Hatcheries and Poultry Equipment Supply Houses
A mixed order of chicks
Photo courtesy of Jennifer Buerkle
(This page was unashamedly aimed at a North American audience; however, I'm getting more liberal, which means that since I've found some non-North American hatcheries, I've listed them.)
I'm not recommending any of these in particular. Over the years I've collected catalogs and have bought from many of these houses, but not all. None of the ones I've used has done me wrong, so to speak. I'm putting this list here to aid folks who are looking for birds and supplies. They are now in alphabetical order by state for the US, followed by other countries. Those with a green bullet I have used at least once. Those with black bullets I've no experience with. I'll annotate as the spirit moves me.
It's a good idea to make sure that any chicks are shipped on Monday or Tuesday so they can't get stuck over the weekend.
Equipment Suppliers are listed below Hatcheries.
If you have any additions to this list (or corrections, etc.), please send them to me via FeatherSite -- questions and comments. I'd like to make this list as useful as possible.
A very useful supplement to this page is my Baby Chicks page.
Hatcheries (many of these also sell equipment)
They raise pheasants (Ringnecks, Blue-eareds, Goldens, Silvers, Swinhoes, Lady Amhersts, Reeves and Impeyans), Chukars, Bobwhite and Pharoah Quail, and Blue India Peafowl.
A family-run operation that maintains its own breeding flocks. Belt handles a bunch of standard breeds, a few bantams, and a couple breeds each of duck and turkey.
I understand that they're no longer selling layers, just meat birds, and possibly still Pekin and Rouen ducks, and commercial turkeys.
They have pictures on the web of most of the breeds they handle and their catalog has nice color photos of most breeds, also.
They have some large fowl, geese and peafowl. Seem to specialize in ducks, especially Calls.
They are willing to ship as few as 3 chicks and handle a fairly large assortment of breeds. (I have been told that they'll even sex bantam chicks.) They do not have a storefront and all orders must be shipped. They also sell equipment and various poultry-related gift items.
They specialize in four types of chickens: Buff Orpingtons, Rhode Island Reds, White Leghorns and Black Sex-links.
Doms, RIRs, Orps, NH Reds, Ameraucanas, Favs, Buckeyes, Delawares, Welsummers, Silkies, Red Broilers, Cobb 500s, and ISA Browns.
Quite a few production breeds, broilers, Wyandottes, some bantams, Broad-breasted turkeys (Bronze and White) some ducks, some geese, ringneck Pheasants, Chukars, Mallards, and Rio Grande Wild Turkeys plus some equipment. they also sell hatching eggs of many of their breeds.
They carry Ringnecks, Chukars and Bobwhite.
They've got exhibition and bantam fowl.
They only handle rare and heritage varieties of turkeys, including some varieties that they've been developing.
Lots of chickens, some bantams, turkeys, waterfowl, guineas and peafowl.
Hoover's Hatchery,
Inc.
PO Box 200
Rudd, IA 50471
800-247-7014
e-mail: hoovers@omnitelcom.com
They deal in a few breeds of production chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese.
Murray McMurray
Hatchery
Webster City, IA 50595
800-456-3280
I've ordered from McMurray many times. They have many breeds of chickens( both standard and bantam), plus ducks, geese, guineas, pheasants, turkeys, peafowl and quail. Their birds are not necessarily show stock, but usually pretty good. They also sell poultry equipment, but I find their prices to be relatively high on this stuff. BTW, their catalog is the best free guide to what various breeds look like that you'll easliy find. (Of course, I hope that when I get enough images, these pages will be an even better source.)
Sand Hill
Preservation Center
1878 230th Street
Calamus, IA 52729
563-246-2299
e-mail: sandhill@fbcom.net
They breed rare poultry: Standard and bantam chickens, Coturnix quail, guineas, ducks, geese, and turkeys. They have a very nice list of rare breeds. Please call between the hours of 8 AM and 9:30 PM Central time.
