Chick Days 2022 | marysfeedandfarm

2022 Chick Order Days!

Chicks are on their way! Reserve your chicks now! Click on the buttons to use the printable worksheets, stop by, give us a call or shoot us an email. If you don't see what your heart desires... we may be able to special order it! (Roosters can also be ordered ahead). Breeds, Pricing, and planned arrival dates listed below. Feel free to contact us with any questions.

*Scheduled arrivals and pricing could change change without notice from the supplier

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Barred Plymouth Rock Pullets $3.26

Characteristics: Plymouth Rock are a duel purpose bird with a calm disposition, a good general farm chicken. They lay a large brown eggs while showing some broodiness.

Expected Arrival Dates:

March 4

June 3

Buff Orpington Pullets $3.26

Characteristics: Another duel purpose bird with a calm disposition, They lay a large brown eggs and do well free-ranging or confined

Expected Arrival Dates:

March 4

May 5

May 26

Silver Leghorn Pullets $3.50

Characteristics: Silver Leghorn hens are good producers, laying medium-sized white eggs. This breed is very vigorous, quick and alert.

Expected Arrival Dates:

March 4

Black Australorp Pullets $3.26

Characteristics: developed as a utility breed (both meat & eggs) with a focus on egg laying and is famous for laying more than 300 eggs. They are docile and hardy.

Expected Arrival Dates:

March 11

April 29

Rhode Island Red Pullets $3.26

Characteristics: The Rhode Island Red is an American breed of domestic chicken. They lay an extra large brown egg, about 260 per year. Also a hardy duel purpose bird.

Expected Arrival Dates:

March 11

April 22

Easter Egger Pullets $3.65

Characteristics: They are exceptionally friendly, and comical, but they come in a wide variety of colors and patterns and lay eggs in a variety of shades. While their personalities are second to none, the reason most people add Easter Eggers to their flock is for the blue or green eggs.

Expected Arrival Dates:

March 18

April 29

May 19

New Hampshire Red Pullets $3.26

Characteristics: The New Hampshire is a family friendly bird, making great pets as they are easy to tame. They are a medium sized bird and can be aggressive when it comes to food. They lay an large brown egg, about 280 per year. Also a duel purpose bird.

Expected Arrival Dates:

March 18

May 5

Bluff Plymouth Rock Pullets $3.26

Characteristics: Like the Barred Plymouth Rock, they are a duel purpose bird with a calm disposition, a good general farm chicken. They lay a large brown eggs while showing some broodiness.

Expected Arrival Dates:

March 18

Blue Australorp Pullets $3.50

Characteristics: They are one of the best dual-purpose fowls and are an excellent layer of brown eggs averaging 300 eggs per year. The Blue Australorp is a rare breed with beautiful blue coloration. Babies are a creamy white with blue on their backs and heads. The typical weight for females is 5 lbs..

Expected Arrival Dates:

March 25

Speckled Sussex Pullets $3.26

Characteristics: Curious, chatty, friendly, loves being 'one of the family'. Kind and gentle - a great 'starter chicken' for children. Deals well with colder climates but also happy in the heat. Excellent foragers for free-ranging but also happy to be confined in a smaller space. They average 250 large brown eggs a year

Expected Arrival Dates:

March 25

May 5

Expected Arrival Dates:

March 25

Dominique Pullets $3.50

Characteristics: It is considered America's oldest breed of chicken. They are calm and hardy, laying an large brown egg, about 230 per year.

Blue Plymouth Rock Pullets $3.26

Characteristics: The Blue Plymouth Rock chicken is a cross between a native Andalusian male and a Plymouth Barred Rock female. This breeding profile ensures vigor, and results in stunning blue-gray and lavender plumage. Proficient producers, they lay about 260 per year.

Expected Arrival Dates:

April 1

Golden Sex Link Pullets $3.26

Characteristics: Gold Sex-Links are a very gentle bird that will be consistent producer of large brown eggs. Since they are sex-linked the females chicks are streaked with red or gold and males chicks are solid white. You can expect 250-300 eggs per year.

Expected Arrival Dates:

April 1

Assorted Banties Straight-run $3.20

Characteristics: A bantam is any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or duck. Most large chicken breeds a have a bantam counterpart, which is much smaller than the standard-sized fowl, but otherwise similar in most or all respects.

Expected Arrival Dates:

April 7

d'Uccle Straight-run $3.65

Characteristics: These birds are known for their mysterious, quirky expressions, and are quite friendly: a true favorite of adults and children alike. They are fair layers of tiny, creamy colored eggs. Their mature coloring takes time to manifest and does not usually appear until after the first adult molt.

Expected Arrival Dates:

April 7

Silkies Straight-run $4.25

Characteristics: Calm, friendly and happy to be handled, silkie chickens have become an increasingly popular breed for backyard flocks. They are well known for their soft, fluffy plumage, this bantam breed is as cute as they come and although egg production is far less than what is seen from many breeds, for those interested in raising chickens as pets, silkies are worth consideration.

Expected Arrival Dates:

April 7

Blue Wyandotte Pullet $4.00

Characteristics: Wyandottes are a docile, dual-purpose breed kept for their brown eggs and for meat. They appear in a wide variety of color patterns, and are popular show birds. Egg production range is 200-240 annually. They are well suited for our climate.

Expected Arrival Dates:

April 15

May 26

Black Maran Sex Link Pullet $3.50

Characteristics: Friendly dual-purpose breed, very hardy. They lay an average of 300 dark brown eggs annually.

