
Our Flocks – February 2024
Our farm is constantly changing, and our pens seem to be on constant rotation as well. We don’t have a whole lot of breeds, but I’ve gotten pretty attached to those we do have.
We are currently working with:
Standard: Wyandottes, Olive Eggers, Easter Eggers, Black Copper, White and Splash Marans, Crested Cream Legbar, Leghorn, and Ayam Cemani.
Bantam: Silkies, Silkie Mixes (previously known as Satins), Cochin, Mille Fleur, Black and White D’Uccle, Columbian Brahma, White Crested Black and Blue Polish.
We are in the process of testing fertility on the Wyandottes and White Crested Polish. The incubators are both full, so stay tuned!
The Consortium
Pen 1 : Krakatoa, Mystic & Mamba
This group is part Silkie, part something else. They have been referred to as Satins in the past, but because of new information I’ve recently learned, I don’t know whether or not to keep calling them that. They are a smooth feathered bantam with the possibility of transmitting the silkie gene. At least Krakatoa has it as far as I can tell.

You see, I thought we had a rooster and a hen in our Paint Silkies. I was wrong. We have two hens. We ended up with a white silkie baby (I kick myself every day for selling it before I saw what it was gonna be). Since the Silkie gene is recessive, our rooster Krakatoa is, obviously, a carrier.

Almost all of the chicks we have hatched from this pen were black, or partridge, but there is a chance for a Silkie white or Smooth white baby.
Krakatoa is very…demanding…of his hens, and Mystic is just a crazy b**** so the poor things were almost naked. I’ve moved them over to the Red Cochin’s pen to recoup those feathers. I don’t think he likes them because they are doing really well over there.
These girls will be going back in with Krakatoa once they get their feathers back to normal. (We’re gonna look into saddles for the breeding season to try and prevent the loss of feathers next time.)

Pen 2: Fireball and his little ladies
For the time being, the little Silkie girls are in with Fireball. He’s not much nicer but he hasn’t taken a liking to them like he has the other girls, so they’re looking good again.

The ladies in this pen are “Brahma Mia” – a Light Brahma, “Millie” – a MilleFleur D’Uccle, “Domino” – a Black & White D’Uccle, and “Pearl”, our mystery green egg layer. I think she’s at least part bantam Ameraucana, but she has some Isabel looking colors. I’m not sure what to call her, but I just love her.

This pen is for those of you looking for a chicken that doesn’t look like everyone else’s chickens. You never know what you’re gonna end up with when you choose eggs from this pen.


Pen 3: White Crested Black & Blue Polish
Our hen is White Crested Black and our roo is White Crested Blue. The chicks have a 50% chance of being blue, and a 50% chance of being black.


Pen 4: Ayam Cemani
We finally have Ayam Cemani eggs for sale!
We’ve hatched a couple of clutches now, so the fertility is there. These are a harder breed to hatch though so keep that in mind when you purchase them. We will ship eggs, but the jarring and manhandling by the post offices will definitely influence the hatch rate. Please don’t be mad at us if none hatch. We had the exact same problem when we had these guys’ eggs shipped to US. We weren’t successful until we hatched the third clutch. The first two didn’t take.


Pen 5: Wyandotte Project
The chicks that come out of this pen will be BBS laced Red/Gold and Blue/Black laced Lemon. Sorry, no pure bred colors here. We are breeding these to produce some of the lesser seen colors, like this pretty Blue laced Lemon roo we named Sir Winston.

The Hentagon
This round pen is packed full of colorful egg laying ladies! Things are subject to change as soon as we get the other pen ready for the Bantams, but as of now, we have a BCM roo covering Black Copper Marans, Easter Eggers, Olive Egger, and Crested Cream Legbar hens. Our Olive girls seem to be laying darker greens since they got a vacation.
You’re probably curious about that rooster’s comb. Our poor single combed roosters got frostbite on the tips last winter when we dipped into subzero temps for days on end. They had the breed appropriate combs when I hatched them.

The Cock Block – Zombies!
Gonna have to find a new name for this pen. It was previously a bachelor pad we called “The Cock Block”, but it’s going in a different direction now. We recently acquired 4 Leghorn hens to pair with our extra Ayam Cemani Monte. After a little while, and some test hatches, we will be offering zombie eggs too.

They settled in really well…with FOREST our main BCM rooster! He’s currently away from his hens to allow them to regrow their feathers as well. We had to put them in the coop the first night. The second night, Forest and Monte had shown them how to get it done, and all 6 were cooped up before dark.
The hens were technically “for” Monte, but Monte doesn’t care. He would rather hop the fence and hang out around the bantams’ pens. I guess we’ll see how this goes. Looks like we will have to extend the fencing a little higher to keep him in.

We have 2 white Marans and a Splash Maran in here as well. I wasn’t sure if they had started laying again, so I separated them from the other Marans to find out. They’ve been here for months, so thankfully they finally decided to participate in the egg production!
A Frame – Growouts
We have a bunch of youngsters who just recently joined the big Hentagon flock with Toes. The majority are BC1 Olive Eggers, but there are a few BCM in the mix, along with a lone Gold Wyandotte pullet. Forest is their Papa. One of those little barred guys is Nelson, but I can’t tell which one.


One of the first clutch olive girls has started laying too!

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