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Wildflower Honey Urban Farm, Raleigh, NC (2025)

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