In 2018, Hatching Time founders and co-CEOs Yağız Aksu and Ryan Flanagan saw a need for clean, sanitary products in the poultry industry. Based out of Newark, DE, Hatching Time is an e-commerce business focusing on providing technologically-advanced poultry raising equipment.
Poultry equipment retailer Hatching Time has found a place to roost: a 27,000 square foot distribution center and showroom in the Boulden Interchange Park.
One-Stop Poultry Shop
With main markets including homesteaders, hobbyists, small to medium-sized farms, chick hatcheries, 4-H clubs, institutions, universities, and research labs, Hatching Time offers a diverse sanitary and technologically-advanced line of products. Since the start of their business, Hatching Time’s goal has been to become recognized as North America’s largest “One-Stop Poultry Shop.”
With flagship product lines constructed from durable ABS plastic, products are engineered to create a no-rust, clean environment for fertile eggs, hatchlings, teens, and adult birds.
Growing Strong
As a primarily e-commerce business serving backyard chicken enthusiasts, Hatching Time’s sales dramatically increased during the pandemic, with a 3,274% growth from 2019 to 2022. To date, Hatching Time has 20 employees and now sits at No.1,161 on the Inc 5,000 list with a solid foothold in the market to include vendors and retailers. Hatching Time has remained agile, and recently expanded into apiary equipment, as many homesteaders are getting more interested in helping the local honeybees and bumblebee populations while producing honey and candle wax along the way.
Roosting in New Castle, DE
Hatching Time is growing quickly – opening up shop in a 27k sqft distribution center in New Castle, DE. Inside the new facility is a 3,000 sqft show room that allows customers to see Hatching Time’s best-selling products up close, like egg incubators, chick brooders, chicken coops, stackable breeding systems and more.
“Clients are constantly asking us to see the equipment, and where our last facility was, it wasn’t up to snuff to show the equipment in a nice way,” Flanagan told the Delaware Business Times. “This place in New Castle really checks all our boxes, and gives people an experimental view of the product and see how it works. You can also talk with our sales reps and build out your whole package.” Hatching Time founders have signed a five-year lease at 11 Boulden Circle and the duo hope to tap into key distribution routes along Interstate 95 and Delaware Route 1. “It all comes back to my roots, because I grew up here. We started right out of my parent’s garage where the first shipping container, 22 pallets of products, got packed in every crevice of my parent’s house. They were big supporters,” Flanagan said. “When it came time for more space, we had already built out the team and we weren’t going to lay them off and move to a different state. That’s why wehad to stay in the area, no matter the cost.”