Samson-Fabio is a Salmon Faverolle rooster. Of the eight roosters I have, he is the only one I purposefully purchased as a rooster.Red is a buff Orpington rooster. He was originally Rose, but when he started getting aggressive toward the hens, we thought maybe he was a rooster. When he crowed, we changed his name to Red.This is Ron Henson. He is probably a maran, but I don’t know his exact breed. I bought him as a brown egg-laying pullet, and his breed wasn’t specified. His original name was April. This is Rocky. He is a Brown Leghorn. To us, he is the quintessential rooster and looks just like the rooster on the movie Rockadoodle. This is Optimus, a Light Brahma rooster. His breed usually gets to be around 12 pounds, but they can get much larger.Meet Feather, a Sultan rooster. Our youngest child thought he was a pullet and named him Feather because of the single feather that stuck up straight from the top of his head. He has a lot more feathers now. Emotionally, he’s a bit of a mess and is the lowest rooster in the pecking order, but his best rooster pal is Zeb, who is the alpha of his coop. It helps to have friends in high places.This is Chive, a “Sulkie.” His mom is a Silkie, and his dad was a Sultan. I incubated his egg for roughly 21 days and watched him hatch. His dad was extremely aggressive and would attack anyone who came near him, in spite of our attempts to tame him, so he is no longer living on the farm. Chive’s father had a very fluffy set of feathers on his head, which the kids thought resembled an onion. They called him Onion Head, so when we realized that his progeny was a rooster, we started to call him Chive. Sometimes we still call him Poppy, since that was his name before we knew he was a rooster.This is Zeb, a bantam Old English rooster. Oddly enough, he is the alpha of his coop. He picked a fight with Samson, one of the largest roosters, and he won. The kids call him the parkour rooster, because he’s always running, jumping, and flipping around the chicken yard. His name was originally Zebra because of the stripes he has on his tail feathers, but we changed it to Zeb when we discovered he’s a rooster.For a while Agnes was laying eggs in strange places. All over the yard, we’d find her speckled turquoise eggs. Just living up to her Easter Egger name, I guess. The weirdest place she ever laid an egg was in a bag of pine shavings sitting on the back porch.Watson the barn cat is one of the newest additions to the farm. His job is to help control the rodent population around here.Peaches the barn cat is another new addition to Blessed Roots. She will work with Watson to maintain the rodent population around the farm.Triple Butter Goat Milk Soap. Ingredients: coconut oil, olive oil, kokum butter, cocoa butter, mango butter, apricot kernel oil, castor oil, beeswax, goat milk, honey, sodium hydroxideButtercup our yearling doeKilldeer has surprise triplets 2/8/2022!
Blessed Roots Farmstead 