If you’re thinking about raising chickens in San Diego, we will have four breeds available this spring.
Breeds we will be releasing mid-March include:
Buff Orpingtons
Black Star
Easter Eggers
Speckled Sussex
Our chicks are carefully selected for raising in an urban yard environment, but we rely on you to do your homework on local laws and ordinances :)
These breeds tend to do well as family-friendly, but remember, chicks are social and do best in a flock of three or more.
Please note, due to demand, this season we will limit 8 chicks per family/customer. Thank you for understanding!
All chicks are female (sexed) and come vaccinated for Coccidiosis and Meraks.
New to raising chicks? Scroll down for care tips. We also recommend you watch our Raising Backyard Chickens and 5 Things Chickens Need to get a basic understanding of how to care for feathered friends.
We’re here to answer your questions - including free classes and a team ready to ensure your yards are healthy, happy, secure places for raising chickens for the entirety of their lives.
Orpington's are gentle, docile birds that are easily tamed and make extraordinary pet chickens. Quick to mature, hardy, and friendly, they are easy to keep and fun to have around. They lay brown/tan eggs.
These are large, stately birds of quiet disposition. These "Golden Beauties" have been one of our most popular varieties for years and years with their glistening plumage and pinkish white skin. Baby chicks are a soft light buff color.
Black Star chickens are an excellent brown egg-laying breed that are easy to raise, lay large brown eggs.
Female Black Star baby chicks (known as pullets) are almost all black with some having a small amount of white on its neck. As they grow, these beauties will be predominantly black with a red chest or will be barred with a grey chest.
At maturity, Black Stars weigh a little over 5 lbs. Females are black with either a gold or silver neck and breast feathers, and are egg-laying machines.
Easter Eggers are technically not recognized as a breed at all! They are more of a barnyard mix that has taken off. Easter Eggers are bred from an Araucana and a brown egg layer. Araucanas are known for their beautiful blue eggs. They have poofy cheeks and no tail feathers.
Easter Eggers can lay multiple different egg colors such as blue, green, white, pink, tan or dark brown eggs. But one thing to keep in mind, the color eggs one chicken lays will stay that same color throughout her lifetime. Their egg colors don’t change. Easter Eggers can lay up to 280 eggs a year, so they’re great producers.
Known for their calm, gentle disposition, these medium-sized birds are good egg layers who make wonderful home farmstead additions. Chicks vary greatly in color from a creamy buff to dark chestnut and some also have alternate dark and light stripes lengthwise on the back. Adult hen plumage color is a delight to the eye being of rich mahogany base color with individual feathers ending in a white tip separated from the rest of the feathers by a black bar. They do well in cold and heat and are large beauties, maturing at about 7lbs they can lay eggs in the low 200s, annually.
Caring for Chickens
Tips for raising healthy hens 💚
The guidance on the left are for hens, below are tips on baby chicks, as well:
Heat or add a warming light if the temperatures drop below 70 degrees if outside or in a cold room
When bringing them home, dip their beaks into water in their new enclosure
Feed chicks start and grow until they begin laying (somewhere around 5-6 month of age)
Keep away from full grown chickens until their full feathers have come in
If its hot out give them chicken-safe electrolytes
Water must be kept very clean for the first month to prevent sickness
Manually check vents (butts) don’t get poop caked on them
Ducks Available
Meet our beautiful Blue Swedish Ducklings.
These hardy hens will weigh up to 5 pounds, laying mainly white (with the occasional blue or gray tinted egg), at a rate of about 120-180 a year during peak years.
They don't fly, but they are beautiful and social sweethearts with a blue color and white 'bib' that runs from the underside of their bills halfway down their chest.
