I live in Southern Ontario. All hatcheries I checked out online only carry a few standard breeds: Rhode Island Red, Leghorn, ... Like www.freyshatchery.com, pretty close to where I live.
I cannot find anywhere to get sexed day old chicks of breeds such as Silkies or Orpingtons or Easter eggers...
I have a small urban coop with 4 chickens (4'x3' coop + 4'x10' run, no free ranging), so chickens fighting and bullying has been a real problem. I had two of a breed called Red Cross (cross of Rhode Island Red with Columbian Rock), and then I added two Columbian Rock Crosses - through proper...
I have two adult chickens, 11 month old, lovely, playful, excellent layers, and I have two 2.5 month olds. Raised all of them from 1 day olds. No rooster.
To get them introduced, I had the two young ones live next to the two older ones but separated by chicken wire, since they were 1 month old...