Fluffy Butt Farm
Farmer
About
Our love for birds bloomed into a Gentlemen's farm plus a little bit more, specializing in rare eggs for hatching and eating. We home and care for over 200 chickens, ducks, turkeys, button quail, coturnix quail, guinea fowl, & heritage turkeys. In exchange, they gift us eggs that we share with others. In our flock you will find a little bit of everything. Silked birds, frizzles, naked necks, huge Brahmas, tiny Seramas, and everything in-between. The farm is rounded off with our Nigeran Dwarf goats Zeek, Roscoe, and Lily; and our tiny human and livestock guardian Great Pyrenees, Fenna.
In 2021, we relocated to Colorado due to the man of the house's career and brought the pack with us. We spent most of 2021 just getting the animals set and getting to know our new home. In 2022, we look forward to joining the local farmers' markets for our egg and getting our gardens going for the 2023 season.
Programs and Partners
Production Practices
Integrated Pest Management Antibiotic And Hormone Free Pastured Free Range Non Gmo Permaculture Design Perennial Crops Crop Rotation Cover Crops No Till Low Till Thermal Composting
While our list of production practices might seem like a big undertaking, many of these practices overlap. The ideas and knowledge we used to start and grow our farm go back generations. Katie's family has farmed the land in the US as far as they can trace the family back. Spending every moment she could following her grandfather around their family farm in Arkansas, she learned the importance of the balance between the old and new ways. Adjusting to the Eastern Plains will be a process for us, but we look forward to growing our farm and sharing with our new community. We use old school management processes like running ducks with tree and bush crops to eat slugs and snails, and using sulfur water baths for mite and lice management. Our birds are pastured and completely free range in all but the harshest of weather, when needed they have a brand new weather proof barn with lots of space to spread out. We turn all of the bedding and waste into compost for our freshly planted fruit plants to have amazing fruit in the seasons to come. We have also sought out native crops and plants that grow year after year in our growing zone to have the best crops we can in the future. Another practice we follow, that is very important to Katie, is what she calls a life long farm. This means animals that we buy, adopt, or rescue are with us for the whole life. When we take on an animal as long as it is in the best interest of that animal we keep him or her for their entire life. No matter if that is a short year or two like with button quail, or our hens at 8 plus years, or our guardian dogs that are too old to work. We give them the best life we can for as long as they are with us.
Location
PO Box 1
Manager
We are a small family farm that has been growing slowly over the last ten years. Katie heads up the farm, and is the main person to meet at farmers' markets and other events. She teaches about poultry health, management, and husbandry in private and public classes. Todd is the man she has dragged along with the crazy farm life. This loving husband had no idea he was marrying a woman that would one day randomly show up with a box of turkeys and change his whole life. Being an active duty service member, he has packed up the whole lot of moved us across county multiple times, each move having more and more animals to tow along. And the littlest of the bunch is Sam, at only two years old she's learning it all from the moment she was born. Sam helps collect eggs, feed, and even splashes around with the ducklings. She's a proper farm girl.
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