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Craft Homestead We are a small micro farm in Northeast Florida offering baked goods and chickies! NPIP/AI clean

The cows are here!!! We just love them. The bull comes right up to the fence so you can scratch behind his horns. They'r...
07/10/2026

The cows are here!!! We just love them. The bull comes right up to the fence so you can scratch behind his horns. They're exploring and getting to know their surroundings. Bull made it into the chicken coop last night and Jackson got him out.

Notes from day 1: "The grass is greener" must have originated about cows because they will eat 1 min in one spot, walk clear across the field to eat a different patch of grass, then rinse and repeat. The calories they burn just walking back and forth is astounding.

06/05/2026

Big changes on the farm. We are expanding! Prepping the land to get ready for some livestock which has been the goal since the beginning.
Getting closer to that food sustainability!

Despite what it looks like, this is an egg laid by a grown, laying age chicken. This tiny egg is commonly referred to as...
05/19/2026

Despite what it looks like, this is an egg laid by a grown, laying age chicken. This tiny egg is commonly referred to as a "fairy egg". Fairies, however, had nothing to do with the process. It is merely a piece of reproductive tissue that broke off and made it's way down the tract without a yolk to accompany it and the hen's body shelled it and sent it. Kind of like getting a bag of chips with one chip in it by mistake. They're a fun little reminder that sometimes, the reproductive system does wonky things.

Fun fact, in the Middle Ages, people often believed these tiny eggs were laid by roosters leading to these being called Rooster Eggs, C**k Eggs, or even Witch Eggs. In 1474 a rooster was put on trial for "the heinous and unnatural crime of laying an egg" and sentenced to death via burning at the stake. The folks in those days believed Basilisks and other beasts would hatch from these tiny surprise eggs. In order to keep disaster at bay, they would toss the egg over the house to the other side without touching the house or roof so that they would be protected. Imagine being afraid of a teeny tiny chicken egg.

In some other cultures the fairy eggs were seen as a sign of good luck and fertility and were cherished and sometimes turned into jewelry.

While the superstitions fade with time and access to scientific information, fairy eggs are still a fun surprise on our farm and make us smile.

We are blooming with new life here on the homestead. These are some of our adorable Rainbow eggers that hatched over the...
05/18/2026

We are blooming with new life here on the homestead. These are some of our adorable Rainbow eggers that hatched over the weekend. From left to right are:

•Lavender Ameraucana from the Who's Your Daddy pen (roosters are Lavender Ameraucana, Easter Egger, Cream Legbar, Welsummer, and Salmon Faverolle), but based on the coloring, legs, and toes, my bet is on the Easter Egger rooster Hulk who is half Lavender Ameraucana and Half Plymouth Blue Rock.

•Splash Silverrudd (pure)

•Easter Egger (Americana Easter Egger mom with what appears to be a Cream Legbar dad)

•Ice Cream Bar (Silverudd rooster over a Cream Legbar hen. The cockerels are born with a white spot on their heads and the pullets are not, so this one is a pullet.)

•Heavy Bloom Fava-blend (Hatched this big adorable baby out of a tiny pink egg (49g) that I only tossed into the incubator because of the color. It looks like it is either a Faverolle/Welsummer or Faverolle/Cream Legbar cross, and I can't wait to see how it grows.

While we have our pure lines that we breed, sell, and hatch, we often attempt fun little projects just for our own learning as we homeschool. We study feather patterning and egg color genes and even temperaments. By far, the most friendly hens we have are the Faverolles so adding a few Favaucanas and Favabars to our flock in our Rainbow pen has been a goal this year.

What are some of your favorite crazy crosses that you have done and loved?

05/06/2026

Miss Willa gives a helpful lesson on beekeeping.

05/04/2026

Checked on the hive this morning. The queen is busy laying eggs and the workers have built up 3 frames of comb in 3 days and are storing honey and pollen. We love all the new life blooming here at the homestead.

04/30/2026

Beees!!!!

Some days it is crazy, but some days I can gather and process eggs with my morning coffee while the whole house is quiet...
04/23/2026

Some days it is crazy, but some days I can gather and process eggs with my morning coffee while the whole house is quiet and I start my day feeling refreshed.

This pair is the sweetest of friends. Aurora, the buff Olive Egger was injured on Christmas Eve and her Lavender Amerauc...
04/17/2026

This pair is the sweetest of friends. Aurora, the buff Olive Egger was injured on Christmas Eve and her Lavender Ameraucana friend, Wobbles, had a rooster injure her hip back in early January. We moved these 2 to the grow out pen/hospital pen to recuperate and they have become our porch chickens. Today, Wobbles got mildly injured in a dog attack (the 3 year old made it past 2 safeguards to let out the dog without anyone knowing). She's been treated and is doing fine, but her sweet friend is staying cuddled against her. Aurora has been broody and has a small clutch of Wobbles' eggs that she is due to hatch this weekend, but she still made time to comfort a friend.

When I'm not homesteading it, or homeschooling it, I'm coaching U6 soccer with this little firecracker. When she scores,...
04/15/2026

When I'm not homesteading it, or homeschooling it, I'm coaching U6 soccer with this little firecracker. When she scores, she scores with flare.

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