Heritage breeds are our first love, and our focus is on breeding Dominique chickens and Nonbearded Buff Silkie chickens to Standard for both small farm production and show.
We don’t have any poultry available at this time. Please check back later in the season.
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Confessions of a Chick-a-holica poem by Lily Marie Plasse
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Download a free Excel spreadsheet file that has charts for hatching chicken & turkey eggs
(using the Dry Incubation method), and also includes a third chart for hatching duck eggs.
| If you are a new chicken owner or are thinking of getting chickens, here are some great websites that can help you out:
BackYardChickens.com – This website is the best stop on the web for getting great information. Visit their VERY active Message Boards to learn and ask questions, the Learning Center has info on everything from chicken facts, picking a breed, diseases, supplies, and much more. Even get some great ideas on building your perfect chicken coop! Ideal Poultry – A very good hatchery that offers many breeds, and doesn’t have a minimum chick requirement, just a $25 order minimum. Cackle Hatchery – Another great hatchery for buying your chicks. Murray McMurray Hatchery – This is the most popular hatchery for buying chicks. They offer a beautiful full color catalog with photographs of each breed of chick they offer. Some of the major poultry clubs that are a great resource include the American Poultry Association, American Bantam Association, & APA-ABA Poultry Youth Program Society for the Preservation of Poultry Antiquities – An organization working to improve rare breeds of poultry and to encourage exhibition & breeding. Here are a few recommended links to learn more about the breeds we currently raise or raised in the past: The American Silkie Bantam Club – Great place to go for information and links about Silkie chickens. Great club to join if you’re a silkie fancier! Chantecler Fanciers International – A new club that was formed late 2007 to promote and preserve this great Canadian native! Dominique Club of America – An organization devoted to America’s oldest chicken breed New England Bantam Club – One of the oldest clubs devoted to bantam chickens and ducks. They hold two shows a year in Massachusetts, as well as poultry seminars. New Hampshire Poultry Fanciers – Holds an annual show on the second Sunday of October at the Deerfield, NH Fairgrounds, and also is responsible for setting up and staffing the poultry section of the Deerfield Fair. (For more information on entering the Deerfield Fair, see their website at http://www.deerfieldfair.com/.) |