2020 Poultry for your Backyard Flock
THIS PAGE IS KEPT FAIRLY UP TO DATE. WHILE AVAILABILITY MAY CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE AS WE SELL LIVE BIRDS THROUGHOUT THE DAY, THIS PAGE REFLECTS OUR CURRENT INVENTORY DAY-TO-DAY. For hatchling (chicks, poults, ducklings or goslings) availability, watch the ‘availability’ info that accompanies each breed; as soon as that breed is available for purchase, we will change the listing from ‘hatching week of…’ to ‘Available’.
Most all our chickens are vaccinated against Mareks disease.
We carry the best quality feed at the lowest prices, and better supplies and equipment at excellent prices too: feeders, drinkers, heaters, bedding and more. We also provide you whatever advice and guidance you need.
Many people are concerned about hardiness in cold weather. No chicken is truly hardy for cold weather (lower than 40 degrees f). For more of our thoughts on that issue, please visit our Q and A page.
We generally have select chickens, geese, ducks and heritage turkeys available throughout the year. Please see below for specific availability.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: Green | Egg Color: Blue | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Unsexed | Chicken | Bantams, All | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020 | Ameraucana BantamsCute, energetic, mini versions of their larger counterpart, the standard size Ameraucana. Fabulous feather patterns. Typically lays a small blue or green egg.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: Brown | Egg Color: Dark Brown | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Female | Chicken | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020 | BarnevelderA handsome layer of darker brown eggs.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: Brown | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Unsexed | Chicken | Bantams, All | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020 | Rocks, All | Barred RockA cute bantam version of the standard Barred Rock. Good layer of small brown eggs.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: Brown | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Male | Female | Chicken | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020 | Black AustralorpA very good layer of brown eggs. Black feathers covered with a beetle green-purple iridescence.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: Seasonal | Egg Color: White | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Unsexed | Chicken | Sumatra | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020Gorgeous flowing black feathers with a lustrous beetle-green sheen. Intelligent and active. Moderate egg production of about 100 eggs per year. They readily go broody and they are among the best mothers. Considered critically rare!
Straight run.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: White | Foraging: Wide Ranging | Temperament: More Independent | Female | Chicken | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020 | Blue AndalusianThe parent stock of this breed is from Andalusia in southwest Spain, and the Blue strain was developed during the nineteenth century by English breeders. Good layer of white eggs. Energetic, aggressive forager.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: Brown | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Unsexed | Chicken | Blue Australorp | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020
A very good layer of brown eggs in a more rare feather color.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Male | Unsexed | Duck | Available, hatched week of June 20th, 2018 | Available, hatched week of May 22nd, 2019 | Duck
May 22nd, 2019: All sexed, additional $3 premium for sexed female.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: Brown | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Unsexed | Chicken | Bantams, All | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020 | Brahmas, All | Buff Brahma BantamsSweet tempered, good laying miniature version of the standard Buff Brahma breed.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Male | Female | Duck | 5 mo old, Ready to lay, available July 2020 | Available, hatched week of May 22nd, 2019 | DuckMay 22nd, 2019: All sexed, additional $3 premium for sexed female.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: Brown | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Unsexed | Chicken | Bantams, All | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020 | DelawareAdorable, miniature version of the standard Delaware.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: Seasonal | Egg Color: White | Foraging: Wide Ranging | Temperament: More Independent | Female | Chicken | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020 | Egyptian FayoumiJust about as feral a chicken as you can find. Lightweight, independent-minded and aggressive foragers, they are the Delta forces of tick eating chickens. They come in charcoal gray/silvery white camoflage feathering. Egyptian Fayoumis are also surprisingly good layers of small ivory tinted eggs. They seem to have originated in the Nile delta, where there is a city named Fayoum.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: Seasonal | Egg Color: White | Foraging: Wide Ranging | Temperament: More Independent | Male | Female | Chicken | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020 | Hamburg, All | Golden Spangled Hamburg
Golden Spangled Hamburgs Are Seasonal Layers Of Small-Medium White Eggs. Very Intelligent And Quiet. They Prefer To Be Allowed To Roam Freely. Aggressive Foragers. One Of The Best Tick Eating Breeds. Long Lived. Smaller, Light Body Size. Very Winter Hardy Due To Low Profile Comb And Tightly Fitting Feathers.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: Seasonal | Egg Color: White | Foraging: Wide Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Unsexed | Goose | Goose, AllChoose between Embden and Toulouse ganders (males only).
These breeds of geese are relatively calm, quiet, plump and friendly.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg laying: Best in class | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Male | Female | Duck | Available as hatchlings beginning May 1st, 2020 | 5 mo old, Ready to lay, available July 2020 | Available, hatched week of May 22nd, 2019 | Duck
While many ducks are excellent layers and many breeds can outlay many chickens, Khaki Campbell ducks are among the most productive layers of all waterfowl.
