Cluckin Acres

09/03/2026

09/02/2026

🚨 EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! 🚨

One of these freeloaders FINALLY started paying rent. 😂🥚

Better late than never, ma’am. 👏🐔

09/02/2026

Throw back to this spring! 😍

09/02/2026

Engagement without context isn’t engagement.

I understand that content creators are trying to grow. We’re all trying to reach more people, encourage interaction, support one another, and keep our pages moving.

And for the record, I love engaging with other pages—especially the people who regularly engage with mine. I love seeing what you’re working on, celebrating your wins, laughing at your posts, and having actual conversations with you.

But I draw the line at engaging just to engage.

I don’t interact with your page because I’m keeping score or because you commented on mine and now I “owe” you one. I engage with you because I enjoy your content and I enjoy you. That’s it.

There is a difference between engaging with someone’s content and simply leaving a comment so they’ll return the favor.

Lately, I’ve received some incredibly tone-deaf comments on posts covering pretty serious or meaningful topics—comments that make it painfully obvious the person didn’t read the post. Not even a quick skim.

I’ve had “Good morning!” commented on a post where I was announcing that my dog had passed away.

Most recently, I shared a detailed post about my breeding plans for 2027—what I’m working toward, why I’m making certain decisions, and the thought behind the direction of my program.

The comment?

“Good morning.”

Well... fantastic. Good morning to you, too. 😂

But respectfully, I’m not going to visit your page and return that engagement simply because you left a comment on mine.

If your goal is to build genuine engagement and relationships with other creators, actually engage with what they created. You don't have to study every word of every long post. But take ten seconds to understand what you're commenting on before you say something.

Because blindly dropping generic comments isn't supportive. In the wrong context, it can actually be incredibly insensitive.

There are real people behind these pages. Sometimes we're sharing chickens and funny stories. Sometimes we're sharing accomplishments we've worked years toward. And sometimes we're sharing grief, loss, frustration, or something deeply personal.

Engagement should still have a little humanity behind it.

I'd rather have five thoughtful comments from people who actually give a s**t about what I posted than fifty comments from people who are only there hoping I'll return the favor.

09/02/2026

Thank you for 2,000 followers. 🥹🐓❤️

I don't really know how to put this into words. I'm so overwhelmed with gratitude right now.

When I started this journey, I was told it was dumb. That I was wasting my time. That chickens weren't worth anything beyond the eggs they laid. That all of the time, money, thought, and heart I was putting into this was basically futile.

And now there are over 2,000 of you here.

2,000+ people following along with my birds, my breeding projects, my successes, my failures, my ridiculous chicken math, my endless rambling about genetics and egg colors, and everything else that has somehow become Cluckin' Acres.

That number might not seem enormous to everyone, but to me? It's fu***ng huge.

Every comment. Every share. Every person who has trusted me enough to hatch my eggs or raise one of my chicks. Every breeder who has shared their knowledge with me. Every person who has encouraged me when I've questioned what the heck I'm doing.

Thank you. Truly.

I'm heading into 2027 with a completely different outlook on life and ready to take some pretty big steps into the next chapter of mine. And there's something incredibly satisfying about watching something I was once told was a waste of my time turn into something I'm genuinely proud of.

We're still growing. I'm still learning. And I have so many plans for where we're going next.

From the absolute bottom of my heart, thank you for being here. ❤️

Here's to 2,000+, proving a few people wrong, and whatever the heck comes next. 🥂🐣

2027, I'm ready for you.

09/01/2026

Their almost there! Go support Smith Haven Homestead!

09/01/2026

Getting the feeling that this egg is from Judy and possibly not from her daughter.... Cameras are proving to be useful in the coop.

09/01/2026

So, what have I actually been doing to prepare for hatching season 2027? 🐣

Honestly, preparing for 2027 started during hatching season 2026.

This year I grew out birds with a purpose. I kept birds based on where I wanted the program to go—not just what looked pretty as a chick—and now that most of my pullets are reaching point of lay, the fun part begins: watching eggs, taking notes, studying genetics, and deciding who earns a spot in each breeding pen.

One of my biggest additions for 2027 is my Ermine & Lavender Ermine Ameraucana pen. I've sourced birds from multiple breeders including Country Living on Nacho Acres to build my little dream-team foundation flock, and I've gone slightly insane with genetic testing. 😂 Every bird has been DNA sexed, blue egg gene tested, and tested for lavender. Next up is recessive white testing. I'm collecting those samples soon, and I am ridiculously excited to finally have all the pieces of that genetic puzzle in front of me.

I've also been rebuilding and expanding my Marans and Olive Egger genetics after losing a significant portion of my flock this year. I've brought in Marans genetics from Feathered Acres, Little Deuce Coop and Hickman Homestead & Micro Hatchery, welsummers from Isbell Family Homestead, and a whole lot of Olive Egger genetics from Cluckin Cheetah Girlss, Almost Something Like A Tiny Farm. Between those birds, I've added Golden Cuckoo, Wheaten, silverrudd, and other carefully selected genetics that give me a lot more to work with—not only for egg color, bloom, and speckles, but for plumage variety.

And then there are the boys. 😏 My gorgeous Blue Copper Marans rooster from Little Deuce Coop is looking more and more like he's going to be the star of the show for 2027. I'm also growing out a Black Copper Marans from Hickman Homestead lines as another potential sire. As they continue to mature—and as I see what these pullets bring to the egg basket—I'll decide exactly where each of these boys fits into the breeding program.

Over the next few months, I'll watch these pullets come into lay and figure out what I actually have—not what I hope I have. Egg color, bloom, speckles, consistency, plumage genetics, temperament... all of it matters. Then I'll start making the decisions about which hen belongs under which rooster.

Because nothing gets paired here just because they're available.

I don't want an entire flock of birds that look identical, and I don't want the chicks you hatch from me to all look identical either. I want variety. I want beautiful plumage and an incredible egg basket. Achieving both takes a hell of a lot more planning than simply putting a dark-egg rooster over a blue-egg hen and hoping for the best.

Temperament matters, too. I'm incredibly proud of how calm and handleable my current flock is, and I intend to keep it that way. Birds displaying genuinely poor temperament will not be bred forward.

Everything I do has intention behind it. Every bird I keep, every bird I remove, every genetic test, and eventually every hen × rooster pairing is another tiny decision toward the bigger picture.

2027 isn't even here yet, but the 2027 Cluckin' Acres egg basket is already being built. 🥚🐣

08/31/2026

💎 THE REAL HOUSE HENS OF CLUCKIN’ ACRES 💎
✨ Meet Judy — aka Judifer ✨

“I don’t have to stir the pot. My speckles get people talking.”

I’m Judy, and I’m very serious about my speckled artistry. I prefer to be left alone in the nesting box. Dare interrupt me? I’ll squawk. And that, ladies, is how I earned the nickname Judifer.

I’m an OG Olive Egger backcross, and while some of these hens are busy fighting for attention, I simply don’t need to. I’m unproblematic. I stay in my lane. I lay my eggs. And somehow, I’m still one of the most talked-about hens at Cluckin’ Acres.

And baby, these aren’t just eggs. They’re art. 🎨

My speckles are bold, unpredictable, and downright artistic. I’ve laid some of the most sought-after eggs to ever come out of Cluckin’ Acres, and quite frankly, there hasn’t been much competition.

Well… except Hattie.

She and I may be battling it out for Queen of the Speckles, but don’t get it twisted. I’ve been around the block. I’m an OG. I helped set the standard these younger hens are trying to live up to.

Hattie can come for the crown all she wants.

Ain’t nobody taking my spot. 💅🥚✨