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14-24+ weeks old
Beginner/Child Friendly
Heat/Cold Tolerant
Dual Purpose- 5-6 large brown eggs/wk (year round), excellent meat better than HEB
Gentle, Friendly, docile, cuddly, active forager
DIET IS WHY THESE HENS ARE BETTER:
Diet is super important for egg quality! You are what you eat, and you are what your food eats. These birds have eaten super clean from hatch date through the most formative first 6 weeks, and up until you take them home.Feed is my own custom formulations of Starter 23%, Grower 20%, Developer 17%, and Layer 19% feeds (which I also sell, see my other ads). Water provided is mineral-rich fresh well-water, never utility-water. Young birds are not allowed to free range or eat scraps so we can be sure they eat all their rations to supply all the protein, carbs, fats, and vit/min needed to grow right. Once they are adults they can and should free range.
- It’s all about the chicken’s FEED! And it’s more about what they DON’T eat.
- All Organic Practices
- No Seed/Vegatable Oils, No Flax, Safflower- No PUFA’s!
- No Corn- it’s all bad nowadays, and GMO
- No Soy, an Endocrine-disrupter that promotes Estrogen
- No Liver Damage as chicks from excess calcium found in Layer Feeds
- No DNA-altering GMO's
- No Mealworm treats which are farmed in a soy sludge
- No Vaccines or Medications
- No Antibiotics or Growth Hormones
- No Scratch or Junk Food
- No Bio-Contamination from humans, other animals, or trashy/crowded conditions
- No Bio-Sludge Fertilizers
- No Glyphosate, Herbicides, or Pesticides
- No Processing Chemicals, Chlorine, Fluoride, Pharmaceuticals, Amoeba
- No Heavy Metals, Mercury
- No Preservatives, Fillers, Flow Agents, Desiccants, Radiation, Nitrates, Nitrites
- No Vitamin/Mineral Depletion
- No Carcinogens
- If you buy other hens and change their feed to the best feeds, it’ll take 6-8 weeks to change their body composition before their eggs are no longer as toxic, but still the hen’s body was raised on trash food during the most formative first six weeks.
- They are very young, just starting their laying life. All chickens over the age of 2 will begin to reduce productivity by about 10-15%/yr. Many of the chickens available on the market are old and past their laying prime. Some have even come from commercial operations and are very low-quality birds.
- These carefully selected breeds give everything a chicken keeper needs in a flock with least headaches.
- Heritage (not hybrid) birds of an 88-year lineage of fine breeding stock, not inbred. They will breed true and you can continue your flock indefinitely. 88 years of focused genetic selection to produce disease resistant and productive poultry for public use. Almost every chicken keeper that hatches eggs is NOT a breeder, they are merely a hatcher. So, their genetics get watered down and desirable traits get lost while overall quality is poor. So, they are not a good source of birds.
- Friendly, Clean, Low Stress, Non-Crowded, Happy Growing Environment.
- Our ranch home is a luxury retreat and ministry center, and our chicken facilities are clean and beautiful, unlike most backyard breeder operations that are trashy and filthy.
- I hand raise these hens from chicks. They interact with two large dogs and a cat and are not afraid. Our woods are full of predators (coon, fox, bobcat, ringtail). So, they are predator aware and will go inside your coop every night without problem, unlike naive barn-raised hens.
- These are perfect laying hens to start out with and are all socialized to humans, each other, and other pets.
- They don't need supplemental heat in cold winter weather.
- I will continue to guide and help you as long as you need it, and supply your high-quality feeds, barrels, and feeders.
- It takes a lot of time, effort, and expense to produce laying hens of this quality. It's easy to find cheaper birds, but they've been fed cheap junk food and lay toxic eggs. It takes about 6-8 weeks after changing hen's diet, if they've been eating soy, corn, etc. before their body composition changes and egg quality improves. Ours lay very healthy eggs without common toxins, and high in Omega-3, vitamins, minerals, and protein.
Polyunsaturated Fats (PUFA’s) are the #1 source of obesity and chronic illness in America and they’re in everything! Store bought eggs and chicken are extremely high in PUFA’s exclusively from the feed, and so they are the WORST meats you can eat! PUFA’s are primarily in “vegetable” oil, which isn’t from vegetables at all but from seeds mostly. Canola oil is about the most destructive food substance one can eat. Since we are what we eat, and we are what our animals eat, we don’t use conventional feeds with PUFA’s or other common offenders.
These statements are opposite what the corrupt FDA, American Heart Assoc, WHO, MD Anderson, and “experts” are leading us to believe. For further research, dig into what Mercola.com has published on PUFA’s.
BREEDS AVAILABLE:
Barred Plymouth Rock $45 Hen or RooThe Plymouth Rock breed was admitted to the American Poultry Association in 1874. Currently, there are seven accepted varieties. The varieties of the Plymouth Rock recognized in the US are:
- Barred
- Blue
- Buff
- Colombian
- Partridge
- Silver Penciled
- White All are rare except the barred and the white.
In terms of their temperament, Barred Rocks are mellow birds. They are not known for bad attitudes or picking at flock mates, and they seem to get along with everyone.
