Wildflower Honey Urban Farm

04/24/2025

First baby has hatched! 🐣

04/22/2025

Liv keeps going, "Egg Egg Open Open" 😆

04/22/2025

Eggs are in lockdown! 🥚
We should have baby chicks in a few days! 🤞
Olivia gets to watch chicks hatch for the first time!
[Stay tuned]

04/14/2025

April 2025 Chicken Update.
Year 6 being a Chicken tender. 🥚🐓

Eating Eggs Available- message if interested!

03/27/2025

We FINALLY were able to get some chicks that we wanted! We drove almost an hour and a half.
We are so thankful and can't wait till our next order is ready!
[Blue Australorp Female, Rhode Island Blue Female, & Splash Australorp Female]

03/23/2025

9 am this morning and already had 5 eggs! 🌻🥚🎉

03/23/2025

Just a reminder it's not cool to say you have chickens available when you don't. If you're planning a hatch just state that you are hatching these breeds and are waiting to see what hatches on or around this date!
It's also not cool to take money from people to reserve chicks that may or may not hatch.
I know things are crazy right now with chicks but just remember:
clear communication, organization, honesty, and just being kind goes a long way.

03/21/2025

Today's morning snack consisted of corn, carrots, peanut butter protein waffles (lol), a couple grapes, basil, parsley, a sprinkle of garlic powder and tumeric!

03/15/2025

Every morning when I let my chickens out my rooster, Cannoli let's them eat first and keeps watch over them!
He's such a good boy!

02/13/2025

Laying on eggs! Let's see if they hatch! 🥚

02/07/2025

Heads up!

Know your red flags! 🚩🚩

"_____'s Backyard Flock"- SCAM.
"______'s Poultry Farm"- SCAM.
"Yes, I have young hens about to lay and they are cheap"- SCAM.
"I can ship hens ready to lay for $30"- SCAM.
"YES. I have all the breed you want"- SCAM.

Any of the above are red flags and need further investigation before you hand out money.

Further explanation...

"Poultry" "chicken" and "farm" are often searched terms by buyers wanting chickens and scammers love to use them in page titles. The terms are click bait.

"Young hens ready to lay right now" require being hatched back in September/October. Most mature breeding flocks are in molt and not laying eggs at that time. If they are laying, eqq quality is typically poor in the fall as the hens get ready to shut down production for the winter. The shells are often thin and too porous to hatch well. Few hens can be produced that would be at at point-of-lay now. Hens are also not cheap to raise to point of lay (chick supplies+feed+bedding+grit/oyster shell+supplies+infastructure+time invested+cost of the female chick or hatching and raising or disposing of the males).

No one can ship a full grown bird for less than $100. The last quote I gave someone for shipping a single bird was $120 for shipping it two states over. If anyone claims they can send you multiple for less than a few hundred, it's a scam.
By law, the producer is required to be NPIP certified to ship live birds across state lines. If they are claiming they can ship to you, ask for their farm's NPIP number to verify. The NPIP database is public. (We are flock NC 55-1701 by the way).

Be wary of anyone selling many breeds. Breeding takes up a lot of space and infastructure. To breed well, a good breeder has to maintain multiple pens of the same breed. The more breeds, the more pens, and a single breeder can only maintain so many and keep quality high, especially if they are a newly established farm. (This is the reason we only breed Wyandottes and Sebastopols. We keep 6+ pens of each). If they have every breed on your wish list and they aren't a commercial hatchery, that's not typical. Investigate them further before handing money over.

If you're an experienced keeper and have more ways of identifying scammers, feel free to add them to the comments.

Safe shopping,

Elizabeth

12/27/2024

Christmas with Chickens 🎄🐔

10/15/2024

How to tell the difference between a hen and a rooster! (Some breeds are harder to tell till older)

10/13/2024

The littles have started laying! Since they just started they should be laying throughout the winter. 💙

10/12/2024

October 2024 🍂🍁🤎🐓

07/22/2024

It's been a busy life with an almost 11 month old- but here are some pictures of what chicken life has been like lately!

03/20/2024

We finally caught our egg eater! Possums are stubborn! I was able to get him out of the coop and he ran back home.

03/18/2024

Chicken Tender in training. 🐥🌻