Sherrie's & Ben's Hens
Sherrie's and Ben's Hens specializes in providing top-quality purebred and hybrid hens to customers seeking exceptional egg-laying capabilities. Our hens are raised to be docile and produce an abundance of large to extra-large eggs throughout the year. No barnyard mixes here—our commitment to genetics ensures exceptional laying performance. Our passion ensures your purchase is free from unwanted roosters and the hassle of brooders. Instead, you'll receive mature, naturally-nurtured pullets ready for your coop, laying farm-fresh eggs in no time.
Located Levelland Texas
PRICE FOR PUREBRED AND HYBRID YOUNG HENS (PULLETS)
Located Levelland Texas
All photos and videos are of our hens.
Updated 3/19/26
Sherrie and Ben news,
We have a fantastic selection of hens this year that covers both practical high-producers and fun, colorful layers for both high-volume egg production and a beautiful rainbow of egg colors—perfect for backyard flocks or anyone wanting variety in their egg basket!We're highlighting two excellent hybrid choices this Spring, the Black Star and Production Red. They are known as top performers and ranked in the top five best egg layers for maximum egg output (280–300+ per year).
We have four more Heritage breeds ranked in the top 10 best layers and rank highly for reliable laying at 250+ eggs per year: Rhode Island Red, Buff Orpington, Speckled Sussex and Barred Rock. All these hens will add vibrant plumage colors to your flock.If your interested in adding egg color to your basket we have hens that lay deep chocolate, rich dark brown, pastel blue, green, mint green and pinkish/terracotta colored eggs.
Mixing these tones creates that stunning rainbow basket that makes collecting eggs so much fun!
hens currently AVAILABLE
Barred Rock
6 to 8-week-old. $25
AVAILABLE March
Production Red
6-week-old. $25
Available March 31st
AVAILABLE in April
New this year
Rhode Island White
6-week-old. $25
Available April 13th
Rhode Island Red
6-week-old. $25
Available April 13th
New this year
Production Blue
6-week-old, $28
Available April 13th
Crested Cream Legbar
6-week-old. $32
Blue color eggs
Available April 13th
Speckled Sussex
6-week-old. $28
Available April 13th
Black Mystic Marans
6-week-old $25
Available April 22nd
French Blue Splash Marans
6-week-old. $45
April 22nd
AVAILABLE in May
New this year
Fiesta Red
6-week-old $27
Lays mint green colored eggs.
Available May 2nd
Contact us with your order to reserve your hens through Venmo with a 25% deposit.
Place unused objects here
Breeds we have left for February.
$20 to $25
Mystic Leghorn
6-week-old. $30
Available late April
Cinnamon Queens
17-week-old $25
Sale on ISA Browns
12-week-old $25, buy 4 or more $20 each
Cuckoo Marans, 10-week-old. $30
Calico Princess
12-week-old. $25
Blue Laced Gold Wyandotte
9-week-old $27
Blue Laced Red Wyandotte
9-week-old $30
Blue Australorp
6-week-old $32
Chocolate Orpington
6-month-old $45
Crested Cream Legbar/White Leghorn cross
14-week-old. $25
Descriptions of the Breeds of Hens We Raise
About Our Hens
We like to raise purebred and hybrid/cross breed hens that are docile and produce a lot of large to extra large eggs year round. There are no barnyard mixes. Barnyard mixes or "mutts" never lay as well as purebred or hybrids. We've raised all the following breeds and this is from our experience. White Leghorns, ISA Browns followed by the Black Star are super layers that lay 280 eggs plus a year. A close second are the Buff Orpington, Speckled Sussex and Barred Plymouth Rock. They don't lay as many eggs every week as the super layers but, are still considered outstanding layers of 250 plus eggs per year. The Olive Eggers, Easter Eggers, Marans and Legbars add a variety of color and are also outstanding layers: 200+ eggs annually.
Buying hens this way means you won't get roosters and they're mature enough that they don't need a brooder. Plus, you don't have to wait long before they start laying eggs. Price is based on breed type and age. As the pullets get older the price increases.
All photos are our chickens.
