Bushel and a Peck Hatchery

Bushel and a Peck Hatchery Our small, family-run farm works hard to offer fresh eggs for your consumption and hatchling birds

08/18/2026

UPDATE: Oh my goodness, you guys... 🥹💓 Your messages have meant so much to me. Between these comments and private messages on the side, I've received several dozen contacts in the last 24 hours. Thank you all so much for your interest and well wishes. I am working through my inbox while also trying to take a good inventory of what I have to offer. I will be reaching out very soon to each and every one of you! Thank you for your patience!! 🫶

After a tremendous amount of soul-searching over the last several weeks, we have made the difficult decision to step away from our hatchery.

Perhaps we’ll return to hatching someday, but for now, we’d like to focus our time and energy on a few things that are inspiring us at the moment: our volunteer work and environmental stewardship, our daughter’s music and education, and caring for our aging pets.

As a result, we will be scaling back significantly on the farm. We’ll be offering many of our breeding flocks, equipment, and supplies over the next several weeks. If there is something in particular you’ve been looking for, please feel free to reach out. We may have exactly what you’re hoping to find!

Among the birds and supplies we’ll be offering:

• Sebastopols (white, buff, lavender)
• Anconas (black & white, blue & white)
• Polish (buff-laced, gold-laced, tolbunt, frizzles)
• Silkies (paint, black, blue, splash)
• Easter Eggers
• Laced Red Wyandottes
• Incubators, feeders, waterers, and other supplies

It has been such a pleasure to help so many people start and grow their flocks over the last several years. We’ve loved seeing our birds become part of your farms, 4-H projects, breeding programs, and families.
Thank you for trusting us with a small part of your poultry journey, and thank you for all of the support you’ve given us over the years. We are incredibly grateful. 🫶

Happy Friday, everyone! 🎉 I have some cuties to brighten up this gloomy weekend. Eight laced red Wyandottes and seven Ea...
08/14/2026

Happy Friday, everyone! 🎉

I have some cuties to brighten up this gloomy weekend.

Eight laced red Wyandottes and seven Easter egger babies. They are almost four weeks old, so off to a fantastic start! I intended to keep these for my 2027 breeding pens, but changed my plans.

NPIP #1431. Vaccinated for Marek's. Unsexed. Local pickup near Rockford, IL

Pictures are of my adult breeding flock.

Who's looking to add some SILLY to their farm this year? 🤪 I just had a bunch of Polish chicks hatch. These guys bring a...
05/19/2026

Who's looking to add some SILLY to their farm this year? 🤪 I just had a bunch of Polish chicks hatch. These guys bring a smile to my face every time I'm out doing chores.

Babies will be offered UNSEXED only and should be available to go home toward the end of this week. (If pickup this weekend is more convenient, that works for me, too!) I currently have:

🐣 gold-laced Polish
🐣 buff-laced Polish
🐣 tolbunt Polish
🐣 smooth/standard feather type
🐣 and FRIZZLES

Unfortunately, you can't tell which will frizzle at this age. So if you're a gambler... roll the dice and see if you're lucky! Every chick has a 50/50 chance of being a frizzle.

No shipping at this time. Local pickup is by appointment in rural Cherry Valley, just outside of Rockford, Illinois.

NPIP #1431

All the babies will be vaccinated for Marek's unless you request otherwise.

Some of you know that in our free time, we are involved in animal rescue. Adorable little ducklings and baby chickies ar...
04/26/2026

Some of you know that in our free time, we are involved in animal rescue. Adorable little ducklings and baby chickies aren't the only cuties that tug at our heartstrings. We are cat lovers through and through, and frequently foster sick kitties and litters of kittens.

I hope you don't mind that I'm posting in that capacity here tonight. I promise I'll get back to posting pictures of goslings soon!

But I have had a challenging week with a medical foster kitty that I want to tell you all about...

This cutie is Clementine, and she had surgery to remove what was left of her eye and to spay her on Monday. After a serious and exceedingly rare surgical complication, it has been touch and go since. We were at the emergency clinic during the night on Monday, she was hospitalized Tuesday and Wednesday, and I'm typing this post from the emergency vet again tonight.

You all haven't been lucky enough to meet Clementine, so you will need to take my word for it... this girl is just the best kitty. And it's been so difficult to first, watch her lose her eye, and then recover from her rough surgery. She deserves a break. I want so badly for her to be ok and to have a life free of pain.

Her medical costs to date have been nearly $1,000. And her care tonight is estimated to start at an additional $800.

My sweet daughter, Claire, absolutely melted my heart... she donated all of her cello winnings ($750) from a recent scholarship competition to offset the cost of the eye surgery and medical care. 🥹

But I am worried because rescues like the one I'm fostering for aren't set up to absorb too many costs like this. If you are able to donate to Fixin' Feral Felines to help offset some of Clementine's care, I would be forever grateful. This girl has really tugged at our heartstrings and I want to do everything in my power to get her the help she needs.

You can donate to Fixin' Feral Felines using the link below:

https://share.google/GiTdn8mcSTMhKPlct

I met Jane Kosek, the amazing woman that runs this organization, back in 2007 when I worked at an animal hospital in DeKalb. She would bring kitties into our clinic most days--sometimes towers of cages and live traps full of kitties that needed help. Over the last few weeks, I've had the chance to talk with her a lot about her rescue and TNR (trap, neuter, and release) work. In February of this year alone, she took in 53 cats! She is awake all hours of the night helping sick kitties and the people who find them. She is a community resource when other organizations in her community are not stepping up to the plate. Just a rockstar of a person with a heart of gold! 🫶

Good morning!! 🐣I have six baby Wyandottes left from a hatch over the weekend. Should be a nice assortment of splash-lac...
04/20/2026

Good morning!! 🐣

I have six baby Wyandottes left from a hatch over the weekend. Should be a nice assortment of splash-laced red, blue-laced red, and black-laced red.

These will be available for local pickup by appointment in Cherry Valley near Rockford, IL starting tomorrow.

NPIP #1431

(photos of adult breeding flock)

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Cherry Valley, IL
61016

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