Meet The Flock – Toes
Toes, along with his brothers Parrot and Heddie, joined our flock in February of this year as a tiny hatchling.
Ever since he was a baby, Toes’ unique look has been apparent- combining traits of his Leghorn mom and Frizzle Silkie dad. He’s white, with a Leghorn shape, but due to his Silkie genetics, Toes has blue earlobes, feathered legs, and an extra toe on each foot- giving him 10 toes total instead of the usual 8, which immediately inspired his name.
As he grew, Toes’ puffy little beard and cheeks started filling in, and he began to develop a crazy little mohawk on the top of his head. At first we thought that his mohawk would grow into a small crest, but it didn’t stop there- it kept growing until he had a glorious mullet, one that even Joe Dirt himself would admire! Toes’ comb has been growing equally as wildly, he’s currenlty just a few months old and it seems to get larger and develop new points every day.
An interesting combination of skittish and a cuddler, Toes will happily spend a good while napping on a lap, but will leap into the air with a high-pitched shriek and run around maniacally when startled. His crow is just as high pitched, second only to the squeak of the Seramas.
Meet The Flock – Bella
Bella is everything that you’d picture a Brahma to be- plump, fluffy, and friendly.
She’s one of our OG Light Brahma flock, and along with Sniper, is one of the the first to come charging over whenever we come outside (for no reason other than to bring snacks, of course!) Bella is calm and quiet, happy either mingling with the others or off minding her own business, and easygoing- she never causes any trouble with others in the flock. She lays a large tan egg, decidedly pointed at the top, and her chicks always hatch out looking just like her- super round and feathery as soon as they pop out of the egg.
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.
Available Chicks – 5/2/2023
We have some chicks available from our 4/30 hatch 🐣🐥
Please message us on Facebook, via the chat button below, or email chickens@hilltoholler.com if you’re interested.
Rainbow Layer Chicks
🟫 Brown Layer Mix Chicks
An assorted mix of chicks hatched from cream, tan, light brown, and medium brown eggs.
Chicks are the product of a Light Brahma rooster over the following brown egg laying hens- Black Australorp, Barred Rock, Buff Orpington, Silver Laced Wyandotte. These dual-purpose breeds are great foragers, calm, friendly, cold hardy, and prolific layers of large eggs in varying shades of cream, brown, tan, and pinkish/brown.
Brahma Chicks
⬜ Light Brahma Chicks
Full blooded Light Brahma chicks. The Light Brahma is 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 Dark & Light Brahma with medium to dark coloring. The Brahma is 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. Limited Availability.
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 – $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.
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.
Please message us on Facebook or email chickens@hilltoholler.com if you’re interested.
Meet The Flock – Dolores
Dolores is our Crested Cream Legbar, she sports a fantastic hairdo and a relatively large and forward facing comb, giving her the impression of having a perpetually questioning expression.
She’s on the smaller side, with an extra fluffy undercarriage and short legs, which causes her to always look like a bit of a low-rider. Her genes are strong ones though- Dolores’ babies always have her exact expression and small stature, even though they’re half Brahma.
Although Dolores is friendly, she’s a tad skittish and will happily eat from our hands until the crowd gets too rowdy, at which point she’ll skitter off to the side to wait for her private snack. She’s Troublemaker’s girl for sure, and won’t tolerate Little Pecker’s antics at all, giving him a thorough head pecking if he tries to get too fresh with her. Dolores adds a burst of color to our egg basket, laying medium-large eggs that are a dashing robin’s egg blue.
Available Chicks – 4/20/2023
We have a few chicks still available from our 4/14 hatch 🐣🐥
Please message us on Facebook, via the chat button below, or email chickens@hilltoholler.com if you’re interested.
4 Brown Layer Mix Chicks Available as of 4/20 (one of each mix)
🟫 Brown Layer Mix Chicks
An assorted mix of chicks hatched from cream, tan, light brown, and medium brown eggs.
Chicks are the product of a Light Brahma rooster over the following brown egg laying hens- Black Australorp, Barred Rock, Buff Orpington, Silver Laced Wyandotte. These dual-purpose breeds are great foragers, calm, friendly, cold hardy, and prolific layers of large eggs in varying shades of cream, brown, tan, and pinkish/brown.
5 Full Light Brahma Chicks Available as of 4/20
⬜ Light Brahma Chicks
Full blooded Light Brahma chicks. The Light Brahma is 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, chicks are a mix of Dark & Light Brahma with medium to dark coloring. The Brahma is 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.
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.
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.
Please message us on Facebook or email chickens@hilltoholler.com if you’re interested.
Meet The Flock – Lilly & Daisy
Lilly and Daisy were the police of the flock when together, but after losing her sister, Lilly developed a new personality.
