Hatcheries and Poultry Equipment Supply Houses
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(This page was unashamedly aimed at a North American audience; however, I'm getting more liberal, which means that since I've found some non-North American hatcheries, I've listed them.)
I'm not recommending any of these in particular. Over the years I've collected catalogs and have bought from many of these houses, but not all. None of the ones I've used has done me wrong, so to speak. I'm putting this list here to aid folks who are looking for birds and supplies. They are now in alphabetical order by state for the US, followed by other countries. Those with a green bullet I have used at least once. Those with black bullets I've no experience with. I'll annotate as the spirit moves me.
It's a good idea to make sure that any chicks are shipped on Monday or Tuesday so they can't get stuck over the weekend.
Equipment Suppliers are listed below Hatcheries.
If you have any additions to this list (or corrections, etc.), please send them to me via FeatherSite -- questions and comments. I'd like to make this list as useful as possible.
A very useful supplement to this page is my Baby Chicks page.
Hatcheries (many of these also sell equipment)
They seem to have broilers, some kinds of layers, and turkeys.
Specializes in non-flighty production Leghorns, also various other Leghorns and some Old English Games.
They raise pheasants (Ringnecks, Blue-eareds, Goldens, Silvers, Swinhoes, Lady Amhersts, Reeves and Impeyans), Chukars, Bobwhite and Pharoah Quail, and Blue India Peafowl.
A family-run operation that maintains its own breeding flocks. Belt handles a bunch of standard breeds, a few bantams, and a couple breeds each of duck and turkey.
I understand that they're no longer selling layers, just meat birds, and possibly still Pekin and Rouen ducks, and commercial turkeys.
Patrick Kelley's hatchery has Welsummer, RIR, Cubalayas, Shamo, Chantecler, Marans, Asil, Iowa blue, Java, Yokohama, Saipan, Orloff and White Giant chickens.
They have pictures on the web of most of the breeds they handle and their catalog has nice color photos of most breeds, also.
Quail, pheasants and chukars.
Production birds, plus some bantams and fancy varieties, turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas, pheasants and some equipment.
Aw, c'mon! Guess!!
They carry most common fowl, also turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas and peafowl, some rare breeds and a bunch of equipment. I understand that they are a dropshipper, not actually hatching chicks themselves.
They specialize in four types of chickens: Buff Orpingtons, Rhode Island Reds, White Leghorns and Black Sex-links.
They sell Penedesenca, Welsummers, Marans, Blue-laced Red Wyandottes, Buckeye bantams, Polish and Jersey Giants.
Quite a few production breeds, broilers, Wyandottes, some bantams, Broad-breasted turkeys (Bronze and White) some ducks, some geese, ringneck Pheasants, Chukars, Mallards, and Rio Grande Wild Turkeys plus some equipment. they also sell hatching eggs of many of their breeds.
They only handle rare and heritage varieties of turkeys, including some varieties that they've been developing.
Mostly production breeds of chickens, plus a few fancies.
Hoover's Hatchery,
Inc.
PO Box 200
Rudd, IA 50471
800-247-7014
e-mail: hoovers@omnitelcom.com
They deal in a few breeds of production chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese.
Murray McMurray
Hatchery
Webster City, IA 50595
800-456-3280
I've ordered from McMurray many times. They have many breeds of chickens( both standard and bantam), plus ducks, geese, guineas, pheasants, turkeys, peafowl and quail. Their birds are not necessarily show stock, but usually pretty good. They also sell poultry equipment, but I find their prices to be relatively high on this stuff. BTW, their catalog is the best free guide to what various breeds look like that you'll easliy find. (Of course, I hope that when I get enough images, these pages will be an even better source.)
Sand Hill Preservation Center
1878 230th Street
Calamus, IA 52729
563-246-2299
e-mail: sandhill@fbcom.net
They breed rare poultry: Standard and bantam chickens, Coturnix quail, guineas, ducks, geese, and turkeys. They have a very nice list of rare breeds. Please call between the hours of 8 AM and 9:30 PM Central time.
