Hale Family Farm

Baby Chicks Available Now!

Chick Season 2024!

We are now in the 5th year of our chicken project and have varieties you won’t find anywhere else!

Fertile hatching eggs from our breeding groups will be available for a limited time in the spring. After that, throughout the summer and fall, we offer free-range fertile hatching eggs while all our roosters are out with all the hens. Check out our Facebook page for updates: @halefamilyfarm.farmington

We currently have two breeding groups…

(updated April 1, 2024)

Group 1: Spitzhauben Easter Eggers

Group 1: Spitzhauben Easter Eggers combine the stunning beauty and winter-hardiness of the Spitzhauben, with beautiful egg colors from the Cream Legbar and Olive Egger. Chicks hatched from this group could lay white, blue, or blue-green eggs.

Group 2: Sex-Linked Olive Eggers

Group 2: Sex-Linked Olive Eggers have a variety of feather colors and patterns and a full range of egg colors including brown, green, speckled, blue, pink, and white. This group is sex-linked using a Spitzhauben rooster so you can tell whether chicks are hens or roosters as soon as they hatch. Chicks without a white dot on their head will be female, and with a white dot will be male.

Hale Family Farm: About Us

A family farm growing delicious, clean, healthy food using environmentally responsible methods.

Our grandparents, William and Edna Hale, started the farm in Farmington, Missouri in the 1940’s raising cattle and crops. Our father, Ron Hale, brought a new approach to the farm when he returned from the Navy in the 1990’s, experimenting with organic produce and growing his uniquely delicious, labor intensive “pampered tomatoes”. He got involved with a number of regional organic and slow food initiatives that were just getting started, including Slow Food St. Louis and Fair Shares St. Louis, and he co-founded the Farmington Farmer’s Market. Now in the 2020’s, Ron’s children are ready to continue his legacy.

Read our story.