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How to Get Your Hens to Lay Eggs in a Nest, Not on the Floor

How to Get Your Hens to Lay Eggs in a Nest, Not on the Floor

Floor eggs are the eggs your hens lay on the chicken coop floor, rather than in the nice cozy nests you provide. Floor eggs are undesirable because they easily get dirty or cracked, making them unsafe to eat and unsuitable for hatching. A cracked egg is likely to get broken, encouraging hens to sample the […]

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Bobwhite Quail Eggs

Bobwhite Quail Eggs in Packaging

Bobwhite Quail  Eggs – sold in quantities of 100

Seasonal/Shipped April thru September

FREE SHIPPING!

NO PICK UP ORDERS

Missouri residents are required to have a permit to order.  Please call with your permit number after placing your order.

 

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Ayam Cemani Chicken

Ayam Cemani Chicken
Ayam Cemani Chicken – Sold as Baby Chicks Only – No Sexing Available
       Minimums – Not Sexed = 3
                                Total of 3 birds to ship       
Ayam Cemani  Hatching Eggs are now available click here.
MAXIMUM OF 12
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Deformities in Hatched Chicks and Why They Happen

Webbed chicken toes

One of the realities of breeding chickens is experiencing deformities in newly hatched chicks. Most of the time deformed embryos don’t survive to hatch, but sometimes one does. The more eggs you hatch, the more likely you are to occasionally find hatched chicks with deformities of one sort or another. Why deformities happen in newly […]

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Rooster-to-Hen Ratio — Why It Matters

Hamburg chickens

Chicken keepers who overlook the importance of the rooster-to-hen ratio may wonder why their flocks experience problems. Too many roosters lead to fighting, stressed and over-mated hens, lower egg production, and poor fertility. Surprisingly, too few roosters create some of the same issues. Let’s look at why getting this balance right matters so much. The […]

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A Chicken’s Egg Tooth—What Is It and What Is It For?

Photo of baby chick with egg tooth circled

A chicken’s egg tooth is a tiny horn-like projection at the tip of the upper beak of a newly hatched chick. Its purpose is to help the chick break through the shell at hatching time. Soon after the chick hatches, the egg tooth falls off. Domestic poultry and other birds share this trait in common […]

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Melanistic Pheasant

Melanistic Pheasant
  • Melanistic Pheasant – Sold as Baby Chicks Only
  • Quantity options available are 15, 30, 45.

Seasonal/Shipped May thru June 

Limit of 45.

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Salmon Faverolle Bantam

Salmon Faverolle Bantam
  • Salmon Faverolle Bantam – Sold as Baby Chicks Only – No Sexing Available

       Minimums – Not Sexed = 5

                                Total of 5 birds to ship 

Seasonal/Shipped Early Feb thru Mid August.

Limit of 10 

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