Black Cat Homestead

05/28/2026

Local folks…I’ve got allllll the eggs. Hit me up!

05/12/2026

Hi yall, I’ve got eating eggs for local folks! Holler at me! $6/dozen

05/09/2026

I’m not sure if anyone will remember this BUT…last year we planted the following plants:
Five apple trees
Two cherry trees
Boatloads of strawberry plants (~50)
Several pineberry plants
Loganberry (1)
Boysenberry (1)
Several jostaberry bushes
Two gooseberry bushes
Eight raspberry plants
20 blackberry plants/canes
Several blueberry bushes

Over the winter one of our apple trees got killed/eaten by something but otherwise everything is doing well. Remember last year when I got a single berry?!? Just one berry from all of that. It’s fine. We are in it for the long haul and knew there wouldn’t be much/any production the first couple/few years.

Well! Guess what! It looks to me like we are gonna have berries!! As long as I protect them from alllll the local animals, that is. But eeeeeee!!! Berries!!!!

The pink flowers are the pineberry flowers. The others pictured are jostaberries and gooseberries. I’m soooo pumped.

04/27/2026

HI folks, I'm participating in the community supporting another family whose special needs three year old will have a very big time surgery. Feel free to donate and enter these drawings. There's a boatload of prizes and DNA testing by me is one of them! Black Cat Genetic Testing

04/24/2026

Yeeeeppppp

I thought the reasons that we don’t use AI would be obvious to most of our followers - but best not to assume. 🌿

So here’s why:

* AI is individualistic and anti-community: it encourages people to do everything themselves instead of asking for help, and to rely on the machine instead of fellow humans.

* AI is massively environmentally destructive- from the amount of fresh water it uses to electricity, to buying up farmland for data centres! There’s just no ethical way to use it - especially not for random chats and picture generating.

* AI is bad for our brains - outsourcing our thinking is the equivalent of couch-potato lifestyle for our brains. 🧠

* AI steals from artists, writers and designers and it is making finding work difficult for the creative community.

* AI does a bad job - it’s easy to spot when people use AI for images, posters and text. The images all look similar, all look too-glossy and quite creepy and the text is inauthentic, too drippingly emotive and all follows the same tired pattern.

This is why I said that “AI is not an example of something you’ve made” in my logo post, and I certainly won’t be using it to make our logo.
I’d rather work on it for weeks, outsource it to our community and/or save to pay a human to do it.

Let’s do better 🌿🐑

04/21/2026

Local folks, I’ve got eggs if you need them!

04/20/2026

We have soooo much mulch. I'm tired of moving mulch, yall. I told Tim to get out the burn barrel because we cannot store this much mulch. I have tried to give it away. I have tried to mulch around the property but Chip Drop really outdid themselves in the sheer volume of mulch brought to us.

I've been mulching, yall. I ended up with about 800 bites from some kind of weird biting flies but I've been mulching. My husband and I moved a BOATLOAD of mulch during the week last week. Friday was a marathon 6-7 hours of mulch moving in anticipation of a compost/soil delivery. Can you see all the mulch in the piles out near the tree line? Yeah, that is about 1/10th of the extra mulch we've got. I'm literally begging folks to take mulch. Chip Drop is awesome but daaaang, you better be prepared for MULCH.

We have replaced the mulch in both chicken runs (one is 12' long and one is 16' long (both 8' wide). We mulched around these garden beds. We put mulch out in the area where no grass grows anyway (out by the tree line). I think half the mulch is still out front in the giant pile too. Holy mulch, batman.

03/31/2026

Hi y’all, I made this post on the genetic testing page I run but some of yall don’t follow that page so I thought I’d ask here: what do we know about growing mushrooms? Too late in the season to start them? Holler at me with all the info.

Hi collective, what do we know about growing mushrooms? Am I too late to start mushrooms? I looked some stuff up and it sorta indicated I needed to seed them in the fall, which made me a bit sad but I can wait if need be. What do yall know about it though?

Here's a mushroom doodle I did for my kiddo's lunch for tax.

03/22/2026

Local folks, I’ve got eggs. Anyone need them?

03/14/2026

This is for a really good cause.

HUGE WAFFLE with 39 Dozen Hatching Eggs, 8 Count chick box, 40 DNA sexing tests, $400 in gift cards and 1 Gift Basket as prizes!!!!!

