Twisted Hollow Homestead and Rabbitry

08/31/2025

10 minutes into today’s market and we have SOLD OUT of rabbit!

Missed out? We’ll be processing more once the next batch of grow outs is ready!

08/24/2025

Yesterday was a great show!

Not only did Blackberry (TH01T) win BOB for rare breed, but Sunflower (TH42S) won BOSB in show A and Stardust (TH06T) won BOSB in show B.

Despite the molt, each rabbit I had on the table received great feedback on their fur! Density, texture, length, silvering… these rabbits had it all.

The Silver Fox is the only breed of rabbit with standing coat. It was developed not only as a meat souce, but to combat the over harvesting of the wild silver fox, a genetic variant of the American red fox. Considering this is a fur breed, and we are fur producers in addition to meat, hearing that their fur is excellent means I’m on the right track in my program!

08/23/2025

Sunflower (TH42S) won Best Opposite of Breed in Open A!

08/23/2025

Blackberry (TH01T) took Best of Breed in the Rare Breed show today at the ARBA show in Acton, Maine! 17 in the show too!

08/14/2025

Out of 24 eggs, 24 hatched! We have one that is clearly not a NH Red, but we have 24 very healthy and happy chicks! Looks like I need to clean out the bigger brooder tomorrow.

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!