Burt is a young roo, from another local farm that only wished to keep a single rooster for his flock of 12 hens.  This handsome fella is an

On July 23rd, 2018 the first chick was hatched at the Harper Homestead. Let this day go down in history.

*Graphic Content - Read at own risk.* Sometimes things just don't work out. When we vistied our coop today, we came to discover that one of our hatching eggs had somehow been cracked, causing us to lose one of our unborn chicks. While I am heartbroken, lately, life has been giving me some lessons in handling agricultural loss. Recently, we lost a different silkie hen, who had been picked up by a fox while free-ranging in our yard one morning. While we were able to save her