Hen and Herb Homestead

06/27/2025

I finally, finally made my own vanilla flavoring. Only draw back is it takes 6 months to a year to completely make. I also whipped a mimosa tincture. It's my first tincture. I named baby blues because it's for my sil, but the mimosa tree is a medicinal plant that's good for depression and when you're really down. I'm still learning and reading studies about tinctures. These take up to 2 months to make. Stay tuned though, and you will see. Maybe I'll have some to offer. As always, we have fresh eggs available.

05/19/2025

Jamee Breanna Moore

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2 Myotonic Doe are looking for a new herd. 🤍 These girls are papered with the Myotonic Goat Registry and will have to be moved together.

05/14/2025

Due to some unforseen circumstances I'm having to downsize our farm. I never wanted to do this. I have them posted in a farm group. I'm going to post them here and then share to my public page. I put the details under the pictures. $350 for all. I rather them stay together as they've been together their entire short lives. If separated the price individually will be higher. Midnight and Finn cannot be separated.

05/09/2025

I just want to love you!!!

05/09/2025

I wanted to make my own soap. I started down the rabbit hole of how to do that. What I learned was overwhelming. I picked out basic ingredients, but I couldn't find a clean eo. I was hoping a friend of mine was making her own in her skin care products, but she hasn't went down that hole yet either. So I said, "let me try". My biggest goal is for everything to be as clean as possible. I collected several wildflowers, and I decided I would try. Worst case scenario it doesn't work, but best case scenario I will atleast know that the oils we use are clean.

05/08/2025

Starting in June I want to offer three(3) free petting zoo set ups. If you're at all interested you can send me the details of your event, and I will let you know if it lines up with my schedule. Unfortunately, it's not first come first serve. I have to see what lines up with our schedule first, but I will update as the slots fill.

05/08/2025

I've got 2 dozen eggs ready to go. $3/dz. I haven't really been advertising my eggs because my bestie was keeping me in egg business, but she's moving. I usually average a dozen every three days.

05/07/2025

Look how sweet! The one baby left is thriving, and my daughter is already picking out names.

05/07/2025

I wanted to share this with yall. This is at Jared's Farm in medon. They separate out their spoiled or blemished produce from their trash for people to come and take what they want. I know you're probably think wait who would want that, but hear me out. If you have livestock that loves scraps this is heaven to them. My chickens and rabbits love when I bring them home some treats. But don't let your mind stop there. There's several homemade dog/cat food recipes that have vegetables in them. There's some birds and reptiles that eat fruits and veggies as little snacks. Also think compost. All this ruined food could be turned into rich black soil with a container and a hoe. Don't wait until you have the proper tools that social media says you need to have a compost. I started my compost in an old bath tub. That bathtub grows better things than I do with no work at all. I just feed it stuff like this and let it do it's job. Also all of these things have seeds. Don't have the extra money to buy seed or want to try growing something before you make that financial commitment, grab some of this and quite literally burry the fruit/vegetable and see what happens. That's the best place to start with gardening. Just go outside and start something. Make notes all growing season and use those next season. If you can support Jared's as a thank you for doing this. We all know the big box stores would never. They're doing their part to prevent waste how they can. When it comes to selling food there are strict guidelines in place. These keep so much of this stuff from being sold blemished. Then let's me honest, most people would not buy a bruised tomato or a little to soft strawberry. I'm not exception to that unless they're discounted, or I'm canning. So big thank you to Jared's for keeping my ladies happy and us in eggs.

05/07/2025

Today only, 18 count eggs plus 1 for $4 or $6 if you take the dozen quail eggs. Unfortunately the quail carton is not included. It's my only one.

05/07/2025

Not every day on the farm will be filled with rainbows. Unfortunately today hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows. Today I found all but one of the baby bunnies dead. They was healthy and alive yesterday when I checked on them. I'm not sure what happened, but I'm thankful I found the one alive that I did and maybe it will make it. We also lost a couple of chicks this week and had a very low hatch rate on some of our investment eggs. It's hard for me because while yes they are livestock animals first, they quickly become pets to me. But I know the sun is coming soon!