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2024 Interactive Breed Guide
Use our interactive breed guide below to learn about our core assortment of birds. If you'd rather view this information as a table, click here for our downloadable breed guide. If you're still unable to find breeds that are a good fit for your flock, view our special order list to see what else we can help you get!
Old Faithful Birds
Barred Rock
Also known as a Barred Plymouth Rock, this bird is an old time farm favorite with high egg production and large, meaty bodies. These are the perfect addition for a dual purpose flock.
Black Australorp
A very good brown egg layer with a large body, Black Australorps are a great dual purpose breed. Their quiet, docile temperament makes them easy to handle and great for any flock!
Buff Orpington
One of the best breeds for newcomers, and families with young children. Orpingtons are quiet birds who come in several fluffy feather colors that keep them warm during frigid weather.
Silver Laced Wyandotte
The Silver Laced Wyandotte is an attractive, large breed that lays a nice brown egg, has a calm disposition, and will add an interesting look to your flock!
Tried & True Birds
Americana
Americana hens lay an assortment of colored eggs from turquoise to olive, to light brown. The variation in color not only applies to their eggs, but also their beautiful plumage.
Olive Egger
Olive Eggers lay a beautiful speckled green egg, with a chance of brown eggs as well. Winter hardy and great egg layers, these hens will be sure to add color to your egg basket.
Sapphire Splash
Also known as Sapphire Skys, this Czech breed has a mix of light to medium dark grey plumage with occasional specks of darker feathering. A high egg producer, both cold and hot weather hardy.
Fancy & Fun Birds
Ancona
Anconas are a lightweight breed that can have either a single or rose comb. With each molt, birds tend to get whiter. They are active birds, are great foragers, and thanks to their smaller size they eat less than larger breeds.
Barnevelder
Barnevelders are medium heavy, dual-purpose birds that are very cold hardy. Their beautiful double-laced brown and blue feathers are just another perk of this docile bird that takes to foraging easily.
Blue Cochin
Blue Cochins are stately, gentle, and rare. Cochins are good layers, extremely likely to set, and have excellent disposition. They are great birds for families with backyard flocks.
Blue Laced Gold Wyandotte
These lacy girls are not all show with their elegantly patterned feathers. They are also great egg layers! Wyandottes are one of the most strikingly beautiful chickens to grace a backyard flock. They are quiet, easy to manage, and are one of the most winter-hardy breeds.
Buff Chantecler
The Chantecler is a cold-hardy, dual purpose breed. The goal was to create a hardy, dual purpose bird that could withstand the harsh Canadian winters, lay a good number of eggs, and produce a good carcass for the table.
Buff Cochin
Although originally prized as a meat bird, Cochins today are primarily bred for exhibition. They have a docile temperament and are very cold hardy thanks to their abundant, loose-fitting plumage.
Chocolate Orpington
These birds make a great dual-purpose bird for any flock as they combine unique plumage color and high egg production with a well-fleshed carcass. This cross also has a docile temperament much like both of its parent breeds.
Hampbar
Hampbars are beneficial over the other autosexing and dual-purpose breeds because of their light pin feathers which produced a cleaner carcass for the table. This is a very unique breed that is extremely rare.
Lavender Cochin
They are friendly and tend to get along well with other chickens. They also do not require much space if you do not have a large coop and tend to be great mothers if you let them brood their nest of eggs.
Midnight Majesty Maran
The Midnight Majesty Marans have black plumage and most hatch with feathered feet, but some do not. Deep browns show up through their down feathering underneath, making them a mix of beautiful dark brown and black plumage.
Partridge Chantecler
The Chantecler is a cold-hardy, dual purpose breed. The goal was to create a hardy, dual purpose bird that could withstand the harsh Canadian winters, lay a good number of eggs, and produce a good carcass for the table.
Sapphire Gem
Our Sapphire Gem will amaze you with its grey to light grey plumage. This Czech breed is an excellent egg layer and a great forager. It does well in hot and cold climates and is a breed very close to the Old Andalusians.
Starlight Green Egger
The Starlight Green Egger is a lightweight and very active breed that is an excellent forager in free-range situations. The plumage color is also highly variable and comes in many beautiful color patterns not typically seen.
Turken
The Turkens are not half chicken and half turkey, they are a unique chicken with a bare neck like the turkey and with very little feathering around the breast and wing areas. And despite their lack of feathers, they are very cold weather tolerant!
White Jersey Giant
This breed grows slowly but eventually are a third larger than most other heavy breeds. When younger, the birds will mature relatively quick, but tend to reach marketable meat weight slower than other breeds.
Meat Birds
Cornish Rock Cross
This is the bird that single-handedly changed American eating habits.Cornish Cross Broilers require special feeding and care but grow astonishingly fast. Cornish Cross Broilers are the best choice for a person who wants to quickly produce delicious meat and has no plan to save hens for egg production.
Rudd Ranger
This "haus" loves to free-range and finishes out slower than the Cornish Cross Broiler, but the wait is worth it! The Rudd Ranger® is a versatile bird that can be raised in more confined areas or free-range environments but prefers the latter.
Ducks
Cayuga
The Cayuga duck is one of the most popular ducks for exhibition. They are calm and love foraging for many of the destructive insects in your yard and/or garden. The hens are good egg producers and lay a variety of shades of black, gray, and white eggs.
Khaki Campbell
The Khaki Campbell is one of the more famous and popular duck breeds due to its excellent egg production. Khaki Campbells are a very hardy breed that tends to be nervous, energetic, are great foragers, and do tend to be broody.
Rouen
Rouen ducks are larger than the Mallard breed but are similar in color. This is a close second favorite breed of duck next to the Pekin. They have very tasty meat and have a lean body. Their temperament is calm, and they lay a decent amount of eggs per year. A great addition to any size farm.
White Pekin
The Pekin duck is the most popular breed for eating and they are the most common domestic duck. If managed carefully, they have excellent egg production too. The duck can be processed around 40 days old when it reaches around 7 lbs. The Pekin are calm, do not fly, and are not as motherly as other duck breeds.
Guineas & Turkeys
French Pearl Guineas
The French Pearl Guinea is the most common variety of Guinea sold. They sport dark grey or black plumage with specks of white. These beautiful birds make the best watch dogs for your farm or yard.
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