Hot Mess Homestead
We chit chat on growing social media accounts for extra income, Savannah’s plans for breeding in 2025 and her new book being published. Such great fun and we wanted to share with you for Thanksgiving!
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Carey: 0:00
Hi, and welcome to the Poultry Nerds Podcast. I'm Kerry Blackman, and I'm here with my co host for the show, Jennifer Bryant, and we're here to help you figure out how to raise the healthiest, happiest, and highest quality birds possible.
Jennifer: 0:23
Poultry Nerds, we're here with Savannah from the Hot Mess Homestead. This is our special guest. Tell us about your homestead. How did you get the name for hot mess?
Savannah: 0:34
Because I'm the biggest hot mess ever. And I was talking about what I wanted to name our homestead and, everybody uses their last name. And I was trying to think of something, and this is before I had started my social media, and I'm really glad I did. Did it this way, but I was like I don't really like the way our last name sounds boring. And I was like, I like the hot mess homestead, but that doesn't sound very professional. And maybe I shouldn't do that because I was, thinking maybe one day it would be like a professional type of thing. And my mom was like, girl. No, you need to be the hot mess homestead. So I went ahead and went with that and it just works perfectly. If you've seen my social media, it definitely fits the vibe. I am not the aesthetic homestead. I don't have my life together and it's ended up turning into more of a, not a brand, but like a community of other people who feel like they don't fit in and a lot of the homestead community, because. They may be like me and may not always have their stuff together. Maybe they have ADHD, whatever it is. And so that's just how we went with it because my mom has always said I'm a hot mess lovingly. It's true. And so yeah, that's just how we came up with the name. It just organically came to me because I've always been called a hot mess.
Jennifer: 1:46
I'm kind TikTok even now. And so when I first found you my friend was on TikTok, And I would message her and I was like, send me the video of the girl with the green hair. I can't find her on Facebook. I don't know how many times she had to send me the videos.
Savannah: 2:03
That's what a lot of people call me. They're like the chicken lady with the green hair. And I'm like, I'll take it. It's an easy description. Oh yeah.
Carey: 2:12
But looking at your videos. They're not really hot mess. That's typical homesteading stuff.
Savannah: 2:20
I think it's probably more realistic than it is hot mess. I always say normalizing normal homesteads because I've never been to an aesthetic homestead and I have no friends that have an aesthetic homestead. I see them on Pinterest, but I have never encountered them in real life.
Jennifer: 2:36
Okay. That was weird. So how old, how long have you been on social media and how did you get started with the characters?
Savannah: 2:43
So I have always tinkered with social media, but really just, that's okay. You're the mess. Hold on. I specifically lectured them. I was like, don't come anywhere near the house. And here they are running up and yelling. I tinkered on social media doing My Facebook videos for like my personal Facebook and like my friends would laugh, react to it. And I was just always very extroverted and like to put on like silly shows and just, goof around. But when I ended up moving from the city that I lived in, I was married, had three kids. We lived in a regular 1800 square foot house. I had never homesteaded before. I had chickens for a little bit in my backyard. To my neighbor called animal control on me. That was fun. The day they came and took my chickens. They wrote me a citation and were like, you can only have six and I had 10 and I told him I had eight and they were like, Oh you have to get rid of them and only have six. So the day I gave them to a friend, I found my first egg. I was so irritated. I was like, Oh, this time I got one egg out of it. But so I never homesteaded before. don't come from a line of homesteaders. We're city people always liked the country. We ended up moving onto this land with my parents. We decided to move together. It's a very long story. And we ended up getting a shed house. So a little 600 square foot shed house. And my husband was able to quit his job to be able to find a different job and not work 70 hours a week. And I decided I'm going to just share this journey with you. On tiktok, because I know so many people want a different, slower lifestyle jokes on me slower, not necessarily more simple, maybe, but not any slower. And I just made a video of our journey selling our house in the city. moving into a shed in the country and starting to get chickens and, a little garden. And it just went viral. And it just started from there and just grew very organically, and I just, I'm always goofy. I have ADHD. So there's always different things popping up in my brain. And so I was like, Oh, I should make a skit about this. Or somebody would message me something really dumb on Facebook. And I'd be like, Ah, I should turn this into a video because I know so many people can relate to the Facebook messages. You post where you're located five times in the post and they're like, Oh, where are you located? And you just want to rip your hair out. So that's just how it went and just organically happened, so how long is it? How long was the timeframe there? That was three years ago when we moved it was three years ago in July. So it hasn't been that long. It has not. You've got three or four hundred thousand followers now, don't you? Yeah, I have three something on TikTok and two something on Facebook and then I don't really do YouTube or Instagram. I really don't know what it's out there. I don't ever really use it.
