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Clover Hill Acres

First generation homestead est. 2025
📍Springport, Indiana
🐐 Goats • Chickens • Quail
🪺 focusing on healthy livestock & egg color

08/30/2026

I cannot believe we made it to 500 followers! 🤩 that’s so incredible and I am simply blown away. thanks everyone so much for following along 🥰 I know a lot of ya’ll are new and I am so excited you’re here! Here’s a little about us and our homestead!

My name is Victoria (or Tori) Kanouse, I’m 28 years old and married to the absolute love of my life, Brody! We got married on Valentine’s Day earlier this year and life has been a whirlwind ever since of emergency surgery, illness, a laundry room renovation nightmare chalk full of termites, water damage, and snakes in the ceiling, which got us our very own Newsweek article 🫪) needless to say, we have been very fortunate that I work full time from home and run a business separate from the farm as well (Beautiful Valley Candle Co.), and that Brody is employed somewhere with relatively available overtime.

We are a “blended family”, so to speak, with 4 dogs and 2 cats between us 😂 You’ll definitely see a LOT of Spike, our LGD on this page as he’s always working so hard to keep our farm safe. He has heartworm that we are treating, so keep him in your thoughts!

We have 10 goats, about 25ish chickens (and more soon to keep up with egg demand) and some quail. We are downsizing our goat herd by just a few and are hoping to have Nigerian Dwarf X Fainting cross babies in the spring so we can hopefully have some milk producers in the future!

I have huge dreams for this place, and have ever since I moved in last April. Our biggest farm goals for 2027 are

1. Garden (veggies, flowers, herbs) so I can get further into preserving/canning, and making home grown herbal remedies.

2. A new suprise animal. 🤫 🤐

3. Processing some chickens, goats, and quail for meat to fill our freezer and sell.

4. Start a farm stand, ideally!

5. Bees. Brody loves raising bees and he didn’t get to do it this year, so I’m trying to really make it a priority for us, and then we will have honey! 🍯

6. Landscaping, which the garden will help with tremendously. But we are particularly looking for ways to cover our septic caps in a pretty way to keep them safe while still making them accessible for servicing.

7. Breeding projects! Specifically for egg color. I want pinks with speckles and DARK browns and greens. 🥚

I sincerely hope everyone loves following along with us as much as we love having you! Sometimes it can be hard for me to show my personality online and on video because it feels so unnatural 🤣🤣 but I want to do more videos like egg collecting, day in the life, recipes, educational posts and videos, and more! I’d love to know what you want to see if you have preferences!

08/30/2026

3 generations (Brody, his uncle, and his grandfather) worked on a 26 year old four wheeler yesterday and we got to shoot Brody’s new firearm. It’s a Lee enfield no. 4 mkII from WW2 and he scored it for 450 at the gun show last weekend! It was pretty heavy for me, but fun to shoot lol. It’s so crazy when I hold a heavy gun I expect the recoil to be intense but it never is because it’s so dense. (Although it looks like it is in slow motion LMAO)

I’ve never been big on fi****ms myself, but there was a time in my life where I absolutely had to purchase one for my safety. it’s cool to learn about different guns and what they feel like to use. Always pray I never HAVE to use one, but at least I know how to if I do. Feel like I need to work on my stance a bit more lmfao

08/29/2026

Just so everyone is aware… antibiotics (and the issue they’re treating) can cause behavioral changes in dogs, including your super well trained never hurt a fly LGD.

Pain or discomfort (which can happen from the bacteria dying off) can lower your dogs threshold for their play/prey drive/inhibition tolerance for a lack of a better way to explain it.

For a little explanation, Spike has heart worms. The treatment requires antibiotics for 28 days and 3 injections over the course of almost a year, and heartworm prevention medication in conjunction with that and for the rest of his life (which is how it always should have been. We messed up.)

But I wasn’t prepared for or aware of how discomfort and treatment could affect how he behaves around the animals he’s spent his entire life around protecting.

I went to let him in earlier today. He was laying there paws out. I heard chirping 👹👹👹 he had one of the dang chicks!! “SPIKEEEEEE NO!!” What does he do?! This mf literally pounces the ground and picks the chick up with his mouth and starts RUNNING WITH IT!!!!

He has never done this y’all I was HORRIFIED and thought for sure I was going to have a broken back slow painful death chick on my hands when I finally got ahold of it.

Not. A. Single. Scratch. the baby is literally fine, albeit traumatized and looking like it just took a dive, and a slight limp which improved as the day went on. at least he was gentle and “only” playing with it. But needless to say he can’t be outside most of the day anymore unsupervised when the flock is out until he starts feeling better 🙃😩

Chicken mom fail. Dog mom fail. What a DAY!

08/28/2026

I got a huge influx of new followers the last day or so, and wanted to make sure everyone knows I also have a separate business selling soy candles, melts, and self care products if ever interested 🥰

08/28/2026

“Do you set your prices based on human need or private profit?”

