2026 Hatching Season- Chicks
2026 hatching season is here!! 🐣🐥
We will have a variety of chicks hatching starting in mid February and continuing 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 limited and specialty breeds.
Heritage Breeds (full size)
Ayam Cemanis
⬛ Ayam Cemani
The Ayam Cemani is a rare breed of chicken originating in Indonesia. Their dominant fibromelanosis gene causes them to be all black. They have a tendency to be flighty and skittish, however we have been selectively breeding for several generations to encourage friendliness and trust towards people. Somewhat broody and are good mothers.
*Available for pre-order
Black Copper Marans
🟫 French Black Copper Marans
French Black Copper Marans are a relatively large, cold hardy breed that has feathered legs and lays rich dark brown eggs. Our Marans flock has been bred for color as well as having nice manners and a friendly disposition towards people and other flock members.
*Available for pre-order
Crested Cream Legbar
🟦 Crested Cream Legbar
Crested Cream Legbars are a medium sized chicken with a distinctive feather crest on top of their heads. They are known for laying blue/aqua colored eggs, and often used as the blue-egg gene for Easter Eggers.
*Available for pre-order
American Bresse
🟪 American Bresse
American Bresse are known as the premier dual purpose heritage breed chicken, due to being relatively fast growing, good layers, and having exceptionally flavorful meat. They are calm, cold hardy, and good foragers.
*Extremely limited, but available for pre-order (est. 4/2026)
White Leghorn
🟥 White Leghorn
White Leghorns are medium sized breeds known for their distinctively large combs and wattles, and excellent egg laying. They are early to mature, good foragers, and often used as a parent gene in high-egg production hybrids. Leghorns rarely go broody.
*Available for pre-order
Brahmas
⬜ Light Brahma
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. They are good foragers and moderate layers.
*Available for pre-order (est hatch 3/2026)
🔳 Dark/Light Brahma
Full blooded Brahma- these chicks are a mix of a Light Brahma rooster over Light Brahma/Dark Brahma hens. Chicks have a medium to dark coloring, and generally grow to have a lightly penciled feather pattern, dark or penciled head, and dark down. Pencilling tends to get heavier with each molt.
*Available for pre-order (est hatch 3/2026)
Bantams
Seramas
🟨 Serama
Seramas were developed in Malaysia and 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. Seramas are excellent flyers and should ideally be in an enclosed run for protection against predators, due to their small size.
*Available for pre-order (est hatch 3/2026)
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.) They do like to go broody, and the roosters are excellent with the babies. Our parent flock consists of blue, black, white, splash, and paint birds, with a possibility of frizzle chicks.
*Available for pre-order
“Floofy Bantams”
⏹ Silkie/Serama Mixes
The best of both worlds! Our Floofy Bantams are not much bigger than Seramas but lay Silkie-sized eggs. They often have adorable crests, poofs, feathered legs, and occasionally extra toes or “silkied” type feathers. Hens are good layers, with a tendency to go broody. Both hens and roos are friendly and attentive parents.
*Available for pre-order
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.
*Extremely Limited. Estimated hatch TBD
Zombie
⏹ Ayam Cemani + White Leghorn Zombie
White Leghorn rooster over pure-bred Ayam Cemani hens.
*Not yet available, expected late summer 2026
Other Breeds
Rainbow Layers
(Easter, Olive, Pink, & Cocoa Eggers)
🟩 Easter & Olive Eggers- chicks hatched from blue & green eggs
Easter Egger and Olive Egger chicks are F1 & BC1. They may be “cheeky” or crested, and 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), Olive Egger (green/olive). Female rainbow layer chicks may grow to lay teal, green, olive, brown, or pink eggs.
🟥 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 due to their brown shell and heavy bloom. Pink layers are mixes of Buff Orpington, Brahma, Speckled Sussex, and Calico Princess
🟧 Cocoa Eggers – chicks hatched from cocoa eggs, with parents from our cocoa flock
Our Cocoa Egger hens are Marans and Welsummer mixes who lay eggs varying from a light chocolately brown, to a silky mahogany, sometimes with speckles.
“Fluff Orpingtons”
⏹ Fluff Orpington Mix
Buff Orpington/Light Brahma roo and over multi gen Buff Oprington/Light Brahma/Calico Princess 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.
*Availability TBD
“Working Girls” assorted breeds/mixes
🐣Our Working Girls chicks have been hatched from the eggs of our “Working Girls” flock. This dual-purpose mixed flock has been bred for hardiness, meatiness, friendliness, and great foraging ability. They’re 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. Roosters in the Working Girls flock are big boys who have been selected for having a calm demeanor towards both hens and people.
Currently, Working Girls chicks are the product of Black Copper Marans and Light Brahma roosters over the following hens- Australorp, Barred Rock, Buckeye, Buff Orpington, EE/OE, Calico Princess/Buff Orpington, Brahma/Barred Rock, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Marans and other mixes.
Other Poultry
Guinea Keets
⏹ Guinea Keets – Assorted colors: Pearl, Pied Pearl, Lavender, Pied Lavender, and White
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. They are relatively slow growing and seasonal layers. Mature toms can reach around 35lbs and hens around 20lbs.
Turkey poults are very delicate, we recommend getting two-week-old poults if you do not have prior experience raising them.
*Available starting late spring
Coturnix Quail
⏹ Coturnix Quail
Coturnix quail are fast growing birds, and easy to raise with limited space. They reach maturity generally in 6-8 weeks, and if grown for meat, are ready for processing at 8-10 weeks. Hens will lay beautiful speckled or blue eggs nearly daily. Much of our Coturnix flock are Jumbos, and ideal for meat and egg productivity. Colors vary, with a possibility for Celadons.
Quail chicks are very tiny and delicate, we recommend getting 2-weekers or older if you do not have prior experience raising them.
*Available starting late spring
ll 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.
- Black Copper Marans – $20/half dozen, $40/full dozen
- Rainbow Layer Mix – $20/half dozen, $30/full dozen
- Working Girls Mix – $15/half dozen, $25 full dozen
- Flockmaker Mix
- $18/half dozen – 2 BCM, 2 Rainbow, 2 Working Girls
- $28/full dozen – 3 BCM, 3 Rainbow, 6 Working Girls
- Ayam Cemani – $45/half dozen
- Serama – $25/half dozen
- Silkie – $25/half dozen
- “Floofy Bantam” – $20/half dozen, $35/full dozen
- Guinea – $20/half dozen, $35/full dozen
- Bourbon Red Turkey – $50/half dozen
- Coturnix Quail – $15/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.