As I have more babies, I keep telling myself “It could be drugs.”
October 31, 2024:
Little Rock Preservation Center–CLOSED FOR WINTER.
We are a small 1-2 person hatchery and seed business. We hatch on a very small scale for ourselves and for the local community. We have a goal of saving rare poultry/seeds.
We do not hatch past September
See you next year!
October 23, 2024
What’s left of our baby chickens. They were one week old yesterday and today. I have several breeds available including some rare Lavender ones that are usually $10 each.
$5 each.
As of today 10-21-2024; we have left:
No black sexlink
No RIR
No Black Australorp–maybe 1
2 Buff Orpingtons
2 Easter Eggers
2 cochin banties (both gray)
and a few more rare breeds
The Easter Eggers and Buff Orpingtons went the slowest this time which shocked me cause those usually go fast-especially Easter Eggers.
They are all $5 each except the Marans and rare breeds. Marans are now gone.
We are at a dilemma with some of our chickens. No one wants rare breeds and no one wants the smaller breeds like Cochin Banties. I am not sure why because Cochin Banties are adorable and sweet and good hatchers and mothers (even if it’s not many eggs at once).
It takes lots of time and cages to keep breeds going. We cannot let them free range during baby season since they can’t intermingle with other. Our feed bill will be astronomical this winter.
Our last set of cochin banties, it took us almost 3 months to sell the babies. We had to sell them at $5 each just to get rid of them. Before that, our cochin banties went slow also. Because of this and because it’s hard to let them free range due to predators to decrease the food bill, we are considering discontinuing our cochin banties. They are not in danger of extinction and they are easy to find at almost any hatchery.
We also have several rare breeds that other hatcheries have taken an interest in and they are no longer in danger of extinction. In some of those breeds, we have sold ZERO of their babies in 2024 simply because there is no demand for them.
So….2024 will most likely be our last year for cochin banties and maybe a few more breeds. We simply do not have the means to keep them going.
Next…we do not sell chickens in the winter. We usually close for the winter because so few people are buying birds. When we used to hatch, we were stuck with most of the chickens and probably 99% of the roosters. By the time that the hens hit laying age in the Spring, no one would want to pay the price that we had in them so we had to sell them at a loss or at face value.
This year, we are considering a winter (pullets only) program for baby chickens. We are not hatching them but they will come to us already sexed. We plan on ordering one group in November. If those sell, we will order a December group. Please message us if you are interested. They will be $5 each at birth plus $1 per week in feed.
October 16th:
POSSIBLY OUR LAST SET OF THE YEAR
We have:
Black Star (autosexed breed) – 5 pullets
Rhode Island Red- 5
Black Australorp- 15
Buff Orpington- 8
Easter Egger- 8
Cochin Banties- 2
Around 10 of a few other breeds but only a few of each–A few each of some rare breeds
October 8th, 2024:
Around October 16th, we will have a small amount of baby chickens for sale. Common breeds. $5 each plus $1 per week in feed once they hit 6 days old.
Hatch date is October 15-16, 2024 and we anticipate having:
Black Star (autosexed breed) -around 5
Rhode Island Red-around 5
Black Australorp-around 15
Buff Orpington-around 8
Easter Egger-around 8
Cochin Banties-around 3 (cannot sex so straight run for sure)
Around 10 of a few other breeds but only a few of each–possibly some rare breeds in this hatch. Message me to find out which ones after they hatch.
If these do not sell (or sell slowly), this will be our last batch until March or April 2025.
I still have tons of seeds. $1.00 per package
Please see my Seeds page for seeds that I carry.
Roosters:
Cochin Banty-White $5. He is 3 months old (one left)
Lakenvelder: 4-5 months old $10 each. I have several (5-7) as most ended up as roosters
Golden Lakenvelder: 4-5 months old. $10. I have two left.
Black Jersey Giant Rooster-5-6 months old. $10. 2 left. SOLD
Little Rock Poultry 