Today we shot some promos for it, and will be posting them over on the tok, and in another week we’ll be live again with Water Candling them… and at some point, I think we’ll have be live with the next hatch.
This is outside of the normal Sunday morning TikTok live broadcasting I normally do.
Why am I so excited about this hatch? If you follow us on Tiktok, you’ll see we had a major predator attack in June. All told we lost 50 birds due to a series of Raccoon attacks. My special feather pattern birds were gone. My Celadons were still in eggs at this time – the weekend we went to Quincy to pick them up from the breeder was the weekend we had multiple attacks, injuring many, and outright killing others. My lavendar line was decimated… my pearls – ‘Coon chow, and my autumn manchurians? Nope… not to mention what they did to the English Whites and the Italians. The only ones not attacked (and it was likely due to cage location vs construction) were my birds that were on the slate to be harvested due to age soon, the Pharohs, as I have been planning on only raising jumbo pharohs and had a number of their eggs in the incubator at that time.
Rosetta and Pearls along with a couple Grau Fee and Chocolate Chipers are in the incubator now, and I actually have to build a small internal cage for lockdown so I can segregate the non Pearls from the Pearls. I’ll be cleaning up my greenhouse work bench so I can do that, and who knows, maybe I’ll make a tiktok or youtube about that too.
We are looking to do both TikTok and Youtube lives soon, and hope you join us as we do these regularly, and get a chance to share the knowledge because as a Quail Mama, I want to see folks flourish and grow and learn how to care for their own in a way that is smart, easy and a form of self-reliance all can pick up.
So keep following – we have so much more to do, and I’ll share with y’all as we learn too!
Annie is a semi-retired homebirth midwife, the Director and head doula trainer for the MattieMarie Traditional Birth Studies program, and a Farmer’s granddaughter. It all ties into her mad plan to be as self-sufficient as she can while returning to her roots.