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Amber Star
They're super layers, laying five to six eggs a week. They lay light brown eggs at 20 weeks old. They're very friendly and docile. Amber Star is a cross breed Rhode Island Red and White Leghorn.The Amber Star is a predominantly white hen with brown feathers.
Buff Orpington
One of America's all-time popular Heritage breeds known for their gentle temperment and called 'Golden Chicken Beauties'. These hens are outstanding, laying 4 to 5 large cream colored eggs a week or 200 to 280 eggs per year. They start laying at a wide range from 22 to 28 weeks. They can go broody and the hens make great mothers.
Barred Plymouth Rock
These chickens are a part of Americana. If your grandparents had chickens you can be sure some were Barred Rocks. They're a dual purpose Heritage breed chicken that lays 4 to 5 eggs a week. They start laying at 16 to 20 weeks. They're a gentle breed and do well in a mixed flock.
Black Star
They're known as a dual-purpose sex-link hybrid that will lay large brown eggs at 20 weeks old. They're super layers, laying five to six eggs a week. They're very friendly and docile. They're always the first one to greet you, giving them the nickname "dogs with feathers". The Black Stars combination of temperment, egg size, egg quantity and their iridescent green feathers makes it one of my favorites and they could easily be called the perfect hen. Black Star are a cross breed Rhode Island Red and Barred Rock.
Blue Australorp
Blue Australorps are a rare breed with striking blue feathers. They are a friendly and calm and lay an astonishing 250 to 300 eggs per year. They tend not to be broody and lay eggs year round. To meet one of our priorities, they do well in a mixed flock.
Blue Laced Gold Wyandotte
Wyandottes are not only a Heritage breed but, America's first and oldest chicken breed. The Blue Laced Gold Wyandotte is a beautiful medium size bird that is friendly but, not considered cuddly. Although, they're at the top of the pecking order they're not bullies and make a beautiful addition to a mixed flock. They'll lay over 200 brown eggs each year. They're known to go broody and make great mothers. So, wether you like to raise chicks without the need for an incubator or just want a beautifull hen that is part of Americana they'll make a good addition to your flock.
Blue Laced Red Wyandotte
They're a unique and rarer variety of Wyandottes. They're stunningly beautiful and stand out in a flock. Their large size and ability to lay more than 200 large brown eggs a year makes them a great dual purpose chicken. They're a gentle breed but, at the top of the pecking order. However, they're not bullies and they do well in a mixed flock. They're easy-going around people but do not like to be handled for more than a few moments.
February Special
Sale
14-week-old $25, buy 4 or more $20 each
Crested Cream Legbar and White Leghorn cross, 14-week-old, $25.
Crested Cream Legbar/White Leghorn cross
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Crested Cream Legbar/Rhode Island Red cross
If you're looking for a hen that is a good layer with a calm tempermeant and does well in a mixed flock you're looking for a Crested Cream Legbar/Rhode Island Red cross.
The CC Legbar/RIR is a hybrid from a White Leghorn pure breed and a Crested Cream Legbar. They are good layers producing over 225 large brown eggs year round.
The Crested Cream Legbar/White Leghorn cross is a little more flighty with people than some chickens but do well in a mixed flock. They
are really good layers producing over 250 eggs per year.
Cinnamon Queens
Cinnamon Queens are a Rhode Island Red rooster crossed with a Rhode Island White hen producing a red sex-link hybrid that matures early and lays 300 large brown eggs per year. They're a docile sweet hen that often seeks out your affection. They're a non-aggressive breed that does well in a mixed flock.
Chocolate Orpington
Chocolate Orpingtons are an ultra rare beautiful breed. And like all Orpingtons they're well known for their gentle temperment. These hens are outstanding, laying 4 to 5 large cream colored eggs a week or 200 to 280 eggs per year. They start laying at a wide range from 22 to 28 weeks. They can go broody and the hens make great mothers.
Calico Princess
Calico Princess is a new sex-link hybrid that is cross from a Barred Rhode Island Red rooster and a Columbian Sussex hen. They are a large hen and produce as many as 300 large to extra large brown eggs a year. They're very friendly, docile and attracted to people. They fit well into a mixed flock.
