Homestead Filkins

Homestead Filkins Family Homestead & Breeding Program in SE Virginia, focused on sustainable and ethical living, conservation & breed betterment. See pinned posts for more info.
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Follow for events, witchin' in the kitchen, bunnies of course, & silly jurassic-bawk nonsense!

𝔽ℝ𝔼𝕊ℍ out of the incubator!Silver Duckwing Welsummers (remember, I'm holding these back for the next month or two in an ...
05/29/2026

𝔽ℝ𝔼𝕊ℍ out of the incubator!

Silver Duckwing Welsummers
(remember, I'm holding these back for the next month or two in an overabundance of caution because I had a few FTT this year)

Easter Eggers
(backcrossed to homozygous blue egger)

Unsexed EEs all ready to fly!
Pickup in Suffolk, Virginia

Remember to PM for plan making!

It’s For-Grabs Friday!Need something cool? Sumatra PAIRS are ready to fly. Send me a message to learn more about this ra...
05/29/2026

It’s For-Grabs Friday!

Need something cool?

Sumatra PAIRS are ready to fly.

Send me a message to learn more about this rare conservation breed!

Happy Food Friday! Today I’ll keep it simple with a reminder that for every egg carton donated, we fill it with eggs and...
05/29/2026

Happy Food Friday!

Today I’ll keep it simple with a reminder that for every egg carton donated, we fill it with eggs and donate to a local food pantry. Bring them to us at events (we attend at least one per month) or to a meet up! We are not an egg production farm, but we have great eggs for our family and eggstras to share all year. In or around Suffolk, Virginia.

As they say… “it’s always 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔.”My kid and I had to rescue this poor little guy —hatched and abandoned by the forev...
05/29/2026

As they say… “it’s always 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔.”

My kid and I had to rescue this poor little guy —hatched and abandoned by the forever broody bantams.

They are not doing a great job with babes this year, and I’m about to overhaul that whole situation.

Recap —The original bantams are all my kid’s own. I just come in from time to time to help manage.

Just thinking about the journey these little shells have been through, from forming inside a chicken, sitting in an incu...
05/28/2026

Just thinking about the journey these little shells have been through, from forming inside a chicken, sitting in an incubator brewing life to hatching out a whole entire new chicken. 🌿

05/28/2026

I could never go on vacation, just because I know every animal’s neurotic quirk.  Like for example, one of my rabbits — if her tub is not completely full to the top, she will immediately flip it over and be out of water. 

We’re on nesting box watch this week waiting on some babies! Hopefully the heat sterility hasn’t set in on the bucks yet...
05/28/2026

We’re on nesting box watch this week waiting on some babies! Hopefully the heat sterility hasn’t set in on the bucks yet. 🤞 Day 26-ish

Current ready to hop:
Blue eyed fuzzy lop
REW holland lop doe
Black VM blue eyed buck

05/28/2026

Just thinking…

Ginger Andalusian 🤍 Coturnix quailJust one of the many beautiful Coturnix colors we breed here. Remember that this June ...
05/27/2026

Ginger Andalusian 🤍 Coturnix quail

Just one of the many beautiful Coturnix colors we breed here. Remember that this June our Coturnix focus is Blacks, followed by Celadons.

Show us your favorite quail bird!


05/27/2026

Well, okay then.

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23432-23439

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