The Red Roof Coop

08/25/2023

Don’t overcrowd your coop and keep your nesting boxes clean, and in return you’ll have happy chickens that give you gifts of beautiful, clean eggs every day!

03/21/2023

I’m not even sure how she got into it 🤦‍♀️ … she’s pretty hefty 😂

03/20/2023

2 dozen chicken eggs ($3 per dozen) and 4 dozen duck eggs ($5 per dozen) are up for grabs! Who wants ’em?

02/23/2023

5 sweet additions came home yesterday! They are all barred rocks (hopefully all pullets 🤞)!

02/16/2023

I’ll be putting eggs in the incubator in a couple of days!

PM your order for chicks (21 days until hatch) or ducklings (28 days until hatch)!
Chicks - straight run s*x links (rooster is speckled Suss*x, hens are wyandottes, RIR or Golden Commet)
Ducklings - uns*xed Indian runner or Indian runner/Pekin cross

02/09/2023

For many of us, our animals - whether furry, feathered, indoor, or outdoor - are our family. Please help our sweet friends at Heavenly Creatures Petting zoo if you are able. They lost their sweet newborn donkey today and have some medical bills from the care given in attempt to save his life. 💔

Hey everyone it’s Kelly and Travis Cable. Owners of Heavenly Creatures Petting Zoo. As most of you know… Kelly Cable needs your support for Sweet baby donkey

02/09/2023

Happy 1st birthday, Tilly and Cricket!

02/07/2023

They say duck eggs make the best cakes… so I’m sending some (along with a few chicken eggs) to Sweet Pea Bakery, LLC today! Her cakes are amazing no matter what type of egg she uses, but be sure to order a cake made with duck eggs so you can !

01/30/2023

Wouldn’t have it any other way ❤️

“Farm work doesn’t make you stronger.”
It doesn’t make you anything.
It reveals you.
There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong.
They are not mutually exclusive.

The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.

There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine.

“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.

Control is a mere illusion... The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.

Sometimes sleep is a luxury...So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.
Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.

When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.

Their needs come first.

In summer heat and coldest winter days. Clean water, clean bed, and plenty of feed. Before you have your first meal, they all eat.

When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.

You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully.

You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.
You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.

You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.

You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.

You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p.

People will look at you sideways and crinkle their noses but you won’t care.

Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.

You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.

Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.

You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.

Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance!

You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.”
~author unknown