The Small Gate Garden

The Small Gate Garden We breed Faverolles to SOP. Specializing in unique eggers. We provide fluffy faces, speckled eggs and speckled birds! NPIP CERT, AI clean. We do also have Silkies.
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As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases Located in Powhatan county.. We are a big family living on a small farmyard. We home educate six children here. We have fallen in love with the Faverolles breed, and feel they are the perfect chicken for farms, homesteads, back yard chicken keepers, and families. They are big chickens with even bigger personalities. They are a dual purpose b

reed, created for high egg production and meat. These are hearty birds that often continue to lay through winter. They are extremely docile in temperament and will steal your heart, while filling your egg basket! We breed with the integrity of the bird and standard of perfection in mind, but are also aiming for the perfect utility bird. We can also offer some fun hybrid crosses within our mixed flock as well. Be sure to ask us about our Small Gate Eggers! Lets us help design you a great starter flock, or enhance your existing flock. (Please see our albums for a few options/ideas), and contact us to talk about possibilities. We are also offering Ameracauna. Please look over our page for more info. We desire to help new chicken owners prepare for owning birds, as well as providing quality/healthy birds for your flock. Currently offering eggs for hatching and consumption, chicks, and brooding service occasionally. Thanks for visiting us at The Small Gate Garden. Matthew 7:13-14

Read in full:💸‼️SOLD‼️2 lavender birchen Marans looking to make a nest in your coop.🤎🥚💜🐣First to PIF Venmo or PayPal get...
06/15/2026

Read in full:💸‼️SOLD‼️

2 lavender birchen Marans looking to make a nest in your coop.🤎🥚💜🐣

First to PIF Venmo or PayPal gets them.
$50 each must take both together.

Must be able to pick up ASAP. (Within 48 hours)

They are stunning!!! One hatched from a heavy Bloom and one hatched from a darker egg.

After taking this season semi “off” it made it easier to decide to continue to downsize and slow down. I will keep a couple very small flocks (my top breeders only) and continue our hatch from home.

I will still be filling all pre orders Lord willing between now and late Sept (the 2026 season) before selling off any more stock.
So please don’t message me about adults yet lol.

These two chicks are a chance to grab a very hard to get variety. Claim them before I change my mind 🙃🤪

I will be setting one more fertility check this coming week. If water color fertility is good I will start working throu...
06/15/2026

I will be setting one more fertility check this coming week. If water color fertility is good I will start working through all the egg orders!!!!!

The lavender birchen Marans hatched (only two from a shipped dozen) I’m leaving them in over night to see if any more hatch.

I decided not to move forward with them.
I’ll be moving forward with downsizing my program even further after all preorders are completed for the season.

What that means???
I’ll be listing a couple little lavender birchen Marans up for grabs in the morning.

Order up! And update up!🙃Whew it has been a doozy getting things in working order this season. Thank you for being patie...
06/10/2026

Order up! And update up!🙃
Whew it has been a doozy getting things in working order this season.

Thank you for being patient as I get started filling orders.
The water color eggers have fertility. I have successfully for the time being broken the broody hens and they are laying again!

I “thought” I was going to know which eggs were new each day and which were the hens nest she’s been on. However the last couple days some how we were still pulling eggs with developing chicks in them.

So today we moved everybody but her out of the pen. They moved to a new own and the other couple hens fe joined the flock. It will take a few days maybe a week for everyone to get  acclimated to their new place, new box etc and then I will run another fertility test or two and start filling egg orders and shipping for the season.

These eggs are to start filling pre orders. No current availability to request from however there will likely be extras!

Watercolor eggers
Faverolles
Multi gen olives and a few speckled olives.
Welsummer are going in another incubator in the morning.
I am down a machine so I’m literally using any cheap machine I can find laying around.
🤞
But we are finally under way and will be able to working on pre orders the next few weeks.

We have two hatch from home hatches that will be coming back to us in about 2-3 weeks. See my previous post for the eggs that went out. You can claim chicks from those hatches now. I deeply discount those groups! Good opportunity.

