The Cloud Homestead

04/25/2026

Hi friends!! If you could please sign this petition, our little homestead would be greatly appreciative! Last week we learned that the landowners who own a field that is right across the road from our house have been talking with Vantage about selling ~650 acres and building a data center there. Not only do we hate to see farmland turned into anything else, the idea of a data center almost literally in our backyard is terrible. Please sign this petition to help our efforts! This is the first step in a potentially long fight and we appreciate any help we can get! Feel free to share as well. Thank you!

04/20/2026

If you're in the central Indiana area (or are willing to travel) we have the cutest Lavender Orpington chicks available! Reach out for details! Once these go we'll have more for a couple months and then we'll be done for the year! This breed is my all time favorite for every chicken enthusiast. They're beautiful, sweet, calm, and make amazing mamas if you let them hatch out their own babies! If you've thought about getting chickens or adding the perfect breed to your flock, now is the time!

04/06/2026

Our ducklings have hatched and aren't they CUTE?! 🥰 We had a lower fertility rate this round and, judging by the higher rate in our next batch that's still in the incubator, I think it was mostly due to the weather and our drakes not being as active at the point I collected the eggs that were in this batch. Of the eggs that made it to lockdown we had 100% hatch rate, though one did need an assist because it pipped on the wrong end of the egg. These 4 babies are in their brooder and doing great! This batch was hatched for some friends at church so I'm very excited to get to keep some from the next batch that is from our Cayuga flock. If you haven't tried raising ducklings and can handle a bit of a mess while their in the brooding stage, they are so much more fun and cuter than chicks in my opinion 🫣 In the next month we'll be hatching more ducklings, lots of Lavender Orpingtons from our breeding flock and we're trying our first year of hatching goose eggs from our Sebastopol Geese. Follow along for lots of baby bird adventures 🐣

04/05/2026

Christ is risen! What a beautiful day spent with family celebrating our Savior defeating death. Happy Easter from The Cloud Homestead!

"Thanks be to God, who gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
1 Corinthians 15:57

03/15/2026

Mini photo dump of some of the fun eggs we've been getting! I'm loving the colors my girls are giving me, and a massive double yolk duck egg was a fun surprise as well.

03/11/2026

03/08/2026

Eggs are going into the incubator today so I decided to check fertility yesterday. Watch to see what a fertile egg looks like compared to an infertile egg! We're excited to take you along on this journey of incubating this year!

03/02/2026

Don’t fall for it

12/25/2025

From our family to yours, we wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Don’t forget the reason for this season, Christ is King!

12/18/2025

The project continues! 🔗 Head to the link in our bio for a quick diagnostic and test of slow/no hydraulics in our Farmall 560. Our 560's coming along nicely, but we've still got a few things to iron out!