Author: Sandi

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Not Lucy (Lucille Ball) who finds this bin of bedding pellets just fine and out of the way. What a cozy comfy space to leave us an egg a day!

We have six mini potbelly pigs here on our farm. Four were “rehomed” or “rescued” and two were adopted as little piglets. Legendary Acres Six Potbelly Pigs: Izzy & Franky came together when their owner needed to find them a new home. Living in a subdivision, their HOA got involved…

We’re nominees for the group hatch-o-holics on Facebook for sure. We’ve recently hatched our third round in the incubator (and have reset round 4 with farm fresh eggs from 3 different farms PLUS ours! Talk about magical mixes emerging from our eggs… Back to the original story that was our…

New theory that Melvin and Marvin are Black Sex Links? The Black Sex-Link is an excellent brown egg layer. It was created from a Barred Rock hen and a Rhode Island Red cockerel. This creates a very versatile bird that is a great egg layer, has the temperament of a…

Part of the fun of a farmyard chick is trying to figure out who the parents are that bring about the chicks characteristics. Here we’ll recap our chicks that hatched and try to match with the parent combo that brought them about. Play along! Aside from DNA testing our best…

or a new addiction! You decide. So, the best Christmas Gift this past year was an incubator! It was gifted to our Mother Clucker Sandi, however, she doesn’t have to be in charge of it just yet. Al – the gifter, has become the egg setter extraordinaire! Our first set…

Our Americana will give you an assortment of colored eggs from turquoise to olive, to light brown. The Americana breed comes from the Araucana and Ameraucana mix and has different color plumage variations. It is because of this genetic combination that our birds are not meant for exhibition. Docile, Friendly…

One of Frick’s adopted chicks was York – and Australorp. Here’s more: Our Americana will give you an assortment of colored eggs from turquoise to olive, to light brown. The Americana breed comes from the Araucana and Ameraucana mix and has different color plumage variations. The Australorp is an Australian…

We had a hen go broody for several weeks. In order to speed things along with getting her back to “normal” we adopted some chicks from Rural King to get the process going. Here’s Frick and her adopted brood of chicks.