If you’ve purchased chicks from Cackle Hatchery in the past, you may have noticed that we offer our customers the opportunity to vaccinate all of our chicken breeds against Marek’s disease. This highly-contagious viral disease causes chickens to develop a variety of devastating symptoms such as vision impairment, partial paralysis and cancerous tumor growth on […]
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Freedom Rangers™ – Sold as Baby Chicks Only – No Sexing Available
Minimum of 25 to ship.
No pick up orders.
Must be ordered by themselves on a separate order with no other birds.
These orders are manually scheduled and you will be sent an email with your ship date within 24 to 48 hours.
When chickens are allowed to free range, certain breeds fare far better than others, especially in terms of avoiding predators. Ideal characteristics for free ranging chickens include wariness, inconspicuous plumage, acute vision, and foraging ability. Predator Wariness Chicken breeds that are best able to evade predators are the wary, high strung, excitable, so-called […]
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One of the most outstanding features of a rooster is his comb — that fleshy crownlike protrusion on top of a chicken’s head. So why do roosters have such ornate combs? At about 3 to 8 weeks of age, depending on the breed, baby chicks start developing reddened combs. A cockerel’s comb will gradually become […]
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As if you needed one more reason to grow your own chicken meat, here it is — woody breast, defined as a hardening of breast muscle, resulting in stiff wood-like fibers that make the breast meat difficult to chew. Woody breast is one of three breast meat myopathies (muscle diseases) that plague the poultry industry, […]
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Not Sexed = 3
Total of 3 birds to ship
We have discontinued our breeding program for the Delaware X Hampshire Cross
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Seasonal/Shipped Early Feb thru End of Sept
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Cackle’s Red Broiler – Sold as Baby Chicks Only – No Sexing Available
NOT AVAILABLE FOR THIS SEASON
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Not Sexed = 3
Female = 3
Male = 1
Total of 3 birds to ship
Seasonal/Shipped Feb thru mid August
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