They are described by their owners as sweet, calm, and docile – even the roosters! Any Roo that is mean should be broiled.
Plymouth Rocks are always curious, and they love to check out their environment and follow you around to see what you are up to or any treats to be had.
Rocks much prefer to free-range and find tasty morsels in the yard, but they tolerate confinement well if given enough space.Once you have established your relationship, this is a very trusting hen and is great with the family and children.Columbian Plymouth Rock (rare)(white/black) $65
Although very rare, the Columbian Rock chicken has been around for centuries and has earned a reputation as an excellent dual-purpose breed known for being great egg layers, producing large brown eggs, and are also valued for their meat, which is flavorful and tender. Popular for its hardiness and suitability for free-range farming, their friendly nature and ability to adapt to different living conditions make them a great addition to any backyard flock. They have good resistance to diseases and can survive harsh weather conditions.Columbian rock chickens are curious and friendly, making them great family pets, having a striking appearance, docile nature, hardiness, and high-quality meat.New Hampshire Red $45 Hen or Roo
Not as popular as the Rhode Islands, I like the NHR better because it offers the homesteader more. NHR’s are an excellent forager, thrifty, intelligent, quiet, low maintenance, these are good for beginners and for homesteaders that deal with predators. They’re friendly and docile if hand raised like ours. Good layers, and quick to feather and mature, so they are excellent meat birds which dress out at 8lbs roos, 6lbs hens. Cold hardy, tolerant of heat if they have shade. New Hampshire was admitted to the American Poultry Association in 1935 as a separate breed.
The New Hampshire rooster over a Barred Rock hen will give you a black sexlink chick.Or a New Hampshire rooster over a white Plymouth Rock or Rhode Island White will give you a red sexlink chick. American Bresse Hatchling, straight run $15 (COMING SOON)
The #1 best Layer and Broiler is the American Bresse Chicken (ABC). The only reason the Cornish Cross is the #1 broiler used in commercial meat production is because it was hybrid bred exclusively for super-fast growth; but it must be processed at about 8 weeks or else it develops severe health issues as it ages. Is that what you want to eat? Chicken doesn’t even begin to develop flavor until after 12 weeks. Our ABC’s come to us exclusively from famous breeder Mandelyn Royal in Cincinnati, OH. We buy 15wk old breeding stock, hand selected for breeding traits. Out of 50 hens, we may select 5 to keep for breeding, and cull the rest. A drive to Cincinnati is the only way to get them, so you can be sure we are very dedicated to our ABC breeding program after making that long drive with chickens in tow. Unlike Cornish Cross, ABC can continue to live for years in our flocks producing nice eggs until needed for meat instead of sitting in the freezer. Farmers call this “keeping the meat on the hoof,” not processing until needed. ABC’s are the ultimate dual-purpose bird, that are also stately, rare, and super friendly.
EGG PRODUCTION DOWN? A FEW COMMON REASONS:
Currently many chicken keepers are experiencing reduced or halted egg production, and many are blaming commercial feed additives. It's a known and widespread crisis, but not a problem with our hens and feeds.
- Hen’s age is over 2-3 years. Solution: convert the hen from a Layer to a Broiler
- Decreased hours of sunlight in winter affects circadian rhythm. Solution: add two hours of red incandescent light in the coop at dusk on a timer
- Some breeds don’t lay year-round. Solution: get breeds that do
- Stress in the flock from predator pressure, overcrowding, pressure from more than 1 rooster per 10 hens, dogs at the fence line, wild children not taught to move slow and be gentle, human keepers full of stress or discord, etc. Solution: find ways to reduce stress on the flock. Call me if you need help with predators.
- Conventional feeds are widely rumored to be at fault. Solution: change your feed for 6wks+ and reassess. Better yet, start a new flock on the right feeds.
- Mineral depletion- water may be the culprit. A very popular brooder manufacturer actually recommends distilled water only in their watering systems! This may keep the equipment cleaner, but it makes people and animals very sickly from mineral depletion. Utility water is also full of very bad properties not fit for human or animal consumption. Well water is best. Solution: Use a water additive with minerals, probiotics, prebiotics oregano.
WHEN TO RETIRE HENS:
Generally, laying hens begin to reduce egg production after their 2nd year of laying. This is a good time to rotate a hen’s function from layer to broiler and replace her with another started pullet. I like to put a unique colored leg band on each generation, so I know when to rotate an entire generation out of the flock, into the freezer. This extremely healthy meat then feeds my family and my dogs. We never buy meat at the grocery store anymore and are healthier for it. I urge you to consider your chicken flock a food source, and not pets. Remain detached as much as you can while still enjoying the rewards of socializing with chickens. That’s not callous, it’s God’s order of creation. If you want to be self-sustaining, then the healthy emotional detachment of a farmer is necessary.
CONCLUSION:
Come see our ranch and small flock operation for yourself. I encourage you to raise your own single-breed heritage flock that will breed true for decades, starting with our fine stock.
I can give you a lot of help if you're just getting started with chicken keeping. There's a lot of misconceptions and mistakes new chicken keepers make and so I can save you a year or two of learning curve.
Order now. Availability is very limited in our tiny operation. We do sell out before they come of age.
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