09/16/2026
Hatching season is upon us! I just set our first hatch of the ‘26/‘27 season. It’s only 10 eggs, but fall & winter hatches tend to be smaller.
I wanted to let everyone know what breeds I have in breeding pens this year. These include:
Bielefelder
- rare breed, autosexing, fast growing, brown egg
Mottled Houdan
- rare breed, exhibition line, white egg
Swedish Flower Hen
- rare breed, multiple colors, crested male over non-crested females, light brown egg
Crele Penedesenca
- rare breed, autosexing, exhibition line, terra cotta egg
Salmon Faverolles
- rare breed, dimorphic, exhibition line, cream egg
Iowa Blue
- rare breed, exhibition line, white/cream egg
Chocolate English Orpington
- from breeder stock, light brown egg
BBS Laced Silver Wyandotte
- utility line, can produce blue, black, or splash laced offspring, light brown egg
Tolbunt/Golden Polish
- rare breed, exhibition line (Tolbunt), utility line (golden), working to darken the Tolbunt line by using golden- chicks could appear golden (they’ll be split for mottling), there is a chance for frizzle as well
Eggers:
Frabjious Frizzle
- homozygous blue egg Ermine Ameraucana over frizzled hens - both homozygous & heterozygous blue egg genes
Olive Eggers
- Crele Penedesenca over homozygous blue egg gene hens.
Turquoise Gem
- homozygous blue egg gene frizzled cockbird over heterozygous blue egg gene hens
This year I plan to focus a bit more on shipping eggs. I’m going to be offering mix dozens as well as the usual breed specific dozens. I am not going to do waiting lists this year. I will take orders and ship those as they come available- payments will be prepaid. (I will not ship from Thanksgiving through the New Year.)
Some of the ideas I have are sets of eggs instead of all one breed.
- “Ocean’s Twelve”- the Olive Eggers, Frabjious Frizzle, & Turquoise Gem.
- “Earth Bound”- just the brown eggs (Bielefelder, Swedish Flower, Wyandotte, Faverolles, Penedesenca, Orpington).
- “White (I’ll come up with a name)”- white eggs (Houdan, Iowa Blue, Polish)
- “Exhibition Lines”- most of these are birds I show, but may not be APA accepted yet- the breed groups are working on it.
- “Crested Crew” - Houdan, Polish, Swedish (though Swedish might be non-crested too).
- “Head of the Class” - breeds that are all in the same class like Continental & American.
- “Chasing the Rainbow”- a mix of all the colors possible from the flocks.
- “Hen’s Choice”- whatever happens to have been laid on a particular day.
- “Custom Order” - pick what breed you want and the number of eggs you want.
Here’s an example of “Chasing the Rainbow”.