CERTIFIED RARE POULTRY • RAINBOW EGGS

We began sharing our flock in 2019, with a focus on temperament, type, and rich egg color. As with all thoughtful breeding, progress is slow and intentional - each generation is planned with care to improve hardiness, fertility, and beauty. We hope our birds are some of your flock favorites! Over the years, we have balanced a rare poultry schedule that works because of clear - kind - communication with customers nationwide. We ask customers to place orders thoughtfully. Your pre-order helps us plan ahead, reserve a spot in line, and hold a portion of our flock for you. Thank you for supporting our farm.

We ship Open Gate Poultry Hatching Eggs nationwide February - September dependent on fertility, and weather.

Open Gate Chicks are hatched locally here in Westport, MA from March through June, and are available by appointment only. Please note, chicks are hatched on a small scale - for those customers that plan ahead. Every pairing and hatch is carefully curated to ensure healthy, colorful, and well-started chicks for your flock. When you place a chick order on the website - typically within 72 hrs, we follow up with an email to inquire which chick batch + pickup date works for you.

2026 Pullets and Cockerels will be available for pre-order in January and be available for Summer pickup.

All the photos are by Katie Nemeth, founder of Open Gate Poultry. Katie specializes in seasonal laid back weddings and portrait sessions katienemeth.com and has a love for rare poultry, and gardening.

We are part of the National Poultry Improvement Plan MA-NPIP#1362

Participants undergo routine blood testing of their flock. The certification is for sharing hatching eggs, chicks, and poultry of various ages. The H5/H7 AI Clean status does require additional testing each year for NPIP participants. This status is a commitment to biosecurity and flock health, which is critical for the success in disease prevention efforts. More on NPIP here.

OUR FLOCK IS PULLORUM-TYPHOID CLEAN & h5/h7 AI Clean

“Katie shipped me 14 eggs from MA to CA and I had a 100"% hatch rate!” - Laurel, Comb Farms

Open Gate Farm

At our small family farm, we appreciate everyday as we plant, grow, build, and raise animals together. We surround ourselves with sustainably grown + maintained perennial, vegetable, herb, and cut flower gardens throughout the farm, but it’s truly the animals that give the farm character. We strive for our animals to live happy lives. We also grow Hereford cattle, Icelandic sheep, and Crossbreeds - Finn/Horned Dorset x Icelandic sheep, and meat birds. We raise our own meat, in the pastures.

Our chickens live natural lives. We don’t use artificial lights to prolong laying. We live in New England, which means snow filled winters. We designed our coops to be spacious, and functional. Different coops come out different days to freely explore the yard, gardens, and fields to do what chickens do best… run wild, scratch for bugs, and “weed” the gardens.