Jennifer: 5:29
Yeah, I don't
Savannah: 5:30
use
Jennifer: 5:30
it either. So a lot of the farm pages and I'm mostly on Facebook and I try to tinker with TikTok, but I'm not good at it. Um, a lot of the farm pages, they're always posting about how they want to grow and make money on Facebook and all this stuff and be monetized. Would you have any advice for those people?
Savannah: 5:49
Yes and no. I always tell people this because they message me a lot. Hey, I want to be able to grow on social media too. What do you suggest? I did not do things the average way of if you were to Google, like how to grow on social media and they're like, Oh, post three to five times a day. Make sure you're looking at what time you post, what day you post use the viral sounds. I don't really necessarily encourage that specifically for people to do because it creates a very, Not authentic connection with people and to me, I want to have followers that are engaging that feel like they're getting something from my content that feel like they know me in real life. And for me, that's not going to happen organically if you're just posting three to four times a day just to be able to post because for me, I can tell when people are trying to do that. Like I can tell when people are trying to get followers and that's like their only, and that's okay. If that's your only goal, but I feel like a lot of people want to do more than that, yeah. Have people actually, I know it sounds silly, but care about you as a person and you can get to know people. And I have a community and that, especially when you're using it for business, because if we're trying to, monetize on social media. It's usually, if you're a homesteader or you sell chickens or you sell goat's milk soap or whatever it is, you want those to be able to be intertwined and build off of each other. And that wasn't something I originally did because I wasn't originally planning on ever trying to ship eggs or breeding chickens or any of that kind of stuff. So I learned some things from that, but. I always tell people, I'm like, be yourself, and I know that sounds so cheesy, but just be yourself because you don't want to be putting on a show or anything like that, and you're going to end up finding your people with whatever personality trait you have, whether that is you're shy, or you're very extroverted. Don't try to be silly if you're not silly, like just Be yourself. Make sure that you have quality videos. No, that doesn't mean you have to always use like a ring light and have a perfectly, use a camera instead of your phone. But it's, people automatically are going to scroll if you have it really blurry and fuzzy and it's in a dark room. And people either on social media, they either want to be learning something and being educated on something or they want to be entertained. whether that's in a goofy way or in a relatable entertainment. People like to watch people put up their groceries. That's a form of entertainment. For some reason, sometimes we like that. We'll sit there and watch people organize their pantry or whatever it is on social media. And so you want to either do one of those two things and you can incorporate that into your everyday homestead life. You don't have to stress about it. Just start posting the kind of bedding you use in your coop and why. start posting you collecting eggs. That's one of my most popular videos. And I'm always mind boggled that people want to watch me collect eggs because to me it's so boring and mundane, but people like that kind of stuff. And so I'm like, you don't have to think super outside of the box. Like just start posting your everyday life. And as you start to get more comfortable with it, maybe you can get more creative with it. Find your niche. But the biggest thing is just start posting, stop putting it off, just record your morning routine, record whatever it is, because everybody has their own personal opinions on their homestead of what bedding they like, their feed routine, do they use automatic waterers. Post the chicken water as you use and why like it doesn't have to be crazy,
Jennifer: 9:11
which platform you like tick tock better. I know you've posted about that.
Savannah: 9:16
Yes.
