Bayou Magnolia Homestead & Ranch

10/09/2026

Just two hens investigating the barn and seeing bacon bits run around for the first time in their life.

Happy Friday yall! Just a reminder today is the last day to get egg orders in for the egg drop off tomorrow!

10/08/2026

Nellie says, support your local egg dealer and get your preorders in for our biweekly egg drop in Metairie and Kenner THIS Saturday!

•Hens are fed high quality local milled feed plus… added texture grains and average about 18%-20% protein in their feed.
• Fruits and veggies are added to their diet
• All birds have opportunity to free range.
• Refrigerated, unwashed eggs are good for 2-3 months, non refrigerated unwashed eggs are good for about a month
• We do refrigerate our eggs to ensure they stay edible longer but can take unrefrigerated egg orders on request. (We do not recommend attempting to leave our eggs on the counter unless you have requested unrefrigerated eggs, as the condensation from the temperature change may wash off the protective bloom that keeps farm fresh eggs so fresh!)
•We have egg colors ranging from white, tan, brown, dark brown, greens, and blues and we do our best and arrange cartons to try and make sure everyone gets a pretty carton!
•Egg drops are days designed to create an easy way to bring farm fresh eggs into neighborhoods in the suburbs without you having to leave your house and meet us somewhere or come to the farm. We bring them to your doorstep!
•Each bird on our farm is named and known on a personal level and treated like we would treat any family member. You can guarantee that the producer of your eggs is treated with kindness, respect, and given the best amount of care we can offer. (Say goodbye to factory farming and cramming birds in metal cages the entirety of their lives. Happy birds=better eggs which is what we strive for)

$5 a dozen $4 dollars a dozen for returning customers that return my egg cartons

Limited supply duck eggs also available at $6 a dozen. Holiday season is quickly approaching and any baking dishes you have will taste so much better with farm fresh duck eggs.

Message us today to reserve your dozen (or dozenS 😉).

10/07/2026

We are watching this very closely! Luckily we’re more inland than we used to be but we have lots of critters to be worried about. All my other fellow livestock owners, friends and family, everyone will be in my prayers as we hope this doesn’t bring us anything more than some extra rain.

Tropical Depression Nine has formed this afternoon and is expected to become Hurricane Isaias on approach to the Gulf Coast this weekend.

The first forecast calls for a 100 MPH Category 2 at landfall near the MS/AL border.

It remains early, but residents of Southeast Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle are in the cone and should keep an eye on these developments.

10/06/2026

Farm Highlight for October:

This month’s farm highlight is Rosie. Rosie is an 11 month old Cinnamon Queen. We have two here on the farm and we love them dearly.

Cinnamon Queens are technically not a “true” breed but rather a hybrid. They are the result of a Rhode Island Red rooster over a Silver Laced Wyandotte hen. They are also a sex-linked bird which means you can tell male from female the moment they hatch by coloring.

Cinnamon queens are prolific layers and will lay large-extra large brown eggs starting at only 4-5 months old. They produce roughly 250-300 eggs per year!

They make great backyard chickens because they tend to be friendly and curious birds. Rosie expresses that breed standard perfectly! They are also heavy bodied so can be used dual purpose for eggs and meat.

Rosie enjoys sunbathing outside, mealworms, and roosting with the guineas. She is one to always hang out by your feet and beg for snacks. One notable difference Rosie has compared to others in her coop is that she is so much quieter than the other hens. Thank you Rosie for your hard work at producing eggs! 🥚

10/06/2026

🥹 I literally can’t handle the cuteness. Babies will be available next month! They are bright, active, playing, nursing well, and enjoying long naps.

09/27/2026

These images contain wounds so please scroll if you’re sensitive to wounds.

Harley’s sutures were able to come out today! I debated on this because as you can see it’s not full closed and healed up, however after examining it closer it’s closed enough, and considering the sutures popped seemingly way before they were supposed to come out, I decided it was safe to remove what was left. Now that it’s getting air and can dry out I suspect it’ll scab over and be fine. The second laceration they found however that is at the top of her heel bulb at the back of her foot and extends to the midway point of her frog (fleshy triangle tissue under the foot and the most sensitive part of her foot) still requires a duct tape hoof bandage that gets changed every few days. We are watching this one closely due to the higher risk of developing proud flesh, which is essentially when granulation tissue extends outward from the wound which can compromise the healing process and need to be debrided to get the wound to completely heal. It otherwise seems to be healing pretty nicely so far. It gets flushed during bandage changes with a diluted chlorohexidine solution, and sprayed with a manuka honey wound spray. My hope is that it heals well enough before we get all this extra rain later this week and the ground gets sloppy which will make it significantly more difficult to keep clean.

