Baby Chicks and Ducklings
We hatch baby chicks and ducklings from our flock in the spring.
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2025 Breeds
Chicken: Large Fowl: Rhode Island Red and Barn Yard Crosses,
Duck: Pekin and crosses
Quail: Coturnix Quail
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We hatch baby birds to grow our own flock, to breed for 4H show birds or to produce more meat production animals. We do not typically sell live birds.​


Chicken Chicks
Large Fowl: $8
Bantams: $6

Quail Chicks
As Hatched - $5

Ducklings
As Hatched - $10
2025 Hatch Schedule
There are no baby birds for sale this year

A FEW CHICK STATISTICS
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We hatch all our own replacement hens and ducks for all of our flocks
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We raise a limited number of breeds so that we can hatch our own birds
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The Rhode Island Reds are the production flock for Long Shadow Farm, all other breeds are my daughter's 4H show birds
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In 2017, we ran 735 eggs through our incubator
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These were 254 chicken eggs, 245 turkey eggs and 235 duck eggs
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From those, we successfully hatched: 170 chicks, 167 ducklings and 73 poults (turkey eggs can be tough to hatch!)
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Overall our fertility rate was 85%, and our hatch rate was 69%
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We had 2 duck hens hatch 4 ducklings, and they co-raised them all!