Hatcheries & Breeders
DarkEggs.com: Sells only brown egg layers. Classic, rare, and extremely rare
breeds of chicks.
Belt Hatchery: CA Wholesale poultry hatchery that serves the entire U.S.
Colorado
Larry's Poultry: Pricey, but they do carry very rare breeds, including marans.
Connecticut
MyPetChicken: Sells
as few as 3 chicks, rather than the industry standard of 25 minimum.
Florida
Double R Supply: A full line of pet and farm
supplies, plus a good variety of chicks. 25-bird minimum.
Greenfire Farms: Heritage livestock, plus rare Pumpkin Hulsey and Black Copper Marans.
Georgia
Wadley Quail
Farm:A full line of pet and farm supplies, plus a good variety of chicks. 25-bird minimum.
Zeagler Duck Farm: A small farm that carries
a variety of chickens, quail, and ducks. Hatching eggs available for as little as $6 a dozen.
Illinois
Iowa
McMurray Hatchery: Huge selection of chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, and more. Higher prices than some, but excellent
service and quality.
Whelphatchery.com:
Offers a wide variety of day-old poultry, including chickens, turkeys, pheasants, geese, and ducks.
Hoover's Hatchery: Chickens, pheasants,
turkeys, peafowl, guineas, ducks, and geese. Very inexpensive, especially for broilers.
Schlecht Hatchery: Family operation in business for over 50 years. Prices are dirt cheap (like cornish
crosses for 80 cents each), although shipping is a bit high.
Lake Cumberland Game Bird Farm: 35 years of experience,
producing over 4 million eggs per year. Quail, chukar, pheasant, partridge, pigeons, turkeys, geese, chickens, and egg and chick shipping
supplies.
Michigan
Chick Hatchery: Bantams... Ameraucana, Vorwek, Lakenvelder, and silver spangled Hamburg.
Large fowl... Ameraucana, partridge Chantecler, and Dominique.
Minnesota
Strombergs: Over 200 varieties of chickens, gamebirds, and
waterfowl. Sold as eggs, chicks, or adult stock.
Missouri
Cackle Hatchery: If it can be hatched, they sell it, including
Welsummer and Cuckoo Maran.
Country Poultry: Estes Farm Hatchery. Standard breeds. In business 84 years.
New Mexico
Privett Hatchery: Many
breeds of chickens, geese, turkeys. The prices you see online include shippig charges.
North Carolina
Shook Poultry: Large fowl,
bantams, ducks, turkeys, guineas, chukar, and bobwhites.
Healthy
Chickens and More: Chickens, ducks, turkeys, gamebirds. (Low 10-chick or 8-duck minimum order, but chicks are a bit pricey)
B&D Game Farm: Quail, pheasants, chukars,
Indian Red Junglefowl, and guineas.
Funny Farm Hatchery: Chickens, ducks, guineas, button quail, turkeys, geese, peafowl. (high shipping
cost)
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Moyer's Chicks: Sells
millions of chicks per year. Focuses on broilers, white leghorns, and Rhode Island crosses.
JM Hatchery: Ducks and chicks, including silkies. They specialize in Freedom Ranger broilers.
Texas
Ideal Poultry: Family owned and operated. The
largest supplier of backyard poultry in the U.S., shipping nearly 4 million chicks annually.
Leon Valley Trading Co.: Small family owned Poultry Producer with an emphasis on Rare and Semi-Rare
breeds and the perpetuation of True Breeds.
H and H Poultry: Carries less common breeds, including Russian Orloff, Various Marans, Silver Penciled Egyptian Fayomi,
Mottled Houdan, Mottled Java, Sultans, Dorking, Blue and Black Andalusian, Splash Andalusian, Welsummer, Salmon Faverolle, and more.
Texas Poultry: Rockport Tx.
Blue Andalusian, Golden & Silver Spangled Hamburg, Gold & Silver Lakenverder, Egyptian Fayoumi, Brahma, Cornish, Dominique,
Jersey Giants, Rhode Island Reds, Cochin, Pheasant, Quail, Crested breeds, meat birds, bantams, Guineas, Turkeys, Geese, game birds,
and ducks. (New link!)
Honey Suckle Farms: Small family-owned
farm that specializes in rare, exotic, and heritage breed poultry and ornamental pheasants, including seramas, dorkings, marans, and
American onagadori. (New link!)
Peaceable Hill's Pheasant Chicks Farm: Ringneck pheasants
Sunnyside Hatchery:Very reasonable prices on geese, ducks, chickens, and turkeys. Not a large selection of breeds, but it's hard to beat the prices.
Purely Poultry: 200+ breeds of chickens, bantams, ducks, geese, turkeys, guineas, peafowl, gamebird pheasants,
ornamental pheasants, chukars and quail. Member of the National Poultry Improvement Plan.
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