Chickens, chickens, and more chickens!
The artist in me LOVES color! I enjoy having a mixed flock of chickens, where my kids can easily recognize and give each chicken, duck, or geese a name. I also absolutely love looking down in my egg basket and seeing a collection of different colored eggs. So while I would love to be a breeder that breeds true to breed standard, I am pulled into a different direction.
From December 15 until April 1, I separate the flock into pens for breeding. I do not offer this selection after April 1 to give the chickens a break and allow them to free range as a single flock. This helps their mental health and keeps them in excellent physical health. Some bantams are often placed in a chicken tractor for their safety, instead of completely free-ranging. My chickens, ducks, and geese have almost 9 acres with a flowing creek to roam, so lots of excellent places for foraging.
This year (Spring 2024), they have not been penned. I will separation Group 1, Group 3, and Group 4 from mid-April until June. A limited number of their eggs and chicks will be available. I am focusing on hatching them for myself to see what color eggs the adults grow to have. These hens will be available for sale after they start laying, in Fall 2024.
And then there’s Hai Hai, our gigantic English Orpington that reminds me of a turkey.
Group 1 – Olive Eggers
Rooster: KFC, a olive layer with the green gene.
Hens: blue cuckoo maron, 2 x black copper maron, bielefleder, easter egger, olive egger. Since the rooster is an olive layer, all of his offspring will also have the green gene. Mix that with these darker brown egg layers, you should have an assortment of green/olive egg layers. Of course, there is also a chance that some of the eggs will be brown. But with these hens, those brown eggs will still be beautiful. The bielefleder is known for having little flecks of brown on the eggs as well.
Group 2 – Farmhouse Mix
Rooster: Monet, a speckled sussex.
Hens: 2 x speckled sussex, 2 x rhode island, 2 x gold laced wyandotte, columbia wyandotte, dark brahma. You’ll have a high chance of having pure bed speckled sussex, as well as having a fun assortment of gorgeous colored hens. The eggs will be various shades of brown, but not dark/chocolate brown.
Group 3 – Purebred Frost White Lebar and Legbar mixes (blue and olive layers)
Rooster: Popcorn, a frost white legbar with the blue gene.
Hens : 2 x frost white legbar, cream legbar, partridge penedesea, exchequar leghorn, cookies and cream. The frost white legbars are adorable white bantams that produce gorgeous blue eggs. The white gene is recessive, so the chicks will only be white if the frost white legbar rooster is with a frost white legbar hen. The other chicks here will not be pure white, so it’ll be easy to tell who’s pure bred. The other chicks will make for a fun assortment of colors and patterns! All the chicks from this pen should lay blue, pale blue, or green/olive eggs.
Group 4: – Frizzle Silkies and Frizzle Silky mixes (includes blue egg layers)
Rooster: Twinkle Toes, a black frizzle silky.
Hens: white silky, 2 x frost white legbar, 3 x exchequar leghorn. Since the rooster is a frizzle, half of his chicks will be a frizzle as well. I cannot guarantee which eggs will result in a frizzle chick. You have a chance of having pure breed frizzle silky chicks in this pen! The legbar chicks will resemble a cream legbar (the white gene is recessive), so you could have some frizzle cream legbars that lay pale blue eggs.
Group 5 – Show Quality Silkies (black/white/splash) – AVAILABLE SPRING 2025. I am currently hatching the breeding stock, and will evaluate and select the breeders for next year. I have shipped in eggs from several well-known breeders with gorgeous show-quality silkies!
Group 6 – Show Quality Silkies (hen’s choice) -AVAILABLE SPRING 2025. I am currently hatching the breeding stock, and will evaluate and select the breeders for next year. I have shipped in eggs from several well-known breeders with gorgeous show-quality silkies!
Chicks, and occasionally, hens, are available by pickup only in Virgil, NY. I may ship in the future, so sign-up for my monthly newsletter to find out what’s new on the farm! Pickup is on Saturday mornings from 9am until 11am by appointment only. If this day/time does not work for you, please contact me before placing an order.
Green/Olive Layer Chicken Eggs
Chicken eggs are collected daily and stored in optimal conditions for a high hatch rate. Eggs are sold by the dozen, and I often include additional eggs as available. From December 15 until April 1, I separate the flock into pens for breeding. I do not offer this selection after April 1 to give the…