May 22nd, 2019: All sexed, additional $3 premium for sexed female.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg laying: Best in class | Egg Color: Brown | Egg Color: Green | Egg Color: Blue | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Female | Chicken | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020 | Eggers, All | Lakeshore Egger
The Lakeshore Egger is a promising new proprietary breed developed in Europe, offering many important features for people wanting HIGH PRODUCTION colored eggs that size up large. The Lakeshore Egger grows into a variety of feather patterns and was developed for more efficient laying rather than a predictable breed appearance.
Range of eggshell color: Pale light blue, blue-green to light minty green, with risk of about 10% of hens laying a brown egg.
The Lakeshore Egger can produce an average of 270 eggs in the first year of lay. As a producer of marketable colored eggs, this new breed performs essentially as well as the best layers of brown and white eggs.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: Brown | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Male | Female | Chicken | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020 | Rocks, All
Hardy New England Rock type, layer of brown eggs, with stunning Partrige-pattern feathers. Sexed male and female.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Unsexed | Duck | 5 mo old, Ready to lay, available July 2020 | Available, hatched week of May 22nd, 2019 | DuckThe preferred duck for meat. However, Pekins are excellent layers, hardy and large. Solid white feathering and moderately talkative.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg laying: Best in class | Egg Color: Brown | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Female | Chicken | Red Sex LinkYoung Red Sex Link day old chicks, available April 15th, 2020.
Young Red Sex Link pullets, fully grown and ready to lay, available July 2020 (date TBD).
Red Sex Links are the best and most feed-efficient layers of the highest quality and quantity of brown eggs. RSLs are very productive and efficient, giving you the best return on your money per pound of feed purchased, when measured by weight and quality of eggs produced. They are the high octane race cars among the brown egg layer types, but they are also calm and friendly.
‘Sex Link’ is a generic term for the hybrid chicken that is the result of crossing two differently colored laying type chickens,...
PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: Brown | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Unsexed | Chicken | Bantams, All | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020 | Rhode Island RedA cute Bantam version of the popular Rhode Island Red chicken. Good layer of small brown eggs.
PLAY VIDEOForaging: Wide Ranging | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Foraging: Homebody | Temperament: Homey | Temperament: More Independent | Male | Chicken | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020 | RoosterChickens benefit greatly from being under the watch-care of a rooster, as God designed them to be; flock harmony is noticeably better with a male than without. Throughout the year, you can choose from among young roosters (cockerels) of gentler, calmer breeds that tend to be well-mannered around people and gentle on the hens, without compromising vigilance against predator threats; for high-pressure predator environments, you might select a more robust elite-forces type to serve as a macho flock guard, always vigilant and ready to lay down his life for his girls; or for the pure pleasure of it, select from still other breeds for the enjoyment of their showy colors and spunky personalities. For 2020, we offer Silver Spangled Hamburgs (pictured), Partridge Plymouth Rocks,...
PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Male | Female | Duck | Available, hatched week of May 22nd, 2019 | DuckHatched May 22nd, 2019.
PLAY VIDEORunner ducks have a marvelous, entertaining upright gait, and they lay nicely.
Breeds: Blue and Chocolate
May 22nd, 2019: Blue Runner ducks and Chocolate Runner ducks, all sexed.
PLAY VIDEOJuly 8th, 2019: straight run.
PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: Seasonal | Egg Color: White | Foraging: Wide Ranging | Temperament: More Independent | Male | Female | Chicken | Hatching week of April 10th, 2020 | Hamburg, All | Silver Spangled HamburgSilver Spangled Hamburgs are seasonal layers of small-medium white eggs. Very intelligent and quiet. They prefer to be allowed to roam freely. Aggressive foragers. One of the best tick eating breeds. Long lived. Smaller, light body size. Very winter hardy due to low profile comb and tightly fitting feathers.
PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: Seasonal | Foraging: Wide Ranging | Temperament: More Independent | Unsexed | Turkey | Available as hatchlings beginning May 1st, 2020 | TurkeysUnsexed heritage turkeys: Bourbon Red and Narragansett.
Available as day-old poults beginning May 1st, 2020.
$15 each, add $5 for each week of age after that, up to $65 at 10 weeks of age.
PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Unsexed | Duck | Available, hatched week of June 20th, 2018 | Available, hatched week of May 22nd, 2019 | DuckMay 22nd, 2019: Straight run
PLAY VIDEOEgg laying: Best in class | Egg Color: White | Foraging: Wide Ranging | Temperament: More Independent | Female | Chicken | Available beginning July 25th, 2019, hatched March, 2019 | White LeghornThe best and most feed-efficient layer of white eggs. Intelligent, nimble and bubbling with energy. Prefers not to be handled. Aggressive foragers. One of the best tick eaters.
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