Known for their unique pastel blue to green eggs, docile temperment and outstanding layers of more than 200 eggs a year. They don't tend to go broody. They are also one of the few auto-sexing breeds.
Crested Cream Legbar
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Dalmatian
Dalmatians are a cross breed of French Black Copper Marans hen and a White Leghorn rooster. They're known for producing a terracotta to dark pink color egg. They're prolific egg layers laying 4 to 5 eggs weekly. Their body structure is not as slender as the Leghorn. They have a stockier build like the Marans. They don't have the flighty temperament of the Leghorn but, gentle like the Marans.
Easter Egger
These Easter Eggers are a hybrid that lay 240 medium to large eggs a year. Their egg colors have a green tint but, they have a variety of green shades. They are small hens around 4 lbs. bred for producing eggs. They are very docile and have a calm temperament.
Statement from the hatchery we purchase from, 'Due to the breeds they are crossed with, up to 15% of the time you will have one that will lay brown or cream eggs'.
Fiesta Red
The Fiesta Red is a Rhode Island Red x Crested Cream Legbar hybrid. They are docile and prolific egg layer, laying about 220 eggs per year. That's about four to five eggs a week. Their eggs can be one of three colors, brown, mint green or olive. Like our other hens they are gentle and do well in a mixed flock. Making them a great backyard hen.
Golden Comet
They're a sex-link hybrid, bred to produce a lot of large to extra large brown eggs. They will start laying eggs as early as 16-weeks-old. They're too small to be a dual-purpose breed. They're super layers, laying five to six eggs a week and are not known to go broody. They're very friendly and docile and are attracted to people. They fit well into a mixed flock.
French Black Copper Marans
They're a dual-purpose breed that lay 4 to 5 large eggs a week. Their eggs are such a dark brown they're referred to as chocolate. These Black Marans lay the darkest eggs of all the Marans breed. They start laying at 20 to 26 weeks. They're a friendly enough breed to be called a 'lap chicken'. Along with the Black Star they could possibly be ranked as the perfect hen.
French Blue Copper Marans
These hens have beautiful slate blue colored feathers, even their legs and beaks are blue. Marans are known for their large dark brown eggs. Their outstanding layers of 4 to 5 eggs per week. They are a docile friendly breed and start laying at 20 to 24 weeks. Hens weigh around 7 pounds making them a dual-purpose breed.
Cuckoo Marans
Cuckoo Marans are especially popular due to their beautiful black and white feathering. Marans are known for their large dark brown eggs. They're outstanding layers of 4 to 5 eggs per week. They are a docile friendly breed and start laying at 20 to 24 weeks. Hens weigh around 7 pounds making them a dual-purpose breed. These are Cuckoo Marans without feathered legs. The French Cuckoo Marans have feathered legs. They both lay the same colored eggs.
French Blue Splash Marans
Their marbled blue spot feathers are unique among chicken breeds and take a year to feather out. These beautiful hens are rare because of their breeding genetics. To get a Splash Marans with the best deep blue marbling is to breed two Blue Marans. But, only 25% of the chicks will be Splash with the remaining chicks 25% Black and 50% Blue. And then of the 25% Splash Marans only 50% will be females. With no mortality rate that equates to 12.5 eggs out of 100 are Splash Marans hens. Their second unique characteristics is like the other Marans breeds they are outstanding layers of 4 to 5 chocolate colored eggs per week. They are a docile friendly breed and start laying at 20 to 24 weeks.
ISA Browns are a red sex-link hybrid. These chickens are the most prolific brown egg layers. They lay more eggs then any other chickens except for the White Leghorn. They have a docile temperament and they don't go broody. They start laying at 18 to 20 weeks.
ISA Brown
Blue Breasted Brown Leghorn
These hens are as rare as they are beautiful. And, just like other Leghorns they lay 280 plus white eggs a year. They don't tend to go broody. They're a docile breed but not overly friendly. So they're not considered a 'lap chicken'.
Mystic Marans
These hens are a black sex-link hybrid. Crossing a French Black Copper Marans with a Barred Rock and getting the best of both breeds. A beautiful black hen that lays 200 to 280 eggs annually. That's more then a Marans and a rich darker egg then a Barred Rock. Their egg size is large to extra large. They get their gentle temperment from both breeds.
