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~ Lakeside Farm Rainbow Ameraucana Chicks & Hatching Eggs ~
Hatching Eggs and Chicks from our mixed/project colors free-range flock of over 100 adults birds.
Our Ameraucana are a beautiful, genetically diverse mixed color flock of over 100 birds. The hens are great layers of large misty blue and minty green eggs. The vibrantly colored roosters are fast growing and docile. Most are cold-hardy with small, frost-resistant combs. Our colors include red-brown, wheaten, silver, white, black, blue, blue birchen, chocolate, mauve, and lavender with fine penciling, laced, partridge, spangled, mottled, and splash feather patterns. All have slate or olive green legs and bushy beards and muffs.
All are beautiful birds kept for exceptional feather color patterns and balanced confirmation for dual-purpose use. All of our Ameraucana roosters (~20 in the flock at this time) have full beards and slate or (rarely) olive colored legs. We have 2-4 roosters in each of the colors shown - blue or lavender laced, red and blue laced, blue and gold, rust-blue-gold, blue birchen, and silver-laced.
We usually keep only the first 20-30 hatchers of each of our 150 egg batches for our flock (to maintain vigorous hatching traits), and we regularly add exceptional birds and/or brightly colored hatching eggs to our flock from a variety of outside sources as a wide gene pool, hatching viability, winter laying, and egg color are our top priorities. If you want to drastically increase your genetics with high quality, colorful, vibrant egg layers these are the eggs for you!
Our fertility is great, with 148/150 viable at first candling. Many of our customers report 75-100% hatching on the shipped eggs.
We ship only the freshest, cleanest, prettiest colored, and most perfectly shaped eggs. Eggs are no older than 24 hours when they ship (I can pack two dozen per day at this time). Twelve eggs (10+ guaranteed to arrive in condition for incubating) are carefully gathered and packaged in reused/reusable materials such as tissue/newspaper, batting, shipping bubbles to form a 3-6” pad around the exterior of a reusable egg carton in a sturdy lightly used box. Each egg is cushioned with tissue.
Please message immediately after ordering if you want your box marked for PO pickup (I’ll need to mark the box with your phone number).
I use reused materials and pack the eggs securely with compact packaging to save cost and keep shipping and handling prices reasonable for my customers. Last season, of about 20 dozen shipped, only 1 egg arrive cracked! This season, I’ve shipped 100+ dozen and had eggs broken from only a few orders.
The easiest and safest way to order is through our ebay listings where (although there are ebay fees) customers receive ebay discounted priority or express shipping rates.
* 10+ Lakeside Farm Rainbow Ameraucana Hatching Eggs (on ebay) *
Straight-run chicks are available for local pickup at $40/ten.
*USPS insures up to $50, you may choose to take any broken eggs and packaging to your local post office to file a claim for reimbursement of purchase and shipping expenses; I am unable to do this from my end without asking for the return of broken eggs which is just... not realistic! ;D It is not possible for me to file the claim based on photos from my end. Please call or email if you would like so see an interior view of my packing method, or have any other questions.
Please feel free to call if you have any questions at all!
Lakeside Farm ~ Putnam Station, NY ~ (518) 547-8406