Lilly is a plump Silver Laced Wyandotte, whose round physique shows how much she loves to spend the day foraging for whatever bugs and other goodies she can find. She’s basically a golden retriever of chickens, and upon spotting us wander into the yard, will come running over to say hello and see if we have any snacks to share with her. Lilly gets along with everybody (except the guineas, she thinks they’re a bunch of idiots) but because of this, it took her a little while to work her way back up in the pecking order after losing her strong-willed twin sister Daisy.
Daisy was Lilly’s twin sister, an extremely friendly and social Silver Laced Wyandotte, with a voice that couldn’t be missed. Several times, we had contemplated changing her name to Roseanne. Her main mission was to teach the young roosters the right way to woo a lady, and if they decided to forego their little dance or get a little too fresh with one of the other girls, she’d rush right over to put them back in line. Unfortunately, Daisy was was a tad too adventurous one day, wandering off from the rest of the flock and the safety of cover, and fell victim to the talons of a hawk.
Upcoming Chicks – 4/14/2023
We will have more chicks hatching around 4/14 🐣🐥
Please message us on Facebook, via the chat button below, or email chickens@hilltoholler.com if you’re interested.
🌈 Rainbow Layer Mix Chicks
An assorted mix of chicks hatched from blue, green, teal, and cocoa brown eggs.
Chicks are the product of a Light Brahma rooster over the following color egg laying hens-
Crested Cream Legbar (blue), Easter Egger (teal), Olive Egger (green/olive), Cuckoo Marans (cocoa). These breeds are friendly and cold hardy. These chicks will likely grow to lay green, olive, teal, or cocoa colored eggs, with a possibility for pink or pinkish/brown.
**waitlisted until est. 4/21**
🟫 Brown Layer Mix Chicks
An assorted mix of chicks hatched from cream, tan, light brown, and medium brown eggs.
Chicks are the product of a Light Brahma rooster over the following brown egg laying hens-
Black Australorp, Barred Rock, Buff Orpington, Silver Laced Wyandotte. These dual-purpose breeds are great foragers, calm, friendly, cold hardy, and prolific layers of large eggs in varying shades of cream, brown, tan, and pinkish/brown.
⬜ Pure Light Brahmas
Full blooded Light Brahma chicks. The Light Brahma is 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.
**waitlisted until est. 4/21**
We also have hatching eggs available of all of the above 🥚🐣
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.
Please message us on Facebook or email chickens@hilltoholler.com if you’re interested.
Meet The Flock – The Looneybins
The five guineafowl in our flock are, more often that not, collectively known as “The Looneybins”.
It’s not that we can’t tell them apart- there are two pearl, three pied, a female of both, and they all have unique markings- it’s more being able to keep sane in their presence long enough to come up with five rational trains of thought to name them. If we had to, I guess that Nutcase, Looneytoon, Crazy, Bonkers, and Wackadoodle would probably work.
The Looneybins are very set in their routine, and each morning spend a half hour circling a stainless drum while honking and pecking at their reflections in the shiny sides. Once they tire of those antics, they’ll wander out front to perch on the split rail and voice their displeasure at cars that happen to drive by. The rest of the day will be spent wandering around looking for anything that is out of the ordinary, supervising any outside work that’s being done, and following the chickens around while squawking incessantly. Of course, if something odd were to happen during this time, such as a leaf falling, a bird or plane flying overhead, the sun slipping behind the clouds, or the cat sneaking out, they will immediately notify us of this unusual occurrence, and fly over the house or up into the trees.
Somehow, the Looneybins are smart enough to come back into the coop for food, and head inside each night for roosting, though they have zero concept of personal space, and in their younger days would roost on top of the chickens. Every so often though, they’ll lose track of time, suddenly realize that it’s too dark to find their way in (regardless of the spotlights lighting the way), end up roosting directly above the coop door and keeping everyone up all night with their cries. This domestication hasn’t affected their egg laying habits though- although they’ve grown up with chickens, and will follow their lead any other time, when it comes to egg laying they prefer to shun the nice, safe nest boxes in favor of creating a nice unsecure predator buffet in the woods. So, each night we collect their eggs for safekeeping, return them to the nest in the morning, and the Looneybins have been none the wiser.
Meet The Flock – Loretta
Loretta is our newest of the “big ladies”, joining us on October 4th 2022. She was named in tribute to Loretta Lynn who had unfortunately left this world that morning.
An Olive Egger, Loretta reliably provides a splash of color to our egg basket, her eggs ranging in shades of green from yellowish to silvery to khaki, sometimes speckled, and anywhere in between. She’s a close second to Barbara when it comes to prolific laying, and didn’t miss a beat all winter long.
Loretta is relatively social and friendly, but can be a bit aloof at times, and is the only one of the flock who has yet to eat from our hands. She’ll run over and happily peck at our feet or eat crumbs that fall from our hands, but no matter how much we try to coax her to take a delicious snack from our fingers, all she gives in return is an extended neck and suspicious side-eye.
