Homesteading w/Hormones

Homesteading w/Hormones A small homestead type farm 98% female, veteran operated. Rabbits, Chickens, and Sheep call it home.

Ignore the cobwebs and yellow stains but new pens coming together for the fluffy butts.
08/26/2026

Ignore the cobwebs and yellow stains but new pens coming together for the fluffy butts.

Gray!!
08/21/2026

Gray!!

Well we went from extreme heat to bi-polar storms out of nowhere with “baby” tornados tearing down trees and poles over ...
08/21/2026

Well we went from extreme heat to bi-polar storms out of nowhere with “baby” tornados tearing down trees and poles over the last few weeks. Hardly anyone is laying right now after all of that craziness and I know I owe some eggs to a few people so hoping they will pick back up soon to get that sorted. Somewhere in the mix there was a new addition to the silkie shenanigans. Someone from the new family didn’t want to stay with her people on the ride home and went exploring everywhere else during the ride. Grays will start to be offered hopefully early next spring. Eggs might be offered sooner…just depends on how everyone cooperates.

07/23/2026

I thought the c***s had got her like they did a handful of others that were free ranging. They got her friend who was broody with her but saw her later ready to kill my feet if they got within 2 feet of her brood. 7 littles still holding strong and some strong AF momma genes. Don’t think my dogs would even mess with her right now.

Lavender/Self blue silkies are at 100% fertility with the first batch tested last week. Going to start offering them soo...
06/21/2026

Lavender/Self blue silkies are at 100% fertility with the first batch tested last week. Going to start offering them soon along with the other colors we have. Whites are still working out their differences and the splash boy is more worried about me stealing eggs than fertilizing but hopefully he will get his act together soon as well.

“Donald” is one of the spare buff boys who isn’t working at the moment and free ranging instead. He might be obsessed with the skid loader and kept chasing it up and down the hill.

Hello girls 😍😍😍
06/18/2026

Hello girls 😍😍😍

We have a new surprise (or 3 ish) this weekend so have to move birds the next few days. Also probably going to just go a...
06/10/2026

We have a new surprise (or 3 ish) this weekend so have to move birds the next few days. Also probably going to just go ahead and do mite tx at the same time. Have a new silkie pen I’ve been working on for a new color-gray! There’s so few breeders working on it so I’m working to learn the genetics as well. It’s making me want silver Ameraucana and welsummer too 👀

This is Jolene, our lone frizzle buff gal. My OCD wants to find her a new home bc she is the odd gal out but then I look at her and I’m like maybe I need a whole pen. 🤦‍♀️

It’s a Rainbow of Cockbirds Some of the spare silkie boys doing their guy time in style.
05/30/2026

It’s a Rainbow of Cockbirds

Some of the spare silkie boys doing their guy time in style.

Splash Cockbird over Black Gals should give us all blue babies 😍😍 Added our lone Showgirl to this group as well.
05/25/2026

Splash Cockbird over Black Gals should give us all blue babies 😍😍 Added our lone Showgirl to this group as well.

Well just as all the silkies started laying again we will be moving barns and therefore, pens in the next week. What thi...
05/10/2026

Well just as all the silkies started laying again we will be moving barns and therefore, pens in the next week. What this means is they will stop laying for 2 months again after said move IYKYK….so there’s a very good chance that the eggs in the incubator and hatching now will be all that is available for a bit again.

I’ve started test breeding my blacks to ensure everyone is actually black and not dark blue, blue cream for blue or lav gene, and a couple other odds n ends. These chicks who end up showing an undesirable color for future breeding-like blue carrying lav bc someone in the blacks is actually blue and why the splash boy is now going to work….will be offered as “pet” chicks which also includes wrong number of toes, etc.

Once the blue creams are all tested, they will be split into two diff pens-blue based and lav based and bred accordingly to same gene boys. My OG blue creams are most def/likely blue based and from some very nice lines but they aren’t the true breeding for the rest of the world for “isabel”/“blue cream” so I do want to keep them separate.

Also…this book is worth its weight in gold for trying to learn color genetics. Poultry is a lot more in depth than rabbits.

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