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Welcome to Fowl Play Farms—Ozarks raised emu and ostrich! We offer lean, Alpha-Gal-friendly meat, eggs, and other traditional poultry and fowl.

03/07/2026

Not sure who had the tougher week… me or this little guy.

The main downside of running a continuous incubation model is that every once in a while you end up with a chick that’s a little… confused about who Dad/Mom is

Apparently somewhere between the incubator and the brooder box he decided my wife and I are his parents.

And I’ve only been gone a week… yet somehow the wife has already managed to spoil our first chick of the season, whether it ends up part of the breeding stock or somebody’s future dinner.

Now he refuses to stay in the brooder box and insists on riding around like he’s part of the household staff.

I’m not sure if this is good poultry management…or if we’ve accidentally started imprinting training at Fowl Play Farms.

Either way, the chick seems pretty confident he outranks me in the farm-household hierarchy. 😆

02/22/2026

🚨 Breaking News from the Maternity Ward at Fowl Play Farms 🚨

Approximately, five minutes ago, our first clutch of the year officially began hatching.

After 40-something days of intense negotiations inside that egg, this little nugget has finally filed the paperwork for independence.

Current status:
• Wet
• Confused
• Slightly offended by gravity
• Already judging my farming skills

The incubator has been upgraded to a Level-5 NICU (Newly Introduced Chick Unit), temperature monitored more closely than the Missouri budget, and I’ve checked on it roughly 87 times in the last hour—purely for professional reasons.

Welcome to the world, kid.

You have no idea you’re about to grow into a 5–6 foot dinosaur that eats my wallet for months… right up until you reach the optimal size for us to return the favor. 😂

🥚➡️🦖

01/13/2026

That moment of pure, bone-deep relief when you have to move your entire mob right in the middle of egg season… you mentally prepare yourself for the worst, assume production is toast, start doing the math on lost eggs, lost sleep, and lost sanity

…and then, somehow, because Emu are both sensative to change and indestructible at the same time, the hens shrug it off, settle in, and are back to laying in under a week like nothing ever happened.

Meanwhile, you’re over here looking like you just survived a natural disaster, negotiating with birds, apologizing to them like they’re coworkers, and questioning every life choice that led you to moving livestock during peak production.

Farm lesson of the week:

• Avoid moving big birds during egg season

• Except when you absolutely have to

• And if you do, prepare for the worst and mitigate stress like you’re running a hostage negotiation

• Be genuinely grateful when the girls decide to forgive you and start laying again anyway

Crisis averted. Eggs secured. Dad stress level reduced from DEFCON 1 to mild eye twitch.

12/27/2025

Well… of course they did.

The emu hens finally decided now was the perfect time to start laying. Specifically, after I crossed state lines and went on vacation.

Months of waiting. Daily checks. Pleading with them nicely. Patient optimism.

And the second I leave Missouri?

BOOM. Giant green footballs start showing up like it’s no big deal.

Apparently emus prefer an audience of anyone but the owner 🤣.

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