Two Doves Homestead

Willow and babies are doing great 🥰. Photo dump of some cuteness on a Monday afternoon 😍

Happy Easter!!

Willow has graced the farm with two beautiful little girls! Both are thriving and spunky. They nursed in less than an hour and are quickly learning to use those legs.

Couldn't have asked for a better way to end the day 🥰

Hatching eggs available!

Coming from three roosters - black copper maran, Ameraucana, and Dark Brahma.
Our hens are Black Copper Maran, Ameraucana, Speckled Sussex, and Olive Eggers.
Chicks can produce Easter Eggers, Olive Eggers, Marans, and Ameraucanas.

**Adults not up for discussion**

Reach out for your spring chicks! Hardy cold weather breeding with prolific layers that lay through winter. Chicks range from 3 weeks to 1 day old.

Local pick-up, Wi******er VA!!

Local pickup! Get your farm fresh eggs to share around the table on Easter Sunday 🌷🐣🐰🪻

Another batch of eggs off to another incubator!

Our girls have been seperated into breeding coops last week. Only two more weeks of back yard mix hatching eggs - get them while they're fresh 🤩

Happy Sunday!

Photo dump of the boys. They truely are sweethearts, Junie still isn't sure what she's gotten herself into 🤣

PSA for new goat owners - a cautionary story.

A little over a year ago we bought registerable twin F7 doelings from a large, well-reviewed breeder as bottle babies; the dam and sire are both registered. This year both doelings kidded and each produced a set of twins with double teats, this is a disqualifying defect for registration with MDGA and future breeding. After reaching out to the current owner of the dam, they confirmed the dam herself has double teats. She should never have been registered or used for breeding. These doelings were intended to be foundation stock for our herd, so this is a big loss emotionally and for our breeding program.

We thought we’d done our homework, but this taught us to be even more thorough: always inspect dams in person when able, confirm teat/conformation and health records, ask for registration papers, request references, and get written guarantees or return agreements. Breeders are responsible for knowing their animals and breeding to standard.

Be cautious this kidding season.