Cluckingham Farm & Bun-Squad Rabbitry

03/25/2026

This little bantam CALL duck (full grown) is my most vocal. She chats with me all day💜
All my incubators are full with Call Duck eggs & will be allllllll summer.
Message me for information🦆💜

03/24/2026

03/24/2026

Call ☎️ Ducks💜They’re tiny, girls are LOUD, they fly really good! I LOVE mine!
The ducklings I hatched out have all gone to new homes. They go QUICKLY. But..there’s several on LD & bators are all full. Keep an 👁️ out 🦆

02/03/2026

Ice Apocalypse 2026…Day 11
I finally fell last night trying to catch a possum that was attempting to get in my duck enclosure. I first attempted to let my “livestock GUARDIAN dog” take care of it. She sniffed it a few times and walked away!!!

01/19/2026

Has anyone seen the forecast for this weekend⁉️Well, here is the official one👇🏼

01/19/2026

Tester project last year. It was fun making this. As it got hotter, it was tough keeping the bottom sufficiently watered. But overall FUN & pretty productive! I won’t do it again this year tho. New tester project including corn/large nursery pots & a baby pool🤷🏼‍♀️
Never know till ya try…..

01/16/2026

Growing ⬇️FODDER⬇️
One way I supplement my chickens feed.
Cinder blocks (I already had) the top grate is from a disassembled hutch. (I save EVERYTHING) it all comes in handy eventually. I fill HALF WAY with dirt. If not, the chickens will rip out the entire plant root & all. During the winter, I plant Rye & 7 top turnips. I just drop in the seed. It grows ALL winter here in Tennessee.
This is in their uncovered run.

01/14/2026

Now ya know…..

Alright so here's something most people don't actually know about chickens.
How chickens mate:
Roosters and hens don't have the same parts as mammals. Both of them have this one opening called a cloaca. It handles everything - waste and reproduction.
When they mate, the rooster hops on the hen's back for just a few seconds. Their cloacas touch and that's it. People call it a "cloacal kiss" which sounds way fancier than it actually is. It's super quick.
Here's the interesting part:
When that contact happens, s***m gets transferred to the hen. But she doesn't use it right away. She actually stores it inside her body and can keep it viable for days or even weeks.
So one mating session can fertilize multiple eggs over time. She doesn't need the rooster around constantly.
The egg thing everyone gets confused about:
Hens lay eggs whether there's a rooster around or not. If you have backyard hens and no rooster, you're still getting eggs every day.
The difference is those eggs will never hatch into chicks. They're unfertilized.
Only eggs from a hen that's mated with a rooster can develop into baby chicks.
So yeah, your breakfast eggs from hens with no rooster? Those were never going to be chicks anyway.
Pretty efficient system when you think about it. Nature figured out a way for hens to mate once and get multiple fertilized eggs out of it instead of needing the rooster there every single time.

01/10/2026

Sign up today to start our yearly Fayette County Master Gardener class!!! You have a little less than a week. All the contact info you need is in the pic👇🏼we would love to have you!!

12/24/2025

I’m READY👇🏼👇🏼Merry Christmas everyone. God Bless you & your families.

12/14/2025

Cluckingham Farm Rabbit-“tree” won 2nd place this year❣️Try explaining the difference in a Rabbitry/rabbit tree at a festival of trees!
My Master Gardeners tree won 3rd! My Farm Bureau Women’s group tree & my churches tree, FBCM were so beautiful! They did an excellent job planning & decorating!
My friend Christie’s Operation Shoebox tree was super cool. We are all so thankful & blessed to be a small part of Carl Perkins Child Advocacy Center - Fayette
Help support these guys all year!