RutherCluckers

04/19/2023

This past year I have been mainly focusing on one particular breed that I'm obsessed with and that is the LF English Orpington. I researched and hunted down best best breeders who have poured their blood sweat and tears into their lines and projects and we hatched as many differnt kinds as we could. This year I will be continuing this venture and it's super awesome to be able to connect with other breeders, pick their brains and learn from the best. Every year we learn valuable tricks, lessons and knowledge and grow from that. Our grow out program was also a success and relieved great feedback regarding our birds.

As of right now I will not be offering grow outs of common breeds this year and focusing more on building up the lines I wish to work with exclusively and perfect them as nessescary. Come next spring If I have any to spare I will sell English orpington growouts that do not make the cut for breeding.

We are also trying to introduce other breeds to our farm as we would also like to offer more of a selection when purchasing birds from us. Currently we are set to hatch gold and silver deathlayers in May and continue working with our calico/Mille fleur cochin bantams. I try to keep up with what's popular and efficient so if there's any breeds you would like us to work on please let us know. We might not have it but im sure I can find you someone that does.

Right now we have English Mauve and English chocolates getting ready to head into our incubators.

This season I am looking to add the following breeds to our farm.

English Orpingtons:
Lavender/lavender cuckoo, chocolate cuckoo, Isabel cuckoo, buff, blue buff Colombian, Isabel laced, crele, molted blue/black/splash, molted chocolate, chocolate silver birchen and chocolate molted silver Wheaten.

Next year or if possible this year I would like to add a few silver laced, gold laced, sop white, and red cuckoo but im sure I'll be pretty busy with the above mentioned.

As always we are here for the feedback so shoot us a message have a beautiful clucking day

04/19/2023

Happy spring everyone! It's officially the season here at RutherCluckers and we are busy improving our farm, hatching new breeds, and for the first time hatching our own breeds.

As of right now, we have the following in our incubators and hoping for great fertility and a even better hatch. We are expecting to hatch some
English Porcelain orpingtons
English Jubilee Orpingtons
English calico orpingtons

We also have a broody calico who also sitting on some eggs and a broody Mille fleur/calico cochin bantam hen who is also sitting on some eggs. Fertility with the cochin bantams has been not so good so we are hoping it improves as time goes on.

As of right now we are not offering fertile eggs but will offer chick's if and when they become available. We will be hatching whatever we can of our own parent stocks as we can until mid July.

More updates to come feel free to shoot us a message with and questions you may have.

02/26/2023

Gator squad

07/24/2022

Hello friends. I'm sorry we haven't been on much, my husband and I have been working crazy schedules lately and for that reason I stopped posting about our birds that are up for discussion. My apologies to anyone I couldn't find availability for. Due to our lack of time we have decided to suspend sale posts until September when I have more time to accommodate everyone.

We finished our hatching season (earlier than I wanted to ahem lol) and as of now the current breeds we will be offering come NEXT SPRING OF 2022 are as follows

Buff Orpington
Porcelain Orpington Split to Jubilee
Jubilee Orpington
Calico/Mille Fleur Orpington
Molted Black Orpington
Silver Lace Orpington
Chocolate Molted Silver Wheaten Orpington (I oy had 2 hatch so we will see)
Lavender (I only got hens lol so in search of a good roo)

Please do not message us regarding sales of these breeds as they will not be available until 2023.

In other news, it seems that the English crele orpingtons we hatched were all mixed with other orpingtons or breeds 🥴. All 4 are completely different but very cool looking. I'm keeping them and are living with my OG flock.
We also had 1 single Chocolate Silver Birchen Orpington hatch which will also go into the ig flock.

Our first year hatching was somewhat of a success. Our last hatch we put in 88 eggs and of that we only have 21. Everything is a learning opportunity and I'm taking it as that. Next year we hope and are working towards better hatch rates if we can somehow help it.

If anyone is interested in laying age pullets, we have the following breeds. As said above come setpember our availability will be more flexible but unfortunately we are not at a point in our lives where chickens can be our main source of income and remains a helpful hobby for now. I do apologize for any inconviemce that this has or may cause. Message us and we will do our best to work with you.

