🌿 ETHICAL EGGS 🌿
Keeping backyard chickens creates greater food security in our lives and gives us greater control over where our food comes from and how it is raised.
🌿 ETHICAL CHICKS 🌿
We provide an ethical alternative to commercial hatcheries — our male chicks live out their lives here as guardians to our breeding flocks and retired hens.
🌿 HAPPY HENS 🌿
Our hens forage on 108+ square feet of pasture each with plenty of bugs, grasses, and sunshine year-round — resulting in richer eggs which hatch healthier chicks.
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Rainbow Chick Collections
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Need chicks available sooner, or filling in some gaps in your colorful egg baskets with beautiful blues or greens? Let us select an assortment of chicks for you from our brooder.
Note that pricing is per chick on Chick Collections (you will need to add however many chicks you are wanting to your cart).
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KID PACKS (Our Friendliest Breeds) will include some or all of the following breeds: Black Copper Marans (line A), Lavender Ameraucanas, Black F2 Olive Eggers, Lavender F1 Olive Eggers, Mint Egger (autosexing females), Bielefelders (autosexing females), Orpingtons, and Cochin Bantams.- Rainbow Layers $15
- Blue-Green Daydream $15
- Sage / Olive-Greens $17
- Kid Packs (Our Friendliest Breeds) $20
- Bantam Breeds $20
- Autosexing Breeds (all females) $25
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Marans
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Sometimes marketed as "French" Marans in the US, these very special hens are coveted for laying the darkest red-chocoloate-brown eggs in the poultry world. Our Black Copper A Line has an exceptionally agreeable temperament and our B Line lays our darkest eggs. View Hatching Eggs- Disposition: Active, Calm
- Eggs: 250+ per year
- Point of Lay: 5 months
- Traits: Great Foragers
- Noise Level: Quiet
- Breed Origin: France
- PLEASE NOTE: A, B, and C lines will decrease in both egg color and temperament. Due to demand, we will need to keep back some BCM chicks to expand our breeding flocks in 2020 in order to fill future orders more promptly. Ordering Black Copper Marans may increase the time it takes us to fulfill your order of little ones, and we are working towards improving or eliminating those wait times.
- Black Copper — A Line $30
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Mint Eggers
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Autosexing at hatch, these chicks have super-secret genetics and will lay a lighter green egg and have wonderful, easygoing temperaments. View Hatching Eggs- Disposition: Active
- Eggs: 300+ per year
- Point-of-lay: 5 months
- Traits: Great Foragers
- Females $20
- Males $5
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Olive Eggers
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Olive Eggers are a hybrid chicken breed. Green eggshells are achieved by crossing a brown-shelled egg layer with a blue-shelled egg layer. Our Olive Eggers in particular have an exceptionally pleasant temperament, which is a trait in chickens that we value very highly. View Hatching Eggs- Disposition: Active, Calm
- Eggs: 300+ per year
- Egg weight: 60 grams
- Point-of-lay: 4.5 months
- Traits: Great Foragers
- Black (F2) $15
- Lavender (F1) $20
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Ameraucanas
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This purebred breed lays a blue egg and has the most adorable fluffy cheeks (called muffs) and fluffy beards. Their small pea combs and absence of any pronounced wattles make them exceptionally suited for colder climates. This breed is different from a commercial 'Easter Egger'.
View Hatching Eggs ›DispositionActive, quiet; Lavenders are especially sweet once mature, but we have found that some roosters of both colors can be aggressive and are working to breed this out of both lines (the Lavender rooster we have chosen to work with is a huge sweetheart).Eggs250+ per yearEgg WeightLAV 55 grams / IS 40 gramsPoint of Lay5 monthsTraitsGreat ForagersBreed OriginUnited StatesTypeOur Lavenders do not display any of the known faults associated with this color (ie, leakage or the ragged feathering gene). All Lavender Ameraucana breeders in the US are working on improving plumage quality and breed size. With Isabels, all breeders who have acquired these birds are working to improve egg size. -
Legbars
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Autosexing at hatch, this blue-egg-laying breed is crested (moderate fluffy head poufs) and very showy. View Hatching Eggs- Disposition: Active
- Eggs: 300+ per year
- Traits: Autosexing
- Breed Origin: United Kingdom
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Bielefelders
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Autosexing at hatch, and one of the sweetest breeds we've ever worked with. These hens are big, beautiful, and friendly. View Hatching Eggs- Disposition: Friendly, Calm
- Eggs: 200+ per year
- Egg weight: 60 grams
- Point of Lay: 8 months
- Traits: Autosexing, Dual-Purpose
- Noise Level: Quiet
- Breed Origin: Germany
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Cochin Bantams
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Feather-legged and poufy-tailed, this is a wonderfully docile, soft, and fluffy breed. They like to stay closer to the coop when let out to forage, and are easy to handle. View Hatching Eggs
Bantam eggs will be smaller than Large Fowl (Standard) eggs.- Disposition: Docile, Calm
- Eggs: 250+ per year
- Traits: Broody, Best with Children
- Noise Level: Very Quiet
- Breed Origin: China
- Disclosures: our Bobtails were purchased from Karl Rau's personal breeding stock when he retired – we have zero imported bloodlines from the Netherlands. Chicks will be listed if available.
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Coturnix Quail
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Coturnix Quail are a special addition to any back yard or homestead. Birds are quiet, don't require much space, have a rapid rate of maturation, and lay eggs near-daily. Eggs have superior nutritional content to traditional chicken eggs, and you do not need any special licenses to keep this particular breed of Quail. View Hatching Eggs
Our next quail hatch will be in June - chicks are sold as straight run at around 2 weeks old (once they are the size of regular chicken chicks). There are no visual differences between these breeds - the Celadon egg-gene mutation is the only differentiating factor in Coturnix Quail. You can tell males from females around the time they start crowing (once they are around 2 mos old). The females retain spots on their chests - and the males grow out of them and have solid chests. The only exception would be if any have white tuxedo markings obscuring the chests, and we try not to breed with too many of these. Read more about Raising Quail- Disposition: Quiet, Flighty
- Eggs: 300+ per year
- Point of Lay: 2 months
- Traits: Dual-Purpose, Bears Confinement
- Noise Level: Very Quiet
- Breed Origin: Japan
Looking for Hatching Eggs?
Have an incubator or a hen who's gone broody? We also offer hatching eggs in increments of 6 and 12 eggs.