Resources
Chicks & Chicken Supplies
Contact the following retailers to purchase chicks (for pick-up or delivery) and all the supplies an urban chicken keeper might need.
Cackle Hatchery
Decorah Hatchery
Double R Country Store
Dunlap Hatchery
Eagle Nest Poultry
Egganic Industries
- 800-783-6344
- www.henspa.com
- Makes the Henspa, a portable, ready-to-assemble henhouse.
Estes Hatchery
Grain-Belt Hatchery
- Box 125
- Windsor, MO 65360
- 816-647-2711
Heartland Hatchery
Hoffman Hatchery, Inc.
Hoover’s Hatchery
Ideal Poultry Breeding Farms, Inc.
Meyer Hatchery
Murray McMurray Hatchery
Moyer’s Chicks, Inc.
Privett Hatchery
Ridgway Hatcheries
Sand Hill Preservation Center
Smith Poultry & Game Bird Supplies
Stromberg’s Chicks & Game Birds
Sun Ray Chicks Hatchery
Townline Hatchery
- Zeeland, Michigan
- 888-685-0040
- http://townlinehatchery.com
Welp, Inc.
Chicken Information & Organizations
The following organizations and companies offer a range of chicken-related information.
American Bantam Association
American Egg Board
- 847-296-7043
- www.aeb.org
- Amusing industry site on the “incredible, edible” egg
American Poultry Association
- 724-729-3459
- www.amerpoultryassn.com
- Publishers of the American Standard of Perfection
Cutler Supply
- 810-663-9450
- General supplies
Feathersite
- www.feathersite.com
- One of the best all-around poultry websites, with tons of information about chickens and other fowl. Breed index on-line with great color photos
Poultry Press
- 765-827-0932
- www.poultrypress.com
- Publishes a newsletter promoting standard-breed poultry
poultryOne.com
- http://poultryone.com
- An online community for chicken hobbyists, complete with articles, forums and a bookstore
Seattle Tilth Association
- 206-633-0451
- www.seattletilth.org
- Links to the Seattle Tilth’s Chicken Coop Tour photographs