We departed on another egg-pic road trip from our budding new homestead in Orrington, Maine to pick up darkest Black Copper Marans eggs in addition to Ermine Ameraucana eggs in Columbia, Tennessee with a stop in Westport, Massachusetts on the way back. Our incubator is full of Black Copper Marans, View Article
Homestead Updates
A long strange journey back to selling hatching eggs in 2027
Yes, all the rumors are true—I’m hatching eggs. If you have been following our journey over the last few years, you know that our lives have been anything but stationary and ordinary. Life is too short to be bland and stay put. We are hearty Mainers that aren’t afraid to View Article
Finding the Best Autosexing, Rare and Fancy Chicken Breeds
What we’re looking at for 2023 breeds:
55 Flowery Hen
Black Ameraucana
Lavender Ameraucana
Black Copper Marans
F1/F2 Olive Egger
Cream Legbar
Opal Legbar
Mille Fluer d’Uccle
Frizzle d’Uccle
Gold Bielefelder
Polish (multiple colors)
Frizzle Polish
Goat Kidding Season of March 2019
Our first PLANNED kidding by our second freshening dam Apple and her sire Fireball was Monday afternoon. Apple had a quick and smooth labor and the birth went great. I was terrified when I saw two little white hooves emerge in the pale-yellow liquid bubble while Apple groaned—and hilariously ate View Article
Treating Cough and Wheezing in Chickens
Sudden changes in weather in Maine with cold snaps below zero one week and heavy rain the next can take a toll on flocks. A few days back five pullets came down ill. The first sign of a heath issue was lethargic behavior, loss of interest in hopping around, no View Article
Magical Sinkholes
Well, I was fine with the sinkhole that magically drained our driveway. The dooryard looked like a soggy bowl of forgotten Cocoa Puffs for a week. It rained by day and froze at night several days in a row. The overcast sky was pure white, cloudless and blocked out the View Article
January 2019 Homestead Update
Available this Month: Whole Processed Rabbits Raw Goat’s Milk Chicken & Duck Eggs Goat’s Milk Soap Chèvre Goat Cheese Whole Processed Goose Rabbit Pelts Hatching Eggs Happy new year from Hobbit Hill. This year kicks off our sixth year breeding our French Black Copper Marans. These beautiful layers of View Article