Expected Arrival Dates:

April 15

Olive Egger Pullet $3.65

Characteristics: Because of the genetic diversity in Olive Eggers, there tend to be a lot of individualized personalities. But in general, Olive Eggers are friendly and mellow birds, getting along well with other breeds. They are savvy and intelligent and would be great additions to a small farm or homestead. They are best know for their unique range of olive colored eggs.

Expected Arrival Dates:

April 15

Bernevelder Pullet $4.00

Characteristics: The beautiful and hardy Barnevelder chicken has a lovely lace-like brown and black feather pattern. They are good layers, sit and rear their own young.

Expected Arrival Dates:

April 22

Blue Andalusian Pullet $4.00

Characteristics: Andalusian chickens are magnificent to look at. They have elegant and graceful appearance with their graceful, stately carriage and delicately blue-laced plumage. Such appearance also makes them as an especially fine breed for exhibition. Hens are good layer of large white eggs but they don’t go broody.

Expected Arrival Dates:

April 29

Assorted Crested - Straight Run $3.26

Characteristics: Their unique features include beards, puffy crests, feathered feet, long tails, and five toes on each foot. Primarily, they appear in white colors, which is the most common. However, there are other varieties in black and blue. In terms of size, they come in standard sizes and are excellent layers of medium sized white eggs

Expected Arrival Dates:

May

Delaware Pullet $3.26

Characteristics: the Delaware makes an excellent dual-purpose bird. It has well-developed egg and meat qualities, and a calm and friendly disposition. The breed is noted for rapid growth and chicks have fast feathering. Lays Brown large to Jumbo sized eggs.

Expected Arrival Dates:

May 19

Lavender Orpington Pullet $4.00

Characteristics: They are a large fluffy, friendly hen – they have a profusion of feathers, making them seem much more significant than they are. They are known to be curious, docile, cuddly, and relatively intelligent, which makes them adorable! They lay a medium to large brown egg.

Expected Arrival Dates:

May 19

Black Sex-link Pullet $4.50

Characteristics: Black Star Sex-Link chickens are an excellent brown egg-laying breed. A Sex-Link chicken is a hybrid which, at the time of hatch, can be sexed by its color.

Expected Arrival Dates:

May 26

Expected Arrival Dates:

May 26

Golden Laced Wyandotte Pullet $3.50

Characteristics: Wyandotte chickens are a versatile breed. They're great layers, pets, show birds, and they're even good for meat. Dependable layers, even through the winter.

Cream Legbar Pullet $4.00

Characteristics: Cream Legbars are friendly, easily handled, good layers, and one of the most highly sought after, rarest breeds in this country. Cream Legbar eggs are a beautiful blue, ranging from light blue to light turquoise. And while their eggs aren't jumbo, they lay prolifically.

Expected Arrival Dates:

June 3

Guineas - Straight run $5.20

Characteristics: Popular among keepers of small and backyard flocks. Guineas are vigorous, hardy, and largely disease-free birds. These birds sound an alarm whenever anything unusual occurs on the farm. Keeping guinea fowl is also an effective means of pest control. Flocks of guineas kill and eat mice and small rats. In addition, guinea fowl can be used to control insects. Wild guineas eat mainly insects, and can consume large amounts of insects without affecting garden vegetables or flowers. They have been used to control wood ticks and insects such as grasshoppers, flies, and crickets. Guinea fowl also eat slugs, and flocks have been known to attack snakes.

Expected Arrival Dates:

June 15

Ducks Geese Turkeys

Khaki Campbell $6.99

Characteristics: The Khaki Campbell is one of the more popular duck breeds due to its excellent egg production.

Expected Arrival Dates:

March 11

Hatchery's Choice Assorted Duck $5.99

Expected Arrival Dates:

March 25

April 22

American Buff Geese $12.49

Characteristics: American Buff geese are known for their excellent parenting skills, attending to their goslings with great care. The goose will lay 10 to 20 eggs and incubate them for 28 to 34 days. These geese are very broody mothers and may make good surrogates for the eggs of other breeds of geese. They can be loyal and even affectionate towards their owners. They are typically docile and make a great addition to the family farm. American Buff geese are very curious creatures,

Expected Arrival Dates:

April 22

Royal Palm Heritage Turkey $11.95

Characteristics: The Royal Palm turkeys are relatively smaller sized birds with very beautiful appearance. They are mainly white in coloration with sharply contrasting metallic black edging on the feathers. They are active birds, thrifty, excellent seekers, good fliers, males are characterized by being non-aggressive, females are generally very good mothers, hens lay pale cream to medium brown eggs with spots, they are also good as pets.

Expected Arrival Dates:

March 25

Breasted White Turkey $9.20

Characteristics: The Broad Breasted White turkeys are large sized birds and they have been bred for providing a meaty carcass with more breast meat than any other turkey breeds. They are generally complete white in coloration with pink legs, a black beards, and red carnucling. The poults or baby birds are generally of yellow color.

Expected Arrival Dates:

April 8

May 25

Breasted Bronze Turkey $9.50

Characteristics: Very beautiful, strong and hardy birds, docile temperament, today raised mainly for meat production, long lived birds, slower to grow than then White.

Expected Arrival Dates:

April 8

May 25

Bourbon Red Heritage Turkey $11.95

Characteristics: many say this Heritage breed turkey is one of the most beautiful turkey varieties. Bourbon Red turkeys will not grow as large, or as fast, as the broad breasted commercial turkeys.

Expected Arrival Dates:

April 8

Cornish Cross Meat Broilers also available each month

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