Jennifer: 9:17
Yes. Tell
Savannah: 9:18
us why you like tick tock better. Not to offend anybody who loves Facebook, but Facebook, I always say is like the wild West and I say this lovingly, because I do have a lot of, different age brackets of followers. And some of my most amazing followers who are super awesome are a lot older than me, but generally the, age range that I find on Facebook does not get my sense of humor. So whenever I have a viral video on Facebook, people are like, why is this dumb green haired girl talking about chickens? Or I had somebody accused me that I didn't even have chickens and that they were fake. And I was a big fake phony and obviously I don't have chickens. And I'm just like, how like this would never happen on tech talk. They don't behave like this over there. I don't know if it's the algorithm. I don't know if it's just the vibe. I don't know what it is, but for me, people on Facebook are just meaner and just don't, it's just not the same. TikTok for me has just been so much better. The algorithm is better. I do sometimes I always post on both. I tell people all the time, I'm like, even if you think the video is dumb, or won't do well on one platform, post it on whatever platforms you're doing, because I will have a video go viral on TikTok, have a million views, I'll post it on Facebook, and there's like nothing. And vice versa. I've had so many videos go viral on Facebook, which I usually end up regretting, and they'll get like 3 million views, and it just sits at 10, 000 or something on TikTok. The algorithms are just different, but in my opinion, people are just a lot nicer and more chill on TikTok than they are Facebook. And I think that's probably because pushing it out to the different random people that don't follow me on Facebook. So they're just not getting the vibe I put out there.
Jennifer: 11:02
Gotcha. That makes sense.
Savannah: 11:04
Yeah.
Jennifer: 11:05
Is one the monetization of one versus the other different?
Savannah: 11:10
I'm sure it is. I'll be totally honest with you. I don't know the exact like What they pay I will say on tik tok the rpm which is the rates per minute. So the amount you get paid per minute watched, it can fluctuate. I don't know if that's how Facebook is, but I know to talk really fluctuates because if I am not doing great, I don't really care about that kind of stuff. I truly don't. But if I'm not doing great, I'm not posting videos that are constantly going viral. My RPM will be more. So the amount that I get paid, maybe let's say a dollar and 10 cents a video or a dollar and 10 cents per thousand views, whatever it is. Versus if I'm having a lot of viral videos and I'm like, Oh great, picking up traction, that RPM goes way down. So they don't have to pay you as much. So it can really fluctuate. And a lot of people don't know that. That's why if you see these really big creators that have a million views or followers, a million followers or 2 million followers, people think that they're just making bank and they might, but it's probably not from the views because they probably have a 30 cent rate per minute. Instead of a dollar and 20 cents that a smaller creator may have versus Facebook. If I'm not mistaken, I'm not 100 percent sure because I'm not great with technology to be totally honest. I think there's more of a set rate and Facebook also. Sometimes we'll do like bonuses. I've never seen a bonus from Tick Tock, but Facebook will do like bonuses for engagement. So if you have a post that does really well and gets a lot of engagement, they'll do random bonuses. They're just different, honestly. And as far as live goes, I'm not a live person. I know a lot of people make a lot of money on TikTok live, versus I don't think Facebook live pays very much. I'm not 100 percent sure, but I've heard that TikTok is better for lives because you have all the gifts. Like people will send, I'm sure y'all have seen like you scroll and people are like, Oh, thank you for the rose. Thank you for the rose. And they're trying to get the gifts. Like they're doing reactments or whatever for the gifts. And that's because I don't think Facebook does that. So they're two different systems, as far as, what's going Payment goes, but for me, I make more on tick tock, but that's also because I am on there a lot more because everybody's just nicer.
Jennifer: 13:26
Yeah, do you find that? This is just popped in my head and you may not know the answer, but do you know how Facebook will shut down pages or? I don't know. Penalize them for saying the wrong thing.
