Hatching Services, Hatching Eggs, & Custom Chick Orders Now Available!
We’re excited to now offer hatching services, as well as hatching eggs, and custom chick orders! 🐣🐥
Please message us on Facebook, via the chat button below, or email chickens@hilltoholler.com if you’re interested.
Hatching & Incubation Service
Don’t have an incubator? No problem! There’s no need to purchase expensive equipment or deal with the hassle and stress of hatching your own eggs, when we can do it for you!
🐣 Incubation & Hatching Services starting at $15
- $15 for up to 1 dozen chicken eggs, $1 per additional egg
- Discount available for larger amounts (over 4 dozen eggs)
- Our hatch rates have been over 90% with our own eggs. However, we cannot guarantee hatch rates on outside eggs due to variables out of our control, such as: fertilization rate, freshness, cleanliness, handling, and storage before being brought to us for incubation.
- For optimal results, please ensure that eggs are less than 7 days old, clean but unwashed, and properly stored and rotated.
- All hatchings will include development updates at 10-14 days, on day 18 before going into lockdown, and when the chicks start hatching.
- Payment is due upon receiving eggs, and all chicks must be picked up within 1 day of the last one hatching.
- Please contact us for pricing to hatch other eggs, such as: guineafowl, turkey, quail etc.
Custom Chick Orders
We will be hatching chicks by request for the rest of the summer. There is a 10 chick minimum, but you can mix and match from the following breeds. A deposit is required, and certain breeds may be limited. Please message us for pricing & current availibility.
Chick breeds available for 2024
CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR CURRENTLY AVAILABLE CHICKS (UPDATED WEEKLY)
Brahma Chicks
⬜ Light Brahma Chicks
Full blooded Light Brahma chicks. Brahmas are a large, dual-purpose, cold-hardy breed of chicken that’s known for its friendliness, calm and docile demeanor, and plump fluffiness with feathered legs.
🔳 Dark/Light Brahma Chicks
Full blooded Brahma- these chicks are a mix of a Light Brahma rooster over a Brahma hen who is light/dark mix. Chicks have a medium to dark coloring, and generally grow to have a lightly penciled feather pattern, dark or penciled head, and dark down. *Limited Availability*
Serama Chicks *New for 2024*
🟧 Malaysian Seramas *New for 2024*
Seramas were developed in Malaysia by crossing Malaysian and Japanese bantams. They are one of the world’s smallest chicken breeds- a full grown Serama rooster can be picked up with one hand- but they make up for that small size with a big personality.
*Availability is limited*
Silkie Chicks *New for 2024*
⏹ Blue & Splash/Blue Silkies *New for 2024*
Silkies are known for their black skin, five toes and fluffy, poofy feathers (which is due to the feathers lacking the barbicels that hold feathers together.) Our silkies are blue, or a mix of splash/blue color. Cat not included 😉
*Availability is limited*
Marans Chicks
🟫 Pure French Black Copper Marans *New for 2024*
French Black Copper Marans are a chocolate laying, cold-hardy, feather legged breed.
*Availability varies. Pure French Black Copper Marans chicks are available for reserve, but very limited, and currently on a wait list.*
🟫 Copper Rock Marans / Mystic Marans *New for 2024*
The Copper Rock Marans, also known as a Mystic Marans and Rustic Rambler, was derived in the Czech Republic, from crossing a Black Copper Marans rooster with a Barred Rock hen. The CRM is cold-hardy and a prolific layer of large, copper to cocoa colored eggs.
*Limited Availability*
Rainbow Layer Chicks (Easter, Olive, Pink, & Cocoa Eggers)
🟪Easter Eggers & Olive Eggers- an assorted mix of chicks hatched from blue & green eggs
Currently, EE/OE chicks are the product of a Light Brahma rooster over the following blue/green color egg laying hens-
Crested Cream Legbar (blue), Ameraucana (blue), Easter Egger (teal), Easter Egger (pink), Olive Egger (green/olive). These breeds are friendly and cold hardy, with fluffy cheeks, beards, and/or crests. Female rainbow layer chicks will grow to lay teal, green, olive, brown, or pink eggs.
