Our Chickens

Our chickens are all free range and raised at TnT Farms from hatchlings. We offer chicks locally in San Marcos, CA and offer delivery service all over San Diego County. You may also purchase hatching eggs from the breeds below. Our hatchlings are incubated in top quality Brinsea incubators and raised in heated brooders until they are ready to go home with you. Call for availability and purchasing.

Lavender Ameraucana

They are a hardy, easy to look after no nonsense chicken, dependable, robust and ideal for the family environment. Their soft feathering allows them to do well in low winter temperatures and their soft fleshy head parts are very much reduced minimising the possibility of sunburn, frostbite or cuts. Ideal for the backyard chicken keeper and for those with families with their calm and friendly personality, they are easily tamed and a real pleasure to own. Ameraucanas are happy free ranging or being in confinement. This breed is fundamentally identified by its blue egg color, cheek muffs, beards, ear tufts, "eyebrows", small "pea" comb and crest. It is all these features in the right proportions that tell you that you have an Ameraucana.

Exchequer Leghorn

The Exchequer variety of Leghorn has an unusual history, having developed spontaneously from a flock of White Leghorns in Scotland. Fascinated by these birds, the owner spent time developing them, and eventually gave them the name exchequer, inspired not only by the amount of revenue the birds contributed to the estate's "Exchequer" in eggs, but also inspired by their plumage, which was checkered evenly in black and white all over. These birds are productive layers of large white eggs--reports suggest they lay nearly as many as the White Leghorns--and have an unusual, eye-catching appearance with their spotted plumage. They are active birds not prone to broodiness. Roosters are dandies with impressive hackles and large red combs. Like all Leghorns, the hens have large combs, too--so large, they usually flop over to one side like a fancy hat set at a fashionable angle. Because of their large combs, these birds can be susceptible to frostbite, but they do very well in heat.

French Marans(Black Copper, Blue, and Splash)

The Marans is a breed of chicken originating in France. It is a medium breed compared to others, popular for poultry shows and is a dual purpose fowl known both for its extremely dark eggs as well as for its very fine meat qualities. Marans are generally quiet and docile; but they are quite active, taking well to free ranging in rough terrain and are also tough and disease-resistant. They were originally bred in the marshy areas of France and can cope with damper conditions. Marans lay around 150 dark brown eggs each year.

Jubilee Orpington

With their beautiful mille fleur feather color pattern and regal bearing, jubilee Orpingtons are appropriately associated with British royalty. Introduced in 1897 some seven years after the breed was created by William Cook, jubilee Orpingtons were named in honor of the Diamond Jubilee celebration of Queen Victoria’s reign.  Her Royal Highness received a flock of these spectacular birds as part of the celebration, and this group was maintained by expert poultry keepers for the royal family for many years.  Their sublime beauty distracts from their positive traits as a utility bird. They are known to be both a fine table bird and excellent layers of large beige eggs. For a while they enjoyed a commercial status in England but ultimately were supplanted in the larger market by speckled Sussex