Wishing you all a wonderful Easter, may it be filled with love, laughs, family and friends!

This morning in the bird pen, o the delights that awaited me.. Lots of Brown eggs, pretty green egg, lovely big speckled turkey egg and my first big goose egg!

This is Mel, he is a blue Spash Jersey Giant Rooster, he is eight months old at this time, and I think he will add lots of meat to my next generation for the table, as well as carrying the genes for extra large brown eggs.

Pretty Girl..

Do you run a mixed flock or do you keep all your birds apart based on breeds, by this I mean do you allow your geese to mix with your chickens etc.. I have to admit that I don’t allow mixing of babies, they are always raised on their own, and my grow out spring/summer/fall pens are ducks, chickens, turkey’s etc but after the big fall butcher out, in winter, the keepers, the lucky overwinter birds all become one big flock in the big pen and the big indoor winter pen..

We are soon getting to the time of year where the grow out summer pens will melt out and birds in breeding sets will be moved into their own area’s and allowed to start that wonderful spring dance of mating and then laying/setting and ideally hatching out some lovely babies for me!