breeders of pigment & bloom
Hello & welcome! We ship to all 50 states through the National Poultry Improvement Program (OH NPIP-1592).
Featured Breeds for 2026
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Backcross to Marans Olive Eggers BC3/BC4 (half dozen 6+1 )$85.00 -
Featured Breed: American BressePrice range: $23.00 through $150.00 -
Featured Breed: Ermine AmeraucanaPrice range: $23.00 through $125.00 -
Featured Breed: ‘Purple Copper’ Black Copper Marans heavy bloom linePrice range: $46.00 through $175.00
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Our Program
“We live by the seasons under a big Ohio sky, stewarding a closed line of very special Marans towards deep pigmentation and heavy bloom. This requires intense selection pressure, a commitment to ‘cull the dull and keep the deep’ in every generation. It’s slow scholarship.”
Brooke Blackmon Bryan, Crosshatch Farm
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Miami Valley Non GMO Feed
non-gmo whole grain fresh feeds
Miami Valley Herd Share
we grow groceries
From the Blog
Sometimes the socials just don’t let us tell the whole story. We elaborate here!
- On Beginnings, or Being a Beginner
This is our first year keeping cows— dairy cows. Midsummer nights stretched out long in front of us as we learned their mannerisms and gestures. Slowly, day by day, we built some order into the chaos and established routines. And with them, some trust. - ‘Growing Right’ Oral History Project with the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association
the Growing Right Project brought together methods from oral history, folklife documentation, and documentary arts to chart the life and movement histories of the farmers, growers, groceries, and food systems advocates who have helped to build an ecological food and farm system in Ohio