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We’re back on the farm! We took a well deserved break from farm life this past month and did a bit of exploring in the P...
09/02/2026

We’re back on the farm! We took a well deserved break from farm life this past month and did a bit of exploring in the PNW including a voyage to Alaska. I can’t tell you how enjoyable it was just getting out of the heat for a month!!
But we had to come home eventually. Conor was stressing with having to take care of the farm all on his own. Unfortunately, he’s not perfect and we did have a few losses. With this heat, I’m surprised it wasn’t worse.
I’ll be working on moving birds into breeding pens over the next week or so and for now I’m looking at numbers and capacities for the coops/pens. Some of my plans will have to change though as we lost our two breeding male Russian Orloff. I had hoped that maybe there would be one in the grow out pen or with the hens that had chicks, but even those were lost. 😞 I am on the hunt for a replacement though, so maybe late in the season this next spring I’ll have those again.
It’s hard when the last hatch of the season - which I dedicated as my personal birds- are all gone. I will probably have to hold back a lot this winter as personal stock.
Show season is just around the corner as well. I do plan to have a dedicated “show” pen this year for my show hens/pullets. But I’m also thinking of only showing APA breeds. So the number of birds I take to shows may be less than my usual number.
Anyway, it’s still screaming hot outside, so it’s really hard to get motivated to do any cleaning of coops and moving of birds.
I’m looking at new options for egg varieties this year as well, so keep looking for those updates. I’m hoping to get back into having individual birds photographed into a group breeding pen info graphic again like I’ve done before. The hard part- getting the individual bird photos.
Here’s a “water chicken” from our adventures this past month. It reminds me of those glorious 60° days 🥰

Conor sent me this today. It definitely helps ease the scare from the other day. So, for those that raise turkeys exclus...
08/25/2026

Conor sent me this today. It definitely helps ease the scare from the other day.
So, for those that raise turkeys exclusively in their own pen, what are you using for nest boxes? I’ve got two halves of a large dog kennel for this pen and an open ended 40 gallon barrel in the other. Both work but I’m thinking I want something better when we rebuild.

08/24/2026

I about had a heart attack today. Conor has been taking on the task of caring for ALL the animals the past two weeks. I know temps have been excruciatingly hot & I asked how the birds were doing; he said he lost the two hen pens. 😱😳🥺😭
Y’all I have over 60 birds in my two hen pens. It’s all my hens not in breeding pens since I needed those for grow outs. It’s flocks I’m moving in a couple weeks to start our next hatching season. It contains ALL my Eggers including my 9-yr old frizzle that started it all, my 7-year line of bbs laced silver Wyandotte, the Columbian Wyandotte, and my especially rare line of Iowa Blue. I was heartbroken, in tears, as I was trying to figure out how that could have happened and where I go from here.
Then he tells me it’s not the 60+ hens, but the two broody hen pens that had Russian Orloff hens- one with 7 Orloff chicks, the other with 4 chicks - a mix of breeds. The relief I felt….
I’m sad to lose two more Orloff as he said earlier in the week he lost both breeding cockerels, and I don’t count chicks & grow outs as that’s a test of life to make it to adulthood; but I’ll take the loss of two & some chicks over 60 hens and 4 breeding flocks.

All the Tolbunt Polish girls…Fine, all three of you can go broody; just hatch out those babies and raise them up right.
08/10/2026

All the Tolbunt Polish girls…
Fine, all three of you can go broody; just hatch out those babies and raise them up right.

Cockerel grow-outs. I had to put one of the walls back up for our “tin pen” just to have a place to house the grow-out c...
08/08/2026

Cockerel grow-outs. I had to put one of the walls back up for our “tin pen” just to have a place to house the grow-out cockerels. These guys are between 4 - 5 months old. I had initially turned them loose with the bachelor flock of older cockbirds, but was losing them quickly due to pecking order. Those older boys can be bullies sometimes. So this was a safer option. This lets them grow up safely so they can be assessed at a later date. Most of these are already “sold”though as table birds; they’re mainly Eggers that I don’t have a use for in my breeding pens.

Our first hen-hatched Tolbunt Polish. There’s two hens sitting on this nest, that’s why eggs are scattered. Now we’ll se...
08/06/2026

Our first hen-hatched Tolbunt Polish. There’s two hens sitting on this nest, that’s why eggs are scattered. Now we’ll see if the hens are better at getting these to adulthood than I am. I have the worst luck in raising Polish. 🫣

Mother & daughter Isabel cuckoo Orpington. The two hens I’ve got are not laying eggs anymore. I’m not sure if I’ll conti...
08/03/2026

Mother & daughter Isabel cuckoo Orpington. The two hens I’ve got are not laying eggs anymore. I’m not sure if I’ll continue with this variety for next season.
September is a busy month where I’ll be moving all the breeders around, picking out my show birds and culling from past stock and this year’s grow-outs. I’ve decided where the breeds will go, but I’ll be cleaning pens & birds, then moving everyone (just in time for molting season 😂).

One of the F2 Olive Egger grow-outs. This was another recently tested pullet that turned out to be a brown layer. She’s ...
08/02/2026

One of the F2 Olive Egger grow-outs. This was another recently tested pullet that turned out to be a brown layer. She’s got a really neat pattern though. In betting she lays a really dark egg.
When breeding two Olive Eggers together, there’s always a chance of getting a brown layer offspring. That’s why I much prefer backcrossing the olives to blue. Even back crossing to brown will yield potential brown layers- but the greens layers from that crossing will be so much darker.

A couple of the sexlink grow-outs. These are coming up on almost 5 months old. Their father was Pickles, our Silverudd B...
08/02/2026

A couple of the sexlink grow-outs. These are coming up on almost 5 months old. Their father was Pickles, our Silverudd Blue. I did a blue egg gene test and these two came up as wild type- they will lay brown eggs. Pickles is heterozygous for the blue egg gene and some of the barred hens were green layers (heterozygous), so I knew there was a possibility of brown layers in that pen.
G-40 was the chick with the eyebrows that I posted at hatch (I believe I accidentally put that in the Olive Egger album though). But man she’s turned out gorgeous!!

Turkey says it’s hot; time for a soak.
07/30/2026

Turkey says it’s hot; time for a soak.

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