1 white jersey giant
splash lace red wyandottes
Cinnamon queens
Turkens
Silkies
1 black australorp
1 Cream legbar
Olive Eggers
Ameraucanas
1 splash Easter egger bantam
1 Silver Phoenix bantam
2 gold spangled appenzeller spitzhaubens
Colombian wyandottes
Polish
1 molted houdan

07/02/2022

We want to apologize for our lack of availability lately. We are a small family farm and my husband and I both work alot in the summer.

With that being said, I will not be available for sales until Tuesday. If I'm taking a little longer than you would like to respond then I do apologize. I am crazy super busy but I will do my best to get back to you in a timely manner

We still have plenty of 16+ week hens and cockerels up for discussion in the next coming weeks as we are cleaning out our grow out sale birds and moving in our new breeders for next year. Asking 3️⃣5️⃣ for ladies and 2️⃣5️⃣ for straight run polish and silkies.

Our last hatch was ehhh. Out of over 80 eggs only 23 hatched. 4 more had to be assisted giving us a total of 27. I'm happy that we at least got a few of each to work with.

06/27/2022

Baby chick's are pipping!!

Jubilee Orpingtons
Silver Lace Orpingtons
Molted Black Orpingtons
Porcelain Orpingtons
Chocolate Molted Silver Wheaten
Chocolate Silver Birchen

06/17/2022

We have pullets and Cockrells up for discussion. Most were hatched in March and early April. They will be coming into laying age within the next few weeks to a month. This is the last time they will be available until they start laying and their prices go up. We have about 60+ orpingtons hoping to hatch the last week of June and it's almost time to say goodbye to all of our grow out breeds and find them forever homes.

Cinnamon queens
White jersey giants
Splash lace red Wyandottes
Turkens
Polish
Silkies
Black Austalorp
Ameraucaunas

Message us today. Roosters are free to good homes and discounts are given on pullets if you take a rooster too.

06/04/2022

Eggs are here and were about to bust these open and get them all ready for the incubator.

*we do not have eggs for discussion at this time* but would be happy to point you to some of our trusted breeders that we work directly with.

1 dozen Silver Lace Orpingtons
1 dozen Jubilee Orpingtons
Half a dozen Porcelain Orpingtons (we loved our babies we got from the last hatch so had to order more)
Half a dozen Molted Black Orpingtons
Half a dozen Chocolate Silver Birchen Orpingtons
Half a dozen Chocolate Molted Silver Wheaten Orpingtons.

I think my post office hates me but oh well. Lmao

All of these eggs come from Fawn Spring Farms and if you havent checked them out they are AMAZING. The best birds I have hatched so far.

None of these breeds will be available for chicks until 2023 at the earliest. Any birds that do not make the cut will be up for discussion late fall/ early winter.

05/31/2022

We are back to hatching and this time we will be hatching

More Porcelain Orpingtons
Molted Black Orpingtons
Silver Lace Orpingtons
Jubilee Orpingtons
Chocolate Molted Silver Wheaten Orpingtons
Chocolate Silver Birchen Orpingtons

Chicks are due to hatch around june 25th

Next week we will start another hatch consisting of

Isabel Cuckoo Orpingtons
Lemon Cuckoo Orpingtons
Chocolate Cuckoo Orpingtons

They are due to hatch 1st week in july.

In july we hope to be adding,

White Orpingtons
Splash Orpingtons
Molted Chocolate Orpingtons
Molted Lavender Orpingtons
Gold Lace Orpingtons

After july we will join longer be hatching for the season and the elimination process will begin. For anyone intrested in any roosters of these breeds feel free to message us.

Right now we currently have the following (NOT up for discussion)

Buff Orpingtons
Lavender Orpingtons
Various Crele Orpingtons
Calico Orpingtons
Porcelain Split to Jubilee Orpingtons

05/21/2022

Our mille fleur cochin bantams. We have 1 beautiful blue mille fleur and 2 black mille fleur it looks like. There's also 2 Porcelain duncles in here too. 1 months old and we can't wait to officially add these to our breeding program. We hatched 13 and were waiting to see what everyone is

**because chicken folk just love attacking other chicken folk... They are split up in 2 of these cages, I put them all together for the photos.

