2025 Hatching Season- Chicks
2025 hatching season is here!! 🐣🐥
We will have a variety of chicks hatching throughout the spring and summer.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR CURRENTLY AVAILABLE CHICKS & UPCOMING HATCHES
Now taking pre-orders on all chicks! Pre-Orders are required to reserve chicks, and are highly recommended if you would like to ensure availability, particularly with the specialty breeds as they are limited.
Heritage Breeds (full size)
Ayam Cemanis
🟫 Ayam Cemani
French Black Copper Marans are a chocolate laying, cold-hardy, feather legged breed.
*Availability is limited
Brahmas
⬜ Light Brahma
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
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.
*Availability varies
Black Copper Marans
🟫 French Black Copper Marans
French Black Copper Marans are a chocolate laying, cold-hardy, feather legged breed.
*Available for pre-order, but very limited, and currently on a wait list.*
Bantams
Seramas
🟧 Serama
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
Silkies
⏹ Silkie
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 parent flock consists of blue, black, splash, and paint. One blue hen is a frizzle.
*Availability is limited
“Floofy Bantams”
⏹ Silkie/Serama Mixes
The best of both worlds! Our Floofy Bantams are tiny, not much bigger than Seramas, and often have adorable crests, poofs, feathered legs, and occasionally extra toes that come from their Silkie genetics.
*Availability is limited
Exotic Crosses
Cemani Splash
⏹ Ayam Cemani + Splash Marans
Our Splash Marans roo comes from a line bred for long and flowing hackle and saddle feathers. He’s paired with pure bred Ayam Cemani hens for a striking twist on the “zombie” chicks.
*Availability is limited
Zombie
⏹ Ayam Cemani + White Leghorn
White Leghorn rooster over pure-bred Ayam Cemani hens.
*Not yet available, expected summer 2025
Mixed Breeds
Rainbow Layers
(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 Black Copper Marans, and/or 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 season will be fathered by a Leghorn/EE rooster over the aforementioned hens to improve “cheeks” and egg-laying characteristics.
🟥 Pink Eggers – chicks hatched from pink eggs, with parents from our pink-laying flock
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, Speckled Sussex, and Calico Princess
“Working Girls” 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.
HARDY LAYER BARNYARD MIX
Light Brahma roo over Australorp, Barred Rock, Buff Orpington, EE/OE, ISA Brown/Buff Orp, Brahma/Barred Rock, Silver Laced Wyandotte hens
“FLUFF ORPINGTON” MIX
Light Brahma roo and over multi gen Buff Oprington/Light Brahma hens. These girls are very fluffy and plump- both breasty and leggy, and are great layers. If you want a friendly, easy to care for, dual purpose bird, the Fluff Orpingtons are perfect.
Other Poultry
Guinea Keets
⏹ A mix of Pearl, Pied, Lavender, and White Guinea keets
Guineafowl are interesting- they’re a little crazy, kind of noisy, and incredible alarm systems- if a predator comes around during the night, the guineas will be sure to let you know. They’re also amazing tick eaters- after adding a guinea flock, we went from pulling ticks off of ourselves nearly every day to only a few the entire season.
*Available starting late spring
Bourbon Red Turkey Poults
⏹ Bourbon Red Heritage Turkey Poults
The Bourbon Red is an American heritage breed of domestic turkey, named for its reddish-brown plumage and area of origin in Bourbon, Kentucky. Mature toms can reach 33lbs and hens around 18lbs.
*Available starting late spring
All chicks are straight-run unless specified otherwise. Chicks are social and don’t do well alone, so there is a 3 chick minimum. Local pickup only, we will meet within reason in the greater Summersville WV area.
Hatching Eggs
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 – $15/half dozen, $25/full dozen
- Working Girls Mix – $14/half dozen, $20 full dozen
- Flockmaker Mix (premium)
- $15/half dozen – 2 Full Brahma, 2 Rainbow, 2 Working Girls
- $25/full dozen – 4 Full Brahma, 4 Rainbow, 4 Working Girls
- Ayam Cemani – $40/half dozen
- Ayam Cemani / Splash Marans – $25/half dozen
- Serama – $25/half dozen
- Silkie – $25/half dozen
- Guinea – $20/half dozen
- Bourbon Red Turkey – $35/half dozen
Hatching egg availability varies, please contact us with any inquiries regarding what’s currently in stock.
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.
Please message us on Facebook or email chickens@hilltoholler.com if you’re interested.