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Chicken Feed — Whole Grains, Mash, Pellets, or Crumbles?
Commercially formulated rations are developed to maximize nutritional benefit based on a flock’s age, beginning with chick starter, then moving up to grower, developer, and lay ration as chickens mature. Meat birds have their own formulas for starter/grower rations and finisher ration intended to induce rapid growth. Aside from different formulas for different age groups, […]
Continue ReadingWhy Raise Cornish Cross Chickens
Raising Cornish cross chickens can put meat on your table faster than any other livestock. In just a few weeks you can fill your freezer with broilers that are tastier and better for you than anything you could buy at the supermarket. The Cornish Cross chicken — also known as Jumbo Cornish Cross, Broiler, […]
Continue ReadingOlive Egger Chickens: 6 Questions Answered
Chicken eggs in the United States were once available in two basic shell colors — unimaginative white and traditional farmstead brown. Along with the ongoing boom in backyard chicken flocks comes an interest in eggs with shells in a wider array of colors, including pink, blue and green. One of the most startling colors is […]
Continue Reading8 Things to Know Before Building a Chicken Coop
Before a box full of peepers arrives, it is imperative to have a plan for a chicken coop. Chicks that have recently graduated from the brooder should have a coop to call home, and not be left homeless. Ideally, the coop will be prepared and ready for move-in long before the babies arrive. Chickens, […]
Continue ReadingHow to Trim a Rooster’s Spurs — and How Not To
A chicken’s spur is an outgrowth of the leg bone, consisting of soft tissue covered with a protective sheath made of the same tough keratinous material that makes up the chicken’s claws and beak. The spur starts out as a little bony bump. As the chicken matures, the spur grows longer, curves, hardens and develops […]
Continue Reading6 Steps Toward Successfully Breeding Backyard Chickens
Chicken owners who collect and hatch eggs from their backyard breeder flocks may be divided into two camps: the so-called propagators or multipliers, who emphasize quantity, and the breeders, who emphasize quality. Both groups hatch lots of chicks. To the propagator, the end goal is the large numbers of chicks. To the breeder, a […]
Continue ReadingWholesale Dealer Qualifications
To qualify to be a Wholesale Dealer with Cackle Hatchery: 1. You must own/manage a store where you are reselling the baby chicks. If you are selling from a farm: 2. You must purchase birds through our retail department and once the season is over, call us to review your account to see if you […]
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Submit a review on our BBB here: Is Cackle Hatchery® Legit? Yes, we have been raising and selling chickens since 1936 but don’t take our word for it; read many of our reviews and testimonials from real customers: September 10, 2023 All 17 chicks arrived alive and healthy in a timely manner, would do business […]
Continue ReadingChicken Terms/Definitions/Phrases
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z – A – Addled A rotten or otherwise inedible egg. Or an egg in which the embryo died during early incubation. Age of lay The age at which a […]
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