*Rainbow Layer chicks later in the 2024 season will be fathered by a Leghorn/EE rooster over the aforementioned hens to improve “cheeks” and egg-laying characteristics. We will update this post at that time*
🟥 Pink Eggers – chicks hatched from pink eggs, with parents from our pink-laying flock *New for 2024*
We have been working on expanding our Pink Egger flock- these chickens lay eggs that appear various shades of pink and mauve.
Pink layers are mixes of Buff Orpington, Brahma, Easter Egger, ISA Brown, Speckled Sussex
🟫 Cocoa & Copper Eggers – an assorted mix of dark-laying breed chicks
Currently, cocoa & copper layer chicks are the product of a French Black Copper Marans rooster over the following chocolate laying hens-
French Black Copper Marans, FBCM/Welsummer mix, Welsummer, Cuckoo Marans
“Working Girls” Chicks assorted breeds/mixes
🐣Our Working Girls chicks are barnyard mix chicks who have been hatched from the eggs of our “working girls” flock- the ones who keep the bug population down and put eggs on our table all year long.
If you are looking for some great backyard chickens to provide you with eggs, smiles, entertainment, and some pest control, Working Girls are the way to go. These chicks will be a mix of friendly & docile, cold-hardy breeds, and have mommas who are strong layers and have egg colors ranging all shades from light pink to medium brown.
Currently, Working Girls chicks are the product of a Light Brahma rooster over the following hens- Australorp, Barred Rock, Buff Orpington, EE/OE, ISA Brown/Buff Orp, Brahma/Barred Rock, Silver Laced Wyandotte.
Hatching Eggs
We also have hatching eggs available of all of the above 🥚🐣
All hatching eggs are clean but unwashed, collected multiple times daily, properly stored and rotated, and laid within seven days of purchase.
- Full Brahma – $16/half dozen, $30/full dozen
- Rainbow Layer Mix – $14/half dozen, $25/full dozen
- Working Girls Mix – $10/half dozen, $15 full dozen
- Flockmaker Mix
- $12/half dozen – 1 Full Brahma,
2 Rainbow (your choice), 3 Working Girls - $20/full dozen – 3 Full Brahma
3 Rainbow (your choice), 6 Working Girls
- $12/half dozen – 1 Full Brahma,
- Premium Flockmaker Mix
- $15/half dozen – 2 Full Brahma, 2 Blue/Green, 1 Pink, 1 Cocoa/Copper
- $25/full dozen – 4 Full Brahma, 4 Blue/Green, 2 Pink, 2 Cocoa/Copper
- Seramas – $25/half dozen
- Silkies – $25/half dozen *Currently Unavailable*
- Guineas – $20/half dozen
- Bourbon Red Turkeys – $30/half dozen *Currently Unavailable*
Our hatch rates have been over 90% with our own eggs using a GQF cabinet incubator. However, we cannot guarantee hatch for others due to: jostling during transportation, improper handling and storage after the eggs are out of our hands, inconsistent temperature and humidity during incubation, and other variables out of our control. For optimal results, please wait 24 hours before incubating to allow hatching eggs to settle from movement incurred during transportation.
Our hatch rates have been over 90% with our own eggs using a GQF cabinet incubator. However, we cannot guarantee hatch rate for others due to: jostling during transportation, improper handling and storage after the eggs are out of our hands, inconsistent temperature and humidity during incubation, and other variables that are out of our control. For optimal results, please wait 24 hours before incubating to allow hatching eggs to settle from movement incurred during transportation.
All chicks are straight-run unless specified otherwise. Local pickup only, we will meet within reason in the greater Summersville WV area.
Incubation service, chick, & hatching egg pricing is valid through December 31, 2023. Rates and availability for hatching eggs and custom hatches may vary based on season.
