Recent content by highdesertsun

Cackle Hatchery has pretty good stock. Take the best cock,the top two or three hens - then there will be three MH breeders in the USA. I think their minimum order is 15, but the cockerel culls are delicious and the hens eggs taste the same as the breeders.

I have a triplet after culling non-select and tragically mutated birds from a group of 11 from Murray McMurray last August. The girls have a lot of white and are laying small white eggs, around 5 a week each. The cockerel is quite dark with about half the amount of mottling that a cock should...

I was thinking of him but it's not in his lineup this year. I should drop him a line and see if he's just not advertising.

Lancaster Fancy Fowl has incredible quality SF. I'm also pleased with the high quality of Cackle 's SF. Very good for a hatchery.

I feel your pain - I'm searching as well.

bantam frizzle Cochin Buzzard Face sharing a carrot with my boxer Bisbee

my boxer Bisbee is quite blasé about the constant stream of sick or injured chickens in the house. My bantam Black Dutch Dandy has recovered from a cold and is waiting for a break in the weather before he returns to the outside coop.

My Black Dutch cockerel fell asleep in my lap

Half my first flock died of what appeared to be Mareks. We currently have 4 large fowl hens, 1 bantam hen and 2 bantam roosters left in that group. Everyone seems to work out their differences safely. No one appears overbred, and all eggs appear to be fertile. We have 5 chicks out of 6 eggs...