Lavender Farm

09/09/2024

Button quail 😍🥺 pictured next to a coturnix. Both hatched today! Coturnix chicks are available! Watch out for button quail availability in the future!

09/08/2024

Our English Chocolate orpingtons have been growing all season and are just about ready! I’ll be having small batches of chocolate pullet chicks available this fall!

08/21/2024

Small batch of lavender orpingtons UFD! Also have black split to lavender and black mottled split to lavender. Split means when bred back to lavender they will produce mostly lavender babies with pristine feathers.

25+ 1 week old jumbo coturnix quail also UFD.

Mount pleasant, NC
About 30 minutes NE of Charlotte

08/16/2024

Happy harvest from Lavender farm! Summer days are still upon us, but we are starting to feel the nights cool off as they grow longer.

06/30/2024

88° when I finished, but the high today was 92° 🥵 one more good day of work and this bobwhite quail pen will be finished 🙌🏻

06/17/2024

We got some fun eggs to incubate and now have some fun extras in limited quantities!

Turkeys, coturnix quail, RIR pullets and maran pullets UFD in mount pleasant, NC. Message for more info!

06/01/2024

4 Narragansett poults UFD in mount pleasant, NC. PM for more details 😃

05/17/2024

We have a lot still UFD in mount pleasant, NC! Including bourbon red and royal palm turkeys due on Memorial Day! Follow my page to be the first to know about when those are available! (Blue slate not available at this time but will be a regular here in the future!

05/10/2024

PULLET AND HEN ALERT 🚨
Located in Mount Pleasant, NC (between Concord and Albemarle)

3 BCM pullets, 3-4 weeks old, almost ready for the coop with the warmer weather. 40/trio

Breeding trio of coop ready English chocolate orpingtons (1 roo 2 pullets) approximately 2 months old. (Rooster can stay behind) 60/trio

1 black mottled black orpington hen, just over a year old and laying. She doesn’t always look like a bowling pin, she’s just highly suspicious of me taking pictures 😆 30

PM or comment for more info.

05/09/2024

My crazy purple chicken obsession! (TLDR points at the end)

I have been asked a handful of times, “why lavender orpingtons? What’s the difference?”

The container of eggs may speak for itself, but let me tell you a little more about them! These eggs are from my 8 hens in less than a week! And that is not accounting for all the ones we have boiled for pickling or eaten fresh.

Orpington chickens are a prolific-laying, dual-purpose bird averaging about 240 eggs per year. With a proper diet and supplemental lighting they can lay even more! They will also continue this productivity for AT LEAST 3-4 years. This puts them at a huge advantage over some of the new hybrid production breeds which will lay 300+ eggs per year for only the first 1-2 years with a severe drop off in production into the third year. Plus, lavender orpingtons are just gorgeous!

Speaking of how great they look, another question I often get is, “are they English orpingtons?” The short answer is, “no.” But, hear me out. There are multiple standards of perfection for the orpington chicken, with English orpingtons being the extra round balls of fluff everyone loves. I won’t get into the specifics of all of the differences, but I will tell you why I have chosen a model closer to the “American” standard.

These are not birds who will rapidly mature to laying eggs in 4 months like you get when you order from a hatchery. These hatchery birds are beautiful in their own right but are smaller, have tighter feathering, and do not look much different from other chickens because they are bred for production. There is nothing wrong with loving chicks you get from a hatchery, at the end of the day it is about what makes YOU happy in your chicken tender adventures.

The birds I am breeding mature and feather a bit slower, typically starting to lay anywhere from 6-8 months of age. They also have larger, more rounded features, fluffy skirts, and loose, billowy feathers. Overall they are a larger bird than a hatchery orpington. They are bred for feather quality and temperament, as well as their ability to be used either as long-life egg layers, meat birds, or backyard pets. However, as I said before, they do not fit the English standard.

A big difference between true English orpingtons and other styles is the amount of eggs produced per year. Being bred for looks definitely has its downside, as most of these birds will typically lay closer to 160-180 eggs per year. They also mature even slower which means they are much older than the recommended 20 weeks by the time they are ready to harvest. This can cause a disadvantage when it comes to the overall texture of the meat.

I hope this answers a few questions you may have about what we are doing here at lavender farm. 💜💜 With all things, the most important thing is to do your own research and choose what is best for your needs. I’m just here to tell you a little bit of what that looks like for me 🥰

I commend you if you made it this far! In closing, here are some takeaways for the TLDR crowd:

1. Not all orpingtons are created equal
2. Lavender orpingtons make an excellent dual-purpose with the right breeding goals
3. You’ll have more eggs than you can eat
4. They make the cutest babies!

05/02/2024

36 (plus more hatching) lavender, black, and mottled orpingtons! 6️⃣ ea or 5️⃣/3️⃣0️⃣.

1 royal palm and 1 bourbon red turkey.