Fall weather has started happening and I couldn’t be more excited! Breezy, sunny and tolerable weather makes life so much easier! The animals are happier so I’m happier.

As you may have seen from my previous post we have piglets! They will be up for grabs in November. A good home is a must!

09/21/2026

👀😍 oops? I had literally just gotten an estimate to have Wilbur neutered the other day. I was mad…. Until I got a good look at them.

09/18/2026

This post contains images of blood so if you’re sensitive to blood please don’t scroll through..

We have had quite the week here at the farm….

Harley, our 22 year old horse kicked the tractor bucket Tuesday night. I initially didn’t think it was that bad, haltered her, took her to a hose and started hosing her leg to better assess the damage… yeah that’s when blood came spurting out of her back leg. Immediately I called a friend for advice for that immediate moment and tried to call her vet which I received no response from. The blood kept coming. She couldn’t stand in one spot for more than a few seconds without a puddle developing under her feet. My friend called another friend and another vet and the suggestion was to just keep wrapping it as much as I could with as much as I could to get the bleeding to stop. I was obviously in a panic, and not thinking straight. I threw towels, gauze, two layers of vet wrap…. It kept bleeding through. Just putting gauze on it and holding w pressure with my hand, the gauze practically melted being so full of blood. Even after wrapping it blood was still soaking through. I found kinseology tape and used a whole roll wrapping. Found more vet wrap and used that… eventually I ran out of wrapping materials and while the blood wasn’t soaking through anymore… it was dripping down underneath. My yard looked like a violent crime scene, my stall looked like a crime scene, I looked like a crime scene. So we got the trailer loaded her up and I hauled butt to LSU. It was dark, my trailer running lights were not working properly, I was by myself and I didn’t know if my horse was still standing in the back of the trailer. Ran a few lights and stop signs and after an hour finally arrived. She was standing thank God but my trailer looked like a crime scene. They bring her to the hospital barn while I gave medical history. I sat in the dark in the parking lot next to one lonely cow that would moo every so often praying that they got the bleeding to stop. After about 30 minutes another car pulls up and a man walks inside. Maybe another hour later they come out to talk to me. The man I had seen pull in was a surgeon they had called in. Harley had managed to cut her lateral plantar digital artery. They informed me that my wrap job likely kept enough pressure that she didn’t bleed out or need a transfusion. They went in and closed off both sides of the artery and bandaged her up. They explained the actual laceration was about an inch long but just deep enough to open the artery ONLY on top the artery…. Because why not? She’s been instructed stall rest for two weeks 20 tabs of antibiotics a day. And after the two weeks the sutures come out and she can go about normal activities. So I walked my blood soaked self to the small animal clinic (I’m sure they were traumatized just looking at me) paid my bill loaded her up an brought her home incredibly thankful that I still had a horse and that she survived that ordeal. The next day, I went to go give her her medication in the morning before work and I saw a blood seeping through her bandage. Well I come from vet med, just not large animal vet med, so I knew some blood wouldn’t be awful but this seemed like a lot so I called the vet to find out if it was.. a few hours waiting on a call back and the vet said “no…. I’d bring her in… I wouldn’t have expect her to bleed through at all. If it was the size of a quarter I wouldn’t be concerned but if it’s more than that I’d bring her in to be safe. So hooked up my trailer and went BACK to lsu. They opted to keep her overnight for observation to make sure that artery didn’t open back up and go back in and close it if it did. So she stayed the night. Yesterday morning the vet called and explained she had stopped bleeding, but they did find an additional laceration on her heel that they felt happened after this one (I.e. she was being stupid locked in her stall at home because opening and artery just wasn’t good enough) so her leg wrap extended into a leg wrap AND a duct tape hoof boot to try and keep the new laceration as clean and dry as possible. So after my 10 hour shift… hooked up the trailer, and drove back to lsu to pick her up. So needless to say I’m exhausted and have had zero time to catch up on sleep and won’t until Sunday. Harley is in jail for the next two weeks. Or time out I should say, and her baby that’s not actually her baby has not left her side:

09/10/2026

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