Chickens

I raise a variety of rare breed chickens. I have chosen them because they are unusual looking, with good temperaments, good egg layers and I especially love the pretty egg colors!

**UPDATE 3/6/2023**

Due to extreme weather and ongoing power outages, hatching season is running late. I’m getting the incubators up and filled this week, and hope to have chicks by the end of March. If you’d like to be notified, please sign up for our email list.

For 2023 I will be offering the following as feather sexed or straight run chicks (depending on breed) and later, as coop ready pullets. Prices vary by breed/rarity and are posted with descriptions.

I don't ship birds. They are available for pick up in Aptos, CA.

I’ll also have hatching eggs available, shipped for the additional cost of packaging and actual shipping. Prices are posted in descriptions. Sold only by the dozen.

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FRENCH BLUE COPPER MARANS

A rare and beautiful bird, with blue feathers and copper hackles, most will have lightly feathered shanks and feet. Blue Copper Marans are good layers of a medium-dark brown egg, not as dark as Black Copper Marans. Mine consistently lay about a 4 on the color scale. I only hatch the darkest eggs, to improve the color. This breed is calm and gentle, so they make a wonderful backyard pet.

feather sexed female chicks $15/male $5

coop ready/5 week old pullets $25

hatching eggs $30 per dozen

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Giant Cochin

The biggest floofs in the chicken world! Big round bodies, feathered feet and legs, sweet personalities and steady layers of large light brown eggs. I currently have blue, black (with a few frizzled girls) partridge, buff and red mixed in together, with a Black Giant Cochin over them.

feather sexed female chicks $15/male $5

coop ready/5 week old pullets $25

hatching eggs unavailable

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ISABELLA LEGHORN

Sold only as straight run/unsexed chicks for $15.  (Please make a plan for  potential unwanted roosters.) 

coop ready/5 week old pullets $30

hatching eggs are $40 per dozen

This breed is just gorgeous! Which is why I jumped at the chance to get them in 2021. They are like the sparkle fairy princesses of my flock! 

Leghorns are an ancient breed that first originated in Italy and have always been famous for their egg production capabilities. The white leghorns are one of the most common breeds used in industrial egg operations (boo-hiss). The first Leghorns came to the U.S. starting in the 1820s. But THESE are NOT your 1820’s industrial egg makers!

 

Isabella Leghorns are a newer variety of Leghorn that feature pastel shades of cream and blue. Hens are an even pastel blue shade with cream-colored hackles and breasts.

The hackle and saddle of the males are a cream color with blue striping on each feather while the tail and breast are an even shade of pastel blue.