Rare Breeds
To help ensure a safe arrival to you, the minimum number of chicks for each order prior to April 1st is 25. On and after April 1st, the minimum number of chicks required is 15. You can mix and match any type of baby chick in your order to reach the applicable chick minimum order. Our operators are happy to suggest complementing breeds if you need assistance. |
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Andalusian
Andalusian chickens are beautiful blue breed often used in exhibition. Hens are good white egg layers, with very little tendency towards broodiness. |
Lakenvelders
Lakenvelders are beautiful, small white chickens draped in black on their neck, wings and tails. These very rare white egg layers are quick, active and alert and will forage widely if allowed to run. |
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Blue Laced Red Wyandotte
The original development of these came from crossing Silver Laced and Golden Laced varieties of Wyandotte's. After much work the Blue Laced Red was developed from this cross. |
Modern BB Red Game
Modern Games were developed from the Old English and have an extremely high station with a rather peculiar style and carriage as a result. |
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Buttercups
Buttercup chickens have an unusual cup-shaped comb with a complete circle of medium-sized regular points. Males and female Buttercups do not look alike. This rare and exotic breed is excellent for exhibitions, shows and projects. |
Silver Phoenix
These unusually handsome in color and combinations of silver and black and tails are striking although of more ordinary length. |
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Dominiques
Referred to as a "Dominiker". They have rose combs, medium sized bodies, prominent tails, and black and white barred plumage. |
Redcaps
The Derbyshire Redcap is one of the rarest and critically threatened breeds of poultry in the United States. Our team is working to help save the Redcap from the brink of extinction in the U.S. Visit our blog for updates on this important conservation project. Redcaps are currently unavailable as we work to preserve this rare breed. |
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Dorkings
The Silver Gray Dorking is and old and rare breed of chicken with a long body on short legs, and a fifth toe. Hens lay a medium-sized cream egg, and are non-setters. |
Silver Leghorn
The Silver Leghorn is a rare and beautiful variety. Our strain is very carefully selected for correct color and type if you're looking for a Heritage Breed. Males are silvery white and lustrous greenish black. Females have a salmon colored breast and silver-gray neck, back and wings. Hens make good white egg layers and this breed is very vigorous, quick and alert. |
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Cream Legbars
The Cream Legbar is an auto-sexing breed of chickens that is smart, beautiful, and lays a beautiful blue egg. |
Silver Penciled Rocks
These rare and beautiful birds are highly prized for exhibition purposes and for their valuable plumage which is ideal for fly tying. |
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Crevecoeurs
The Crevecoeur chicken is a rare breed originating from Normandy, France. The Crevecoeur is very similar in size to the Houdan, only all black in color and with four toes. |
Sumatra
The Sumatra is a lustrous greenish-black bird with a graceful long tail, small comb, black shanks with yellow soles, multiple spurs, and — like the Silkies — the Sumatra has black skin. Their type, size and flowing tails are similar to the Yokohama chickens. |
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Egyptian Fayoumis
Egyptian Fayoumis are small, active, and lovely chickens. No other breed matures quite so quickly as this rare breed does — laying small tinted white eggs at just 4 to 4-1/2 months. |
White Laced Red Cornish
The ideal plumage pattern in which each feather is a rich dark red narrowly laced with white is very difficult to achieve but tremendously impressive in those individuals which are marked that way. |
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Golden Campines
This is a very old and rare breed which originated in Belgium. Golden Campines feature a beautiful combination of lustrous black and golden bay to make the distinctive barred feather pattern. |
White Faced Black Spanish
The White Faced Black Spanish are graceful and stylish chickens. Their rich, glossy, black feathers, large red combs, and long pendulous white faces and ear lobes give them an unusual and dramatic appearance. |
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Golden Wyandottes
This variety is a beautiful combination of rich golden bay laced with lustrous greenish black. The general feather pattern is very similar to the Silver Laced Wyandottes. |
Yokohama
Red Shouldered Yokohama chickens are quiet and gentle. Males have impressive long tails and saddle feathers. Females are good layers of light cream-colored eggs. |
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Golden Penciled Hamburgs
This is an absolutely beautiful variety of the Hamburgs; having finely penciled plumage of black barring on reddish base color, leaden blue shanks and toes, and a neat pointed rose comb. |