🦋This waffle is for Camilla's Coop. Many of us breeders have came together to show our support and help her family out during hard times. 🦋

‼️Please read carefully‼️
Winners are responsible for reaching out to the breeder that they won their prize from. Breeders please double check your winner. Some winners will be responsible for shipping. YOU MUST POST A SCREENSHOT of payment in the comments in order to be added. This waffle will run for 14 days. I will close this on 3/25 at 7pm and i will go live and spin the wheel at 8pm on 3/26. All payments will go directly to Melissa and we will double check every payment. I will be posting updates throughout the week so make sure you follow me & Camilla's Coop

♾️ UNLIMITED SPOTS
💸 $8 a spot

Cash App - $GilbertHuchin (updated)
Zelle - [email protected] last 4 4722
PayPal - Melissa Huchin
Venmo - -Sprague-Huchin

🏆All Prizes available

Bluebonnet Silkies TX 1 dozen hens choice 🐣
Kramer’s Coop 8 build your own chick box and 1 dozen hens choice 🐣 (box fee included - Winner responsible for shipping cost on chick box)
Sugar Shacks Homestead- 1 dozen hens choice 🐣
Magnolia Silkies -6+ hens choice 🐣
Coffin Creek Homestead & Lab- 10 dna tests 🧬
Hens, Hooves & Honey Homestead-1 dozen Rainbow 🐣
P**f and Plume Farm $50 Amazon/chewy gift card
DreamPark Farm Silkies and Lops -1 Dozen BBS/White 🐣
Bullock Farms- 1 dozen hens choice 🐣
Haunted Hollow Hens - 1 dozen hens choice 🐣
Little Landry Farm-1 dozen call duck 🐣 & 1 dozen winners Choice D'uccle, Serama or Kiki Riki Hatching Eggs (Winners pay shipping)
LaLa’s Farm-1 dozen hens choice 🐣
Sugar Sky Farms-1 dozen hens choice 🐣
The Fournier Farm-1 dozen Black Cochin & 1 dozen BBS mottled D'Uccles🐣(Shipping at the end of april)
Black Cat Homestead- 10 dna 🧬 tests
Redwood Farms 2.0-1 dozen Millie 🐣& 1 dozen Mottled 🐣 (winner pays shipping)
Chelsea's Chickens -1 Dozen Heritage Turkey 🐣🦃
Cherie’s Cozy Coops-1 dozen hens choice & 1 dozen Mottled 🐣 that will ship in April
The Cosmic Chic-Keene - 2 Dozen Hens choice 🐣 (winner responsible for shipping cost)
Diamond Haze Homestead -1 Dozen hens choice 🐣(winner pays shipping)
Faith & Fluff Farm-💸$150💸 Chewy Gift card
The Cox Family Homestead- 1 Bag of Kalmback Feed
Fluffbutt Farm TX- 1 dozen hens choice 🐣
Buckin' Duck Ranch- Gift Basket 🧺 🦋
Houston Family Silkies -1 dozen hens choice 🐣
Hat Creek Farms- 1 dozen hens choice 🐣
Campbell Cluck & Quail-2 Dozen 🌈 Rainbow chicken 🐣 - 3 dozen Standard Coturix Quail 🐣 - 3 dozen Jumbo Quail 🐣
Sweet Southern Silkies- 1 dozen silkie & Cochin 🐣
AQuack AndaCluck Farm - 1 dozen hens choice 🐣
Silkie Surprise - 2 $100 Store credit Vouchers
The House of Fluffy Butts- 1 Dozen Hens Choice & 1 dozen Bantam Cochin Hatching Eggs (winner pays shipping)
Steele Creek Farms - 1 Dozen Hens Choice Hatching eggs
Cotton's Silkies - 1 Dozen Hens Choice Hatching eggs
Crouch's Silkie Farm - 1 Dozen hens choice silkie hatching eggs
Good Witch Silkies & Apothecary - 1 Dozen Hens Choice silkie Hatching
Bari Farms - Flock Forensics- 20 dna genetic tests
Cactus Poultry - 1 Dozen hens choice silkie & 1 dozen Langshans hatching eggs
Sunset Hill Silkies & Satins - 1 Mixed Dozen Hatching Eggs