All available in Mt Pleasant, NC

04/03/2024

Mount pleasant, NC

Tomorrow all day and Friday morning only!
Lavender orpingtons, black split to lavender orpingtons, black mottled, and lavender mottled (only 1) orpingtons aged 5-10 days are B5G1! 6️⃣ ea or 6/30. Message me to arrange! Parents are featured on the pinned post.

04/01/2024

Thank you so much to everyone who made it out for the Easter sale! Without my customers I would not be able to continue with my love of hatching (imagine all the chickens I would have! 😱).

With that, I am happy to announce a PERMANENT change in pricing as a thank you to all customers, previous, current, and yet to come!

ALL straight run orpington chicks aged 3 weeks and under will be 6️⃣ ea or 5️⃣ ea for 10+

I offer lavender, black split to lavender, black mottled, and lavender mottled (limited quantities on mottled).

I look forward to hearing from you soon, follow Lavender Farm for the latest updates!

Located in Mount Pleasant, NC

03/30/2024

03/30/2024

Tulips ✅
Chicks ✅
Sunshine ✅

It finally feels like springtime! Lavender, black split to lavender, mottled lavender, and mottled black orpingtons are hatching every week!

03/29/2024

EASTER FLASH SALE
Mount Pleasant, North Carolina

Brooder clear out for Friday and Saturday, March 29th-30th!

1 week old and 2 weeks old
Straight run

-lavender orpington
-black split to lavender orpington
-mottled lavender orpington
-black mottled orpington with chance of split to lavender

Only 5️⃣ ea! That’s half off! Message me to arrange a pickup.

03/18/2024

Located in Mount Pleasant, NC

Mottled lavender, solid lavender, mottled black, and solid black split to lavender orpingtons 😍

Straight run

8️⃣ ea
7️⃣ea for 10+

Hatched 3/2/24, 3/13/24, and more coming soon approximately 3/21/24

Message me to set up an appointment!

03/14/2024

Me trying to get pictures of the chickens 😂 will try again soon. In the meantime, we have chicks!!

Hatched 3/2/24 and 3/12/24
Lavender orpington
Mottled lavender orpington
Black orpington split to lavender
Black mottled orpington (some may be split to lavender)

This is my second generation of breeding for feather quality and they are looking lovely!

Ask about the Spring special!

Mount Pleasant, NC, just outside of the Concord/Charlotte area

03/04/2024

One of our breeders from last year is already catching the broody fever 😅

03/02/2024

Lavender orpington and black split to lavender chicks are now available! First hatch of the year special! Only 8️⃣ ea straight run! They will be ready Sunday, 3/3/24. Message me to arrange. Mount pleasant, NC 💜

03/01/2024

We have a couple early birds!

02/11/2024

See y’all in 3 weeks with lavender orpingtons and a limited number of black and black mottled orpingtons!

02/05/2024

So excited for the new incubator! Loading it up in a week!

01/01/2024

We are going to have mottled black orpingtons this year! Hatching will start in early March!

11/19/2023

We are back!
Pullets available! Hatch date between may-July.

Lavender orpington $30 - 7 available
BYM with lavender orpington $15 - 4 available

11/06/2023

Good morning, all!

First and foremost I would like to apologize for nearly two months of radio silence. I had taken some time off from anything public with the farm so we could have our wedding, and two weeks later I was hit head on by a reckless driver at high speeds. I was super lucky to not have lost my life and am on the mend, but recovery took a little longer than I had hoped. I am just now getting back in the groove of everything, but I have a lot of things to catch up on.

With that said, however, be on the lookout for lavender orpington hens UFD soon! I have to get growouts sorted and banded over the coming weeks, but I am very excited to offer up some gorgeous girls hatched right here in Mount Pleasant, NC this summer!

09/02/2023

We have chicks in mount pleasant, NC!

Straight run

1 week old lavender orpington, lavender farm exclusive Easter egger, and BYM with lavender rooster.
3 week old lavender farm exclusive Easter Eggers
6-7 week old off heat, in brooder box turken, turkens without naked necks, and lavender farm exclusive EE.

Message me!

08/20/2023

Good evening! We will be closed for chicken sales for the next week and a half due to our upcoming wedding! All arrangements previously made will be fulfilled and any sales moving forward will be scheduled for after august 29th. We will have a brand new batch of chicks ready to go at this time! Lavender orpingtons, lavender farm exclusive Easter Eggers, and hardy lavender mixed BYM chicks. We always have lavender roosters at freezer camp prices and the occasional set of grown out pullets, so stay tuned! we are so thankful for our customers and look forward to serving you again soon!

08/13/2023

Fresh from the incubator! Lavender orpingtons and a Lavender Farm exclusive Easter egger!

1 week old
Lavender orpington, lavender farm exclusive Easter egger, and turkens! PM me!

I always have young lavender roos at freezer camp prices.

Mount pleasant, NC

08/11/2023

Lavender orpington and lavender farm exclusive hybrid EE chicks hatching today!