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In Stock Now – Current Available Chickens

To confirm availability please Call or Text (+61 407 659927). This page is updated regularly. Please bring a suitable box or pet carrier to transport your chickens home. We sell quality feed & supplies for chickens and chicks. We recommend purchasing our feed for new chickens for a smooth transition. We accept cash, EFTPOS or credit card (2% surcharge). STOCK PICKUP IS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY call or text for an appointment – Open Monday & Friday 8am til 5pm or Saturday 8am til 2pm. Feed purchases require no appointment on Monday, Friday or Saturday. CLOSED SUNDAYS & PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

Chicken Supplier for Sale at Evans Chickens
We have all supplies needed for chickens including the coop.
CLICK FOR BREED DETAILS & DESCRIPTIONS

PURE BREED & HYBRID CHICKS REQUIRING HEAT** – onset of lay approximately 24 Weeks* Chicks need a heat source until at least 6/8 weeks and medicated starter feed . We sell heat lamps, heat plates, brooder kits, feed and medication. (chicks will require their own pen separate from mature flock until they are at least 16 Weeks):

FUTURE DAY OLD CHICKS: Hatching July 7th – unsexed hybrid australorp or hybrid white leghorn $15 each or 10 for $120. Vaccinated for mareks.

THREE WEEK OLD CHICKS: Hatched June 18th – Female black hybrid australorp. $25 each. Vaccinated for mareks & IB.

FIVE WEEK OLD CHICKS: Hatched June 4th. Breeds available – female hyline brown or hybrid LSL white leghorn. $25 each. Vaccinated for mareks, coryza, fowl pox & IB.

Baby Chicks in Australorp & Light Sussex
CHICK BROODER TO PURCHASE

PULLETS PEN READY (pullets will require grower/starter feed, protection from the elements & their own pen separate from mature flock until they are at least 18 Weeks):

SOLD OUT

Point of Lay Pullets (16-20 weeks)-onset of lay 20-30 weeks*

ISA BROWN OR HYLINE PULLETS – $35 each – Vaccinated for mareks, coryza, fowl pox & IB. 18 weeks old (2-4 weeks from laying)

Eggs & Roosters

FERTILE EGGS NOT AVAILABLE CURRENTLY.

Roosters: Contact us for available roosters. Ranging from $60-$200.

  • EVANS CHICKENS HOURS 2026
  • Monday 8am-5pm
  • Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday open by appointment only.
  • Friday 8am – 6pm
  • Saturday 8am – 2pm
  • Sunday & Public Holidays CLOSED

*Onset of lay for pullets is dependent on correct feed, sunlight access and a stress free environment.

**Pullet Guarantee:  If you purchase a professionally sexed pullet from us the instrument sexing is 97% accurate. If by chance, your pullet turns out to be a rooster, we will offer you a credit or refund of your purchase price on return of the healthy rooster to us. Sometimes we may be able swap for a pullet but this is at our discretion and stock availability.

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More Mobile Chicken Pens

We are now also stockist of the Farm & Yard Chicken Tractor. With a solid, structural-grade aluminium frame & pressed metal rear enclosure, Farm & Yard Chicken Tractors are designed as a high-quality + long-life coop for up to 8 chickens.

Strong enough to keep predators at bay, but light enough to be easily moved by one person, our mobile chicken coops are built to last, with high-quality components and a 10-year warranty.

Moving couldn’t be easier – simply lever down and locate the side-mounted wheels then pull the lightweight tractor to its new position, providing a fresh location for your chickens and fertilizing the ground as you go.

Easy-move wheels and lightweight design makes moving your chicken tractor a breeze! Relocate your coop to fertilise other areas of your lawn and provide new feed for chickens.

Double-locking gates front and back allow chickens to be secured safely at night to protect them from predators.

Raised mesh platform for nesting boxes and roosting.

Convenient fixing points for waterers and feeders.

Easy 13 step assembly. All tools, parts and safety equipment supplied (Instructions included or view here). Extension panels available to purchase separately (View instructions here).