Good luck to everyone! Please share this so we can meet our goal ❤️

Brande Jolley 2x
Becky Curtright 4x
Kaela Prescott 3x
Kara Lynn 8x
Sherri Dallas 10x
Ashley woman Ott 6x
John Ramirez 13x
Kathy Stephen Cargile 6x
Victor Molina 2x
Redwood Farms 2.0 2x
Trish Terrell 5x
Melanie Miller 2x
Texstar Exotics 5x
Ayleen Canuto 4x
Penick Family 2x
Hope Obrien 2x
Robin Gay 1x
Aleea Fitzgerald 2x
Silkie Pillow Patch 13x
Jennifer Sargent 7x
Snichstead 9x
Mother of Feathered Dragons 3x
Jodi Springer 1x
Donna Griffith 5x
Elvie Ramriez 5x
Heavenly Homestead 3x
Cherie’s Cozy Coops 5x
Kim Campbell 4x
Cluckinghen Palace 2x
The Silkie Chick 5x
Marina Moestretti 10x
Little Chick Inn 4x
Katie Elrod 4x
Eugenia De La Garza 5x
Sheena Welch 2x
Krissie Wood Talley 10x
Haley Maria1x
Bryce Thayer-Witaker 3x
Angela Dukes 1x
Shawn Campbell 2x
Carol Amrhein Walczak 10x
Celina Chapa Chavarria 5x
Amelia Hallock 5x
Haley Maria 1x
Kim Campbell 4x
Alley Hetman 2x
Christine Donnelly 5x
Laura Vandivier Sherrod 5x
Jorge Juarez 2x
Jose Perez 10x
The Robestead 4x
Kimberly Ferguson 4x
Ciara Ferraro 1x
The Nest on Willow Branch 5x
Ann Marie 7x
Michael Vega 3x
Laura Vandivier Sherrod 5x
Jorge Juarez 2x
Little Landry Farm 2x
Hens, Hooves & Honey Homestead 3x
Pam Walker 3x
Kirstin Carlson Hayes 3x
Steph Roberts 6x
Pam Walker 3x
The Feathered Roost 3x
April Smith 3x
Kendra Homesley 2x
Amanda Eavenson Coppola 10x
Ruthie Mays Hobby Farm 3x
Michele Ledbetter 5x
Cindy Hodgdon Barton 1x
Sunset Hill Silkies & Satins 4x
DreamPark Farm Silkies and Lops 2x
Scott Silkies 2x
Dylan Cherry 20x
Home Time Silkies 3x
Giron Acres 5x
Good Witch Silkies & Apothecary 12x
Anna Butler x9
Coffin Creek Homestead & Lab x2
Angelina Smith x3
Robin Rodgers McAnaney 2x
Bari Farms - Flock Forensics x12
Vinyard Farms 2x
Rachel Smith 1x
Kyleigh Gaulke 4x
Bree Jenness 1x
Brandy Bence Warren 4x
Buckin Buckin' Duck Ranch 6x
The AF Farm 5x
Julie Annette Morris 1x
Painted Pretty Poultry x2
Stares at Chickens 4x
Marina Moestretti 5x
Matt De La Rosa x5
Morghan Gray 2x
Karlee Stacey 2x
Kaylee Michelle x2
Houston Family Silkies 3x
The Dairy Farmers Daughter x1
SoapOpera Silkies Barn x2
Catos Folly Exhibition Poultry 4x
Shannon Patrick 3x
Stacia Krupp 5x
Silkies Plus x3
Estradas Fluff & Feather Shack x1
Abby Sproul x1
Marc Villa 2x
Tiffany Janet 2x
Where the wild ones grow 2x
Megan Andersen x2
Makenzie Kitchens 1x
Sarah Nagel x2
Angelica Childers x2
Jeri Brocker Welch x3
Michelle Ramsay x3
Olivia Metcalf x2
Cluck Like A God x2
Fluff Butt Crazy 5x
Michelle Wilson 3x
Amy Dunsmore 1x
Cameron Self 5x
Tera Black x3
John Johnson x13
Trisha Puente 5x
BarbandAlba Monks x3
Corrinne Branson x3
Madilyn Dame 2x
Kelli Eason x2
Macy Pittman 1x
Joselyn Crissman 5x
Chantel Lynn 3x
Amanda Russel Phelps 3x
Chelsea Atkins Ge**er 5x
Jenny Covil Londerholm 5x