We are modern day homesteaders, with a passion for preserving heritage breed poultry. We maintain small breeding flocks of three separate bloodlines of our favourite breeds and varieties.

 

We keep closed flocks to maintain our homesteads biosecurity as well as breed for the traits we are seeking to achieve for each breed we keep. We do offer hatching eggs and day old chicks most of the year. We do occasionally offer ready to lay pullets, cockerels, and breeding trios. 

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We start fertility testing mid February and do not start releasing eggs until we have achieved a 90% or better fertility rate. Our hatch rates across all breeds is an average 86.6% for picked up eggs. Shipped eggs are typically reduced to about half of that hatch rate depending on the handling during transit.

 

We are active members of the American Poultry Association, The Marans Club USA, The Marans Chicken Club USA, The Ameraucana Breeders Club, The Ameraucana Alliance, and The American Silverudd's Blue Association. 

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We breed our Marans and Ameraucanas with the APA Standard in the forefront of our mind. There is not currently a standard for the Silverudd's Blue breed, however, there are a set of guidelines that breeders do adhere to. We breed to meet those guidelines which you can view here. There is an acceptance for splash coloured birds to have willow coloured legs and feet, we only add splash coloured birds to our breeding program if they have slate coloured legs and feet. 

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For any additional information about our breeds please visit our breeder pages, and if you have any questions please contact us. We are more than happy to answer any that you may have and provide lifetime breeder support.