2021 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 availability of chicks, poults, ducklings or goslings, watch the ‘availability‘ info that accompanies each breed; as soon as that breed is available for purchase, we change the listing from ‘hatching week of…’ to ‘Available‘.
Vaccinations: Most all our chickens have received vaccination against Mareks disease.
We sell our own proprietary feed, containing plenty of alfalfa hay, in 50 lb bags, at the best price. Our feed is excellent for your laying hens as well as mature turkeys, ducks and geese.
We carry the best quality Blue Seal feed at the lowest prices, and better quality supplies at excellent prices too: feeders, drinkers, Sweeter Heaters, bedding and more.
Many people are concerned about hardiness in cold weather. We think no chicken is truly hardy for cold weather (lower than 40 degrees f), and we sell premium Sweeter Heaters at the very best prices. For more of our thoughts on winter warmth, please visit our Q and A page.
WE ARE CURRENTLY TAKING RESERVATIONS FOR SPRING STARTED PULLETS, AS WELL AS CHICKS, TURKEY POULTS AND GOSLINGS. TO RESERVE, STOP IN OUR FARM MARKET, OR CALL.
We generally have select chickens, geese, ducks and heritage turkeys available throughout the year. Please see below for specific availability.
Poultry Pricing
Ducklings start at $15 each, and the price increases by $3 per week until the ducks are $45 at ten weeks of age (from then on, the duck price does not increase). However, some ducks carry an additional premium, and that is noted in each duck breed description (usually $3 extra for sexed ducklings).
Goslings start at $23 each, and the price increases by $5 per week until the geese are $73 at ten weeks of age (from then on, the price does not increase).
Heritage turkeys start at $19 each, and the price increases by $5 per week until the turkeys are $69 at ten weeks of age (from then on, the price does not increase).
Need a quantity of poultry for your farm, business or institution? Contact us for volume pricing.
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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 30th, 2021 | Hatching week of May 28th, 2021 | BarnevelderA handsome layer of darker brown eggs.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: Brown | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Female | Chicken | Hatching week of May 28th, 2021 | Black AustralorpA very good layer of brown eggs. Black feathers covered with a beetle green-purple iridescence.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: Dark Brown | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Female | Chicken | Marans, All | Hatching week of May 28th, 2021 | Black Copper MaransClean-footed production strain version of the true feather-footed French Black Cooper Marans, but also laying 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 April 30th, 2021 | 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 | Female | Chicken | Blue Plymouth Rock | Hatching week of May 28th, 2021 | Rocks, All
Hardy New England Rock type, good layer of brown eggs, with pastel grayscale blue-to-black plumage. Sexed female.
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: Brown | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Female | Chicken | Hatching week of April 30th, 2021 | Rocks, All | Buff Plymouth Rock
Hardy New England Rock type, good layer of brown eggs, with stunning buff (tan-gold) feathers and handsome yellow skin. Sexed female.
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PLAY VIDEOLimited availability at this time. ON SALE! $25 EACH
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PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: Seasonal | Egg Color: White | Foraging: Wide Ranging | Temperament: More Independent | Female | Chicken | Hatching week of April 30th, 2021 | 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 | Hatching week of April 15th, 2021 | Goose, AllFrench Toulouse goslings, unsexed, available in April. The French Toulouse is grayer than the American Toulouse. In our experience, Toulouse are the most easy-going of all goose breeds, and are therefore more family-friendly. They are also a good choice for egg production, and for those who enjoy a roast goose, they are among the most meaty and early-maturing. Very cold-hardy.
We also have 2 mature Embden ganders (males). They are among the calmer sort, and these boys are used to people. Regularly $73, now on sale for $45.
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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 15th, 2021 | Eggers, All | Hatching week of April 30th, 2021 | Lakeshore Egger
The 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 size or 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 can perform essentially as well as the better 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 | Hatching week of April 14th, 2021 | Hatched December 2020, available late April 2021 | Hatching week of May 19th, 2021 | Red Sex LinkWE ARE NOW TAKING PREPAID RESERVATIONS FOR LATE APRIL 2021, WHEN THEY WILL BE 16+ WEEKS OF AGE. $28 each. 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. Make your flock complete with a RSL cockerel (male), at the same age; these can be reserved along with your pullets.
Red Sex Links are the best and most efficient layers of the highest quality and quantity of brown eggs. Red Sex Links give you the best return on your money per pound of feed purchased, when measured by weight and quality...
PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: Green | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Temperament: Homey | Female | Chicken | Eggers, All | Hatching week of May 28th, 2021 | Olive EggerDeeply olive-colored egg shells.
PLAY VIDEOForaging: Wide Ranging | Foraging: Medium Ranging | Foraging: Homebody | Temperament: Homey | Temperament: More Independent | Male | Chicken | 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 | Female | Chicken | Hamburg, All | Hatching week of April 30th, 2021 | 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 | Female | Chicken | Hatching week of May 28th, 2021 | Speckled SussexSweet tempered old fashioned chickens from Sussex England, where, so we are told, they are just called ‘Speckleds’. White skin with feet that look vaguely pearly. Lush warm brown feathering with blue-black iridescent areas and splashes of large snowflake-like white markings scattered about, but often concentrated on the ‘bib’ and head.
PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: Seasonal | Foraging: Wide Ranging | Temperament: More Independent | Unsexed | Turkey | Hatching week of May 20th, 2021 | TurkeysUnsexed heritage turkeys: Blue Slate, Bourbon Red, Chocolate and Narragansett.
$19 each in the hatching week, add $5 for each week of age after that, up to $69 at 10 weeks of age.
PLAY VIDEOEgg Laying: good | Egg Color: Brown | Foraging: Homebody | Temperament: Homey | Female | Chicken | Hatching week of May 28th, 2021 | 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.
PLAY VIDEOEgg laying: Best in class | Egg Color: White | Foraging: Wide Ranging | Temperament: More Independent | Female | Chicken | Hatching week of May 19th, 2021 | 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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