Here is our Spring 2026 Orchards Feed Store Master list of all poultry coming in this season.
Dates and varieties of these wonderful fluffy bundles of Joy will be in date order below. Make Sure you check out our Bantam Weeks - We are getting many more varieties after last years success - Bantams are such a great addition to everyone's flock, and some of my Bantams are the best layers I have!
There is a couple of things we want to make sure everyone understands going into our upcoming chick days. Here is my List:
1. We keep our chicks when they arrive for a minimum of 3-5 days before we sell them. We do this to ensure that they are healthy, eating well and are actively drinking their electrolyte and probiotic water. We will not sell them early, you can offer as much money as you want, but we will not compromise on this. When we started this process, the year before last, we saw huge differences in the health and viability of all the chicks and our losses dropped to close to zero.
2. Unless a chicken breed is listed below as "Straight Run" it is considered to be a sexed female. There is still a chance that there is a mistake when they are sorted at the hatchery and that is a risk that is taken on when purchasing them. We do have a Rooster waiting list going year round so if you do end up with a rooster we can place them on a list to find a good home.
3. Game birds will never be sexed and will be straight run, this includes, Chukars, Turkeys, Quail, Guinea Hens, Pheasants.
4. We have changed completely over to our new Hatchery that we work with who has consistently given us great birds and a way better percentage of correct sexing. They do not have as many of the breeds that some of the other hatcheries had, but we had way too many mistakes with sexing and higher mortality with those hatcheries so we are sticking with this Family Owned Hatchery.
5. We will not hold chicks, or do pre-orders and all will be available at 8am the Saturday morning of the date listed. First come first serve. Those of you from last year know that lines formed prior to opening but we were fast and efficient and were able to get everyone in and out very quickly.
6. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone last year and supported us. We know we don't have all the bins of local stores filled with tons of chicks, but we strive to sell healthy ones from a source we trust. We do our part to get them started early and ready for their trip home to their new flock. We appreciate you all so much!
Dates and Chicks
February 28th - Female Chicks
Ameraucuana
New Hampshire Red
Golden Sex Link
Delaware
Light Brahma
Steel Blue Nova
March 7th - Female Chicks
Barred Plymouth Rock
Black Australorp
Mocha Maran
Speckled Sussex
White Plymouth Rock
March 14 - Female Chicks
Bielefelder
Brown Leghorn
White Leghorn
Light Brahma
March 21st - Female Chicks
Delaware
Ameraucana
Black Austrolorp
Mocha Maran
Steel Blue Nova
March 28th - Female Chicks
Steel Blue Nova
Mocha Maran
Golden Sex Link
Brown Leghorn
April 4th - Female Chicks
Aquilla
Barred Plymouth Rock
Black Sex Link
New Hampshire Red
April 11th - Female Chicks
Olive Egger
New Hampshire Red
Welsummer
Ameraucana
April 18th - Bantam Weeks Starts!!! (All Straight Run)
Bantam Ameraucana
Bantam Red Old English
Bantam Birchen Cochin
Bantam Black Silkie
Bantam Blue Laced Red Wyandotte New introduction (I got these last year to try out and they are egg laying round balls of joy)
Bantam Buff Brahma
Bantam Buff Cochin
Bantam Blue Cochin
April 25th - Bantam Week 2 (All Straight Run)
Bantam Buff Silkie
Bantam Golden Laced Cochin
Bantam Golden Sebright
Bantam Light Brahma
Bantam Mille Fleur
Bantam Partridge Cochin
Bantam Porcelain D'Uccle
May 2nd - Bantam Week 3 (All Straight Run)
Bantam Red Cochin
Bantam Silver Pencillled Rock
Bantam Serama
Bantam Silver Sebright
Bantam Splash Silkie
Bantam Turken
Bantam White Cochin
Bantam White Silkie
May 16th - Game bird Week (Straight Run)
Pearl Grey Guinea
Chukar Partridge
Ringneck Pheasant
Bob White Quail
June 13th - Turkey Week (Straight Run)
Heritage Bronze Turkey
Heritage Spanish Black Turkey
"That's All Folks"!