Rear door for easy access to roosting area (and eggs!).

Galvanised mesh fox-proof floor available (sold separately, 100mm x 100mm x 3mm galvanised mesh)

Suitable for up to 8 chickens if they’re allowed to free-range during the day. (3 panel tractor)

High-quality finish and flat packed for easy transport. The 3 panel tractor is $905 with an optional extra of the metal floor, bringing it to $990. Assembly and delivery can be available for an extra cost. Contact us for more information 0407 659-927

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Chicken Tractors for Sale – Ready for Pickup or Custom Order

Looking for a secure, versatile space for your chickens? Our chicken tractors are available now for immediate pickup, or you can custom order one with a short turnaround time—just over a week! Made locally in the Hawkesbury, built to last and designed with your flock’s safety in mind!

These mobile pens are ideal for:

  • Raising younger stock within an existing chicken run
  • Providing a broody hen with a safe space to hatch and raise chicks
  • Offering your flock a protected area to eat, drink, and roost safely at night

Each tractor features a full mesh floor for easy cleaning and predator protection, plus a latched door for secure and convenient access.

🐔Large Size Tractor
📏 Dimensions: 1510mm (L) x 1200mm (W) x 610mm (H)
💲 Price: $850
✅ Double-opening top for easy access
✅ Fitted with wheels for mobility

Optional Add-ons:

  • Heat lamp holding bar: $30
  • Roost bar: $30
  • Plastic Nesting Box $20

🐥 Small Chicken Tractor

Small Pen

📏 Size: 1510mm (L) x 590mm (W) x 620mm (H)
💲 Price: $600
✅ Single-opening top
🔧 Optional add-ons:
• Heat lamp holding bar – $30
• Wheels – $60
• Roost bar – $30

Optional Roosting Bar & Wheels
Optional Heat Lamp Holding Bar

Send us a message to arrange pickup or place a custom order. Your chickens will thank you!

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Grandpa Feeders in stock at Evans Chickens

THE ORIGINAL GRANDPA FEEDER BUILT TO LAST

Grandpa’s Feeders are the original automatic treadle feeder and standard equipment for poultry keepers. While many similar products exist, they fall short in quality, design, and functionality. These feeders work perfectly for chickens, bantams, turkeys, ducks, geese, and pheasants. The feeders are available to purchase on this link to our square site.

Grandpa’s Feeders are made of high-quality galvanized steel, designed for tough outdoor conditions. They have been the original automatic chicken feeders for over twenty years.

RAT & BIRD PROOF

Grandpa’s Feeders provide feed on demand while keeping wild birds, rats, and mice away. They allow multiple chickens to eat at once, ensuring optimal laying and happy chickens. SAVE MONEY: Customers report that Grandpa’s Feeder paid for itself in its first year by reducing poultry food costs and saving time. The anti-flick grill prevents wasted feed.

LARGE FEED CAPACITY

The standard feeder holds 9kg of feed, sufficient for six chickens for ten days. The larger size holds 18 kg and feeds twelve chickens for ten days, suitable for all chickens. For very light birds or bantams that are too light for the feeder, it is very easy to adjust the feeder by putting a small weight on the tread plate. Do not use with baby chickens, as they may get caught when bigger birds step off.

TRUSTED FOR OVER TWENTY YEARS: With a proven design sold worldwide, Grandpa’s Feeders include side guards to ensure chickens must stand on the treadplate to access feed, accommodating even roosters with large combs.

ASSEMBLY: The product comes almost fully assembled, just fasten the treadplate on and you’re ready to go. They are quite a big unit, in a corresponding box which is why they are pickup only. The whole product fits easily into your car for transport.

https://grandpasfeeders.com/pages/how-it-works

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How to Trim a Chicken’s Wing

Some breeds of chickens are more flighty than others. To hinder them flying it is possible to trim their wing. ONLY TRIM ONE WING PER BIRD!

First have someone hold the chicken for you with the wing out stretched. Look for the primary feathers – they are the longer ones at the front.

