Nova Scotia Chicken Breeder Directory

Finding chickens locally shouldn’t feel like a gamble. Here’s a list of real, established Nova Scotia breeders - plus a few tips to help you avoid scams and bring home your flock with confidence.

Krystal

Below you’ll find a list of farms and chicken breeders in Nova Scotia who are real, established sellers – helping make sourcing chickens locally a little safer. Unfortunately, there are a lot of scammers out there who steal photos from legitimate breeders and try to sell birds that don’t actually exist to unsuspecting buyers. If you’re looking for waterfowl or gamebird breeders, you can find a list of them here: [Nova Scotia Waterfowl & Gamebird Breeder Directory]

A good rule of thumb is to never send money to someone you don’t know, and if someone claims they’ll ship live birds to you, it’s time to keep scrolling. That’s simply not something that’s done within Nova Scotia.

While I can confirm that the farms listed here do exist, and I’ve happily purchased birds from a few of them, I haven’t personally dealt with every farm on the list. Being included here doesn’t necessarily mean I’ve worked with or personally recommend them all – especially as the list grows and includes more breeders over time. To keep things fair, farms and breeders are listed alphabetically by county and then by name, with no priority given.

As with any purchase, I encourage you to do your own research when choosing a breeder to make sure they’re the right fit for you. Follow best practices when vetting any breeder or farm, even those listed here, and always quarantine new birds before introducing them to your existing flock.

If you just stumbled across this post and you’re new to chicken keeping, my beginner workshop, Feathered Fundamentals, walks you through everything you need to feel confident before bringing birds home.

Looking for ducks, geese, turkeys, guineas, or quail?

Go to the Waterfowl & Gamebird Breeder Directory

Annapolis County

Gamborganic Farms

Location: Bear River East

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Barred Rock
• Black Star

Serenity Acres Family Farm

Location: Wilmot

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Silver Laced Wyandotte
• Gold Laced Wyandotte
• Blue Laced Wyandotte
• Splash Laced Wyandotte
• Bantam black Wyandotte
• Black Copper Marans
• Silverudd Isbars
• Silver Spangled Hamburg
• Bantam Cochin
• Welsummer
• Ayam Cemani
• Crested Cream & Opal Legbar
• Hedemora
• Vorwerk
• Dark Brahma
• Lavender & Porcelain Mottled Belgian D’uccles
• Milles Fleur Belgian D’uccles
• Swedish Flower Hens
• F2 Olive Egger
• Asil

The Naked Acre Homestead

Location: Lawrencetown

Hatching Eggs Available?: No

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Silkie
• Polish
• Easter Egger

Cape Breton Regional Municipality

Roost Ridge Farm

Location: Sydney

Hatching Eggs Available?: Occasionally (by request)

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Vorwerk
• Lemon Pyle Brahma
• Brabanters
• Olandsk Dwarf

Colchester County

Wildwood Lane Homestead

Location: Stewiacke

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Olive Eggers
• Easter Eggers

Cumberland County

The Painted Roost

Location: Cape Spear, NB (but travels to Cumberland County almost daily)

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Black Copper Marans
• Multigen Olive Eggers with emphasis on eggs with dark earthy tones and speckles

Digby County

Grasshopper Farms

Location: Meteghan

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Black Copper Marans
• Crested Cream Legbars
• several bantam breeds

McKendrick’s Farm

Location: Marshalltown

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Barred Rock
• Black Star
• Rhode Island Red

Hants County

Cajun Creek Farm

Location: Summerville

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Americauna
•Lavender Orpington
• Buff Orpington
• Jubilee Orpington
• Black Orpington
• Golden Laced Wyandotte
• Black Jersey Giant
• Rhode Island Red
• Silver Grey Dorking
• Bantam Easter Egger
• BBS (Blue, Black, Splash) Bantam Easter Egger
• Standard Easter Egger
• Buff Brahma
• Lemon Pyle Brahma
• Belgian Malines
• Barred Rock
• Lavender Marans
• Black Copper Marans
• White Chantecler
• Exchequer Leghorn

Fowl Language Farm

Location: Shubenacadie

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Silver Laced Wyandotte
• Blue/Splash Laced Red Wyandotte
• Speckled Sussex
• Brown Leghorn
• Easter Egger

Galio Gamebirds

Location: near Windsor

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Asil/H’mong/Belgian Liege

Heartful Homestead

Location: near Windsor

Hatching Eggs Available?: No

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Orpingtons: Lavender, Buff & Black (splits)
• Ameraucanas: wheaten/blue wheaten/splash wheaten & a side “color project/ee”: chocolates & spotted
• Olive Eggers in blue, splash, black, yellow, spotted. Blue Wheaten Ameraucana Roo X Blue & Splash French Marans -1st & 2nd gen. Most get the feathered feet and coloring of the maran mom’s, with the adorable “cheek poofs” (muffs) from the Ameraucana.
• Polish: mixed color flock, but another fun color project in motion, focusing on developing more blues, blue-red-laced & red-blue-laced beauties.
• Chocolate Copper Marans (limited numbers)
• Silverudd Isbars-splash & blue (limited numbers)

