2025 Chick Information and Pricing

 

CHICKS AND CHICKENS

Baby chicks are usually hatched weekly in small batches. They are color sexed at hatch, to the extent possible, and marked with sex and breed color codes. 

All birds are fed non-GMO or organic feed, usually from local growers/mills, plus fresh greens when available. Heavy predator pressure and concern for HPAI prevents free ranging, but we use portable enclosed pens when weather allows.

My chicken operation revolves around creating a new breed of chicken, the ChocoMint. One main goal of the ChocoMint is to serve as a sire line that allows anyone to create their own sex-link chicks from hens they already have.

Breeding your non-chocolate hens with a ChocoMint rooster will give you sex-link chicks that will almost certainly lay blue or green eggs. Male chicks are black or have black markings; females are chocolate or have chocolate markings. Some breeds are easier to tell than others. Other benefits of ChocoMints include broody hens (so you don't need to incubate eggs and brood chicks!), pea comb (reduced frostbite), and white skin (dresses out nicely). I am breeding towards early maturity and a nice dual-purpose bird.

ChocoMint

I'll be hatching as many as possible to continue selecting for my breeding program, so a variety of ages will be available. I cannot sex ChocoMint chicks. Sexing of young adults is based on back pinfeather type, and is guaranteed if they are sold as sexed.

Hatch to 7 days: $7 each, straight run only, no sex guarantee.
8 days to 16 weeks: $7 + $1.00 per week of age, up to $25

Pullets laying brown, or untested: $25
Pullets laying blue/green/light olive: $30
Pullets laying dark olive: $40
Hens retired from breeding program $25 - $30

Young cockerels (as soon as can be determined): $20
Proven sires of hens laying blue/green eggs: $35

ChocoLink-WTG

The variable coloring of the Whitings True Green hens results in a wide range of chick colors in the ChocoLink-WTGs, making some of them harder to sex than hybrids with more standardized breeds. Both sexed and unsexed chicks will be available. Over time, my ability to interpret chick color will improve. Meanwhile, chicks sold as pullets are guaranteed...if they crow, I will buy them back for your original purchase price.

I will be changing roosters from time to time. Some hatches may include chicks from two different roosters.

ChocoLinks will not breed true in all traits, but the blue egg trait should breed true, and the chocolate gene will be expressed when a ChocoLink hen is bred to a rooster that carries the chocolate gene (ChocoMint, or another chocolate breed).

Pullets only (sex guaranteed; feather or egg color not guaranteed):

Hatch to 7 days: $9 each
8 days to 16+ weeks: $9 + $1.00 per week of age, up to $25

Straight run: 

Hatch to 7 days: $6 each
8 days to 16+ weeks: $6 + $1.00 per week of age, up to $20

Cockerels only (will consider quantity discount):

Hatch to 7 days: $3 each
8 days to 16+ weeks: $3 + $1.00 per week of age, up to $18

 
Blue Egg Layers

These are the offspring of Whitings True Blue hens from Murray McMurray Hatchery, bred to a Whitings True Blue rooster from Whitings Farm, and their progeny. I am selecting this flock for pea combs, dark colors, barring, and no beards or muffs.

Hatch to 7 days: $7 each, straight run only, no sex guarantee.
8 days to 16+ weeks: $7 + $1.00 per week of age, up to $25

Hens retired from breeding program $20

Young cockerels (as soon as can be determined): $20