If you want to start or expand your flock but you don't know where to get more chickens? Well this is the right article for you! Plus at the end there's the best 8 hatcheries to buy from in the US!

1. Chick Days.
Every Spring or Fall you can find live chicks being sold in most feed stores, (Tractor Supply, Rural King, etc) and you can also find more types of birds like Ducks, Turkeys, and More! (Note: The minimum you can get in most locations is 6.)

2. Online.
You can also order chicks year round online and get them shipped right to your doorstep! Even though a chick or two might pass away in the stressful shipping process. You can also get hatching eggs off of ebay! (Thanks to DiYMama540 for the edit suggestion)

3. Farm Swaps.
This is where you can find chickens, ducks, and pretty much any animal being sold. (I still don't get why they call it swap :p) And you can also look at Facebook Swaps (Example: Chicken swap of 'insert city name here') If you have a Facebook account!


Now for 8 of the best hatcheries in America! These are the hatcheries in america that farmers and chicken lovers alike love the most! Links to all their websites at the end. (NOTE: None of these hatcheries paid me AT ALL to include them.)

  • Cackle Hatchery

    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, peafowl, and more. Their usual minimum is 15 to 25 birds, but they offer special "city/town" assortments of 5 or 10 birds at a higher price (since shipping fewer birds costs more).


  • J.M Hatchery

    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.


  • Meyer Hatchery

    Meyer Hatchery, located in Ohio, offers a wide variety of poultry as well as hatching eggs, pullets, supplies, books, coops, and other equipment for raising poultry. They offer a low minimum order of just three chicks.



  • Murray McMurray Hatchery

    Murray McMurray has a wide selection of many types of poultry, supplies, and equipment. Like Meyer, they are one of the larger US hatcheries. They are located in Iowa.


  • My Pet Chicken

    My Pet Chicken specializes in small orders for the urban or suburban farmer or homesteader. You can order as few as three chicks, and you can mix breeds. They even sell chicken diapers and saddles! They sell fertile hatching eggs, chicken supplies like coops (including the Eglu), electric net fencing, and more.


  • Privett Hatchery

    Privett Hatchery is located in New Mexico. Privett offers a wide variety of chicks as well as bantams, ducklings, goslings, Guinea keets, and turkey poults. They require a minimum order of 25 chicks.


  • Stromberg's Chicks and Game Birds Unlimited

    Stromberg's features not only chicks, but doves, pigeons, adult birds, brooders, wild birdhouses, and the unique Starplate Building System to build coops and other small structures. Stromberg's has a very large selection of books, supplies, and equipment.



  • Welp Hatchery

    Located in Iowa, Welp Hatchery sells egg layers, meat birds, rare breeds, bantams, turkeys, ducks, goslings, pheasants, guineas, and chukar partridges. They sell supplies and equipment too. They require a minimum order of 25 chicks and 5 per breed/gender.
Those are all the best hatcheries!

Bye and remember to be happy with your hens!! :jumpy:frow

LINKS TO ALL THE HATCHERIES:

Cackle Hatchery
https://www.cacklehatchery.com/

JM Hatchery
https://jmhatchery.com/

Meyer Hatchery
https://www.meyerhatchery.com/

Murray McMurray Hatchery
https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com

My Pet Chicken
https://www.mypetchicken.com/

Privett Hatchery
http://www.privetthatchery.com

Stromberg's Chickens
https://www.strombergschickens.com/

Welp Hatchery
https://www.welphatchery.com/
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