As some of you may or may not know, the San Clemente Island goat is a critically endangered breed of goat. Their numbers have been...

Contest time! We are looking for names for our fabulous Turkey Trio! We want your suggestions! Because, honestly, we are running out of...

Actually the week isn't over yet, but there have simply been too many cool things happening in the last several days to wait on sharing!...

We are apparently developing a tradition here of introducing out lovebirds - or in this case, love bunnies! - in pairs. In this case our...

As part of our efforts to promote endangered breeds, we are trying to spread the word through other mediums. Recently I have been writing...

This was, for us and many others, a difficult holiday season. We were unable to see my brother, the power went out during the Zoom we had...

Yesterday was a very special day for Little Petal! We combined all the skills she's been learning - travel, meeting strange people and of...

One of the more interesting parts of raising Muscovy ducks is their independent nature. This summer, we built them a lovely pasture...

I have raised rabbits in colonies for years with few problems. My current colony is actually my second, and I have tried a number of...

Good morning all and welcome to winter! In case it hasn't been obviously, colder weather means fewer blog updates - at least for the time...

Back after a long Thanksgiving weekend with plans to share! One of our planning sessions this weekend involved finalizing the breeding...

Well, there will be no turkey for our Thanksgiving this year, so we are already planning for the next. We have been planning for some...

This spring we bought 2 batches of ducklings, and when everything shook out, we had four males and four females. We butcher when the need...

A gray and rainy day here at Saffron and Honey Homestead! Too wet to do anything outdoors, to early in the day to not do anything at all....

Just a short note to show Petal's progress to be a traveling feel-good goat! She already is wonderful with people: She rides well in the...

This post was going to be entirely different, but it ended up being a very buys - and somewhat crazy - day. At the far end, the new...

When we bought our new home, one of the selling factors was the pond in the backyard. The perfect size for geese and ducks, with enough...

Winter watering is turning out to be more complicated this year than we expected. In the past, we kept extra rabbit bottles and swapped...

Our original four geese were Cass, Blue, Beardy and Little Momma. They were ironic names, since Cass (originally Mamma Cass) turned out...

It has taken us entirely too long to get our two newest American Chinchilla bucks, Montoya and Marverick, into the colony, but we finally...