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Cackle Hatchery Playing/Match Game Cards
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Cackle Hatchery® Playing/Match Game Cards
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Continue ReadingWhite Ameraucanas Chicken
- White Ameraucanas Chicken – Sold as Baby Chicks Only
Minimums –
Not Sexed = 3
Female = 3
Male = 1
Total of 3 birds to ship
Seasonal/Shipped Early Feb thru Early August.
Limit of 15
Continue ReadingHow Do Chickens Get Lice?
The most common ways chickens acquire lice are from wild birds and other chickens. Once a chicken is infested, lice spread by crawling from one bird to another. Contact with infested feathers, especially during a molt, also helps spread lice. Lousiness is usually worse in fall and winter. Suspect lice if your chickens are restless, […]
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 Reading4-H Chick Chain Enjoys Renewed Vitality
Chick Chain is a 4-H activity that introduces youngsters, and often their parents, to the fun of growing baby chicks into laying hens. It’s called Chick Chain because participating youngsters receive baby chicks in the spring and sell some of their grown layers in the fall, with the proceeds funding the purchase of chicks […]
Continue ReadingGolden Spangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben Chicken
- Golden Spangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben – Sold as Baby Chicks Only – No Sexing Available
Black Ameraucana Chicken
- Black Ameraucana – Sold as Baby Chicks Only
Minimums –
Not Sexed = 3
Female = 3
Male = 1
Total of 3 birds to ship
Seasonal/Shipped Early Feb thru Early August.
LIMIT OF 24 Not Sexed.
Limit of 15 Females and Males.
Continue ReadingBlack Minorcas Chicken
- Black Minorcas – Sold as Baby Chicks Only
Minimums –
Not Sexed = 3
Total of 3 birds to ship
We are no longer offering this breed.
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