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Rare Breed Poultry & Waterfowl 🐣🪿 Nigerian Dwarf & Nubian Goats 🐐 Kunekune 🐷 Flowers & Bread 🌻🥖

05/15/2026

Hey everyone, quick farm update since I’ve been getting messages asking about current pre orders and the availability for chicks and eggs for rest of the season here at Mockingbird Homestead. 🖤

All remaining hatching egg preorders will be shipped out and fully caught up within the next 2–3 weeks. Thank you all so much for the patience this season. UPS has been amazing at quick deliveries and customer hatch rates have been AMAZING 🥰

Chick shipping this spring honestly came to a halt on and off because of the constant weather fluctuations up here in the East Tennessee mountains. As everyone who knows me already knows, I do not ship live chicks when temps are under 45–50°F on either end because their safety comes first, always. We’ve had way more random cold snaps than normal this year and honestly… I am very over the cold at this point. 😤

Last night should have been our final cold snap, so fingers crossed it’s finally all sunshine and warm weather ahead and no more freezing temps.

All remaining chick orders will continue shipping through June and into July, along with local pickup availability during that time as well. Please check your emails for tracking so you know when chicks will be shipping out! The goal is to officially end chick season by mid July so I can fully focus on farm projects and getting everything set up and organized for next season.

I will not be taking any additional chick orders for the 2026 season. However, I will still be posting small batches of ready to ship hatching eggs to the website here and there as they become available weekly, so make sure you’re subscribed to website/email updates because those listings tend to go quickly.

As most of you know, I unexpectedly had to move the farm last year and there’s still so much behind-the scenes work happening daily between buildings, coops, breeder pens, and infrastructure projects. Ending the season a little earlier this year is honestly the best decision long term for both the animals and my sanity.

Thank you guys again for all the support this season. 🖤

05/12/2026

🐣 GIVEAWAY WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT 🐣

Thank you SO much to everyone who entered the Spring Rainbow Hatching Egg Giveaway and shared all your sweet comments about hatching chicks and loving colorful eggs 🥹I loved reading through them all.

Congratulations to our winner!!!

✨ DeeDee Shaw ✨

Please send the page a message with your shipping information so I can get your rainbow hatching eggs packed up and headed your way🥚📦

Thank you again to everyone who entered and continues to support my small farm. There will definitely be more fun giveaways in the future 🖤

05/01/2026

🐣SPRING RAINBOW HATCHING EGG GIVEAWAY! 🌈

Figured we’d have a little fun this spring and do a giveaway from the flock 🖤

These will be a surprise set of rainbow hatching eggs (12+) pulled straight from my pens. Lots of variety, and some really fun genetics behind them.

Breeds may include:

Ayam Cemani
Splash Polish
Black Copper Marans
Multigenerational Olive Eggers
Black Ameraucana
Self Blue (Lavender) Ameraucana
Double Laced Silver Barnevelders
Fibro Eggers
Paint Silkies
BBS Silkies

✨ How to enter:

1. Follow this page
2. Share this post
3. Tag a friend & tell me why you love hatching eggs (or why you need more chickens 😉)

One winner will receive a surprise set of eggs from my flock.

🖤No color or breed requests will be offered or accepted. The only exception is no bantams if you don’t have the room, just mention that in your comment.🖤

📅 Giveaway runs May 1st – May 10th
📦 Eggs will ship May 11th

I ship in foam, double boxed. As always, no hatching guarantees or replacements due to the nature of shipped eggs.

Good luck 🤍

04/30/2026

Cold, rainy spring, gloomy day… but the girls are still putting in the work 🐣
Collected some eggs in peace and silence this morning, completely unplugged, and honestly… this is the kind of peace I’m choosing.

I hopped on here real quick after deciding to spend less time on social media and being in my busy season it’s quite nice…and uhmmm WOW… the chicken world lately? Are y’all okay?!
So much drama. So much cutthroat behavior. And way too many lies spread around.

I get it, times are weird, sales might be slower, and Facebook loves chaos… but this is just embarrassing at this point.

After 8 years of doing this, I’ve seen a lot, and sure chicken drama has always been a thing…but lately both customers and some of these newer “breeders” are just unhinged. Stepping on other people’s hard work, lying or tearing them down isn’t going to make you better… it’ll catch up to you.

Go outside. Garden. Get some sun when it comes back. Touch some dirt. Get off social media! This ain’t a reality show.

04/09/2026

🚨 RESTOCK ALERT (SELECT BREEDS ONLY) 🚨

We are officially caught up on preorders for select breeds and eggs are BACK IN STOCK + shipping immediately / weekly.

Available🐣:

• Splash Polish
• Paint Silkies
• BBS Silkies
• Ayam Cemani
• Black Ameraucana

No waitlist on these breeds. No delays. These are going out weekly every Monday & Tuesday!

If you’ve been watching, waiting, or missed out before over the years, this is your opportunity. 🖤

🔗 mockingbirdhomestead.com

04/05/2026

Just a quick update for everyone with current orders 🐣🐥

Orders are continuing to move out in the order they were placed, and the past two months have been really smooth on the shipping side.

I’ve been using UPS more consistently this season for hatching eggs, and the difference has been noticeable. Transit times have been more predictable and I’ve been getting far fewer delays compared to what we dealt with previously.

I’ve also been getting updates coming in of successful hatches, which is always good to see.

If you have an order in, just know things are moving and I’ll continue sending tracking as boxes go out.

Chick orders are starting to ship out this month continuing on through June. USPS Express is the only way to ship live chicks unfortunately- however so far they have been arriving in a timely matter and safe and sound as compared to last season where so many chick orders were arriving 10+ days late.

Thank you to everyone who has been patient and understanding — it doesn’t go unnoticed. 🖤

04/04/2026

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has placed orders this season and to those who have reached out with updates once their eggs hatched.

I’ve had a steady flow of messages coming in with hatch updates and chick photos. It’s always appreciated to get these updates and puts a smile on my face.

This is a slower, more hands-on process compared to large hatcheries, but seeing those results come back makes it worth it.

More orders are going out this week all shipped via UPS as they have been amazing to work with this year as opposed to USPS and their never ending delays- and I’ll continue working through all pre orders in order of which they were placed. Thanks Ya’ll 🖤

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Del Rio, TN
37727

Telephone

+18325370151

Website

https://mockingbirdhomestead.com/

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