    Trim the primary feathers about 5 to 7 cm on one wing only. Remember that wings are like fingernails, if you over trim the wing, it will bleed.

    Never trim the cover feathers. You can also trim the secondary feathers (the ones behind the primary feathers)

    By cutting only the primary feathers, when the wing is closed, your chickens still look pretty. Her efforts at flying will be once sided though!

    Clipping causes a bird to lack the balance needed for flight but lasts only until new feathers grow during the next molt, which may be a few months in young birds or up to a year for older ones.

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    Day Old Hybrid Female Laying Chicks Now Available

    Day old Hyline chicks available pick up Maraylya NW Sydney from today August 16th $15 each or 6 for $80. Vaccinated for mareks and fowl pox. 

    We will also have day old hybrid white Leghorns $17 and black hybrid australorps $17 available August 31st.

    We sell chick feed, feeders, waterers, shavings  and supplies for chickens. We also have brooders and heat lamps for sale or hire. Contact us for details 0407659927

    Hyline Brown Chicks
    Hybrid Australorp Chicks
    White Hybrid Leghorn Chicks
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    Hyline Browns – Excellent Layers

    Believe it or not, the Hyline Brown is not only extremely friendly but one of the best laying breeds in the world.

    It’s easy to fall in love with the friendly nature of Hyline’s and their endless curiosity. Hylines are a willing and robust companion for small children too and will often squat to be picked up.

    But where did she come from?

    The Hyline first emerged about 90 years ago in Iowa, USA. She is the brainchild of egg farmers looking for a breed that would meet the needs of a growing population. In Australia SBA owns the licence to breed the Hyline Brown and they do an excellent job.

    It is said that Hylines are a protected blend of prized reliable layers, respectively the Rhode Island Red and New Hampshire. This extraordinary bird is thanks largely to science and breeding for desirable qualities.

    As a result, here is a hen that if fed a high-grade diet, will give you an egg a day for almost 2 years! Amazingly, (because she doesn’t normally go into moult or go broody) it’s possible for her to continue supplying eggs for up to 5 years.

    What’s more, thanks to the quality assurance methods in place for breeding, she’s better equipped to cope with many of the common poultry ailments. Therefore, with your daily loving care, it’d be a rare trip to the vet for any of these girls.

    But in your own backyard terms, that means more eggs per box of feed compared to other breeds. Keep up her 16% or 17% protein feed and reap the benefits.

    Plenty day olds in stock and ready for you to start your journey with backyard chickens or to add to your flock. Contact us today to make an appointment to collect some Hylines.

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    Avian influenza has been found in Sydney and backyard poultry keepers can help prevent the spread.

    Avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has been detected in the Hawkesbury region, at two large poultry farms near Freemans Reach in June 2024. Evans Chickens are not in the exclusion zone, as we are located over 13 kilometres from the affected area. We are still open to purchase chickens, feed & supplies. As a precaution, we have confined all of our free-range stock to pens with adequate space and protection, where they can still dig, scratch, and dust bathe.

    As backyard poultry keepers, you too can help to limit the spread and reduce the risk to your own flock. We suggest that you do not allow your flock to free-range until the bird flu threat subsides. Limiting your poultry’s exposure to wild birds is paramount and we suggest covering your pens with bird netting. Keeping water for your flock clean is also very important; we suggest chlorinating rainwater tanks if this is what your chickens are consuming.

    People with backyard flocks should ensure their footwear is kept clean and wear specific footwear when visiting their chickens. For instance, we have separate on-farm and off-farm footwear to prevent walking in diseases. Always wash your hands before and after handling poultry or eggs. Additionally, quarantine new birds before integrating them into your flock.

    The emergency control order can be found here and is in effect until December 19th 2024 and restricts poultry movement and sales in the above area. Small poultry flocks should be less likely to be exposed to bird flu but wild birds do pose a significant risk. Risk factor does increase with higher numbers of chickens. Further information can be found on Department of Primary Industries website or contact your local vet.