Savannah: 13:38
Does TikTok do that too? Yeah. So TikTok can definitely do that kind of stuff. I had one video, I can't remember what it was. Something about our LGDs or livestock guardian dogs. Somebody, probably reported it for animal cruelty. And they were like TikTok was like, we're not going to pay you for this. And I was like, it was like a viral video too. So it must've been some, I don't know, vegan activists that was against dogs being outside. I have no idea, but I was able to appeal it though. And it got put back on there. But I've had lots of Tik Tok creator friends who will post stuff about butchering their chickens and whatever and it will be flagged and be like animal cruelty or violence or whatever. And so honestly, they're both the same as far. As that goes, but I've never had a Facebook be penalized or anything like that, but I have had some Tik TOK flags, but again, it could just be because I'm more active on Tik TOK than I am Facebook.
Jennifer: 14:37
So I had a page before Brunt's Roost, it was called Jen's Critters. And when I first got on Facebook and one day we were actually driving into Atlanta when this happened, and I was just, you're riding long car ride, you're scrolling your Facebook and I told David, I was like, my page won't load. And okay, and a few minutes later, I tried again, and I was like, my page won't load and I got to look and it was gone. They had just deleted it. Give me any warning or explanation or anything.
Savannah: 15:10
That's terrifying. That's always been my fear. Like every time I get on my phone, I'm like, what if it's gone? Cause
Jennifer: 15:17
they have that power. I know. And it's, and they don't tell you, it's just gone. And so I follow another person who teaches, don't rest everything on social media because it's really only 10 percent of your business if you're trying to direct people to a website.
Savannah: 15:35
Yeah. Social media. And that's why I tell people a lot because People always have this, and it's not a bad idea to have, but people are like, Oh, I want to get big on social media so I can not have to work and quit my job. I'm like, and I'm probably doing it all wrong. I am not one of those people that's like hustling on social media and trying to get every penny I can out of it because to me it makes it just a terrible job. I mean you, cause you have your phone with you everywhere and it is a huge blessing. It's a great privilege to have, but I'm like, you generally don't make as much as people think. And even if you do, social media could disappear tomorrow. Yes. We've been hearing about the Tik Tok ban for the last, like two years and that could happen. We could wake up one day and it's gone tomorrow. So I always tell people, try to have multiple streams of income. You can quit your job if you feel that confident, but having multiple streams of income while that, whether that's, doing like a. Patreon or doing YouTube and Facebook and Instagram, not just TikTok because it's super easy for something just to happen and it's gone. Even if the app stays, you could accidentally get locked out of your account or something.
Jennifer: 16:46
Yeah, true. Hackers. Yep. Yep. All right. So let's go back to chickens. So what kind of chickens did you start with? And what do you, I know that you have this whole menagerie going on out there, but what is your like
Savannah: 17:01
favorite? Oh, I love this question. I hate this question. So chicken math got me good and worked my way into avian algebra there. So I want to say I started with Gosh, honestly, I just went into tractor supply one day and was like, what can I get in here? And I was like, I'm just only going to get 10 so I can have enough eggs for my family. And that lasted three days before I got more. But I want to say I got I just got an assortment of pullets. That was that tractor supply. I think I was just, I want that color one and that color one. And got a little assortment. And now I have, every so many, but I would say some of my favorites are definitely Buff Orpington's. I'm so partial to them. I absolutely love their temperament. I love that they are great moms. They lay decent. So I really like Orpingtons. I really like model Duclays. I'm partial to them for a Bantam breed. I want, I used to want to say Morans, but I liked them, but if I had to pick only five, they probably wouldn't be on there just because they're very, in my experience, They don't like the heat that much here in Texas. They're always my first ones to be like, yeah, you're not getting any more eggs right now. I would say Olive Eggers or Easter Eggers. I like a good mixed breed. I like a little mutt if I throw a mutt in there for sure. So I'd probably say Easter Eggers or Olive Eggers. Just cause I can do a lot with them. Um, two more. My mind's just on blank. Yeah.
Carey: 18:25
I'm over here. I'm just excited. She hasn't said silky.