They have geese (Chinas, Toulouse, Embden, African & Tufted Roman), ducks (Mallards, Pekins, Rouens & Campbells), bantams (Cornish, Sebrights) and various large fowl including Easter Eggers, Brahmas, Polish, Rock/Cornish, Sex-links, Leghorns, Australorps, Reds, Rocks, Orpingtons & Wyandottes.
Various Quail, Peafowl, Mandarins, Calls, Woodies, Cinnamon Teal, Ring Teal, and Tree Ducks.
A variety of production chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, pheasants, guineas, peafowl, bantams, quail and chukars. They also have some rare breeds of chickens, including Delawares.
Ralph has just about every color variety of guinea fowl you've ever heard of. They also have Blackneck Swans, flying Mallards and various Peafowl.
They have Mallards, Canadas, African, Brown Chinas and various wild duck species including Pintails, Woodies, Mandarins, Red-Cresteds and American Black Ducks.
They have Chukars, Ringnecks, Bobwhite and Coturnix.
They sell Rhode Island Reds -- chicks and hatching eggs.
They've got commercial chicks as well as exhibition and bantam fowl.
They have various quail, Chukars, Ringnecks and assorted large and bantam chickens.
They have various Pheasants, a few Quail, Green and Blue Peafowl, some Turkeys, Chukar and some bantams.
They handle various exotic pheasants, quail, partridge, francolins, peafowl, and waterfowl.
Utility birds, including ISA Browns and Babcock white egg birds and meat birds plus Easter Eggers and Buff Orpingtons. Also handle Runner, Pekin and Rouen ducks, Embden, African and Toulouse geese, BBW turkeys, various bantams, and Ringnecks.
They specialize in Bourbon Red Turkeys.
They have Buff, Pommeranian, African, Sebastopol and Chinese geese and Pekin, Rouen, Saxony, Silver Appleyard, Cayuga, Swedish, Crested, Magpie and Runner ducks. They also have some Call ducks.
Ringnecks & chukars, as well as smoked & fresh game birds.
Stromberg's Chicks and
Gamebirds Unlimited
PO Box 400
Pine River, MN 56474
800-720-1134
218-587-2222
fax: 218-587-4230
e-mail: stbchix@uslink.net
Stromberg's supplies many varieties of domestic poultry and also deals in pheasants and wild waterfowl. They handle adult stock as well as day-olds. I understand that they do not keep stock, but act as a middleman, finding whatever you want. They also sell supplies and books. I find their prices quite high. I think that the books published under their own name are for the most part ghastly. They are sloppily put together, unindexed, and mostly anecdotal with minimal references (see my review of Poultry of the World). On the other hand, when they screwed up on an order for me and sent some adult birds that cost $100 more than I expected (having ordered juveniles), they were very good about it. They told me to keep the birds and they swallowed the difference. I do note that this was back in 1988 -- can't say how they are now.
Urch/Turnland Poultry
2142 NW 47 Ave.
Owatonna, MN 55060
507-451-6782
Duane Urch breeds and sells show quality fowl. Call between 7pm and 9pm CST.
Cackle handles a fair number of breeds of chicken, both bantam and standard, plus various breeds of geese, ducks and turkeys.
Production birds, some of the more common breeds, some bantams, turkeys, guineas, ducks, geese and ring necks.
Production birds, some exotics and rare breeds, some bantams, turkeys, guineas, ducks, geese and peafowl.
Free color catalog.
They've gotten rid of their production birds and bantams and are concentrating on exhibition fowl and a bunch of rare breeds, including, among others, Spitzhauben, White-crested Blue Polish and Black-crested White Polish.
Ringnecks, Bobwhite, Coturnix, Chukars, flying Mallards, Silver Pheasants, Lady Amherst's Pheasants and Red Golden Pheasants. Call after 6pm CST.
Ringneck Pheasants and Chukar Partridge
Rocky Mountain deals in pheasants, quail and partridge.
Meat birds and production birds, including California Whites and several Sex-links
Gamebirds, wood ducks, peafowl, quail and other gamebirds.
Many production breeds, plus some fancies, bantams, turkeys, ducks, geese, guineas, and gamebirds.
