As with many small homesteads, we have the luxury of enjoying and getting well-acquainted with all of our animals, even those that we sell. We hand-raise all of our chicks and ducklings inside right in our great-room so that they can get daily one-on-one attention, handling, exposure to other animals and natural desensitization to visitors, noise, human interaction…etc. We appreciate and want to encourage friendly, calm flocks and that’s why we choose to do what we do on a smaller scale with specific heritage breeds.

Our public hatches start late winter into spring. We love our hatching season, but after all of the work and chaos, we also love the ‘off season’ as well!

In order to accommodate need and interest, we do offer private custom hatches year-round (based on laying availability, of course).

Here’s how they work:

🥚 Minimum amount of eggs to set is 12. We usually suggest double your final goal (especially for ducks), *as long as you can accept the unusual possibility of 100% hatch rate. In other words: if we set 20 eggs and 20 ducklings hatch, you are responsible to take all 20.

🐣 Once you make a $45 deposit that is good toward the final total price of your birds, we will set and incubate your choice of eggs.

🚗 When they hatch, you come pick up and pay for however many total we got!

🖤 We never ship live birds and *you must pick up all birds within 3 days of hatching. Failure to do so may result in an incremental increase in the final price of your birds.

This has been a fantastic and fun way to share more of our birds without our customers accepting the risk of shipping fertilized eggs or the expense and learning curve of incubating. It’s also a great way to get your flock established any time of year whenever you’re ready.

Contact us if you’re interested!