Pricing

Examples

• 3 birds: $24
• 10 birds: $80
• 28 birds: $224
• 29 birds: $203
• 30 birds: $210
• 50 birds: $350
• 10 birds sexed, blue egg gene on 3 of them: $80 + $36 = $116
• 1 bird, sexing plus all four gene tests: $8 + $14 + $14 + $12 + $12 = $60

How payment works

• You pay by card at the end of the registration form, through Stripe. Hobby Hen Farms never sees or stores your card number.
• There are no prepaid credits or packages to buy in advance. Each order is priced on its own.
• The total is shown on the form before you pay and again in your confirmation email.
• Postage to mail your samples is not included.

What is included

• Every test you tick for each bird: DNA sexing and any gene tests
• Each result beside its Bird ID in your private account
• An email the moment your results are released, usually within 24 hours of your samples arriving

Lavender Gene Test — $14 per bird

Find out whether a bird carries the lavender (self-blue) gene before you breed it. Lavender is recessive, so a normally colored bird can carry it and pass it on without showing it. This test tells you which of your birds are split to lavender.

Results you’ll receive:

• Lavender carrier: at least one copy of the lavender gene detected. For a normally colored bird, this means it is split to lavender.
• Non-carrier: no lavender gene detected.

Please read before ordering:

• This test does not separate one-copy carriers from two-copy (visibly lavender) birds. Visibly lavender birds are already two-copy, so there is no reason to test them. Test the birds that don’t look lavender.
• It detects only the lavender gene. It won’t tell you about blue, splash, chocolate, or other dilutions that can look similar.
• Sample: a drop of blood on coffee filter paper, same as our sexing test. One sample covers sexing and every gene test we offer if ordered together.
• If a sample fails, we rerun it from the remaining blood at no charge; repeated reruns for collection errors aren’t guaranteed.

Recessive White Gene Test — $14 per bird

Recessive white hides whatever color pattern a bird is carrying underneath, and a colored bird can carry one copy without showing it. This test tells you how many copies of the recessive white gene a bird has, so you can pair birds on purpose instead of guessing.

Results you’ll receive:

• C/C – not recessive white: no copies of the gene.
• C/c – carrier: one copy. Looks colored, can produce white chicks when paired with another carrier or a white bird.
• c/c – recessive white: two copies. The bird is white because of this gene.

Please read before ordering:

• This test looks for the recessive white gene only. Dominant white (the gene behind White Leghorns and many commercial whites), silver, and other reasons a bird can look white or pale are not tested, so a white bird can come back C/C.
• Chickens only.
• Sample: a drop of blood on coffee filter paper, same as our sexing test. One sample covers sexing and every gene test we offer if ordered together.
• If a sample fails, we rerun it from the remaining blood at no charge; repeated reruns for collection errors aren’t guaranteed.

Frizzle Gene Test — $12 per bird

Frizzle is a dominant gene with a catch: one copy gives the curled feathers people want, two copies gives a “frazzle” with brittle, sparse feathers and health problems. This test tells you exactly how many copies a bird has, so you can plan pairings with confidence.

Results you’ll receive:

• f/f – no frizzle gene: smooth feathered, will not throw frizzles.
• F/f – one copy: a normal frizzle. Pair with a smooth (f/f) bird for about half frizzle chicks and no frazzles.
• F/F – two copies: a frazzle. Pairing this bird with anything produces only frizzle-carrying chicks, and frizzle × frizzle pairings are how frazzles happen.

Why test:

• A smooth-looking bird from frizzle lines can occasionally still carry the gene when other genes soften the curl. This test confirms it.
• A heavily curled bird can be F/f or F/F, and the two can be hard to tell apart on young birds.

Please read before ordering:

• This test detects the common frizzle mutation (KRT75). It does not detect the separate mutation found in Kirin chickens, which are rare in the US.
• Chickens only.
• Sample: a drop of blood on coffee filter paper, same as our sexing test. One sample covers sexing and every gene test we offer if ordered together.
• If a sample fails, we rerun it from the remaining blood at no charge; repeated reruns for collection errors aren’t guaranteed.

Blue Egg Gene Test — $12 per bird

The blue egg gene is dominant, so a hen with one copy lays blue or green eggs just like a hen with two copies. The difference shows up in her chicks: a two-copy bird passes the gene to every chick, a one-copy bird passes it to about half. Roosters carry and pass the gene too but never lay an egg to show you. This test tells you exactly how many copies a bird has.

Results you’ll receive:

• o/o – no copies: will not produce blue or green egg layers on its own.
• O/o – one copy: lays blue or green eggs; about half of its chicks get the gene.
• O/O – two copies: lays blue or green eggs; every chick gets the gene.

Why test:

• Pick breeding roosters and cockerels that will pass blue to every chick.
• Confirm an Ameraucana, Araucana, Legbar, Easter Egger or Olive Egger breeder is O/O before selling chicks as guaranteed colored-egg layers.
• Sort pullets long before their first egg.

Please read before ordering:

• This test tells you about the blue egg gene only. It does not predict the shade. Green and olive eggs are blue eggs with a brown coating from separate genes, and brown-coat genetics are not tested.
• Chickens only.
• Sample: a drop of blood on coffee filter paper, same as our sexing test. One sample covers sexing and every gene test we offer if ordered together.
• If a sample fails, we rerun it from the remaining blood at no charge; repeated reruns for collection errors aren’t guaranteed.

Questions about an order? Email hello@hobbyhenfarms.com.