Family Homestead Hatchery on Slaydenwood Road
American Bresse,
hatched in Middle Tennessee.
We're a small family hatchery raising the gourmet French heritage breed American Bresse in Middle Tennessee. Local chicks, hatching eggs, and custom egg incubation are on the way — reserve yours and we'll reach out the moment they're ready.
We're getting established in Middle Tennessee first. We will be expanding nationwide after we finish construction of our new giant feeding room to accommodate the larger demand and NPIP certification.
Incubation Services & Local Sales
Bresse Chicks
Day-old chicks from our flock — new hatches every month.
- New chicks hatched Monthly
- Day-old chicks:
Breeder Quality $14
Pet Quality as low as $3 - Sold straight run (unsexed)
- 10% off over 2 dozen
20% off over 4 dozen
Bresse Starter Birds
Started birds past the fragile stage — grow-outs ready for the coop.
- Brooder-raised and well-started before they leave
- Grow-outs, 4–10 wks:
Breeder Quality $18
Pet Quality $7 - Pick the age that fits your setup
- 10% off over 2 dozen
20% off over 4 dozen
Bresse Hatching Eggs
Fresh, fertile Bresse hatching eggs for your own incubator.
- Available daily
- $7 each — Show/breederOne dozen min
- $3 each — Pet QualityOne dozen min
Bresse Capons
(Started)
The French king of the holiday table — started young capons from our American Bresse line.
- Sold under 3 months old
- Caponized young — healed at least 2 weeks before they leave
- Calm, fast-growing birds that finish big
- Full 8-month care guide + the French épinette finishing method
Incubator & Hatching Services
Drop off your fertile eggs — we hatch them, you pick up healthy chicks.
- Incubated & candled in our monitored setup
- Customize incubation settings
- No equipment to buy
- Drop-off & intake Mon–Fri
- From $50 per batch
- Boxed chicks ready for pickup day of hatchingRunning late? Brooder service applies — $2.50 per chick per week, one-week minimum
Brooder Service
Add-on to our hatching services — we brood your hatchlings for you.
- Up to 3 weeks of care after hatch dayIn our temperature-controlled room
- Raised on our special feed
- Vitamins & supplements
- Special growth light schedule
- $2.50 per chick per weekOne-week minimum, even for early pickupsApplies automatically when hatchlings are picked up late
Why American Bresse?
"The queen of chickens, and the chicken of kings."
Bred in France for over 500 years, the Bresse is prized for the tastiest, firmest, most succulent meat of any chicken — and it's a true dual-purpose bird. It's the only chicken whose meat marbles like a fine Wagyu steak, with fat woven right through the muscle for flavor and tenderness no other bird can match.
Only in the United States since around 2017, it's still rare. We raise a healthy flock right here on Slaydenwood Road and breed to the American Bresse standard — selecting for correct type and true white eggs, not the cream or tan eggs that signal a mixed line.
We also select our breeders for the strongest marbling genetics — not every Bresse expresses that gene, so we keep the ones that do.
- TypeDual-purpose (gourmet meat + eggs)
- MarblingWagyu-like marbling — rare in poultry
- EggsWhite — the breed-standard egg color
- HeritageU.S. line of the French Bresse Gauloise
- ReputationGourmet — "the queen of chickens"
- Bred to standardSelected for type & white eggs
Life on Slaydenwood Road
Hatchery Products & Equipment
Brooder Boxes
4 ft & 8 ft
Hand-built brooders — sturdy 2×2 lumber and black hardware cloth, with a closing lid.
- Solid 2×2 frame + dual-layer protection — galvanized + PVC-coated black hardware cloth
- Secure closing lid — chicks in, everything else out
- Natural-light bulbs + a WiFi schedule adapter plug, with our special growth light schedule
- No every-other-day cleanouts — roll-out paper liner under the shavings
- Add the Night Wrap and it doubles as an épinette for finishing capons
- Two sizes: 4 ft or double-length 8 ft
About Slaydenwood Hatchery
We're a small, family-run hatchery on Slaydenwood Road in Vanleer, Middle Tennessee. What started as a love for good birds and good eggs has grown into a careful little operation built around one remarkable breed — the American Bresse.
We breed to the American Bresse standard, selecting for correct type and true white eggs — the mark of a clean line. Every chick and hatching egg comes from our own flock, raised by hand and hatched right here on Slaydenwood Road.
We keep things small and personal on purpose: healthy birds, honest advice, and a real person on the other end of the phone. As we grow, we're finishing our new feeding-room construction project and pursuing NPIP certification so we can one day ship beyond Tennessee.
- Where: 985 Slaydenwood Rd, Vanleer, TN
- Breed: American Bresse — bred to standard
- Eggs: selected for true white
- How: small, family-run, raised by hand
- Growing: NPIP certification in progress
- Mail & checks: PO Box 43, Vanleer, TN 37181
Family Homestead Hatchery on Slaydenwood Road