They have geese (Chinas, Toulouse, Embden, African & Tufted Roman), ducks (Mallards, Pekins, Rouens & Campbells), bantams (Cornish, Sebrights) and various large fowl including Easter Eggers, Brahmas, Polish, Rock/Cornish, Sex-links, Leghorns, Australorps, Reds, Rocks, Orpingtons & Wyandottes.
Various Quail, Peafowl, Mandarins, Calls, Woodies, Cinnamon Teal, Ring Teal, and Tree Ducks.
A variety of production chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, pheasants, guineas, peafowl, bantams, quail and chukars. They also have some rare breeds of chickens, including Delawares.
Ralph has just about every color variety of guinea fowl you've ever heard of. They also have Blackneck Swans, flying Mallards and various Peafowl.
Selectively producing Delawares to be good dual purpose birds. Also has Ameraucana, Marans and Welsummer.
Heritage, hybrid and broiler chickens, Pekin Ducks, Guineas, and Broad-breasted Turkeys plus equipment
Red Golden and Lady Amherst pheasants, White Rocks, Cochins, RI Reds, LegHorns, Buff Orpingtons, Barred Rocks, ISA Browns, Easter Eggers andSilkies
They have Buff, Pommeranian, African, Sebastopol and Chinese geese and Pekin, Rouen, Saxony, Silver Appleyard, Cayuga, Swedish, Crested, Magpie and Runner ducks. They also have some Call ducks.
Ringnecks & chukars, as well as smoked & fresh game birds.
Stromberg's Chicks and
Gamebirds Unlimited
PO Box 400
Pine River, MN 56474
800-720-1134
218-587-2222
fax: 218-587-4230
e-mail: stbchix@uslink.net
Stromberg's supplies many varieties of domestic poultry and also deals in pheasants and wild waterfowl. They handle adult stock as well as day-olds. I understand that they do not keep stock, but act as a middleman, finding whatever you want. They also sell supplies and books. I find their prices quite high. I think that the books published under their own name are for the most part ghastly. They are sloppily put together, unindexed, and mostly anecdotal with minimal references (see my review of Poultry of the World). On the other hand, when they screwed up on an order for me and sent some adult birds that cost $100 more than I expected (having ordered juveniles), they were very good about it. They told me to keep the birds and they swallowed the difference. I do note that this was back in 1988 -- can't say how they are now.
Urch/Turnland Poultry
2142 NW 47 Ave.
Owatonna, MN 55060
507-451-6782
Duane Urch breeds and sells show quality fowl. Call between 7pm and 9pm CST.
They sell both chicks and hatching eggs from a variety of fowl: ducks - Mallards, Muscovies, & Woodies; guineas - 6 varieties; Ringneck Pheasants; quail - Coturnix & Bobwhite; and turkeys - Royal Palm, Bourbon Red & Blue Slate.
Cackle handles a fair number of breeds of chicken, both bantam and standard, plus various breeds of geese, ducks and turkeys.
Production birds, some of the more common breeds, some bantams, turkeys, guineas, ducks, geese and ring necks.
Meat birds and production birds, including California Whites and several Sex-links
Many production breeds, plus some fancies, bantams, turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas, and gamebirds.
They handle 120+ varieties of chickens, bantams, game and exotic birds, meat birds, ducks, geese and turkeys. They will ship small orders (e.g., 3 chicks), and can sex most fowl.
They carry production fowl in chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese, plus ringneck pheasants.
Mostly production birds and common breeds, plus a few bantams.
Quail, Jungle Fowl, Pheasants, Chukar, Guineas, and Peafowl.
A medium selection of Chickens and Ducks, plus a few Turkeys and Guineas and Pilgrim Geese
Holderread's Waterfowl Farm and Preservation Center
PO Box 492
Corvallis, OR 97339
541-929-5338
This hatchery specializes in domestic waterfowl. They will ship exhibition quality stock if requested. [ed. note: I love their Runner Ducks. But I've had bad experiences with their geese and what bothers me most is that they will not respond to my emails. I wrote them in July '11 and again in Aug. '11. Have not had the courtesy of a response to either communication as of mid-October.]
