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Located in Beaverdam, Virginia
Locally Hatched Chicks From Local Flocks
Located in Beaverdam, Virginia
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A Select Few Breeds
Best Meat Birds $3
Best Meat Birds $3
While big hatcheries can offer you dozens of species including some of the rarest and most exotic breeds, we offer a small selection of the best in class breeds. We don't ship chickens or turkeys. You swing by and pick them up (bring a box). We can deliver a bigger order if you need us to.
Best Meat Birds $3
Best Meat Birds $3
Best Meat Birds $3
The Jersey Black Giant is an amazing meat bird. Heritage breeds don't reach market weight in six weeks like the industrially produced Cornish Cross Broilers (an excellent bird but not a heritage breed). The hens reach 10 pounds while the roosters will tip the scales at 13 pounds in about 20 weeks. They lay 3-5 large brown eggs a week.
Best Egg Layer $3
Best Meat Birds $3
Best Dual Purpose $3
White Leghorn is our pick for best heritage breed egg layer. Mature White Leghorns weigh 4-6 pounds and the hens produce 5 or more white eggs a week (260-300 eggs per year). They are great foragers, they don't need lots of attention, so they are great free-range birds.
Best Dual Purpose $3
Cornish/Plymouth Cross $3
Best Dual Purpose $3
The Rhode Island Red is a classic! The heritage strains of the Rhode Island Red lays 200–250 brown eggs yearly, and yields rich-flavored meat. They reach a weight of 6.5-8.5 pounds in 20-24 weeks. That is also about the age they start laying eggs. They are a hardy breed that handles heat and cold as well as any chicken. The hens are friendly and the roosters are great flock protectors.
Cornish/Plymouth Cross $3
Cornish/Plymouth Cross $3
Cornish/Plymouth Cross $3
This is our own Cornish Broiler - White Plymouth Rock hybrid. There is no question that the Cornish Cross available from Mega-Hatcheries are some of the fastest growing meat birds on the market. But they aren't heritage breeds. They reproduce only through artificial insemination. We, on the other hand, put some Cornish Broiler hens in a pen with some White Plymouth Rock roosters and let nature take its course. That was how the commercial Cornish Cross was developed. These birds probably won't grow as fast as a Cornish Cross, but they are sure to be a good bird.
Narragansett Turkeys
Cornish/Plymouth Cross $3
Cornish/Plymouth Cross $3
The Narragansett Turkey is one of the largest of the heritage breeds. Typically they are processed at around 24 weeks when the Toms are at 23 pounds and the hens are at 14 pounds, which is earlier than many other heritage breeds. Mature Toms can reach 33 pounds and the hens will reach 18 pounds. They have a calm temperament and their coloring is black, gray, tan, giving them an appearance similar to that of the Bronze but a little lighter in color than wild turkeys.
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Custom Hatchery Hatching Your Eggs
If you have a flock you would love and would like some of your eggs hatched in our hatchery we are happy to help. We will do custom batches from 12-60 (more if we discuss it). You can collect eggs for a week prior to delivering them to us. The eggs will need to be stored in a cool dark place and turned at least four times a day. The eggs should be clean but don't wash them. After a week in the incubator we will candle them and left you know how many fertile eggs you had (typically about 80% of eggs are fertile).