
Get to know the flocks
We finally got all of our breeding pens ready for all the different breeds and then I decided that we just had too many breeds to deal with. I sold the Lavender Orpingtons and the Blue Australorps, along with a whole crop of young Wyandotte roosters as a big lot. There were 26 in total including some laying hens.
Normally selling a bunch of birds at once is a red flag, indicating that the deal is a scam, but in my case, I just really need someone to come get the birds before I change my mind and keep them all, forcing me into building MORE coops.
That being said, we finally got everyone into their breeding groups, and since they’ve had time to “acclimate” a little while, they’re ready to go.
Coop 1 – The Consortium
This is a long tin coop with 5 stalls that we built for breeding.
The Olive Egger project
This pen consists of two barred Olive Egger hens, one Cream Legbar hen and one Easter Egger girl that lays the most beautiful teal blue egg with a matte finish on the shell. The rooster, “Forrest” is a Black Copper Maran. My husband named him Forrest because when we would let him and the other roosters in the bachelor pad free range, he would stay 30 feet or more from us at all times. He was always running, hence Forrest.
The Easter Egger is the only hatchery hen in this pen but her egg is too pretty to not see what can come of it. The Cream Legbar “Ducky” is from a friend and local breeder here in town.
We recently hatched a few of the eggs from our Olive pen recently and kept a little black pullet. I can’t wait to see what she lays in a few months.
As far as egg colors go, one of the Olive girls lays a deeper olive and the other lays a spearmint colored egg, both of which you can see in the gallery below. Ducky’s is a light blue with a glossy sheen and the Easter Egger lays matte teal/blue.
The Marans had a hard time with their hatch and a couple of them ended up shrink wrapping. Since that was our first time dealing with chicks that were stuck, I didn’t know when to intervene and we lost one. I was able to get the two in the photos out safely and they’re now some of the chickens in the video above.
I hatched the Marans, the Olive Eggers and one Wyandotte from eggs I had shipped to me from nearly the Louisiana/Texas border.
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Ranger and his girls
The next pen over is our older Wyandotte flock.
The Silver Laced hens were shipped from TSC, while the Blue Laced Red Rooster “Ranger” was the Wyandotte hatched from eggs from the same farm as the Marans and the Olive Eggers.
You can see he liked wandering the property when he was a little guy.
Wyandotte pen #2
This pen is full of growouts. We have 4 Ayam Cemanis from a farm in Canyon, along with 6 Silver Laced hens from TSC and a really promising Blue laced roo that just hatched from Ranger’s pen. I am so excited and curious to see what he’s going to look like when he’s fully grown!
Growouts galore!


The next pen is temporarily full of bantam growouts. We have a few polish – one white crested black hen and two white crested blue roosters, a buff cochin rooster, a light brahma rooster (although I’m not 100% sure it’s not a hen), a beautiful porcelain hen that looks like nothing like anything I’ve ever seen, a black and white D’uccle hen, and a Mille Fleur hen.
There are also a couple of partridge fellas and a few black bantams that I can’t accurately sex just yet that came from a hatch from our main Bantam pen.
We have a gold/blue Wyandotte growing out in there too, along with his gold/blue sister. He’s the one that was hatched by our Satin and Frizzle Bantam hens Mamba and Mystic along with one of the partridge and one of the black satin babies.
Krakatoa, Mystic, Mamba and the Silkies

This is our currently breeding Bantam pen. Mystic is a black frizzle, and Mamba and Krakatoa are both Satin.
I hatched them from eggs I got from a friend a couple of years back, and this is probably my favorite group. We also have two Paint Silkies that we got from the same farm as “Ducky”.
I’m pretty sure the Silkie rooster is the father of the two little partridge chicks in the growout pen. I didn’t realize they were of age, as we hadn’t had a crow or an egg yet and was expecting more solid black babies. Imagine my surprise when red and blond partridge popped out.
Mamba is the mama to all the black ones, and I’m pretty sure she’s the mama to both partridge as well, though one or both could just as easily be from the Silkie hen. I really have no idea.
I guess Mystic isn’t a fan of the roos because we’ve had no frizzles so far. Their next hatch might change that, we shall see.

That being said, both Mystic and Mamba are almost 2 weeks into brooding a huge lot of eggs. There are 9 total, and I’m certain at least one is from the silkie hen, so the babies are gonna be a complete mystery as to who they belong to. There’s always a possibility they’ll hatch a little Paint Silkie.
I know for sure that two of the nine are from the Olive Egger pen because they did such a good job with the Wyandotte baby I gave them a couple extras from the other girls. Oops!
These two bantam hens are the best moms though, and they go broody all the time. I let them because, well the babies are adorable.
Coop 2 – The Hentagon

This pen is our Marans and other hens. We have Easter Eggers hens, Black Copper Marans hens, and a few Red Sex Link hens with our BCM rooster “Toes”.

The chickens in this pen are subject to change at a moments notice because this is where we keep our hens when we don’t want to breed them. That and we play musical coops with these poor things all the time. I believe this is why we rarely have issues combining flocks, no matter what age they are.
“Toes” and the Marans girls will be getting their own pen in The Consortium once I get the Bantams squared away. He was the only one we kept out of the bachelor pad group (with the Lavenders and Australorps), and couldn’t leave him in a coop on his own, so he went in with all the girls.
Wrapping up the introductions
While our Homestead page may be fairly new, the farm itself isn’t. We’ve been in the community for 11 years, and have had chickens since 2021. We are finally getting it to the point where we can supply more than consumption eggs to the public.
We hope this little introduction helps when it comes to building our reputation within the chicken community as well as providing a reference for what lineage your chicks will have when you purchase eggs and chicks from us.
Be sure to check back often as things change with the wind around here and you don’t want to miss out on a hell of a deal when I get my wild hairs!
