Milk and Feathers Homestead

04/13/2026

Butter in a pasture of buttercups 💕

04/08/2026

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The first spring batch of whole roaster chickens are just about ready! Never any garbage ingredients, raised healthy and happy on green grass the way chickens thrive. Buying your meat straight from the farmer makes it farm more affordable for a higher quality meat than you can find in store. Message us for details!

04/07/2026

Welcome to the world!! These two babies hatched out on Resurrection Sunday and just moved out of the incubator. We learned a lot about hatching call ducks which is very difficult and different than regular ducks and chicks. So blessed these two made it and can join our flock once fully feathered. We have two more eggs to go and praying they hatch well!

04/01/2026

Jake, from Steak Farm has gotten so big! Weaning time is soon. I know I should have done it already but time just has seem to flown by! While little Ruby is just that; little! Can you believe she is a month older than Jake!?

04/01/2026

Lock Down Day!!! I’m so excited! Our little calls eggs! I’m so excited for these little ones. I’ve never hatched ducks before, let alone call ducks. I’ve heard hatching call ducks can be difficult as you need to help them hatch and I have also heard they hatch out just fine. So the countdown begins and we will be here if they need help!

02/23/2026

Marshmallow laid her first egg! In the nesting box like a good girl!!! It’s a pretty good size and the translucent shell is so pretty. I love being a call duck mama! 🦆 ❤️

02/10/2026

We are so excited to share the news! We have found a husband for our sheep Sweetums! Our friends at Jireh Hill Homestead, have a sweet sheep named Tommie who gave birth to our new ram lamb, Pickles on Sunday! He is the cutest little sheep ever! He has a wooly coat like his mama and the beautiful coloring from his dad. We are so excited to bring him home once is weaned. We told Sweetums about him but she was more interested in her dinner. I’m sure once he is here she will love having another little sheep around.

02/08/2026

02/05/2026

Top picture is Edith this morning and bottom picture is from the first day we got her. At the farm before, she was low man on the totem pole, but here she is, herd boss and pasture princess. Cows always lose a little condition after giving birth. However, after this birth, even though she was carrying twins, she did not lose condition. I have been very impressed with how she has grown and developed. At 5 years old, she should be fully grown now. We get a custom blended feed for her. The recipe was created by our vet to have everything a dairy cow needs and to be easy on her stomach since she has a sensitive stomach. I feel this feed has been really helpful for her back during pregnancies and bone growth for Edith and her calves as well as helping her keep condition well.
People ask all the time about grass fed cows verses grain fed cows. All of our cows get grain. Edith in particular since she is a dairy cow that came from grain fed genetics needs grain. It would be cruel to “make” her a grass fed cow. What would happen is her body would take from itself and use it to make the milk. This would damage her body and eventually starve her and k*ll her. You simply cannot change the genetics of a cow. This is why it is important for us to get a good quality feed. For us, I do not see anything wrong with grain. It’s all about the quality. Like us, we can feed ourselves little Debbie and Cheetos or we can have a whole food diet, the principle is the same. And our sheep, Sweetums get just a little hand full of the grain because she believes she is a cow and I am a pushover when she asks for grain.

Don’t mind the mud 🤦‍♀️, farm life after the snow and iceluse

02/04/2026

My little ducks! 🦆 💕We have had larger ducks in the past and while their adorable antics do make up for their mess, these little call ducks are not nearly as messy. They don’t dig the holes the big ones did but we still get all the benefits of ducks. While the chickens hide away in the coop from the weather, these little guys are having a blast outside! My favorite thing about ducks is their p**p! I know it sounds crazy but hear me out. You give ducks a pond and then the ducks p**p in the pond. Then boom-Liquid fertilizer for your garden!!! Plants grow wild on that duck poo pond water! It’s amazing. It’s literally the main reason I keep ducks.

01/27/2026

Another day for baking COW cookies! See recipe below. I need to start training Ruby and getting her halter trained and milk cow trained. Ruby was born for the meat market, but I fell in love with her and had to bring her home as our milk cow along side Edith. Once grown, she should be around 1200 pounds, making training at this age and size important.

Shorthorns are one of the oldest breeds of cattle. They originate from England and were brought to America in 1783. Shorthorns are considered a critically endangered breed and are on the high priority list for conservation. They are a docile breed, with great mothering instincts and an amazing dual-purpose breed. We are so excited about being back into Shorthorns and helping with breed conservation.

Cow Cookies:
3 cups oatmeal
1 cup applesauce
1/4 cup molasses
1/2 cup flour
Mix all ingredients well, shape cookies using a cookie scoop and flattening them down some. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Let cool and feed the cows! 🐄