Where to Buy Baby Chicks

Cackle Hatchery is located in Missouri and offers more than 185 varieties of poultry, including egg layers, meat birds, bantams, turkeys, ducks, geese, game fowl, rare breeds, Standard Old English, guineas, pea fowl, and more. Their usual minimum is 15-25 birds, but they offer special "city/town" assortments of 5 or 10 birds at a higher price (since shipping fewer birds costs more).

Freedom Ranger Hatchery is a small, family-owned hatchery in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country that supplies slow-growing broiler chickens to small farms and organic, free-range, and pastured poultry operations. Their chicken breed, Freedom Ranger, is derived from genetic stock from France and harkens back to American and European heritage breeds. Although their broilers grow more slowly than typical Cornish crosses used in factory farm operations, they are more suited to pasturing, free-ranging, and other alternative and organic growing methods.

Ideal Poultry is located in Texas. They have a minimum order of 25 chicks. They offer bantams, standard laying poultry, ducks, geese, guineas, pheasants and chukar, turkeys, and meat birds.

J.M. Hatchery is a small, family-owned hatchery located in Pennsylvania who offer French Guinea Fowl Keets, White Muscovy Ducks, Khaki Campbell Ducklings, and White Bantam Silkies. Minimum order of 25.