    Preventing the further spread of avian influenza is crucial, and the public plays a vital role in this effort. Individuals are encouraged to report any signs of illness in their backyard poultry or wild birds to the relevant authorities. Maintaining good hygiene practices, such as thoroughly cooking poultry and eggs and avoiding contact with sick or dead birds, can help mitigate the risk of transmission to humans.

    The recent detection of avian influenza in several Australian states has prompted a swift response from the government and public health authorities. Strict biosecurity measures have been implemented to limit the spread of the virus, including the culling of infected flocks, movement restrictions, and enhanced surveillance. Poultry producers are working closely with officials to ensure their operations adhere to the necessary protocols to safeguard their birds and the broader industry.

    If you see unusual signs of disease or suspect an exotic disease in your poultry, immediately call your veterinarian, an LLS District Vet or the Emergency Animal Disease (EAD) Hotline 1800 675 888.

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    Zeabait Chicken Friendly Rodenticide

    Zeabait

    Zeabait Naturals Rodenticides range (rat and mouse bait)
    Formulated from all natural ingredients.
    Safe for Children, domestic Pets, native animals, and the environment.
    Effectively kills rats and mice by causing dehydration. Only effects rodents.
    Reduces smell from decomposing rodents.

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    How to worm your chickens.

    Worming your chickens on a regular basis will improve the life of your chickens. Worms take the nutrient from your chickens, cause blood loss, anemia and sometimes kill.

    Many unknown ailments in chickens that can be helped or cured by a good worm and lice treatment. Evans Chickens suggest that you do this every 3-4 months along with a complete pen clean. Read our separate post on lice & mite treatments.

    Using a poultry approved product is easy and simple. Please do not worm your chickens with cattle, sheep or ornamental bird products unless under the advice of a qualified veterinarian. It makes no sense to us to keep chickens for eggs and then to potentially have to throw away their eggs for 2 or more weeks because the product you have just used to worm or lice treat them can carry thru to their eggs. Companies invest large amounts of research into appropriate products for egg producing chickens. Just remember that what your chicken eats, goes into their eggs and ultimately you, if you consume them.

    Evans Chickens has available for sale, various products to treat your flock for worms, lice and mites. All these products are approved for use on poultry and have no egg withholding period, so you can still eat your delicious eggs while looking after your flock.

    Levamisole:

    is an in water wormer – Effective treatment for Ascaridia galli (intestinal round worm), Heterakis gallinae (duodenum round worm) and Capillaria obsignata (intestinal round worm. Chickens need to have water withheld overnight and then this be their only drinking water for 6 hours. Chickens can resist this product as they get older as it has a bitter taste. This is the active ingredient in Kilverm (purchase here) and Sykes Big L Wormer for Poultry & Pigs.

    Flubenol:

    is an in-feed wormer which contains flubendazole, a broad-spectrum benzimidazole anthelmintic which can be used as an aid in the control of sensitive strains of the most important gastrointestinal worm species that commonly occur in chickens. This wormer has recently been approved for use in Australia, but has been used in Europe for some time. Flubenol treats roundworms Ascaridia galli, Heterakis gallinarum, Capillaria spp., and tapeworms (the only approved product that treats tapeworm ) (Raillietina sp.). Chickens are fed medicated feed, as per directions on the packet, as only feed for 7 consecutive days.

    We find that this is the easiest method to worm your chickens as it is simply in their food and they happily peck away. We can ship you wormer mixed into 5kg of feed, and this will worm up to 5 chickens and includes their feed for a week . Price includes postage and can be purchased here. This product is mainly used on commercial chicken farms, as the 600g of product makes 1 tonne of wormer. Contact us for more details or 600g (purchase here).

    Apple Cider Vinegar:

    In terms of its worming capabilities, apple cider vinegar acts as a mild antiseptic and also a mild antibiotic. Apple cider vinegar will kill some bacteria and germs, and deter worms from making a home in your chickens. Again, it’s not a 100% guaranteed treatment, but still beneficial to feed to your chickens.