Production varieties of chickens, ducks & turkeys
Various broilers, layers and dual purpose fowl. They also handle a few ducks, guineas and Silkies.
Geese (Chinese, Embden, African), Ducks (Muscovy, Pekin, Mallard, Welsh Harlequin, Buff Orpington and more), Turkeys (BB White & Bronze, Bourbon Reds, Royal Palms, Blue Slate, Black Spanish), Chickens (general prodction birds and some fancies), plus various bantams, game birds and supplies. Also Mute and Black Swans and Peafowl, sold as adults only. They will ship chicks in lots of 15.
Slow growing broilers, guineas, White Muscovies, Khaki Campbells
Broilers; Brown and White Egg layers. Minimum 20 chicks excepting pick-up.
Slow growing broilers
They handle Cornish crosses and Red Cornish as meat birds, started capons, most of the common layers and utility breeds, plus a bunch of ducks, guineas (including the heavy French guinea), geese, turkeys, Bobwhites and Chukars.
Meat crosses and production layers, including white and brown laying hybrids of their own breeding. 25 chick minimum. Also have slow growing broilers.
They will ship small orders: 15 chicks, 8 turkeys, 6 ducks.
Here you'll find Ringnecks, Bobwhites and Chukars.
Various chicks, ducklings and poults, plus hatching eggs
Mostly dual-purpose breeds: Australorps, Rocks, Orpingtons, Delawares, Easter Eggers, NH Reds, RI Reds, Welsummers, guineas, and turkeys: Beltsville Whites and Heritage Bronzes
Another large hatchery carrying a fairly wide assortment of breeds of chickens, bantams, ducks, geese, turkeys and guineas. Among other things, they will sex and mark chicks and they will ship very small orders.
They supply Ringnecks and other pheasants for hunting and table use, also Chukar and Hungarian partridges.
They have a large list of Chickens, both bantam and large, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, Guineas and Ornamemtals.
Broilers, Leghorns, hybrid dual purpose brown layers, Broad-breasted Bronze and White turkeys, Mallards, Pekins, Rouens, Embdens and Toulouse.
Various pheasants, Coturnix and button quail, exotic and domestic ducks, Egyptian and Cackler geese, Seramas, and various doves and pigeons
Brown and white layers
Crossbred pullets, in white, red and black
Cornish crosses, production layers (Babcock B300 Leghorns, Isa Browns, Black Sex-links, Buff Sex-links), Easter Eggers, Light Brahmas, RIR, Pekin, Cayuga, Rouen, Buff Orpington and Runner ducks, BBW turkeys, Brown China, Tufted Buff Toulouse and White Danish (whatever they are) geese.
They handle chickens, ducks, turkeys and pheasants.
White and brown eggers, dual purpose fowl, meat birds, White turkeys, Pekin, Rouen and Muscovy ducks, Embden Geese. They also have a selection of information sheets on poultry keeping.
Performance lists a wide variety of chickens, turkeys, and ducks, plus some guineas and other fowl.
They handle over 80 breeds.
Ring-necks!!
Barnevelders, Buff Orpingtons, Cream Legbars, Redcaps, Exchequer Leghorns, Lakenvelders, Araucanas, RIRs, Silkies, Vorwerks & Welsummers in large fowl, Black Orpington, Buff Rock, Pekin & Wyandotte bantams. They also sell poultry supplies, coops and grown hens.
Geese!
"Suppliers of quality layer breeding stock," with agents worldwide. They handle a feather-sexable White Leghorn and 3 sex-linked Bovans hybrid brown egg layers.
They have a few breeds of chickens, plus many pheasants, quail, partridges, peafowl and wildfowl.
This one's entirely in Turkish, but they have many breeds of chickens, Chukar, various fancy pigeons, pheasants, peafowl, and Bourbon Red Turkeys.