05/17/2022

Another beautiful day it looks like.

Update:
We moved 5 brooders outside this week (a little later than we wanted to but what can u do) we have chick's ranging from 3 weeks to 9 weeks of age. This is our first year making our chick's available for discussion before they start laying otherwise that is primarily what we do.

We start our next hatch after memorial day weekend with a hatch date in mid June. Again these breeds will most likely not be available until next spring as we are trying to grow our breeding program and pens. This year we have specifically focused on orpingtons as they are my favorite and would love to get differnt kinds in all the flocks besides buff, black and lavender.

Starting memorial day weekend, we will only be available for sales during the morning/early afternoon unless specified (I bartend at the shore in the summer so i work all weekend lol). We apologize for any inconvenience but I am available during the week for sales or visits. Yes we allow customers on our farm BUT NOT in our enclosures. All of pur enclosures are in a another enclosure and we recommend that our guests wear disposable mesh booties while in our yard. Bio security is very important to us, knowing where your birds come from is especially important for us to. We do not let any customers visit after sun down to ensure that you can see every aspect (aside from inside the coop) of care your chickens have received prior to joining their forever homes. I personally could never buy or rescue anything that I haven't seen where it came from. We do suggest quarantineing any bird you are looking to add to your flock out of general due diligence.


We will be updating our breed list shortly and adding some new photos of EVERYTHING we got Going on right now so feel free to message with any questions and we will be happy to help.

Ruthercluckers will also help you find a specific breed if we don't have it or help you find someone that does.

Have a beautiful day

05/03/2022

04/30/2022

We have lots of pullets and straight run breeds available and looking for their forever coops from ages 4 days old to 8 weeks and off heat transitioning to outside coops.

Buff orpington
Splash lace red Wyandotte
White Jersey Giants
Polish
Silkies
Silver Phoenix bantam
Easter egger bantam
Cinnamon queens
Blue lace red Wyandotte
Ameraucanas
Olive eggers

Just hatched but not currently available for discussion

Mille fleur cochin bantams
Calico orpingtons
Porcelain/jubilee split (carries lavender gene) orpingtons
Unfirtunetly we had a 0 hatch rate with our frizzle orpingtons

We will be away from Thursday May 5th to Monday May 9th.

End of May we will have more:

French Black Copper marans
Salmon favorelles
Olive eggers
Cream legbars
Barnevelders
Welsummers

Our next hatch is due in June as we are on a little break and these will be for breeding line purposes.

If there are any specific breeds you are intrested Reach on out to us and if we can't help you I'm sure we know someone who can.

Have a fantastic weekend

04/28/2022

04/28/2022

New Hatch

04/24/2022

🐥Calico/mille fleur cochin bantams (there's also French Black Copper maran and cream legbar in with them) not the best pic but will post an official photo tomorrow when I'm not running around like a crazy person.

I can't wait to see how beautiful they will be.

04/24/2022

All incubators due to start hatching tomorrow

🐥 calico/mille fleur orpingtons

🐥Porcelain orpingtons

🐥frizzle orpingtons

04/20/2022

Grow outs available currently:

Buff orpington
White Jersey Giants
Splash lace red Wyandotte
Polish (gold, buff, and white crested black)
Turkens
Cinnamon queens
French Black Copper marans
Salmon favorelle
Silkies (uns*xed)
Silver Phoenix bantam

Ages ranging from 6 weeks to 1 week.

We are currently sold out of laying hens.

Message us if intrested in any above breeds

04/19/2022

Too funny not to post

04/18/2022

Happy belated Easter from our farm family to yours.

We recently hatched some calico/mille fleur cochin bantams and at the beginning of next week we have the following hatching:

Porcelain orpingtons
Jubilee orpingtons that carry the lavender gene
Frizzle orpingtons
And calico orpingtons

As of right now these breeds are not up for discussion but we would like to get an idea if anyone would be Intrested in adding these breeds to your flocks so send us pm and let us know. Grandpa chuckles (my husband who is very much not a grandpa) is almost finished building part 1 of our breeding pens and we hope to be able to take our breeding program to the next level for the 2023 season.