Someone asked me this today and I thought it was a really good question so I want to answer it! Human need comes FIRST AND FOREMOST!

When I price things I look at the general market, my actual costs, and what feels fair. I’m not interested in raising prices because something is suddenly in high demand, there’s a shortage, or there’s a food recall driving people toward local producers. Those are the moments when I want local food to be MORE accessible.

I also want to say that I don’t currently profit from what I sell. The money I bring in helps offset things like feed, cartons, labels, bedding, supplies, and general animal care. (Notice i said OFFSET, not pay in full!) If I eventually scale up enough that there’s a legitimate profit left over, great. I’d love for this to become a larger income stream someday. But “larger income stream” and “maximize every possible profit” aren’t the same thing to me.

I work full-time from home in addition to running this homestead, so I don’t need to squeeze every cent out of every dozen eggs or every product I sell. I’d rather keep things reasonably priced, help cover the costs of caring for the animals, and make good food a little more accessible to the people around me.

My chickens free-range with supplemental feed and treats as needed. My quail are well cared for and have clean housing, food, water, enrichment, and regular attention. I’m constantly looking for ways to improve their quality of life. For example, next spring I’m hoping to build an outdoor run for the quail so they can spend time on grass and have more room to move around. They’re game birds, though, so unlike the chickens, I can’t exactly open the door and tell them to stay home. 😂

I don’t claim to be perfect. It’s a growing homestead, and I’m learning constantly as a first generation homesteader. I didn’t grow up doing this. I married a man with 2 goats and ran with it until I had 10 goats, 20-something chickens, and quail.

But I do care deeply about two things:
1. Making good, local food accessible when I can.
and
2. Taking care of the animals that make that food possible.

I’m building this homestead because I believe food should have a face, animals should be treated well, and communities should have access to people who actually care about what they’re producing.

And if I can help somebody put better food on their table while keeping my own animals fed and cared for?
That’s a pretty damn good exchange to me. ❤️

So thank you, Tom, if you’re reading this, for asking such an amazing question!

08/27/2026

She’s so cute. Frizzles crack me up they always look like they just rolled out of bed but they REALLY take on that mom of toddlers aesthetic when raising babies 😂😂😂 GRIPPING that coffee mug for dear life

08/27/2026

Lush landscape and beautiful sunset to end the evening 🥰

08/26/2026

I’m looking to sell 3 of my myotonic (fainting) does! (1 is spoken for so 2 are available)

I’m open to trades and partial trades, just not for livestock at this time please 😭 let me know what you have!

They are not mean AT ALL, just skittish. They’ll eat food and treats out of your scoop though and let you pet them, happily! Would love for them to go together but it is NOT a requirement.

I’m sad to part with any animals but apparently 10 goats is too many to spend quality time with on top of the crazy year we’ve had and taking general care of them. Hoping to slowly downsize a smidge and get everything back on track and better systems in place.

they’ve recently had copper bolus and hoof trim, regularly get electrolytes in the summer, dewormed as needed, although they’ve only needed it once (luckily).

they’ve been exposed to the most friendly Nigerian dwarf buck, affectionately named Rooster. Although pregnancy is NOT confirmed or guaranteed, I suspect some interesting & fun colors! Photo of the buck attached. He is NOT for sale.

Located in Springport IN but willing to meet half way depending on the journey.

08/26/2026

One of my many finds at traders world. What should I make in this?? it’s stoneware so very porous lol I don’t have much experience with stoneware but this design was too cute to pass up
EDIT: it’s for shortbread/cookies!!! I found it on google and here’s what it says!

The 1988 "Beautiful Swans" shortbread pan is a highly collectible, unglazed stoneware mold created by Lucy Natkiel under her company, Hill Designs Inc.. This piece is a signature entry in the retired Brown Bag Cookie Art collection, a line of hand-cast pottery molds that ran from 1983 until Natkiel's retirement.

The mold features an embossed, detailed central swan motif surrounded by an intricate starburst pattern.
The pan is uniquely divided into eight triangular sections, allowing bakers to imprint a cohesive design that bakes into individual wedge-shaped shortbread cookies.

Crafted from heavy, unglazed fauve-colored stoneware designed to cleanly draw moisture away from the dough, ensuring a crisp and sharp impression.Markings: The back of the authentic piece is stamped with "Brown Bag Cookie Art", "1988", and "Hill Design Inc".

The swan holds a special place in the history of the brand. A single "Beautiful Swan" mold was originally introduced during the company's debut year in 1983 and was chosen as the official advertising symbol for the entire Brown Bag Cookie Art line. The 1988 multi-sectional shortbread pan was an evolution of this classic theme, built to cater to larger holiday baking traditions. Production of all official molds permanently ceased in 2005 with Natkiel's final release, fittingly titled her "Swan Song".

08/25/2026

I drove to Kentucky last night and picked up this gorgeous hutch 😍 I didn’t get home till 10:30 and forgot ratchet straps so had to go 20mph slower than the speed limit, but it was so worth it.

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