Poultry and Pet Supply Houses
General Poultry Supplies
Cutler's Pheasant and Poultry Supply
1940 Old 51
Applegate, MI 48401
810-633-9450
fax: 810-633-9178
e-mail: cutlersupply@avci.net
Lots of good equipment at good prices. Nice people to work with.
Smith Poultry and Game
Bird Supplies
14000 West 215th St.
Bucyrus, KS 66013
913-879-2587
e-mail: smith@poultrysupplies.com
Lots of good equipment at good prices. Pleasant people on the other end.
Seven Oaks Game Farm
1823 Masonboro Sound Road
Wilmington, NC 28409-2672
Phone: 910-791-5352
fax: 910-791-5352
e-mail: CMCALLISTER1@ec.rr.com
Game bird and poultry supplies.
Get your ceramic nest eggs here.
If you can hatch it, they've got the incubator for it!
Online catalog only. "Incubators - Feeders - Health Products - Leg Bands - Books - And Fertile Hatching Eggs."
Supplies, coops, gifts, info and more.
And for you folks in Canada! More supplies closer to home.
Another Canadian house with poultry supplies
Waterfowl & Pheasant feeds
Incubators, nest boxes, brooders, poultry dressing equipment and more.
Plastic, easily mounted and cleanable nest boxes
A small company that makes an incubator that's the equal of the Sportsman and less expensive.
Brinsea Products, Inc.A British company that specializes in incubators and has an American branch.
The Canadian Brinsea distributor
They sell incubators and other poultry supplies in the US and Africa.
Coops and various supplies. They are also a small hatchery (see above).
Feeders (obviously), incubators, aviary netting, nest boxes and lots more
Poultry supplies, plus other farm supplies
Poultry suppies, plus other supplies for the smallholder
For all your Poultry Supplies from Hatching to Health & Housing
Another UK site that sells various equipment and also some hens.
Poultry supplies and books in Oz.
Poultry supplies in India.
Manufacturers of quality poultry and swine equipment. Feeding, drinking and heating, winching and climate control systems. Agents for Impex and Gasolec. Installations and spares. They're in South Africa.
They make Hova-bator incubators and sell parts for same. They also sell egg cartons for Quail and Chukar eggs.
Incubators plus the Egg-o-meter (a thermometer to measure internal egg temperature). Low prices and 4H discounts
They sell used incubators and new and used parts.
They supply incubators and hatchers of all sizes.
Specialty incubation equipment
General Farm and Animal Supplies
Equipment for the entire farm. They are supposed to have a nice selection of incubators and also have Ratite stuff.
Poultry supplies, grooming supplies, fencing and caging materials, plus more.
All sorts of farm equipment
Pigeon Supplies
Foy's Pigeon
Supplies
PO Box 27166
Golden Valley, MN 55427
877-355-7727
e-mail: foyspigeon@zoominternet.net
Just about everything the pigeon fancier needs -- and I understand the owner was a pharmacist and is very knowledgable about drugs and diseases.
New England Pigeon
Supply (NEPS)
Tony Patti
95 River Road
Preston, CT 06365
860-889-0078
This dealer came to me with a good recommendation, but I haven't tried them yet. Ah, now I have. They were at a pigeon show that I attended.
Global Pigeon Supplies
2301 Rowland Ave
Savannah, GA 31404
800-562-2295
e-mail: gpswo@aol.com
Another good supplier with a large catalog.
Siegel Pigeons
The Siegel Company
1711 Main Street
Jeanerette, LA 70544
800-437-4436
e-mail: siegelsc@aol.com
Another great supplier with a good catalog.
The VSB Electronic Doorkeeper is a battery-powered unit which can be set to open and close your coop doors to let the birds out in the AM and close them in at dusk.
They sell a kit for putting together a coop that will house up to 12 hens. They also now sell an "ice-free" nipple waterer.
Chicken coops -- "made in England, built to last." They also sell incubators.
Chicken housing and more
Poultry housing, ". . . from small arks for 8 hens to Deep Litters for 1000 birds."
They make various poultry coops and housing for other animals. Even if you're not in the UK and it's not worth shipping, they have great illustrations that may give you some cooping ideas. They're also doing electric poultry fencing now.