Route 14 Roosts

Location: Martok

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes (when available)

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Silkie
• Easter/Olive Egger
• Cream Crested Legbar

Samsquanch Ranch

Location: Shubenacadie

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes (Summer/Fall)

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Ameraucana (mixed colour pen) blue, splash, wheaten, blue wheaten,
• Black Ameraucana
• Ermine Ameraucana – pullets only at this time
• Rhode Island Red
• Polish – Mixed Colour Pen
• Olive/Easter Egger
• Silkie

The Butt Hut

Location: Mount Uniacke

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Polish
• Silkie
• Easter Egger
• Olive Egger
• Rhodebar
• Bantam Barnyard Mix

Halifax Regional Municipality

Bark’s, Cluck’s, Honk’s, & Quack’s INN

Location: Sackville

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Silkies

Spruceberry Hill Homestead

Location: Jeddore

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Belgian Malines
• Lavender Orpington
• Buff Orpington
• Lemon Pyle Brahma
• Ayam Cemani
• Silkie

Inverness County

MacDonald Fields

Location: Margaree Forks

Hatching Eggs Available?: No

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Olive Eggers
• Barnyard Mix
• Marans
• Welsummer
• Light Sussex
• Silverudd’s Blue
• Swedish Flower
• Ameraucana
• Plymouth Barred Rock
• Bresse

Kings County

Maple Front Farms

Location: Aylesford

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Light Brahmas
• Black Copper Marans
• Opal and Cream Legbars
• Olive Eggers

The Rainbow Roost

Location: Aylesford (travels to HRM on Thursdays)

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Rainbow Laying Mixes
• Swedish flower Hens
• Wheaten Marans
• Ameraucana
• Olive Eggers (F1 & Multigeneration)
•Easter Eggers

Valhalla Farm

Location: Aylesford

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Plymouth Barred Rocks

Pictou County

HatchHappy

Location: Westville

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Black Australorp
• Crested Cream Legbar
• Polingtons (Buff Laced Polish crossed with
Chocolate Laced Orpington)

Queens County

Beach Acres Homestead

Location: Port Mouton

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Light Brahma
• Bantam Buff Brahma

Buck’s Bounty Farm

Location: Buckfield

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Ameraucana
• Easter Egger

Butt Nugget Gardens

Location: Buckfield

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes, rainbow layers.

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Ameraucana Chicks – BBSW (Blue, Black, Splash, Wheaton)
• Brahma Chicks – Splash x Light
• Brahmaucana Chicks (F1 Olive egger) – BBS (Blue, Black, Splash)
• Rainbow Layer Chicks and Pullets

Happy Hank Farm

Location: Greenfield

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Barnyard Mix (parents are commercial layers & mix of different breed roosters; Porcelain D’uucle, Zombies, Legbar)
• Additional breeds (Barred Rock, Cream Legbar, Golden Laced Wyandotte) coming in 2027

Hidden Barnyard

Location: Bangs Falls

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Isabel Orpington
• Crele Orpington
• Partridge Orpington
• Mosaics, Legbars
• Black Copper Maran
• BBS (Blue, Black Splash) Marans

Rustling Leaves Roost

Location: Caledonia

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• “Rustling Leaves Rainbow” Barnyard Mix (heritage breed mix rainbow layer flock)
• Wheaten Marans
• F1/BC1 Wheaten Olive Eggers

Shelburne County

Archrival Ranch

Location: Sable River

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Ko Shamo
• Aseel/Asil
• Madagascar Gamefowl Bantams
• Marans

Harbour Side Hobby Farm

Location: Clarks Harbour (Frequently in Shelburne . Occasional transport to Middleton area.)

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Serama (chance of frizzle)
• Silkie (chance of frizzle)

Yarmouth County

Feathered Menagerie Farm

Location: Near Yarmouth

Hatching Eggs Available?: Sometimes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Rhodebar
• White Silkies
• Bantam Araucana

Papa’s Poultry Egg Shack

Location: Carleton

Hatching Eggs Available?: Yes

Chicken Breeds Available:
• Black Star Females
• Silkie
• Barnyard Mix

There are SO MANY more farms and breeders than this short list but I don’t want to include anyone without their permission so you’re only seeing the information from folks who have volunteered it.

If you’d like to be included in this list, please send me an email with your Facebook page, your rough location (county and nearest town name), what breeds of birds you offer and whether you offer hatching eggs. If you also breed waterfowl or gamebirds, you can include them as well and I’ll add you to the waterfowl and gamebird breeder list at the same time. I will include anyone I can verify is legitimate (if I don’t already know you) in an alphabetical order list grouped by county.

Nova Scotia farms and breeders (or ones who travel here regularly and are willing to deliver) only please!

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