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Blue Mystic Marans
These hens are a blue sex-linked hybrid. Crossing a French Blue Marans with a Barred Rock and getting the best of both breeds. A beautiful blue hen that lays 200 to 280 eggs annually. That's more eggs then a Marans and a rich darker egg then a Barred Rock. Their egg size is large to extra large. They get their gentle temperment from both breeds.
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Mystic Leghorn
Mystic Leghorns are a cross breed of French Black Copper Marans rooster and a White Leghorn hen. They're known for producing a terracotta to dark pink color egg. They lay more eggs then the Marans but not as many as the Leghorn. Their body structure is not as slender as the Leghorn but, more like the Marans. They don't have the flighty temperament of the Leghorn but, gentle like the Marans.
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Leghorn-Red
Leghorn-Reds are a cross breed Rhode Island Red rooster and a White Leghorn hen. They are a prolific layer of 280 to 300+ light brown XL eggs per year. Their body structure is slender as the Leghorn but, a larger body size like the Rhode Island Red. They are predominantly white with patches of red on their backs and wings. They maintain some of the flighty temperament of the Leghorn. They are known for their hardiness and long production life.
Olive Egger
Our Olive Egger hybrid is a French Black Copper Marans crossed with Crested Cream Legbar. They're a sex-link hybrid/cross-breed with some having characteristics of a crest like the Legbars, some feathered legs like the Marans and some having both. They have a gentle temperment but not considered a 'lap chicken'. They lay around 4 large to extra large olive colored eggs per week. They start laying at a wide range from 24 to 28 weeks.
Many times people purchase Olive Egger chicks and raise them for six months to discover that when it starts laying it lays a brown egg. That's because Olive Eggers have a 10 to 15 percent chance of laying brown eggs. We don't sell our Olive Eggers until they start laying. We can then guarantee you get a hen that lays olive colored eggs.
Production Blue
They're a beautiful dual purpose hybrid that will add a beautiful color to your flock. They start laying at eighteen weeks and lay an abundant 250+ large brown eggs a year. Production Blue's are a Blue Australorp crossed with a Rhode Island Red. They're a docile chicken and do well in a mixed flock.
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Production Red
They're a dual purpose hybrid that lays 280 large brown eggs a year. They start laying at eighteen weeks. Production Red's are usually a Rhode Island Red rooster crossed with a New Hampshire Red or Rhode Island White hen. They're a docile chicken and are in the middle of the pecking order.
Rhode Island Red
We have mixed feelings about Rhode Island Reds. They're definitely at the top of the pecking order. Some hens are gentle while others are aggressive. That's why we would not recommend RIR's to first time chicken buyers with a mixed breed flock. However, they are outstanding layers and an excellent dual purpose breed. Like the Barred Plymouth Rock they are a part of Americana. This breed is popular and we have many request so, thats why we are glad to offer them.
Rhode Island White
Although, they originated from Rhode Island the Rhode Island White is a different breed then the Rhode Island Red but, their physical characteristics are similar. They are gentle and in the middle of the pecking order. They are outstanding layers and an excellent dual purpose breed. Rhode Island Whites are one of the top producers of eggs among Heritage breeds. They lay more than 250 light brown eggs per year. Like the Rhode Island Red and the Barred Plymouth Rock they are a part of Americana.
Speckled Sussex
What a beautiful hen these chicks make. They're outstanding brown egg layers of 4 to 5 eggs a week. They start laying at 20-weeks-old. They can go broody. They're so friendly they enjoy being cuddled. They're a dual-purpose breed and at maturity they weigh around 7 pounds.
White Leghorn
They're a small hen and bred to be an egg laying machine. They will lay 6 to 7 large to extra large white eggs a week. Since, they never go broody thats more than 280 eggs per year. No other breed lays more eggs in a year. They're not affected by west Texas weather. They lay eggs when it is hot and when it is cold. They start laying at 16 to 18-weeks-old. They're a docile breed but not a 'lap chicken'. They just prefer to keep to themselves. We enjoy having a variety of hens but, if we could have only one breed for laying eggs it would be the Heritage breed White Leghorn.