They are the West Coast distributors for Forsham Arks.
They are the East Coast distributors for Forsham Arks.
Portable chicken coops and chicken tractors
An insulated portable coop for colder areas
The trust has various coop plans for sale, as well as other poultry equipment. They also raise various rare breeds of fowl.
Just what the name implies: poultry houses and runs, dove cotes, duck nest boxes.
The US distributor for Eglu coops.
Coops and chicken tractors
Cedar coops made to house 5 hens
Coops and chicken tractors
Coops designed for easy cleaning.
Portable chicken coops
A UK source. Poultry houses for various sorts available. Also some chickens.
Another UK supplier of small poultry housing
Custom chicken coops and structures
This gal hunts up good deals on coops in the UK.
More UK coops
More coops, runs etc.
More coops!
Chicken tractors, DIY kits, coop plans, and accessories
More coops and related equipment in the UK
Chicken coops in Australia
They sell a Portable Poultry Shelter and a Brooder and Grow Off Pen.
Urban Chicken Systems
Yet more coops!
They've got a movable electric poultry-net fence which looks great for protecting pastured poultry or quickly erecting a predator-repellant yard for your pets.
Electric fencing in the UK.
Here's more electric poultry netting in the UK.
Still more UK electric poultry fencing
More UK electric fencing
Another UK supplier of electric poultry fencing
Collapsible, all-wire coops for showing, etc.
Wire showing coops
They sell Toprite Game Farm Netting.
They sell a long-lasting woven poly usually used for greenhouses, but can be used quite well on coops.
Mesh and fencing
All sorts of fencing in the UK
Chicken fence kits
Rollaway nest boxes and other poultry equipment
Nest boxes and feeders for wildfowl.
All they sell are solar-powered flashing red lights, used as predator
repellants to deter owls and various nocturnal mammalian predators.
Odor control and waste management for agricultural purposes. They sell Abate, a
substance for controlling odors in the poultry area.
Leg Bands, Saddles, etc.
Leg bands, wing bands, livestock ear tags, and more.
Leg bands, metal wing bands and plastic wing badges.
Wing and leg bands
Chicken Charm leg bands (just too cute) and bands for baby chicks
They make turkey saddles.
More chicken and turkey saddles
Yep, chicken diapers so the little buggers can run around on your rugs.
Getting ready for the table
They carry pluckers, scalder, dunker, shackles, cones, and a utility cart
Shipping Boxes and the like
I've included this one because they sell crates
for shipping adult birds via Express Mail. Note that the standard Horizon boxes are filtered for shipping pheasants and waterfowl, etc., but that you can use the Petporters for shipping chickens. They also sell an egg-shipping box.
Packaging, shipping and warehouse supplies. They carry a line of
freezer bags that can handle large turkeys.
I know nothing about them except that they're supposed to carry egg cartons and
freezer bags.
I buy my egg cartons from them, but don't know their mailing address, as I
drive over to get them.
As you might guess . . . .
Another supplier of egg cartons I only know by hearsay.
Poultry-related Gifts and other odd stuff
They carry many poultry-related decals and will make others to order.
A nice chicken calendar, plus many other rural and not-so-rural calendars. I do
have one problem with their calendar, in that I like to use pencil, not pen, and it doesn't take that
very well. Great pictures, tho'. I just learned that the ABA has a chicken calendar
which has pictures of champion bantams. It costs $6 including shipping and can be ordered from Don
Karasek, 2504 State Rd 133, Blue River, WI 53518.
Yet another chicken calendar, The Cluckendar has some of the poorest (not
worst,
just poorest) poultry puns I've ever encountered. But it does have pictures of chickens, some quite
cute.
Medications
Poultry oriented, and the guy who runs it knows his stuff!
They carry some poultry supplies and medications along with
the same for most livestock and pets. This is a large catalog.
Their catalog seems to be a one page listing of many kinds of
poultry medications.
They carry poultry supplies and medications, as well as a large
variety of supplies for other livestock, including ratites.
