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 View Article
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Hatchery: December 2018 Update
Winter blew in early this year with two major ice storms before December. A lice outbreak this fall created a super molt. Poultry lice is common in flocks kept near 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 View Article
We are Moving
For many reasons, both practical and personal we are finding a new home for our herd to roam. Beyond personal reasons, it sure would be nice to have our own 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
Which autosexing breed is right for your farm?
We will be offering three autosexing breeds for 2023 to allow us to offer sexed day-olds locally of high production and dual purpose breeds.
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 View Article
Golden Bielefelder
This dual purpose autosexing breed is an excellent choice for a homestead. They are curious and gentle, making them a good choice for farms with small children. By only five months of age, the roosters were by far the largest we have ever raised here on the mountain, and have never had an argument.