Organic free range poultry and vegetable farm with focus on heritage seeds and poultry preservation. Hatching eggs are NOT GUARANTEED.
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We raise and offer hatching eggs, day old chicks, and occasionally breeding birds for many specialty heritage breeds, with focus on orpingtons and other large dual purpose breeds. Working towards the Standards of Perfection in each breeding pen. We periodically test for fertility and will not sell hatching eggs if fertility drops below 85%. But lots depends on your incubation practices and transpo
rtation. Your hatch rates are never guaranteed. There is a good reason why eggs are sold at 1/2 price of a live chick. We guarantee live chicks for 48 hrs after you picked them up from our farm, and offer a replacement or credit toward your future purchase. All chicks orders require 50% non-refundable deposit to book, at least 4 weeks prior the hatch date. We will only refund if we are unable to fiull your order for any reason. We also raise and offer heritage vegetable seeds. Please follow our Tatiana's TOMATObase page for our gardening news.
04/12/2026
April 12 eggs availability (excellent fertility):
- BBS/chocolate Ameraucana - 1 dz (pending pickup)
- Black and blue Copper Marans - 1 dz - $120
- Lavender and black split to lavender English Orpingtons - 1 dz+, $120/dz
- Blue Laced Red Wyandottes - $150/dz
- Silver Laced Orpingtons (Chocolate and black based, with a small chance of a gold laced chick) - $150/dz
- Olive Eggers F1 and F2 (Legbar roosters over BCM hens and Black/blue Copper Marans over Ameraucanas, OE, and legbar hens) - $60/dz
- Chocolate/Mauve/Splash English Orpington - $120/dz
- BBS Cochin - $120/dz
- Lavender and black split to lavender Mottled Orpingtons - $120/dz
- BBS English Orpingtons - $120/dz
- Light Sussex (with a small chance of Coronation Sussex) - $120/dz
- Barred Rock - $120/dz
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We are also taking chicks orders form late May-June
No shipping for these eggs, local pickup only - March 30-April 3
Lindell Beach/Columbia Valley - south from west Chilliwack/Yarrow
03/27/2026
1 dz (possibly can be 2 dz) hatching eggs from our Black/Blue Copper Marans breeding pen.
120/dz, pu at our farm gates in Lindell Beach/Columbia Valley (south from Yarrow)
Eggs photo with a white chicken egg and a goose eggs for color comparison. These are 6-7, some are almost 8 on Marans scale.
03/12/2026
Dear folks,
Apologies for the delayed update, we have been waiting for our ladies to start laying seriously, before putting together the 2026 breed list.
The good news is that most pens are laying. The bad news is the weather has been so wild that 80% eggs are not usable for hatching.
I think we will be ready to start selling eggs 1st week of April, for the breeds that pass the fertility tests.
Here is the tentative list of the breeds that I think will be ready to go starting April:
- Lavender/Black split to lavender English Orpingtons (~25% chicks will be hatching black splits) - $120/dz
- Black/Blue Cochin (more blacks than blues are expected) - $120/dz
- Lavender / Black split to Lavender Mottled Orpingtons - - $120/dz
- American Bresse - $100/dz
- BBS Red Laced WYandottes - $150/dz
- Isabella and Brown split to Isabella leghorns - $120/dz
Barred ROcks and Light Sussex and Wheaten and Isabell Ameraucanas will hopefully follow the suit, along with Crele Orpingtons, and Silver Chocolate/black Laced Orpingtons which are always late to come to fertility.
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01/13/2026
Dear chicken lovers!
Our breeding season will be starting in early March. Why so late? Because we are giving our flocks a natural winter break and not supplementing the light or heat to force them into laying earlier, hoping they live healthier and happier lives, with less stress.
So everything depends on the hens and roosters here! Some can start early, but some will be taking their sweet time. So stay tuned for the news :)
Some pens (i.e., orpingtons here are notoriously late, especially the silver laced and crele/isabels) come to fertility later than the other breeds, we will start testing the eggs in early March and continue testing throughout the season.
As always, we appreciate your patience with us, and our chickens.
But I can say that they are so worth waiting for! :)
The price and breed list will be published closer to the mid to end of February
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Our chickens love to hug, and our Muscovy ducks are super friendly and very colorful.
We raise and offer hatching eggs, day old chicks, and occasionally some birds from our breeding pens. We put lots of time and effort to prepare the best feed for our poultry by fermenting organic grains, peas, flax, and sunflower seeds.
We never treat our birds with any medication or chemical dewormers.
All our birds free-range, there are no locked-in-a-barn breeding groups here. This means that our birds are exposed to all the dangers of the natural environment, and they were likely exposed to some of the local poultry diseases, but hopefully over the years we made some progress to develop some resistance in our breeding flocks. Please keep in mind that there is no guarantee of the ‘clean’ status of any of our birds, due to the nature of these poultry diseases. The buyer assumes all the risks when buying a bird from our outdoors environment. We do our best to boost their immune system from Day 1 by providing probiotics and natural immune boosters to the new hatchlings. Again, this does not guarantee a life-time healthiness of any particular bird.
Our baby chicks are hatching in a clean environment away from the adult birds inside a hatchery building with restricted access. This is the safest way to buy ‘clean’ birds - as 1 day old chicks, or hatching eggs.
If you decide to buy an older chick or an adult bird, please be aware there is always a risk, unless this particular bird is recently tested for all the poultry diseases. It is also very hard to pinpoint which one was a health culprit when you bring a new bird into your existing flock. It could be the new bird being a silent carrier, or it could be someone in your existing flock. No way to conclude, unless you held the new birds in a bio-secure environment and visited them in a bio-suit. Over the years, we have had some customers testing their flocks, and some tested MG and/or coryza positive (these to seem to be the most common in our area), and some tested negative. We do not test our birds. We are only aware of one breeder in BC who says they test for MG.
We believe in breeding for resistance, we cull weak and small, and breed only the strongest, and hope that our birds will continue to be strong enough to withstand the disease pressure if exposed. We also watch our breeder birds very closely for any suspicious signs, as we hand-feed and hand-clean, and we were not losing any birds to any diseases. Please be aware that this is still not a guarantee that none of them may not be a silent carrier.
If you are not comfortable with this approach and philosophy, then our birds are not for you.
A lot of our customers raise their chickens in a similar environment, and they are comfortable with our husbandry practices.
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***POLICY UPDATE*** We request a NON-REFUNDABLE deposit on all purchases of live birds and hatching eggs.
50% - 22 days before the hatch date, when pre-ordering baby chicks for a specific hatch date
25% - 1 week before the pickup date, when booking hatching eggs
25% - to hold any bird / chick / eggs that is posted for sale.
Unfortunately over 90% of the arrangements do not work out if deposit is not paid. That costs us in our time and opportunity to sell the birds to other folks who could have picked them up. The deposit will serve as a commitment on both ends. If you cancel on your end, the deposit WILL NOT BE REFUNDED, and it will help us to compensate for the losses on our end when we end up with extra chicks that we now need to feed and house, or hatching eggs that could have been mailed on Mondays.
Our deepest apologies to all our loyal customers, I hope it will not be too upsetting for the folks who have been buying our chicks and hatching eggs.