Seven Oaks Game Farm
1823 Masonboro Sound Road
Wilmington, NC 28409-2672
Phone: 910-791-5352
fax: 910-791-5352
e-mail: CMCALLISTER1@ec.rr.com
Claude McAllister, who owns this place, raises many varieties of quail, as well as bantam ducks and some bantam chickens, plus true Araucanas in large and bantam. He also carries lots of poultry equipment.
They have 17 breeds of large fowl plus some bantams, ducks, turkeys, French guineas, Chukar and Bobwhites.
They have a pretty good line-up of chickens (bantam and large), ducks and geese.
Various production chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys. Also have various exhibition stock available on request.
They bought out Carey Farms Hatchery. Meat crosses, layers, some ducks, geese, turkeys, guineas and Ring Necks.
They carry production fowl in chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese, plus ringneck pheasants.
Mostly production birds and common breeds, plus a few bantams.
Quail, Jungle Fowl, Pheasants, Chukar, Guineas, and Peafowl.
They carry only Guineas, in 13 color varieties.
Ornamental and endangered pheasants, partridges and quail, plus a bunch of chickens.
Holderread's Waterfowl Farm and Preservation Center
PO Box 492
Corvallis, OR 97339
541-929-5338
This hatchery specializes in domestic waterfowl. They will ship exhibition quality stock if requested.
Many pheasants, both ringnecks and exotics, plus chukars and quail. Many pictures on web page.
Under new management. They have handled mostly production fowl, plus turkeys, guineas, ringnecks, chukar and bobwhite quail. Now they will also be handling exhibition quality fowl.
Wild Turkeys, exotic pheasants, Honkers and Rhode Island Reds.
They keep their own breeding stock in Barred, White & Partridge Rocks, Cornish Cross, Buff Rocks, White Cornish, and Ameraucana chickens, Standard Bronze, Black Spanish, Bourbon Red and White Holland turkeys, Pilgrim, American Buff and Pomeranian geese, and Saxony, Welsh Harlequin and White Muscovy ducks.
Chukar Partridge and Bobwhite Quail
Geese (Chinese, Embden, African), Ducks (Muscovy, Pekin, Mallard, Welsh Harlequin, Buff Orpington and more), Turkeys (BB White & Bronze, Bourbon Reds, Royal Palms, Blue Slate, Black Spanish), Chickens (general prodction birds and some fancies), plus various bantams, game birds and supplies. Also Mute and Black Swans and Peafowl, sold as adults only. They will ship chicks in lots of 15.
Broilers; Brown and White Egg layers. Minimum 20 chicks.
They handle Cornish crosses and Red Cornish as meat birds, started capons, most of the common layers and utility breeds, plus a bunch of ducks, guineas (including the heavy French guinea), geese, turkeys, Bobwhites and Chukars.
Meat crosses and production layers, including white and brown laying hybrids of their own breeding. 25 chick minimum.
They will ship small orders: 15 chicks, 8 turkeys, 6 ducks.
A small farm that specializes in ringneck pheasants, bobwhite quail and wild turkey. Hatching eggs to adults.
Here you'll find Ringnecks, Bobwhites and Chukars.
They carry Hungarian Partridge, Quail and Ringnecks.
Another large hatchery carrying a fairly wide assortment of breeds of chickens, bantams, ducks, geese, turkeys and guineas. Among other things, they will sex and mark chicks and they will ship very small orders.
They have lots of birds listed. Various of the common chickens and bantams, a nice selection of ducks, some geese, lots of types of exotic quail and pheasants, peafowl, rare turkeys, Chukars and a few doves and pigeons.
They deal mostly in Ringneck Pheasants and Bobwhites.
Pheasants: Ringnecks, Buffs, Iranian Blacknecks, Red & Yellow Goldens, Lady Amhersts and Elliots; Temminck's Tragopans; and Silkie chickens.
Pheasants, Chukar and Quail
Buff, Pekin, Saxony & Appleyard ducks, Bourbon Red & Royal Palm turkeys, and Buff Orpington and both Dark and Buff Cornish chickens
Ringnecks and Bobwhite Quail
Their main thing seems to be the more common production breeds (including Danish Brown Leghorns, Delawares, Wyandottes, etc.) as well some egg hybrids, meat birds, turkeys, a bantam mix and various ducks, geese, game birds and guineas.
