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Mealworms Grown in Maine
Have you purchased bulk dried mealworms? You might have noticed they are often imported from overseas. Shipping products long distances is hard on our planet and local economy. Consider purchasing {read more}
How to calculate hatch rates: counting your chicks before they hatch
Count your chicks before they hatch by calculating the number of mature birds with this in-depth, situation-specific formula.
Which autosexing breed is right for your farm?
Our goal is to collect data and notes to provide a better picture of each of these three autosexing breeds. We want to know which autosexing breed does best in {read more}
No chicks or eggs for spring 2022
February 9th, 2022: As some of you already know I have been planning for some time now to make an announcement about our chickens. The day has come. Carolyn Hurwitz, {read more}
Spring 2022 Breed List
EDIT ON 2/27/22: After a tragic event resulting in euthanizing of our flocks, I took a long time to heal before I could face starting over. It was truly a {read more}
Is this egg a DUD? Good egg vs. bad egg
You are here because you’re wondering: Is this egg is a dud? Well, you’re in the right place. We candle our eggs at 10 days and again just before lockdown {read more}
Our Beloved Goats Went to New Homes
LAST UPDATED OCTOBER 26, 2020 We said goodbye to our herd of Nubian does last week. I am confident they all went to wonderful, loving homes where they will be {read more}
2019 Large Chicken Flock Thinning 101
We are cutting our flock down from it’s peak of 100+ mostly summer free-rangers to a selected 20 hens, and their respective roosters per-breed, for overwintering. In the last few {read more}
Spring Goat Kids and Rabbit Kits
Easy Girl, our yearling first-freshener, kidded at 3:40AM on 4/6 Running a small Maine dairy goat farm is often exhausting. Kidding season has added to the spring mayhem this year. {read more}
3 Easy to ID Edible Maine Mushrooms
Once again, it’s mushroom season in Maine. Periods of rain, foggy mornings, early frosts and insulative leaf litter summon the mycelium to shoot forth great masses of fruiting bodies, known {read more}
Our Wedding Gift: Grampa Grant’s 1952 IH Farmall 350 Tractor
On the day Kevin and I married down by the duck pond on Hobbit Hill, by his sister, we were gifted this 1952 Farmall 350 by my grandfather. That was {read more}
How to Treat Chicken Lice & Preventative Care Tips
LAST UPDATED DEC 12, 2019 This article explains how to treat chicken lice for beginners. This is my firsthand experience. There are multiple solutions and I ended up going the {read more}
55 Flowery Hen
We plan to have 55’s available for spring 2023! A follower on Facebook reached out and offered us a breeding pair. Unfortunately, before we picked them up the rooster had {read more}
Our 2022 hatchery re-boot chicks hatched!
As a reminder, as we have been asked several times, the chicks hatched this week are absolutely *NOT* for sale. We lost our flocks in 2021, and these sweet feather {read more}
The Quail hatched!
I had never seen a quail in person, let alone a teeny, weeny hatchling before. And the second I peered into the incubator and say the floofy little chick I {read more}
About the Celadon gene
LAST UPDATED MAY 27, 2020 – PHOTO CREDIT: SADIE-GIRL FARM WHERE WE PURCHASED EGGS What makes a quail lay blue eggs? Coturnix quail which carry an uncommon, recessive gene, identified {read more}
Mealworm Restock Alert!
Head’s up! I just added two more orders of 1000 mealworms though our subscription service to our online shop. Our subscribers always get the first chance at upcoming restocks and deals two days before announcing on social media.
It’s Official! Our 2022 new breeds…
Our hatchery is closed for Spring 2022. We traveled 2,968-miles in May to collect excellent stock from several states along East Coast, including our first ever bantams and quail. We {read more}