Chicken Feathers Farm

Our chicken flock mainly consists of English Lavender Orpingtons, but we also have Buff Orpingtons, Spotted Sussex, and a young Gold Lace Brahma hen. 

We chose the Lavender Orpingtons not only for their striking color, but primarily for their versatility for breeding.  Breeding lavender  X lavender  always produces lavender, unlike some others, for instance the blues. 

This heritage breed was developed in Orpington, Kent UK in the 1800's for a good eating and laying chicken.  They are calm, friendly and gentle; not flightish or skittish like some other breeds, and usually can only fly a few feet high making them a good choice for the backyard chicken selection. They have rosey single combs and beautiful thick grayish lavender feathers with fluffy upper legs and fluffy butts that make them waddle when they run.   They are year-round layers laying up to 250 large light brown eggs.

Our chickens are free range and we feed quality healthy layer feed and wholesome snacks from our organic garden and fruits.

Selling only from our farm, and purchasing  only from quality breeders, our birds never go to sales or are introduced to sale stock. 

We are selling Lavender Orpington straight run chicks, and eggs for hatching as well as organic eating eggs from all breeds.  Chicks will need to be in a brooder with a heat lamp for 6 to 8 weeks before they can move into sheltered coop or pen. 

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Current prices:

Hatching eggs   3.00 each, wrapped in bubble wrap and newspaper. Shipped in medium or large USPS flat rate boxes. Shipping added to each order. Medium 13.00, large 15.00

Chicks: Lavender Orpington  7.00 each  Straight run.

Lavender/Buff cross eggs 2.00,

Chicks 4.00

Chicks sold only from the farm, no shipping. Chickens shown by appointment only. We try hard to accommodate your schedule to visit. 

 Our primary contact initially is TEXT due to poor signal.  Please no emails. 

Incubation Begins

Been saving Orpington eggs all week to start my first batch in the new incubator. I've read and retread the instructions, read everything I could find online,  and prepared the best I could for my first attempt. Saying all that, I have gone into this with 2 mistakes already; one, I did not collect the eggs from the henhouse washing my hands first (which seems to be an important step for removing oils from your skin), and two, I stored the eggs at room temp at 70 not the 55 degrees recommended. I may have sabotaged my entire trial, but I don't have anything to stored eggs at that temp. 

Even with mistakes, I am going forward with this because I had at least 6 fresh eggs from today in the batch. My first candling should tell me if I stand a chance. Will let you know how this goes. 

  

Chicken Tunnel

My husband wanted to build another run for the chickens, but the only logical location from the coup was downhill. I came up with the idea of a passageway which progressed to an above ground tunnel to connect the two runs. After doing some quick research, the chicken tunnel was designed by what materials we had on hand, chicken wire and concrete anchors.  We cut the bendable anchors like large wickets and stuck them in the ground about two feet apart.  Using a remaining roll of chicken wire, we covered the wickets and tied it to the anchors with roll wire. We also cut some anchor wire to stake down the sides to the ground leaving a skirt on each side of the tunnel to keep predators from an easy dig in. It did not take but a few minutes for the chickens to find the opening to the tunnel. We can block the opening at the top by the chicken coup to keep them in one pen. We get a big kick out of their tunnel antics and their running up the tunnel when we call. Best of all, it works!