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07/29/2025

Hope everyone is staying cool this summer 🍉

04/21/2025

Many have asked for an update on Skully!

He/she continues to improve and they actually moved back into the coop with all the other chicks yesterday afternoon. It’s important for them to socialize with other chicks especially to avoid further bullying/getting pecked on. I’m still cleaning the head wound twice daily, but things seem to be on the mend. ❤️‍🩹

04/13/2025

They say bad things come in threes.

Unexpectedly, our power went out to our incubator the day before “lockdown”. The incubator has a Bluetooth thermometer that alerts us if the temp gets too low. Unfortunately, the one day Zach (who normally works remotes) goes into the office for a meeting all day, the power went out and the eggs were without heat for almost 12 hours. As soon as we realized, we replaced cord and allowed eggs to come back to incubation temperature, but after candling, no chicks survived. This is a hatching worst nightmare.

Around the same time, a hen sitting on a nest hatched out her first few chicks. All seemed well until one of the chicks was likely pecked in the head by mom leaving a large head wound. The chick who we now call Skully, had to be brought in and mended. Fortunately, Skully has the will to live and seems to be getting better each day! The swelling is down and both eyes are open now.

Finally, momma hen stopped sitting on her nest leaving 5 eggs behind several days after her first hatched. Two eggs had started to hatch when she left them. I found one almost completely hatched but unmoving and ice cold/wet. Another was piped, cold, and unmoving. At this point I’m feeling the world was against me, I grabbed the mostly hatched one and tried to rub its body looking for sign of life with no response. I set it down and moved on to the piped egg when I noticed the beak had twitched. I knew I would need to bring the egg in to warm up and assist with hatching at that point but when about to leave, I noticed the other chick’s eye was open when I swore it was closed before. It was still alive but not moving other than some slow eye lid movements. Both came in the house and received the blow dryer treatment before spending several hours under the heat lamp with sugar water to pep them up. They both pulled through and are back in the coop with mom as of this morning.

That’s all for this week on the micro-farm. Just thankful I was home to intervene. Life is so fragile sometimes. We still have 37 chicks at present and have not lost a single one (assuming skully continues to pull through) that hatched! Counting our blessings, all 37 of them.

04/05/2025

The best use for a homemade quilt!

03/28/2025

The chicks have transitioned to their own coop with mother hen and her chicks. We have a few other hens in this pen with Sage since Basil has decided to run a one rooster household. Lots of drama here this morning with the move but everyone is happy and settled up here now!

03/23/2025

We had enough likes to get a second hatch going! Focused on more of our speckles and heavy blooms this time. Including an example of a heavy bloom speckled egg from one of our black copper marans this year. The prettiest pink!

03/21/2025

Our hatch came earlier than expected which left Zach Weston in charge while I was at work. 29/30 chicks hatched successfully! We have most adorable little puff balls in our basement just like Zach swore would never happen again! ☺️

Our two roosters are a Black Copper Marans (BCM) and a Whiting True Blue (WTB). They were separated this winter with different flocks which gave us the following chicks:
Black Copper Marans (BCM)
Oliver Eggers (OE (F1 and F2))
- BCM x CLB
- WTB x BCM
- WTB x OE
Backcrossed Olive Eggers (BC1)
- BCM x OE
Easter Eggers (EE)
- WTB x Ameraucana
- WTB x CLB
- WTB x EE
- WTB x Wyandotte

I’m still learning about chicken genetics, so if there is a better chicken geneticist out there who wants to help with my generations, I’m here for it!

01/24/2025

Our Ayam Cemani pullets started laying several weeks ago and are finally starting to have eggs large enough to include in a carton. The Ayam Cemani is a breed of chicken that is completely black, including its feathers, feet, beak, organs, muscles, and bones... everything but their eggs which are white/cream! 🥚

Eggs available for $4/dozen

01/19/2025

Many have asked us lately how we keep our chickens warm in our frigid Wisconsin winters. There isn’t a true right or wrong answer, but we provide fresh warm water with electrolytes, probiotics, vitamins, etc. every morning along with plenty of food and heated coops. Earlier this year we put plastic wind breaks along the run to allow the chickens a milder area outside so they can still get fresh air. On the extra cold days, we make scrambled eggs and toss some greens to remind them of the greener days ahead! 😂

All these things help make the -24 temps with wind chill feel a little more tolerable and have kept our eggs production high!

We have several dozen of eggs up for grabs currently as we are still getting almost 2 dozen eggs per day! Let us know if you need a dozen 😊

01/04/2025

Isn’t it funny how time just seems to slip through our fingers like sand? The updates may have been sparse but we continued to focus on our more self-sustainable approach to food over here.

I was fortunate enough to harvest a buck this fall which gave us 40 pounds of version, we processed 10+ meat birds, our hens are laying a beautiful array of colors, and my sourdough adventures continue with a more practical approach.

2025 should be our best year yet! Thanks for being here 🤍

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