turn the waterfowl eggs this morning and ran upstairs to turn them before a customer picked up emu chicks, I come to the incubator to find these little cuties staring at me! Needless to say, I'm behind on candling the eggs...lol!

We had 10 of the 11 Marbled Teal eggs hatch as well as 2 regular Mandarins and a Red Crested Pochard and there are still 2 mystery eggs due to hatch that were in with the Marbled Teal's nest.

05/15/2026

🦢We have some new additions to the farm. These are Mute Swan cygnets (the smaller cygnets) We just moved them in to our garage brooder with a few of our black swan cygnets today.

Note: there are 5 mute swan cygnets - 4 lighter white colored cygnets and 1 cygnet that almost looks identical to the black swan cygnets and is darker grey. The creamy white mute swan cygnets are a color morph of the Royal Mute Swans (which is a genetic mutation known as Leucism). They are referred to as "Polish Mute Swans" due to their lighter coloration and unlike the "Royal Mute Swans" that will have black legs as adults, the Polish Mutes will have pinkish brown legs and feet as adults. We have 3 females and 2 males in this group and are currently looking to add another bloodline, so if you know of any mute cygnets available, please feel free to reach out to us via PM.

05/15/2026

🟢‼️ 🇺🇸 Have you been considering adding emus to your farm? Now is your opportunity to start a small mob of emus as we have added additional discounts for multiple emu chicks purchases made NOW through Memorial Day, Monday 5/26/26.

Orders must be placed on the website under one order (discounts will calculate automatically at checkout - NO coupon code required). Not valid on previous orders or multiple orders.

We are still finalizing DNA testing for the group of 17 emu chicks that hatched this week and they will be listed on the website to be able to reserve/order in the next day or so. Their pickup dates are Tuesday 5/27/26 through Sun 6/7/26. Please PM us if you have any questions.

https://www.moonlightvalleyfarm.com/emu-rare-white-emus-c-29/