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The Best Time to Order Chicks
As spring weather begins to warm in March and April, a lot of people start thinking about ordering chicks. Unfortunately, everyone else has the same idea, and hatcheries rapidly sell out of many breeds during those months. If you place your order in March or April, you may end up waiting a month or more […]
Continue ReadingShould You Vaccinate Your Chickens Against Marek’s Disease?
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.
Next Available Ship Date is Oct.
Continue ReadingBest Chicken Breeds for Free Range
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 […]
Continue ReadingWhy Does a Rooster Have a Comb?
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 […]
Continue ReadingWoody Chicken Breast — One More Reason to Grow Your Own
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, […]
Continue ReadingDelaware X Hampshire Cross (Indian River) Chicken
- Delaware X Hampshire Cross (Indian River) – Sold as Baby Chicks Only
Minimums –
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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- Special Heavy Assorted – Sold as Baby Chicks Only
Seasonal/Shipped Early Feb thru End of Sept
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- Hungry Man Special – Sold as Baby Chicks Only