To the backyard and beyond, unwittingly being a part of something much larger.

You are a part of something much much larger. You are a part of our poultry breeding programs and without you, we wouldn’t be able to do it. I truly appreciate every single pullet order. I always do my best to provide quality birds in season and am always excited to have new members join our extended family.

We really appreciate your orders and thankful that you choose to support small farmers. I am fully aware that you have the option to buy commercial birds or production layers raised by the thousands by someone who has more of a commodity mindset.  By choosing us, you aren’t ordering from a hatchery, you aren’t ordering sex links produced merely for the backyard market.  Your order and your support help us keep back a lot of birds for breeding programs that would normally go unattended in smaller flocks. 

Unlike chick orders, you, our Backyarder Rainbow Collection customers give us the unique opportunity to watch the hens grow from chick to pullet; we then pick the strongest and best breeder to carry on the lineage of the breed.  I only keep a small percentage from our Backyarder Rainbow Collection each year. To be exact that number is 5%. Those go towards furthering our progress in strengthening old lines and genetics of birds that have fallen out of favour.  You are contributing to something that I can only begin to explain in this post.

It’s a circle of sustainability that is driven to preserve the birds that we love for many more generations to come.  We have lines of pure bred birds that can be traced back hundreds of years.  Some of those old birds we preserve have actually helped rebuild native populations that would have otherwise been lost if it weren’t for the few committed people who see the necessity in keeping them going.

It’s few and far between who take the time to do what we do. With your purchase of our birds, you help us with all our preservation efforts.  I’m so thankful to get to meet you and for our birds to come into your homes. 

Thank you so much for doing your part in helping us preserve for the future.  We really appreciate your business.