Jennifer: 18:27
I was going to say something. I was like, I got some silky hate this morning on Facebook. So
Savannah: 18:34
people either love them and hate them or hate them. And I'm in between. I'm like, I have them, but I'm like, your shared one brain cell kind of gets. gets old sometimes. And they're not the hardiest. If I can only pick five breeds on my homestead, silkies or satins would not be on there. Cause I'm like, you are not, you're not feeding me in the winter. You are not, the world's going to crap around me. You are not going to be feeding me or, making stew. So I'm not gonna, they're great incubators though. That's why I like to have them. Everybody's always why do you like silkies? Cause they don't lay very much. I'm like when I lose power, which happens all the time, I know I can go take my eggs and there's going to be some broody silky out there. And there you go. What's your biggest bird? My biggest bird, like chicken. Or just like bird. I would say,
Carey: 19:24
What kind of birds do you have other birds?
Savannah: 19:26
I have geese. So I was going to say my Sebas Pauls are probably my biggest bird. Those are some hefty ladies. And then my Cayugas are starting to get. Pretty chunky too. So I would say probably those are my biggest ones. As far as like chickens go, I don't have that many of the like really large fowl breeds. Like I don't have any Brahmas actually. Just because it's so hot here. I find like the bigger the bird with chickens, like they usually struggle a lot more in our really hot summers.
Jennifer: 19:53
Cayugas, those are the ducks that lay the black eggs, right?
Savannah: 19:56
Yes. Yeah. If you're lucky. Are they solid
Jennifer: 19:59
black or is
Savannah: 20:00
like the inside of the shell
Jennifer: 20:01
black?
Savannah: 20:02
So it's just the pigment that's laid on there. So if I go and I grab it right when they lay it and if I wanted to like scrabble on it or something, I could get that pigment off. Yeah. So it's just the pigment that's laid on top of it as the egg is being created. It like deposits that color as they're laying it and it's coming out. But the earlier in the laying season, they do lay darker and I have some that will lay like really dark charcoal gray, but they just started laying. And I know as they continue to lay in the season, it'll get a little bit lighter. So it's only fun for a little bit. And then you get like light gray eggs, but they do lay the really dark ones.
Jennifer: 20:35
Those are the eggs that you typically see the scammers put with the I am Somani.
Savannah: 20:41
I have so many people that's Facebook again, Facebook post a picture of the eggs and, I'll have a couple of the black how you go on is in there and everybody's always what chicken lays those black ones in the amount. of no offense to anybody, generally men, not sure why it is these older men think they know what they're talking about with am samanis, but they'll comment and they're like, oh, that's that am. And they always spell samani wrong. That's what plays the black eggs. And I'm just always no, it's not. Stop fake news.
Jennifer: 21:11
Going forward, what is your plans? I know you're expecting a newborn, so get put on hold. Yeah, probably a little bit. Oh, and I just a side note there. You're due on my birthday. No way. Oh, no pressure. So taking the baby out of the equation, what's your plan going forward with the birds?
Savannah: 21:30
So my plan is to ship eggs. Obviously I've already gotten my testing and everything. I'm just dragging my feet sitting in the paperwork. But my plan is to ship eggs. I really want to focus on a couple of the breeds that are on like the livestock conservatory list like the sebastopol, the cayugas, and focus on a few of those and just start shipping eggs. I might one day consider shipping chicks, but that is, It's a big iffy thing for me because it's just a lot of responsibility. I'm like, if, eggs get lost, meh, okay, I'll send out more. But if chicks got lost, so I'm not sure really on that, but I really want to focus on being able to ship. And then I would really like to get more self sufficient with our homestead where we are growing most of our own meat. I would love to actually be able to put something in the ground and grow it and not kill it. So I'd love to be able to grow most of our own fruit and vegetables and. All of that kind of stuff. So we're just working towards being more self sufficient and growing a lot of our own food as well as being able to have the homestead support itself. Self a little bit more, not from my social media, but from the actual, animals itself. And so that's our goal going forward.
Jennifer: 22:42
That's a good goal. Me and Carrie are both on board with eating our chickens.
Savannah: 22:46
Yeah. Yeah. Source
Jennifer: 22:48
of income in a way.
