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: Brown | Egg Color: Dark Brown | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Female | Chicken | Barnevelder | Temporarily UnavailableA handsome layer of darker brown eggs.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: White | Foraging: Wide Ranging | Temperament: More Independent | Female | Chicken | Hatching week of September 2nd, 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 | Bantams, All | Available, hatched week of June 19th, 2020 | Brahmas, All | Buff Brahma BantamsSweet tempered, good laying miniature version of the standard Buff Brahma breed.
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PLAY VIDEOAll hatched 2019, and they are currently mature ducks (ducks are laying eggs at this time) and drakes (male ducks): Blue Swedish (drakes only), Khaki Campbell, Pekin (drakes only), Rouen, Silver Appleyard (drakes only) and White Crested.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: Seasonal | Egg Color: White | Foraging: Wide Ranging | Temperament: More Independent | Female | Chicken | Temporarily Unavailable | 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: Homey | Male | Goose | Goose, AllEmbden ganders (males).
These breeds of geese are, relatively speaking, calm, quiet, plump and friendly.
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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 September 2nd, 2020 | Eggers, All | Lakeshore EggerThe Lakeshore Egger is a promising new breed developed in Europe, offering many important features for people wanting good production of 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 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.
$3 premium for this rare breed.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg laying: Best in class | Egg Color: Brown | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Male | Female | Chicken | Hatched March, 2020 | Red Sex LinkPLENTY AVAILABLE! Young Red Sex Link pullets, fully grown and ready to lay by Labor Day 2020, on average. $28 each. Available for purchase daily during regular farm market hours.
Reservations for live poultry can be made by prepayment in person at our farm market; prepayments for live poultry are non-refundable, but can be converted to store credit.
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...
PLAY VIDEOForaging: Wide Ranging | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Foraging: Homebody | Temperament: Homey | Temperament: More Independent | Male | Chicken | Available, hatched week of June 19th, 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: Seasonal | Egg Color: White | Foraging: Wide Ranging | Temperament: More Independent | Unsexed | Chicken | Hamburg, All | Temporarily Unavailable | 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. Less winter unhardy than most chickens due to low their profile comb and tightly fitting feathers.
PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: Brown | Foraging: Homebody | Temperament: Homey | Male | Chicken | Available, hatched week of June 19th, 2020 | WelsumerIntricately stunning feathers. Calm, quiet, strongly prefers to be with other Welsumers. Often lays a speckled brown egg. Somewhat loose-feathered, and the feathers are very soft.
Cockerels only available.
PLAY VIDEOEgg laying: Best in class | Egg Color: White | Foraging: Wide Ranging | Temperament: More Independent | Female | Chicken | Temporarily Unavailable | 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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