
2025 Flock Introductions
The Consortium
Silkies and Satins
Our Silkie population has increased! In addition to the two paint hens, we’ve added a white and a splash hen, as well as a blue/splash rooster I’ve dubbed “Gandalf”. In total we have 9 wee little birds in that pen. Krakatoa, Mystic and Mamba were the first satin feathered bantams we hatched here on the homestead, and are coming up on their 4th birthdays soon.
Last but not least is our second generation Satin-feathered Silkie mix. Krakatoa and one of the Paint girls are her parents, and she turned out REALLY pretty.

Bantam / Pullet growout pen
These little ladies are the chicks we hatched from some barnyard mix eggs last year. They’re just coming into their egg laying time too which is really exciting because 2 of them so far lay some of our darkest olive eggs yet!

Ayam Cemanis
We’ve had a hard run with this breed, and I keep wavering on whether or not I want to continue trying for the elusive black mouth and tongue. We had a freak hailstorm come through last May that dropped baseball sized hail on us. Our best Cemani rooster Monte was out free ranging when it hit, and wasn’t able to make it to shelter in time.
Our other Rooster, Slater is showing too many disqualifying qualities for my taste. His mouth has pink, and his eyes are brown not black. Otherwise though, he is a fantastic looking rooster!
Slater’s son is showing better fibro than his pop, with what appears to be a nice gray mouth. Still not black, but not pink either. His comb is not as pretty as his dad’s but it’s not too bad either. He is going to be our main rooster in this pen, while Slater will be retired to his own project pen!

Ranger and his red girls
We are not breeding for SOP here. I don’t give a rat’s a** about the angle their tails point, or what shape their combs are. I get excited when I see super neat looking markings that aren’t necessarily seen all the time. That being said, this girl has the PRETTIEST pattern I’ve seen on a Wyandotte so far (not counting pencil laced). It’s probably a major disqualifier when it comes to show birds, but I like it, so she stays.
If you order hatching eggs from this pen your chicks will be splash, blue and/or black laced red.

Winston, and Twinston, with their girls
Winston and Twinston are Blue Laced Lemon Wyandottes. They’re basically a dilute version of their gold laced counterparts, and I think they look rather cool. (We also have a dilute calico cat, and a dilute colored bantam hen, so this tracks.)
Because the hens are Silver Laced the offspring from this cross could come out in just about any combination of colors possible (with the exception of splash lacing). If you’re looking for non-standard colors, you should choose eggs from this pen.
The Hentagon

This is our big round pen and coop. Our BCM rooster Toes is the main squeeze for a whole lot of girls right now. We will be moving some of the girls over to the next pen to ensure fertility in the remaining girls, but in the meantime we have Olive Eggers, Easter Eggers, BCM and one little Crested Cream Legbar hen named Ducky in there with him.
The Block

This is going to be our project pen. Before our Cemani rooster Monte was killed in the storm he hit it off with one of the Marans girls and we hatched Goose from her eggs. He’s turning out to be a nice looking bird, so he will be taking on some of the Easter and Olive Egger girls from the Hentagon.
The Easter Egger girls are from our homestead’s first two sets of chickens back in 2020 and 2021, so they should be able to keep his hyper young self in check. They also lay the largest eggs on the homestead so hopefully that means strong, healthy offspring.
Looking forward to some neat looking chicks, with varying levels of fibro who hopefully will have the genes for green eggs when they grow up. Regardless, I’m excited to see what this pen will do.
Conclusion
We have several projects planned, as well as hatching the next generation for our breeding programs, so check back often to see what we have going on!