Savannah: 22:50
Yes. Oh yeah, for sure. It's money you're saving. So that's something we're really hoping to do. You've got the two
Jennifer: 22:56
goats too. Are they just there or do they serve a purpose?
Savannah: 23:00
I'm hoping to be able to breed. I was going to breed them actually this year. So I would be able to have. them kidding in the spring, but I realized I don't want to have a newborn and be having to milk goats in the morning. So we're going to wait on that, but we are planning on breeding them so we can do goat's milk maybe make goat's milk soap. Because again, I always think like focusing on things that you're able to ship is great, especially when you're doing like social media and you have people that want to support you and you want to be able to ship things, finding those things you can actually ship can be difficult because a lot of consumables, you run into a lot laws and regulations. And so I'm looking at maybe doing goat smoke soap and then selling the babies locally, the goat babies. Yes. Yep. Yeah, not, we're going to clarify that. Not my babies. I don't think anybody would want them. They're
Jennifer: 23:49
feral. All right, and then you have another project that you working on. It's getting released here in a couple of weeks. Tell us about that.
Savannah: 23:58
So I don't like to call myself an author because that puts a lot of pressure on the the old books, but I have written two novels. I went ahead and published my first one a year and a half ago, I think. And then my second one I'm getting ready to release within the next two weeks. And those are just, Kind of my hobby. Again, I'm really bad with monetizing things to its potential. I, because for me, I'm an all or nothing type of person. So if I'm going to do that, it's going to end up feeling like a job for me. And I don't, I'm not really good at advertising stuff, which is really funny because people are like, Oh yes, you are. I'm like, no, it just happens. Like I just yap a lot. Like I'm not good at actually meaningfully You know, advertising, but I do have a novel that will be published within the next week or two. And those are just historical fictions. And again, the ADHD, I just am always thinking about stories and I'm a huge reader. And so I was like, I'm going to go ahead and write some books and just see what happens. And it's been really good. And I plan one day to make a poultry book. I have so many people who want me to write a chicken book and I keep dragging my feet because I'm like, There's so many other people out there that one have already made it. But at this point there's a million people who do chickens on Tik Tok. So yeah, but I'm like, people are just so much smarter than I am. I'm like, I am not, I'm like, I am not the poultry expert. Cause I always tell people, I'm like, I'm not a professional. I'm just a crazy chicken lady who has a bunch of chickens and has been just really hyper focused on it for the last three years. But I'm not a professional. I don't ever want to give up that vibe. But. So many people are like, I want a book that I can read. That's like you explain it to me in a way that I will be able to understand, dumb it down. And I'm like that I can do, I can make it work for the ADHD brain where you don't want all this scientific information necessarily, because a lot of people do offer, which is great. very scientific explanations for everything and very professional sounding. Meanwhile, I'm over here I say rooster or roo, and a lot of people are like, it's a cock roll or, whatever. And I'm like, yeah, you know what I mean?
Carey: 26:03
Yeah.
Savannah: 26:04
Cock a doodle doo. There's your rooster. So that's, I'm like, I might write like a hot mess homestead guide for chickens or something like that in the future where. There's no pressure on me to be real professional because that's just not going to happen.
Jennifer: 26:17
All
Savannah: 26:17
right. So what's the name of your new book? The name of my new book is Lovely Shame. And where could people find that? They can find that on Amazon if you want a paperback. And then it's also on Kindle and it's on Kindle Unlimited as well. So before Thanksgiving? Yes, hopefully that's the plan. I'm like, I always am scared to give a date because again, you never know what's going to happen, but it should be definitely before Thanksgiving. Awesome.
Jennifer: 26:44
And if they lost my voice and if they wanted to find you, that would be the hotness homestead on Tik Tok, Facebook, anything else?
Savannah: 26:53
Technically on YouTube and Instagram. It's just a matter of will I ever post on there, but I am on all the platforms.
Carey: 27:00
Nice.
Jennifer: 27:02
Kerry, you got any questions for Savannah?