Suppliers of live and frozen Coturnix quail.
Specializing in wild waterfowl and grouse
"Cheepers by the dozen." They handle various production breeds and some fancies, plus some bantams, geese, ducks, turkeys, guineas, pheasants and chukars.
Suppliers of Chukar, Hungarian partridge, Valley quail, Blue scale quail, Gambel's quail, and more
They supply Ringnecks and other pheasants for hunting and table use, also Chukar and Hungarian partridges.
Broilers, Leghorns, hybrid dual purpose brown layers, Broad-breasted Bronze and White turkeys, Mallards, Pekins, Rouens, Embdens and Toulouse.
They have various Marans, Welsummers, Polish, BLR Wyandottes, Penedesenca in large fowl, Silkies and d'Anvers in bantams, and Royal & Blue Palms in turkeys. Plus they sell chicken and turkey saddles.
Brown and white layers
Rhode Island Reds, Australorps, Sussex, Wyandottes, Barnevelders and Minorcas
Crossbred pullets, in white, red and black
Cornish crosses, production layers (Babcock B300 Leghorns, Isa Browns, Black Sex-links, Buff Sex-links), Easter Eggers, Light Brahmas, RIR, Pekin, Cayuga, Rouen, Buff Orpington and Runner ducks, BBW turkeys, Brown China, Tufted Buff Toulouse and White Danish (whatever they are) geese.
They handle chickens, ducks, turkeys and pheasants.
White and brown eggers, dual purpose fowl, meat birds, White turkeys, Pekin, Rouen and Muscovy ducks, Embden Geese. They also have a selection of information sheets on poultry keeping.
A few standards and bantams plus poults and ringnecks.
They handle over 80 breeds.
They handle Legarth geese, a fast growing and high egg-producing strain of white domestic goose. They also have ducks: Pekins, Pekin/Muscovy crosses, and Mallards.
Sexed pullets of various pure breeds including RIR, Sussex, Marans, Anconas, Orpingtons, Leghorns, Cochins, Brahmas and others. They also have a few bantam breeds.
Small hatchery specializing in rare and pure breeds.
Buff Orpington chickens, Khaki Campbell ducks, and turkeys in Bronze, Norfolk Black, and White.
A small hatchery specializing in pure breeds: Welsummers, Marans, Barnevelders, Speckled and Light Sussex, and White Leghorns; also Silver Spangled Hamburgh bantams.
They carry Leghorns, Reds, Sussex, Wyandottes, Marans, Welsummers, and Buff Orpingtons plus ducks in Khaki Campbell, Cayuga and Aylesbury.
They have started utility fowl, chicks & eggs in Barnevelder, Marans, Welsummer, Light Sussex, Black & White Leghorns, and Buff Orpington.
They've got various production fowl, including a host of Sex-links, plus Marans and the Bluebell, a Marans / Rhode Island Red cross.
They carry a fairly large assortment of large fowl and bantams and some ducks. They also carry a lot of poultry supplies and miscellanea.
Many breeds, in which they seem to sell both chicks and adult fowl. They also carry supplies.
The site is in Italian and English. They handle 4 types of meat birds.
"Suppliers of quality layer breeding stock," with agents worldwide. They handle a feather-sexable White Leghorn and 3 sex-linked Bovans hybrid brown egg layers.
They sell a few bantams and a variety of rare breeds, as well as some hybrid layers and a few ducks.
They have a few breeds of chickens, plus many pheasants, quail, partridges, peafowl and wildfowl.
This one's entirely in Turkish, but they have many breeds of chickens, Chukar, various fancy pigeons, pheasants, peafowl, and Bourbon Red Turkeys.
Poultry and Pet Supply Houses
General Poultry Supplies
Cutler's Pheasant and Poultry Supply
1940 Old 51
Applegate, MI 48401
810-633-9450
fax: 810-633-9178
e-mail: cutlers@greatlakes.net
Lots of good equipment at good prices. Nice people to work with.
Bowles Poultry Supplies
312 O'Connor Rd.
Lucasville, OH 45648
740-372-3973
They carry the neatest collection of enameled poultry tie tacks and hat pins that I've found.