After my quick update yesterday I had several messages about chicks. Let me give a more detailed update. I didn’t answer...
06/04/2026

After my quick update yesterday I had several messages about chicks.
Let me give a more detailed update. I didn’t answer messages because I went to bed at 7:30 pm. 😂
I’ve been sick for a weeks and a half (why I went to bed so early), it’s also why I haven’t met for adult bird lick ups that I’ve promised hold for, it’s also why I haven’t worked harder to break the broody watercolor egger hens.
It’s also why I’ve made no attempt to disrupt the watercolor egger hen who has a large nest she is sitting on and attempt to move her.
I could block off her nest so that the other hens stop laying in it BUT we have had a resident black snake visiting her and her growing babies,
And I need full view to see at all times.
There for collecting watercolor eggs is a little tricky right now. I can set eggs but not quite ready to consider sending any out just yet.
As I said I’m also down an incubator my brinsea is malfunctioning and I sent my large maticoopx out with a hatch from home family that I trust.
My other incubator has lavender birchen Marans eggs in it. Because they were shipped eggs I don’t want to bother them. I’m not going to do any stagger hatching attempt or moving them to a small cheap incubator. I ordered a small maticoopx yesterday bc it was on sale and had a coupon. I’ll move them to that when it gets here and then set a large hatch of every breed. This will get me started in the first few local orders (so long as water color fertility is good).
By that time my second maticoopx will be coming back to me and the lavender birchen will have hatched. I’ll be able to stagger hatch with enough machines then to finish out local orders and also by then hopefully the hens there were broody will be laying again. THEN I should be sending out shipped egg orders.
So I’m still a few weeks out from that but that’s the detailed version.
There is no need to message me about your pre order status just yet. I need to get a few rounds of eggs going, check fertility again. Try to trouble shoot hens laying eggs in the broody nest so that quantity and quality of what is being laid is confirmed, and get the broody hens back on line as well as be faster than the snake who, like everyone else is waiting for watercolor eggers 😂

We absolutely have fertility now! I just have to trouble shoot and work around a couple other things. And I’ve been sick 🤧 we are heading in the right direction and moving forward.

Photo of eggs my hubby collected yesterday that will be heading into the incubator for pre orders. Once I have at least 8-10 watercolor (only 4 yesterday) I will set these eggs.
Once I confirm the fertility in those for sure I will contact the pre order list. And we will continue to work from there that way. As soon as the hens in the broody breaker come back online shipping will start.
If these hens can handle the volume needed but it’s taking just a little longer than 3 days to collect, I’ll reach out and anyone that’s ok with them being a little older than 3 days can move up the line.

We are heading in the right direction!

Locals: I will be starting to set eggs for local chick pre orders. It’s also a fertility test on watercolor eggers. Almo...
06/03/2026

Locals: I will be starting to set eggs for local chick pre orders. It’s also a fertility test on watercolor eggers. Almost all of my local pre orders have water color eggers in them. Fertility will continue to be a little spotty while I deal with the broodys.
I’m down an incubator of course, but I will be getting started in getting small batches of pre orders under way.
Eggs will still be a little bit longer while I balance out strong or consistent fertility.

Photo for attention!!!
These eggs went out with our current hatch from home. I’m tempted to keep this group! lol I will accept reserve hold (with deposit) on either half or the whole hatch.

The pearl colored eggs to the right have a chance of being aqua speckled laying offspring 🤞

05/29/2026

💜water color egger update:
We do have some fertility in the pen! However it’s been raining here and cold for like two weeks and I have broody hens in the pen that I couldn’t deal with yet.

I candled one of the hens eggs and there are chicks. I think I’m going to leave her to hatch fro me. (I think)

I removed the other broody hens to a pen without a nest and will start doing ice baths as often as I can until we break them. However it will take a little while for them to lay again and see fertility pick up. However we are heading in the right direction. And I have enough hens that I probably will be able to get started on local orders soon!!!! 💜 by then hopefully we will have those other few back on board. Up date soon!

‼️sold 6 fluff nuggets need to fly ASAP. These are a week and half old and just came back from our educational hatching...
05/28/2026

‼️sold

6 fluff nuggets need to fly ASAP. These are a week and half old and just came back from our educational hatching program.
Pick up Powhatan asap
$20 takes them all.
Olive eggers, puddle duck, speckled olive and one faverolles

The white faverolles chick is staying. (7th in photo)

My lavender birchen Marans eggs “resting” on the counter from their long journey before hitting the incubator tomorrow 😂...
05/22/2026

My lavender birchen Marans eggs “resting” on the counter from their long journey before hitting the incubator tomorrow 😂
Dont eat these, don’t touch them, don’t pack them into someone’s eating dozen lol. Just don’t touch them! Lol

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