Carey: 27:05
I don't really have any questions. I feel like I know her really well because I am one of those 325, 000 followers. I've watched quite possibly every one of her videos at least once. When you first told me about her, I was like, That name sounds familiar. Who is this person? And then she said, the green headed chicken lady on TikTok. I said, I know who that is. So yeah, I already feel connected because I've watched all your videos and they are hilarious. And I personally like that. It's normal stuff. Like you're normalizing the craziness that happens on a homestead. And I understand why you have so many views because people want to see, they want to see real, There's reality TV that's about as fake as it gets and people are get on tick tock and stuff because they want to see real. So yes, it works and I love it.
Savannah: 28:02
I appreciate it. It's been a huge blessing for me. And I, it just makes my day every single time that somebody is I just want to let you know that I relate so much to your videos or I feel a lot less alone. I feel like such a mess. And not in a mean way, but I look at you and I feel less like a mess, but it's no, I don't ever want people to watch my videos and be like, ma'am, she has her life together. And I just feel so bad about myself now. I'm like, no, we all have. Coops that need to be cleaned and the water is never ending. And we may forget to go pick up, a bag of shavings and have to go haul butt before they close and be that person. And like most people don't have their life altogether. And I feel like the more we can be honest with other people about not pretending we have it all together, people will feel just so much less alone and probably do a lot better.
Jennifer: 28:48
The one series, or I don't really know how many videos about it. You made. But was your black pants that people were losing their minds over you wearing those black pants out.
Savannah: 28:59
My fancy clothes and the chicken coop. Oh yes. I was like, these are literally 7 black pants I got from Walmart through my PJ pants. But because I had, I guess a nicer top on and I had some hoop earrings on. My hair was in the messy bun I'd worn the day before and everybody was like, who does their hair? I'm like thank you. But no, this is literally a messy bun. People just, oh, and the comments I get on my eyelashes, cause I have eyelash extensions. Everybody's no farmer wears that much makeup or has glues on eyelash extensions. And I'm like, okay.
Carey: 29:33
There's nothing wrong with wanting to look good.
Savannah: 29:35
Yeah. I'm like, I literally leave my house. I was for a while and we're a lot busier now, but back then I was like, I leave my house once a week. I went to tractor supply. So I'll put on some little hoop earrings. I went and got all my pine pellets and I recorded myself putting the pine pellets. But I changed into my PJ pants cause I don't want anything with buttons if I don't have to. And Oh, Facebook. Cause again, Facebook was in an uproar about it. Just, Oh, this is the most fake stuff I've ever seen. And I'm like, so of course I, Was super sarcastic and made my follow up video where I actually put on my nice high heels, my one pair of heels I have and my fancy dress and actually did my hair. And I was like, look, this is being done up to do chores. Let me show you what it would actually look like. It cracked me up. So thank you for that. It was an interesting time. That's for sure. Yep.
Jennifer: 30:29
All right. Anything else you would like to add before we
Savannah: 30:33
say goodbye for today? I don't think so. I would just say, cause I know the biggest thing that a lot of people want to take away from it is like social media and all that kind of stuff. And my biggest thing is to not compare yourself to other people. people on the internet. I know that sounds so cheesy, but it is super hard to do when you're trying to start, especially looking at other people, trying to see what kind of hashtags they're using, whatever it is. Like I'm always tell people, I'm like, post what you like and let it just take off from there and just post your real life. And people will start to, Relate to you and they will, it'll organically happen. Even if it slowly happens, it doesn't happen overnight. Not everybody goes viral. That's okay. But I'm like, just don't compare yourself and just start off having fun with it. Don't immediately run with it like it's a job and hopefully it will take off.
Jennifer: 31:27
You've done well and they all enjoy it.
Savannah: 31:30
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Carey: 31:32
Thank you for joining us this week. Before you go, be sure to subscribe to our podcast so you can receive new episodes right when they are released. And they're released every week. Feel free to email us at poultrynerds at gmail. com to share your thoughts about the show. Until next time, poultry pals, keep clucking, keep learning, and keep it egg citing. This is Carey signing off from Poultry Nerds. Feathers up, everyone.
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Mhm.