Smith Poultry and Game
Bird Supplies
14000 West 215th St.
Bucyrus, KS 66013
913-879-2587
e-mail: smith@poultrysupplies.com
Lots of good equipment at good prices. Pleasant people on the other end.
Lots more poultry supplies. Free shipping on orders over $20.
Seven Oaks Game Farm
1823 Masonboro Sound Road
Wilmington, NC 28409-2672
Phone: 910-791-5352
fax: 910-791-5352
e-mail: CMCALLISTER1@ec.rr.com
Game bird and poultry supplies.
Yep, more poultry supplies.
Rocky Top General Store
316 Ruritan Rd.
PO Box 1006
Harriman, TN 37748
800-286-7260; 423-882-8867
fax: 423-882-9056
e-mail: info@rockytopgen.com
Rocky Top handles all sorts of poultry supplies, including tie-outs.
Lots of poultry supplies. Their emphasis is on gamefowl.
Online catalog only. "Incubators - Feeders - Health Products - Leg Bands - Books - And Fertile Hatching Eggs."
More poultry supplies!
Supplies, coops, gifts, info and more.
And for you folks in Canada! More supplies closer to home.
Another Canadian house with poultry supplies
Waterfowl & Pheasant feeds
Incubators, nest boxes, brooders, poultry dressing equipment and more.
A small company that makes an incubator that's the equal of the Sportsman and less expensive.
A British company that specializes in incubators and has an American branch.
They carry poultry, pigeon and rabbit supplies and books.
Large and small-scale poultry equipment.
Patterson's Poultry and Pet Supplies
PO Box 39
Wallburg, NC 27373
336-769-4392
A good collection of mostly poultry-related supplies.
They supply books and videos on poultry keeping, as well as housing.
Lots of poultry supplies, and many other things for the farm
Feeders, waterers, incubators, brooders and parts may be found here.
Poultry suppies, plus other supplies for the smallholder
Poultry supplies, books, forums and a breeders directory can be found here.
Poultry supplies and books in Oz.
Poultry supplies in India.
Manufacturers of quality poultry and swine equipment. Feeding, drinking and heating, winching and climate control systems. Agents for Impex and Gasolec. Installations and spares. They're in South Africa.
Their catalog includes all sorts of supplies for the poultry and gamebird breeder. They also carry incubators for reptile eggs.
Various poultry supplies, especially heavy on incubators.
They make Hova-bator incubators and sell parts for same. They also sell egg cartons for Quail and Chukar eggs.
They sell used incubators and new and used parts.
More incubators, for those in the UK and France.
They supply incubators and hatchers of all sizes.
Specialty incubation equipment
Manufactures various poultry equipment, including brooders, nests, feeders, and waterers.
Lots of poultry equipment.
General poultry supplies. Site in English and French.
General Farm and Animal Supplies
Equipment for the entire farm. They are supposed to have a nice selection of incubators and also have Ratite stuff.
Carries a good line-up of small animal and bird equipment.
Poultry supplies, grooming supplies, fencing and caging materials, plus more.
They have a Poultry & Smallholder Catalogue.
Pigeon Supplies
Foy's Pigeon
Supplies
PO Box 27166
Golden Valley, MN 55427
877-355-7727
e-mail: foyspigeon@zoominternet.net
Just about everything the pigeon fancier needs -- and I understand the owner was a pharmacist and is very knowledgable about drugs and diseases.
New England Pigeon Supply (NEPS)
Toni Patti
95 River Road
Preston, CT 06365
860-889-0497
This dealer came to me with a good recommendation, but I haven't tried them yet. Ah, now I have. They were at a pigeon show that I attended.
Global Pigeon Supplies
2301 Rowland Ave
Savannah, GA 31404
800-562-2295
e-mail: gpswo@aol.com
Another good supplier with a large catalog.
They sell a kit for putting together a coop that will house up to 12 hens. They also now sell an "ice-free" nipple waterer.
Poultry housing, ". . . from small arks for 8 hens to Deep Litters for 1000 birds."
They make various poultry coops and housing for other animals. Even if you're not in the UK and it's not worth shipping, they have great illustrations that may give you some cooping ideas.
