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Mauve Meadows Homestead

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Mauve Meadows Homestead

Small homestead in west central Ohio growing kids, plants, and chickens.

10/07/2025

Why do these ducks hate me? 😂I searched high and low and everywhere in between for these eggs.

08/04/2025

Downsizing my flocks, because I’m so busy. I’ve got a variety of hens, roosters, and even some young Khaki Campbell ducks that I’ve hatched. If you’re interested in adding to your current flock or want to jump right in with a starter flock, LET ME KNOW.

05/23/2025

Sent these babies to their new home today!! That blonde naked neck mix is the star of the show though. The rest are gazing upon it in adoration. My boys are mad I didn’t hold this one back, but it was a rough hatch and my humidity was messy at the end. There were no extras left. 🥹

05/17/2025

Spring is full of so much hope. It’s like I can finally breathe again. Long grey winters are hard on us. There’s a heavy gloom, despite all our coping skills. BUT everything is blooming - my favorite peonies in a handcrafted cup by the talenyed, multifaceted artist, Stephen Gesek; black raspberries that I got as starts from The Roaring Mouse-Coffee Roasters; and all the wonderfully fragrant herbs in my garden. The burdock and catnip abound and I will let them stay. They’re great for soil health and the animals like them. Plus the catnip makes for great teas and healing herbal infusions. The root of the burdock plant is great for medicinal uses as well.

05/08/2025

It’s like when you would buy a toy for your kids when they were little and they preferred to play with the box and wrapping paper over the toy. 😂🥹

05/05/2025

Lots of chicken eggs available! $4/dozen from hens that are free ranged and fed locally made Non GMO feed. I’ve also got a dozen duck eggs available for $6. 🥚🍳🐣🦆

04/18/2025

Welcome to the world, little one.

This duckling had pipped and not progressed for almost 48 hours so I assisted in its entrance into the world. It was so exhausted by the time I got it out. I try not to intervene unless necessary, as it’s a delicate process and not always successful. Today was a happy ending though!

03/26/2025

I’ve got 3 dozen washed eggs and 3 dozen unwashed eggs available 🥚 🍳 $4/dozen from hens that are free ranged and fed locally made NON Gmo feed. Pick up or meet in Greenville ❤️

03/21/2025

I just googled “fertilized duck egg” to make sure that I knew what I was looking for - I was assuming it was the same as a fertilized chicken egg, which has a pretty distinct white bullseye on the yolk. Without much thought, I clicked on images to confirm my assumption. In hindsight, I should have added more than just those three words to the search bar, because I forgot about balut and prepared balut is the only image that showed up on my screen. I felt judgemental towards people who choose to consume this dish for a moment, but then I thought about how there are things I consume that other cultures would be appalled by. This world is a fascinating place filled with so many unique cultures and that google search made me appreciative of how similar and yet very different we all are.

Here’s a picture of my duck eggs that will not be used for balut, but for hatching or eating. These eggs look dirty, because ducks are dirty and lay their eggs whereever they please. Usually they’re somewhere in or around the coop. Other times they’re on the deck or randomly in the yard

For reference: Balut is a developing duck egg embryo that is boiled or steamed and eaten from the shell, whole. This dish is popular in many south Asian countries and is thought to have originated in China and then introduced to the Philippines by traders that settled along the shoreline during the 16th century.

02/09/2025

I JUST SAW THE PRICE OF EGGS 😂🥴☠️ I’d heard, but $5 for a dozen Walmart eggs is wild.
If you’re local and need some, my prices are still cheaper than the store AND they’re tastier and better for you.

12/22/2024

I finally decorated for Christmas today. Life’s been heavy, lately - just like it is for many people. I did super enjoy decorating my mantle though. We found the forever home for the ceramic cup from the dear Peggy Robinson and Stefan Gesek (https://www.stefangesek.com/). It fits perfectly there.

I’ve prepped for cold weather and the birds are all hanging in there. The ducks seem to be enjoying the snow and cold (whenever it decides to briefly visit us) more so than the chickens. The number of daily eggs has dropped significantly - sometimes zero, but that’s ok. We don’t supplement with light to encourage year round laying. They need to rest, just like us. We have began using our water glassed eggs, in addition to our fresh eggs. They taste normal, but the yolks are runny. I’m going to trial putting some in the fridge to see if they firm up for when we want them sunny side up style.

12/12/2024

I glanced out my window today to find a hawk feasting on one of my chickens. I ran out there and the hawk was entirely unbothered. He left his lunch and perched upon the top of the fence. I spotted a fluffy white butt under the coop and immediately knew who it belonged to and let out my breath when I saw her shift. My sweet Opal was hiding and scared. Much to my chagrin, I had already recognized the feathers all over the ground before I even went outside. ‘Twas my beloved Polish rooster, Albert Einstein. I’d just given him a fresh haircut last week. He’d dipped that head into water when he was drinking and his feathers froze. I heard his icicled p**f clinking together when I went to feed them, so he promptly came in to my off the books hair salon. He was the derpiest boy around. Cognitively, he wasn’t all there. He also only had on foot, as I had to amputate the other last year due to frost bite. He was the second chicken taken by a hawk in just as many days🥲 This is the risk I take by not having my birds in a covered run, though. The frigid temps have sent the predators on high alert. I’m sad, but this is the circle of life. The hawk needs to eat and Albert made for an easy target. I took his body to the woods next door so he could continue to feed the wild animals, there’s no sense in him going to waste.

We’ll miss ya, Albert. Thanks for the laughs over the years.

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Greenville, OH
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