If any of these breeds do become available they will only be sold once they come into laying age around august/September.

We currently have 60+ pullets growing out in our brooders and transitioning that will be available come july. If you are intrested in any now please message us and we would be happy to accommodate you if possible

04/16/2022

New coop in the workings! This coop will feature 4 separate enclosures each with there own run! Follow for updates!

04/16/2022

New coop in the workings! This coop will feature 4 separate enclosures each with r there own run!

04/15/2022

04/14/2022

New hatchlings!! 🐓

04/14/2022

New hatchlings !!

03/16/2022

Hello cluckers and welcome to the 2022 chicken season. This will be our first year operating under our official business page but our 3rd year raising quality chickens.

Here are some updates on our farm:

We are currently raising a wide variety of rare, fancy and popular breeds this year that will be will be up for discussion around july/August. Last year we started our grow out program and were successful in sending many hens off to their forever coops. We were so pleased with our customers feedback on the quality, care, health and general disposition of our birds that we decided to continue our grow out program along with expanding and continuing our breeding program.

While we do not typically sell chick's to avoid competing with our fellow breeders, if there are any breeds or birds that you see that you are intrested in before laying age feel free to pm us and we will be happy to accommodate you. We will also be investing in DNA testing to help us properly s*x chick's faster.

Breeds that will be available in our grow out program:

Buff Orpington
White Jersey Giants
Splash Laced Red Wyandottes
Cinnamon Queens
Buff Polish (Straight Run)
Gold Laced Polish (Straight Run)
White Crested Black Polish (Straight Run)
Easter Egger Bantams (Straight Run)
Salmon Favorelles
Phoenix Bantams (Straight Run)
Naked Necks
Silkies- assorted colors (Straight Run)
Blue Ameraucanas
Black Ameraucanas
Splash Ameraucanas
Blue Laced Red Wyandottes
Black Laced Silver Wyandottes
Olive Eggers
Cream Legbars
French Black Copper Marans

Rare breeds that we are expecting to hatch this season:

Opal Legbars
Tolbunt Polish
Calico Cochins
Mille Fleur Cochins
Mille Fleu D'uncles
Porcelain D'Uncles
Seramas
Lavender Brahmas
Isabel Brahmas
Deathlayers
Double Laced Silver Barnevders

Please note that none of the above rare breeds are guaranteed for this season as mother nature is our business partner. We will be updating as new birds hatch and arrive.

Ruthercluckers Orpington Breeding Program will be in its 2nd year and we are working more than ever to be able to ensure the best quality orpingtons for the 2023 season. Orpingtons are our family's absolute favorite breed of chicken and our history and love for them has inspired us to specialize in differnt varieties of the breed. We have been working and networking with various breeders throughout the country to create our lines and we will continue to perfect to the best standard we cam achieve.

Orpington breeds we are working on this year are:

Lavender
Chocolate
Jubilee
Blue
Black
Splash
White
Lemon cuckoo
Isabel
Isabel cuckoo
Calico
Mauve
Silver laced
Blue laced
Molted
Fizzle
Crele

Our incubator is full currently with Lavender and crele orpingtons and are expected to hatch around March 25th. These birds will typically not be for sale as we are trying to perfect our quality as stated above but we may be willing to work with you if you are super intrested and based off of our availability and hatch rates.

We currently have about 25 various adult birds that basically run the place and belong to our OG rainbow flock. This is our first flock we ever started with along with a few other grow outs that imprinted on us that we didn't have the heart to sell. We do still have some laying hens available now so pm for more details and breeds. Most are around 8 months to 2 years of age and established layers.

That's basically it for Ruthercluckers for now but stay tuned for our a look at all of the birds we have now when we do our little chick photo shoot. We look forward to working with new and old customers and hope that we continue to strive for excellent chickens and the best possible care for them.

Stay tuned 😉

03/16/2022

The s*xiest butt nuggets from