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I always see people say they have a hard time peeling farm fresh eggs when they hard boil them but look at what I just d...
09/23/2025

I always see people say they have a hard time peeling farm fresh eggs when they hard boil them but look at what I just did 😍 it came right off like butter 🤌🏻

09/22/2025

Having a sale on eggs for the next two days only!

2.50 a dozen
4.50 for an 18 pack!

I’ll be home all day so stop on by but please message me first!

What a whirlwind of emotions this week and I realized I forgot to update the homestead page. Friday night as I was takin...
09/09/2025

What a whirlwind of emotions this week and I realized I forgot to update the homestead page.

Friday night as I was taking our girl Cheese to bed. For those of you new here or not familiar with Cheeses story. I took in the teeniest little wood duck at maybe twelve hours old in June and raised her this summer. She is the most beautiful wood duck hen I ever did see. She is my baby and we had a really close bond. But as my heart knew from the beginning, Friday night Cheese followed that pull of natural migration, wiggled her way out of my hand, came up to my face put her beak to my lips and flew off over the house.

Wood ducks are natural migratory birds. They nest in northern wetlands during the spring and raise their babies here. When fall starts to approach, they follow the pacific migration runway down south for the colder weather.

I’d be lying if I said my heart wasn’t hurting. But it’s mostly filled with peace that we saved this tiny little baby and gave her a safe space to grow big and strong enough to do what she was created to do.

With that being said 😅 sometimes God says we have to let go of one thing to make room for new right? Well the next day I got tagged in a post about a Rouen duck that had a sister but when they woke up that day, she was missing. They didn’t want her to be alone. Ducks do not do well on their own, they are very social birds. So we added Rikki Bobby to our Duck crew on Saturday! As you can see she’s adjusting so well and the others just love her to pieces! As do we! She’s to sweetest happiest girl!

So yeah here is our “two ducks to get our feet wet” crew 🤣🙈🙃😂

Quackers, Perry the platypus, Duck Norris, Macaroni, Biscuit, Gravy, and Rikki Bobby 🫶🏻✨

I hope everyone has a wonderful day today! Thank you for supporting us always!

When I said I was chasing the rainbow I meant it 😍🌈
09/04/2025

When I said I was chasing the rainbow I meant it 😍🌈

Finally our first green egg!!! Olive our olive egger laid her first egg! 😍 it’s beautiful!
09/04/2025

Finally our first green egg!!!

Olive our olive egger laid her first egg! 😍 it’s beautiful!

Today we started our second year of homeschool! Our first lesson was how to treat bumble foot on a chicken! Obviously th...
09/02/2025

Today we started our second year of homeschool! Our first lesson was how to treat bumble foot on a chicken!

Obviously this lesson couldn’t be hands on because I didn’t want them handling infection material. But Royce was all in on filming and commentary 😅 Sydnee was done once I started pulling out infection. Ryatt said “cool I’m going to go chase these other chickens”

What a cool start to our school year 🥰🫶🏻✨

We sure love this life!

08/26/2025

I can’t believe she was as big as my palm at one point 🥹✨ beautiful little baby! She brings me so much joy and I sure am her safe space 🫶🏻

08/25/2025

This is really therapy 🥹😍
Her big ole eyes are my favorite 🤩

08/25/2025

Some of the flock 😍 they are all getting so dang big and everyone has integrated so perfectly 🥰✨

08/25/2025

Also another imposter but I had suspicions on lol

Biscuit is also a male. He’s starting to molt his feathers and get his drake colors in 😍

Rouen ducks tend to all be the same bland brown color at first. Then after a couple of months the drakes molt and get the pretty iridescent green and blue colors. While the females stay the brown colors.

He’s a good boy though! He loves to cuddle and he does essentially whatever he wants and doesn’t give a single f**k 😭😂

I will keep tracking his progression as his colors change!

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