Twisted Hollow Homestead and Rabbitry

08/05/2025

08/03/2025

Stayed up late to make soap! We’re at the Gilmanton Community Farmers Market this morning from 11-2.

Soaps:
Lavender Mint & Charcoal
Lavender & Honey Oats
Mountain Hike
Personal Day

We are sold out of rabbit meat for the week.

07/30/2025

It’s hard to see on camera, but at 1 week in, we only have three out of the 24 eggs not developing! For shipped eggs, that is amazing!

We’ll see in a couple more weeks how many make it to hatch.

07/29/2025

Today is the day! HB 779 takes effect today, July 29.

07/25/2025

Well this was a pleasant surprise! My amazing husband surprised me with some leghorn chicks this evening when he got home from work. Looks like we will continue to have leghorns after all. They are one of my favorite chicken breeds!

07/23/2025

We may have lost most of our flock this year, but we’re choosing to see it is an opportunity to start over. Instead of getting upset, I ordered NH Red hatching eggs from Frank Reese’s Good Shepherd Conservancy, a 100% standard bred farm focusing on heritage poultry breeds on the Livestock Conservancy.

While we are no longer raising Orpingtons, Marans and Leghorns, we are switching gears to focus on protecting rare heritage poultry breeds like we do with our rabbits. What better chicken breed to raise in NH than the duel purpose New Hampshire Red!

Current Status: Threatened
-fewer than 1,000 breeding birds in the U.S., with seven or fewer primary breeding flocks, and an estimated global population less than 5,000
according to the Livestock Conservancy, 2025.

07/05/2025

It’s a beautiful day here at the The Market at Weirs!

06/29/2025

A lovely day at the Gilmanton Community Farmers Market today!

06/28/2025

All set up here at the The Market at Weirs! Believe it ir not, the rain is holding out. 😊

06/21/2025

We’re all set up at the Little Red Hen Farm & Market LLC! Come have some goat milk ice cream and get some goat milk soap! 🧼

06/16/2025

Great post on the importance of hock placement in rabbits. Not only is this important for showing, this is important for BREEDING! If your doe has pinched or narrow hocks, you are more likely to run into birthing issues like stuck kits. Narrow hocks tend to mean a more narrow bodied rabbit, which generally means less meat and finer bones.

06/15/2025

We’re all set up at the Gilmanton Community Farmers Market. We could not have asked for a better day!

We have a few beard oils, coffee soaps, and jams for dad this Father’s Day. Stop by and say hello!