Whitestead Farm

We haven’t posted in such a long time. Life has been a whirlwind this year.

But I gathered 42 eggs today! Our little farm is just blossoming

We did breed our rabbits for the first time- unfortunately neither litter survived- but we have learned a lot and are looking forward to our next breeding ❤️

It has been a LONG day. We still have 18 chickens to butcher tomorrow 🥱 just finished the last bag of the night about 15 minutes ago.

One thing we won’t do, is go hungry 🤤

Tomorrow is chicken processing day 🐓

Or big hen finally laid her first egg!

Left egg is from our frizzle chickens, right egg is from our big girl 🥰

Our garden is doing so well! We have lots of tomatoes blooming and many many other things 🤤 canning season is calling my name.

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Look how big these piggies are getting 🐷

Look at those meat birds 🐔

Working on a second tractor so we can split our meat birds and add some turkeys this weekend 🦃

Mulberry picking 🤤

She’s brooding! If she hatches this egg in 21 days- that will be our first baby hatched on the farm 🐥

22 of our chickens. Hunkered in for the night. We have had terrible storms here today including a tornado watch and warning but they are all cozy

Nesting boxes and brooder going in this week 👏🏻

Someone had her first planting lesson in her new garden beds today

Peep our broiler chickens in the chicken tractor behind us

Building Madison a couple of her own garden beds for her bday 🎉

Chicken run 🏃‍♀️

So happy to give them some room to run

It’s an eggciting day 🤩

Our frizzle chickens are here! We had a long weekend gathering animals to bring to the farm.

Today we added 3 frizzle roosters, 4 frizzle hens, and 10 baby frizzle chicks

Our medium aged poultry have started roosting 🥺

These birds will be for creating more chicks in the future ❤️

We had so many things go wrong today- our water pipe broke under our house, our lawnmower wires broke. However!!!!!!! Major success with our piggies today.

They have been so skiddish- probably because they have been moved so much- but they are in their permanent spot now and have been for a few days.

Today- my mom and stepdad came down to help with the water pipe issue (since it caused us to have no water 🤦🏼‍♀️) and my mom captured these gems. Why are the gems you may ask? Because this is the first time that our male pig has come this close- I’ve been hand feeding since day one so they can get used to us. Before today he always stayed as far away as possible. Today he was SO close and even ate straight out of my hand. Even our female was up close to me. Pears seem to be the trick- so if anyone has any laying around let me know 😉

This was SUCH a big step in our farm journey. Gaining the trust of an animal is so important ❤️

Oh and we also gave the pigs a pool today 🏊‍♂️

Our littlest chicks got a major upgrade today

20/50 🐔

Ooooooooooo meat chickens 🐔

Hi ho hi ho 😂

It’s breakfast time here at the farm. Look at these cute noses!