" . . . high quality natural animal health care products."
They have mostly medications, plus they sell some bantam d'Uccles and d'Anvers.
Direct questions and comments to Barry at FeatherSite -- questions and comments
Tanton Limited, Bowl Road
Charing, Ashford, Kent TN27 0HB
UK
Tel: 01233 712948
e-mail: admin@countrystoredirect.com
W224 S8475 Industrial Dr.
PO Box 249
Big Bend, WI 53103
262-662-2290
5120 North 126th St.
Butler, WI 53007
262-781-6125
e-mail: collapsiblewireproductsllc@gmail.com
PO Box 2025
Lakewood, NJ 08701
800-631-2234
e-mail: jacissel@Compuserve.com
Box 42
Neche, ND 58265
204-327-5540
30 Taylor Street - P.O. Box 2405
Littleton, MA 01460
800-225-0508
e-mail: page_wire@comcast.net
Brook Farm, Crewe Rd.
Wheelock, Sandbach
Cheshire CW11 3RZ
England
759 JA Cochran Bypass
Chester, SC 29706
855-921 7900
e-mail: customerservice@critterfence.com
P.O. Box 771
Brookshire, TX 77423
281-638-0050
PO Box 611
Bantam, CT 06750
860-672-3457
Oakwood Enterprises
PO Box 274
Princeton, MN 55371
800-328-6647
Agri-Tec
601 Farmers Avenue
Amarillo, TX 79118
806-374-4653
e-mail: agritec@arn.net
721 York St., PO Box 72430
Newport, KY 41072
606-261-2035
fax: 800-261-TAGS (8247)
e-mail: tags@nationalband.com
11 Town Shed Road
Lake Luzerne, NY 12846
800-222-0460
fax: 518-696-4048
e-mail: sales@ketchummfg.com
PO Box 74130
1101 Second Ave.
Dayton, KY 41074
800-860-6300
fax: 859-261-6002
e-mail: hasco_tags@fuse.net
408 South Federal Avenue
Mason City, IA 50401
641-423-0044
e-mail: mbldesigns@yahoo.com
760 SW 55th Ave.
Jamesport, MO 64648
660/684-6035
e-mail: info@featherman.net
Horizon Micro-
Environments
133 Bowen Farm Rd.
Crawford, GA 30630
800-443-2498
fax: 706-743-8576
e-mail: Horizon@negia.net
33 Union Ave.
Sudbury, MA 01776
800-225-8708
fax: 800-638-9899
207 Walnut
Kansas City, MO
816-842-4961
Cascades Agri-Pak
Route 19
Monticello, NY
845-791-4200
9 Main Street - Suite 1F
PO Box 302
Manchaug, MA 01526
888-852-5340
fax: 877-455-4647
e-mail: info@eggcartons.com
1121 So. Columbia St.
Wenatchee, WA 98801
800-335-7674
fax: 219-728-9958
Browntrout Publishers, Inc.
POB 280070
San Francisco, CA 94128
800-777-7812
fax: 310-316-1138
Order this calendar now from amazon.com.
Suite 3813, 5925 Country Lane
PO Box 990
Greendale, WI 53129
800-558-1013
First State Veterinary
Supply
P.O. Box 190
Parsonsburg, MD 21849
800-950-8387
Omaha Vaccine Co.
PO Box 7228
Omaha, NE 68107
800-367-4444
Box 330-B
Selbyville, DE 19975
800-765-0065
PO Box 100
Dothan, AL 36302
800-533-3377
e-mail:jeffers@graceba.net
PO Box 5244 (office at 3 Bye St.)
Wagga Wagga, NSW, 2650 Australia
(02) 69 256222 (international: 61 2 69 256222)
fax: (02) 69 256333 (international: 61 2 69 256333)
e-mail: vetafarm@wts.com.au
PO Box 623
Tolleson, AZ 85353
602-936-3363
Polk City, FL 33868
863-984-9672
e-mail: tolbertbantams@aol.com
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