They are the West Coast distributors for Forsham Arks.
They are the East Coast distributors for Forsham Arks.
Portable chicken coops and chicken tractors
An insulated portable coop for colder areas
The trust has various coop plans for sale, as well as other poultry equipment. They also raise various rare breeds of fowl.
Just what the name implies: poultry houses and runs, dove cotes, duck nest boxes.
The US distributor for Eglu coops.
A UK source. Poultry houses for various sorts available. Also some chickens.
They make A-frame coops.
Another UK supplier of small poultry housing
They sell a Portable Poultry Shelterand a Brooder and Grow Off Pen.
They've got a movable electric poultry-net fence which looks great for protecting pastured poultry or quickly erecting a predator-repellant yard for your pets.
Electric fencing in the UK.
Here's more electric poultry netting in the UK.
Still more UK electric poultry fencing
Collapsible, all-wire coops for showing, etc.
Wire showing coops
They sell Toprite Game Farm Netting.
They sell a long-lasting woven poly usually used for greenhouses, but can be used quite well on coops.
Nest boxes and feeders for wildfowl.
Oakwood Enterprises
PO Box 274
Princeton, MN 55371
800-328-6647
All they sell are solar-powered flashing red lights, used as predator repellants to deter owls and various nocturnal mammalian predators.
The VSB Electronic Doorkeeper is a battery-powered unit which can be set to open and close your coop doors to let the birds out in the AM and close them in at dusk.
Agri-Tec
601 Farmers Avenue
Amarillo, TX 79118
806-374-4653
e-mail: agritec@arn.net
Odor control and waste management for agricultural purposes. They sell Abate, a substance for controlling odors in the poultry area.
Leg Bands, Saddles, etc.
Leg bands, wing bands, livestock ear tags, and more.
Leg bands, metal wing bands and plastic wing badges.
Wing and leg bands
They make turkey saddles.
They make turkey, chicken and bantam saddles
Getting ready for the table
They carry pluckers, scalder, dunker, shackles, cones, and a utility cart
Shipping Boxes and the like
Horizon Micro-
Environments
133 Bowen Farm Rd.
Crawford, GA 30630
800-443-2498
fax: 706-743-8576
e-mail: Horizon@negia.net
I've included this one because they sell crates for shipping adult birds via Express Mail. Note that the standard Horizon boxes are filtered for shipping pheasants and waterfowl, etc., but that you can use the Petporters for shipping chickens. They also sell an egg-shipping box.
Packaging, shipping and warehouse supplies. They carry a line of freezer bags that can handle large turkeys.
I know nothing about them except that they're supposed to carry egg cartons and freezer bags.
Cascades Agri-Pak
Route 19
Monticello, NY
845-791-4200
I buy my egg cartons from them, but don't know their mailing address, as I drive over to get them.
As you might guess . . . .
Another supplier of egg cartons I only know by hearsay.
Poultry-related Gifts and other odd stuff
Browntrout Publishers, Inc.
POB 280070
San Francisco, CA 94128
800-777-7812
fax: 310-316-1138
A nice chicken calendar, plus many other rural and not-so-rural calendars. I do
have one problem with their calendar, in that I like to use pencil, not pen, and it doesn't take that
very well. Great pictures, tho'.
Order this calendar now from amazon.com.
I just learned that the ABA has a chicken calendar which has pictures of champion bantams. It costs $6 including shipping and can be ordered from Don Karasek, 2504 State Rd 133, Blue River, WI 53518.
Yet another chicken calendar, The Cluckendar has some of the poorest (not worst, just poorest) poultry puns I've ever encountered. But it does have pictures of chickens, some quite cute.
Medications
Omaha Vaccine Co.
PO Box 7228
Omaha, NE 68107
800-367-4444
They carry some poultry supplies and medications along with the same for most livestock and pets. This is a large catalog.
Their catalog seems to be a one page listing of many kinds of poultry medications.
They carry poultry supplies and medications, as well as a large variety of supplies for other livestock, including ratites.
" . . . high quality natural animal health care products."
They have mostly medications, plus they sell some bantam d'Uccles and d'Anvers.
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