About
Built for backyard poultry keepers
One place to compare chicken, duck, goose, turkey, and quail breeds — plus tools to match birds to your backyard.
What this is
Backyard Flock is a multi-species breed database with interactive tools — a cross-species Breed Finder and a Coop Size Calculator — plus practical care guides. Most breed sites cover chickens only; we cover Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Turkeys, Quail, Guinea Fowl.
How we source breed data
Every breed spec — eggs per year, egg color, hardiness, size, temperament — is compiled from established public sources:
- The American Poultry Association (APA) Standard of Perfection
- Oklahoma State University breed pages
- The Livestock Conservancy
- Reputable hatchery breed tables
We never invent numbers. Where a figure isn't available from a reliable source, we leave the field blank rather than guess, and we flag approximate values. Poultry keepers hold data to a high bar — so do we.
Affiliate disclosure
Some links to chicks, coops, and equipment are affiliate links (placeholders for now). They never affect our breed data or recommendations.