Prairie Star Acres

05/31/2026

The doelings are going into their 13th week. Color doesn’t matter for shows but wow 🤩 Trying to decide what we are keeping to improve our herd is pretty hard right now.

05/31/2026

Brandy and Sugar using the slide. 😁❤️

Check out Cassie’s video.

05/28/2026

Bailey (7 years old) has been busy learning all about her new chicken breed. 🥰 I’m getting excited for her to talk to the judge this year and tell him all she’s learned about her Silkies.

05/08/2026

Who let the goats out?? 😁

Nice day so they are out eating some green grass and exploring the yard.

The babies are 9 weeks old and growing like weeds. The hardest part is wanting them to stay little but can’t wait to see them get bigger and see the progress we’ve made when they become mommas in 2028.

05/04/2026

Day 8 and a quick candle session. We candled roughly 10 eggs and they all look like they have growth. We will candle again around day 14.

05/03/2026

Our egg collector was a little busy today. Look at all those colors!! ❤️❤️❤️

04/30/2026

When morning chores turns into a surprise. Every once in a while we end up with some cute barnyard mixes.

04/25/2026

Eggs are in the incubator 😍 🥚🐣🥚

The start of our 2026 hatching season from our birds has begun. I don’t have as many eggs as I would like but I culled very heavy last fall, so we are low on numbers.

This go around we have 72 eggs in the incubator. Since I forgot to start the incubator yesterday, I may add some more eggs tomorrow and then start the 21 day countdown.

24 Ameraucana Eggs - We are trying something different this year as we have both a Blue and a Black rooster in with our Blue hens. So, we will have a chance at some Black Ameraucanas but also help maintain proper, deep blue color in blue offspring.

24 Lakenvelder Eggs - These were new to us last year and this will be our first time hatching them.

12 Black Copper Maran eggs - I’m hoping with culling our BCM heavily last fall, that we kept the best genetics to improve our flock. That resulted in only keeping 2 hens, so unfortunately not a lot of eggs to hatch out. I may have been a little too picky 😁

12 Olive Egger eggs - the original Olive Eggers (BCM/Ameraucana) we hatched out last year are now paired with an Ameraucana rooster. They should produces offspring that lay lighter olive, mint, or sage green eggs.

*what I mean when I say cull - the hens were sold to those that wanted egg layers and not interested in perfecting the breed like we are*

04/21/2026

🐣🥚🐣Collecting eggs for the incubator. 🐣🥚🐣

I’m so excited for the Black Copper Maran eggs. They are so much darker in person. 😍

This go around, we are collecting eggs from Ameraucanas, Olive Eggers, Lakenveldors, and Black Copper Marans.

They will go in the incubator on Friday afternoon.

04/18/2026

When you aren’t expecting much from some eggs bought off Ebay and 10 out of 12 hatch!

Check out Cassie’s video.