Free range FARM eggs
About our Heritage Chickens
We have 32 free range heritage chickens and a very nice rooster named, “Billy Idol,”
who rocks a beautiful white mane, just like his namesake.
Our chickens spend time each day happily scratching in the dirt, digging up nice dust baths, eating crickets that hop by, and laying the most delicious eggs.
No hormones, no antibiotics.
Just healthy and happy chickens.
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Our flock roosts every night in our modified barn stall-coop, with 9 nesting boxes that David built into the outside wall of the barn where Melanie gathers eggs every afternoon. Each box has room for 2 hens to share each nesting box, but they prefer to go in one at a time. Usually the ones who are waiting will queue up on the roosting bar inside the coop, a wooden bar that runs the length of the coop right in front of the boxes, where they wait patiently for their turn. Such polite ladies! When one hen is finished laying her egg (with a loud squawk!) she hops out of her box, and a hen who has waited patiently 20 or 30 minutes will hop right in and get comfortable. Each nesting box is lined with a soft clean layer of pine shavings, sometimes with a few sprigs of rosemary and lavender Melanie mixes in from her herb garden.
Here are some of the heritage breeds currently ranging on the farm, many on the ALBC (American Livestock Breeds Conservancy) endangered list:
Plymouth Barred Rock: The ALBC lists this breed as recovering.
Buff Orpington: Orpingtons are big, friendly dual-purpose birds originally developed in the UK, and for many small farms Orpingtons are the only way to go! They’re friendly and cold-hardy due to their fluffy plumage. The Buff Orpington is the most popular and all varieties, especially the black and blue, are rare.
The Rhode Island Red is an American breed of domestic chicken. It was developed in the late nineteenth century by cross breeding birds of Oriental origin such as the Malay with brown Leghorn birds from Italy. It was formerly a dual-purpose breed, raised both for meat and for eggs. Modern strains have been bred for their egg-laying abilities. The traditional non-industrial strains of the Rhode Island Red are listed as “watch” on the ALBC.
Welsummers: A Dutch breed that originated from Holland in the early twentieth century. They are a very sociable, easily handled, and are beautiful for the barnyard. They tend to become very tame. They are a very calm, talkative bird. They lay a beautiful terra cotta brown egg. This breed is not mentioned by the ALBC, because it is still considered new to the US.
Black Australorp: Black Australorps were developed from the Orpington breed in Australia. These chickens are very hardy, especially in the cold, and are quite friendly and docile. Because of their kind personality, Australorps are an excellent breed choice for children who want to raise chickens.
