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About us… We are a small family run hatchery. 2/3 of us either work or go to school full. We only keep a few breeds because we desire to have a quality breed chicken and to keep bloodlines of rare birds from becoming extinct. Commercial hatcheries might have 1000 of one breed while we haveContinue reading “About Us”

Why you should raise chickens: We have two programs at Little Rock Poultry for adopting chickens. The first one is for youth and children and you take the birds home with you: The cost is free but rules do apply: *you must supply your own cage, feeders, waterers, and heaters. We simply cannot do itContinue reading “Adopt-a-Chicken”

Your flock could be the best source of meat, eggs, and homemade fertilizer for plants. by Adobestock/trongnguyen What are the benefits of raising chickens? In a word, poop! Learn how to put chicken manure as fertilizer to use in your garden.  Fresh, nutritious eggs and homegrown roast chicken dinners are reason enough to raise yourContinue reading “Benefits of Raising Chickens”

There are four main ways you can obtain chicks: from a mail-order hatchery (almost year-round), from a local farm store (mostly in spring), by placing fertile eggs in an incubator (anytime), or by placing fertile eggs under a hen that has “gone broody” (usually in spring). If you decide to order by mail, you canContinue reading “Raise Your Best Flock Using Broody Hens”

|Originally Published on May 1, 1970 1 / 2 An example of an anaerobic compost method, this type of compost pile should be turned every few weeks. Tangy red tomatoes, butter peas, crisp lettuce, sweet onions, corn on the cob, watermelon that drips off the chin and other succulent goodies … fresh from your ownContinue reading “An Introduction to Organic Garden Fertilizer and Compost”

HENS: Young hens: $10-15 24 months old and up: FREE ROOSTERS: Pure breed roosters that I hand raised are $5 each grown. For most breeds, I cannot tell they are a rooster until they are several months old. I do not breed or sell mixed roosters. EGGS: Eating eggs $1.00 per dozen. They are refrigeratedContinue reading “2018 Prices”

|Published on May 9, 2014 We have had a variety of heritage breed animals on our Ohio farm. We want to help save their genetics by raising them and their off-spring. Our lives are enriched not only by their presence, but also because of their produce.We currently have Dutch Belted cows, Narragansett turkeys, Dorking chickensContinue reading “Help to Preserve Rare Heritage Breeds”

Originally Published on March 1, 1973 Red raspberries should be planted at least five hundred feet away from other raspberry varieties to prevent the spread of berry diseases. Special Note: All material here reprinted from Grow It! Copyright © 1972 by Richard W. Langer. The title of this excerpted chapter is “Berries.” One of the tastiest spots onContinue reading “Growing Rasperries, Blueberries, Currants, Grapes, Strawberries and More”

Credit: Originally Published on February 1, 2002 by Mother Earth News (https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/endangered-heritage-java-chicken-zmaz02fmzgoe/) Learn how to save the endangered heritage Java chicken. I drive backward in time every day on my way to work. I leave Chicago and busy Route 38 behind, then head up a gravel road to a white-picketed yard full of plump chickensContinue reading “Repopulating the Endangered Heritage Java Chicken”

*Certain chicken breeds have become extinct and more are about to become extinct. *There are about 25 billion chickens in the world today but more traditional or ‘heritage’ breeds are increasingly at risk of becoming extinct. *This is because industrialized chicken farming and factory farming bred in qualities to enhance meat and egg production. LittleContinue reading “We can’t lose Heritage Breeds”