buying

Alaska

Triple D Farm and Hatchery: An Alaskan based company providing quality poultry products, including turkeys, only to Alaskans.

California

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.

Metzer Farms: Ducks, geese, guineas, and gamebirds.

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.

Valentine Hatchery: Small hatchery. Sells only marans, including the copper black.

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.

Illinois

Natures Hatchery: Over 400 varieties of fowl, including chickens.

Indiana

Henpecked Hatchery: A small hatchery that carries many breeds of Marans.

Iowa

McMurray Hatchery: Huge selection of chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, and more. Higher prices than some, but excellent service and quality.

Sun Ray Chicks Hatchery: Chicks, turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas, feed, equipment, and suppplies.

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.

Docorah Hatchery: Chicks, turkeys, guineas, geese, pheasants, quail.

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.

Guinea Farm Hatchery: Guineas, peafowl, swans, llamas, rat terriors.

Sand Hill Preservation: Chickens, geese, ducks, guineas, and turkeys.

Kentucky

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.

Maine

CM Game Bird Farm & Hatchery: Chickens, guineas, turkeys, quail, chukars, pheasants.

Michigan

Townline Poultry Farm: Chicks, ducks, geese, turkeys.

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.

Oakwood Game Farm: Pheasants and chukars

Mississippi

Topisaw Creek Quail Farm: Coturnix quail only.

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.

Estes Hatchery: Chickens, turkeys, guineas, ducks, geese, and game birds.

Heartland Hatchery: Chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas

Marti Poultry Farm: Chickens, bantams, ducks, guineas.

Nebraska

Central Hatchery: All the standard breeds, plus cheap broilers.

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.

Sands Poultry: All the usual, plus rabbits.

Country Coop Chickens: Light Brahmas, Red Jungle Fowl, Thai gamefowl, Seramas, Welsummers.

Ohio

Ridgway Hatchery: Chickens, ducks, geese, guineas, game birds, supplies.

Mt. Healthy Hatcheries: Produces over 3 million chicks, duck, turkeys, and gamebirds annually.

Meyer Hatchery: Affordable poultry since 1985; ships year round.

Eagle Nest Poultry: Chickens, ducks, geese, peafowl, and turkeys. (No online price list)

Healthy Chickens and More: Chickens, ducks, turkeys, gamebirds. (Low 10-chick or 8-duck minimum order, but chicks are a bit pricey)

Hopkins' Alternative Livestock: Peafowl, rhea, geese, crames, swans, ducks, pheasants

Oklahoma

Superior Farms: Llamas, sheep, poultry.

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)

Howell's Exotic Waterfowl: Ducks, geese, swans

Rock-n'-Cedar: Peafowl and chickens.

Oregon

Lebanon Hatchery: Geese, swans, pheasant, guineas, duck, quail, turkeys, chickens.

Holderread Waterfowl: Ducks and geese

Pennsylvania

Moyer's Chicks: Sells millions of chicks per year. Focuses on broilers, white leghorns, and Rhode Island crosses.

Hoffman Hatchery: Hatches several thousand chicks per week.

JM Hatchery: Ducks and chicks, including silkies.

Tennessee

Dogwood Acres Waterfowl: Bantam chickens, plus 100+ varieties of waterfowl.

Texas

Ideal Poultry: Family owned and operated. The largest supplier of backyard poultry in the U.S., shipping nearly 4 million chicks annually.

X-treme Game Birds: Ducks, geese, quail, guineas, chickens.

Leon Valley Trading Co.: Small family owned Poultry Producer with an emphasis on Rare and Semi-Rare breeds and the perpetuation of True Breeds

Randal Burkey Company: Chickens, gamebirds, waterfowl, turkeys, guineas, peafowl, pheasants, and supplies

Vermont

Peaceable Hill's Pheasant Chicks Farm: Ringneck pheasants

Wisconsin

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.

MacFarlane Pheasants: Pheasants only

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.

Hatcheries & Breeders