Wheatland, Virginia

Meet the Flocks

Every bird on this farm has a name, and most of them have opinions. Here's who's actually out on pasture laying the eggs you're eating.

The Ducks

Big Eggs, Bigger Personalities

Five years ago, one of our children had a dream of having a duck of his own. We decided our land was a good fit and agreed to give it a try. We started with Anconas, a heritage breed in decline, and have continued to branch out to other breeds since.

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Ancona (Black & White)

Checkers, Spot, Emperor & Bandit

Four black-and-white Anconas. Anconas are active foragers with a mottled, pied pattern — no two look quite the same.

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Ancona (Chocolate)

Chocolate

The chocolate-and-white version of our Anconas — same energetic forager, different color pattern.

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Blue Runner

Sonic

The duck behind the blue eggs. If you've ever pulled a soft blue egg out of your carton and wondered whether a chicken laid it — nope, that's all Sonic.

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Golden Layer

Speckles & Scooter

Our two Golden Layer ducks — another high-production hybrid line, this one with a warmer golden coat.

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Swedish (Black)

Darkwing & Gizmo

Our two Black Swedish ducks — a calm, sturdy dual-purpose breed known for the white bib patch across the chest.

Ikea, a Blue Swedish duck, in close-up beside the pasture grass — slate blue-grey plumage, a dark blue-grey bill, and a white bib patch running up her throat.
Swedish (Blue)

Ikea

A bluish-gray duck with a very dark blue bill — calm temperament, like the rest of our Swedish ducks.

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Welsh Harlequin

Cream

Light tan with black spotting and a sparse hint of iridescence. Welsh Harlequins come from a color mutation in Khaki Campbells — good layers, calm temperament.

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White Layer

Aflac, Waddles & Sunny

Three White Layer ducks — a hybrid line bred specifically for high egg production. Waddles is our special-needs duck, born without feet or fully functional wings. Doesn't slow her down one bit.

The Chickens

Fourteen Hens (And Pip)

One breed, one flock — but every hen still lays a little differently.

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Red Sex Link

The Flock, and Pip

Fourteen Red Sex Link hens — a reliable, friendly hybrid breed and steady layers, which is exactly why we picked them. The hens don't have individual names, but everyone knows the rooster keeping watch over them: that's Pip.

The Geese

The Neighborhood Watch

Goose eggs are seasonal — sold individually when available, currently out of season and back in March.

Sprattle and Big Bird, two grey Pilgrim geese with white faces and orange bills, standing in the pasture grass alongside the rest of the flock.
Pilgrim Goose

Sprattle & Big Bird

Sprattle reigns over the flock of fowl, with Big Bird as her right-hand gal. Pilgrim geese are a heritage breed where males and females look different from hatch, so you can tell them apart early. Both get exceptionally moody and protective come spring, during egg-laying season — their eggs are huge, big enough that some people call them "dinosaur eggs." They're not laying right now; goose eggs come back in March.