PULLETS (FEMALE CHICKENS) FOR SALE
Young hens at point-of-lay, raised on certified organic whole grain feed.
9/7/09 SOLD OUT!!!
I chose breeds that I knew from my own experience to be very productive, or in the case of the Easter Eggers, knew to be very popular. One hen from each of these breeds would offer plenty of color in your back yard as well as in your egg carton. These breeds offer a variety of plumage colors as well as egg colors. Photos at right are either labeled or numbered to identify each breed listed below:
- 1: Black Australorps, a larger bird, iridescent black that shows green and purple in sunlight, lays well, brown eggs.
- 2: Columbian Wyandottes, a larger bird, white with black markings, a rose comb which refers not to the color but the shape of the comb, lays well, brown eggs.
- Easter Eggers, often mistakenly called Araucana or Ameraucana, are a mid-size bird, various colors and patterns of feathers, have a pretty muff on their faces and a small pea comb, lay well, egg color adds variety to the egg carton.
- 3: Partridge Rocks, a medium weight breed, related to the barred rock many people are familiar with, but the Partridge Rock has gorgeous plumage; a rich brown with black lacing. Yeah, it sounds boring, but in person it's really pretty. These girls lay brown eggs.
- 4: Rhode Island Reds, a mid-size bird, lovely reddish brown feathering, lays well, brown eggs.
- Silver Laced Wyandottes, an American breed, the SL Wyandotte is a heavy breed with stunning plumage in silvery white edged with greenish black, has a rose comb. Lays light brown eggs.
- 5: Single combed Brown Leghorns, a light-weight bird, brown and peach feathering, a cute floppy red comb, lays well, white eggs. Do not discount white egg layers... aside from good production, at least a couple white eggs in your egg carton will bring more attention to the colored eggs.
CHICKENS MUST BE PICKED UP AT OUR FARM, $30 each. Our birds are available to families in the SW Washington area, including Vancouver, Camas, Washougal, Battleground, who want a few hens to keep in their back yard for egg production. 9/7/09 SOLD OUT!!!!
Contact us to purchase hens for your backyard.
Above: Day old Buff Orpington chicks.
It is possible to raise hens in town or within city limits, but don't miss the informative pages on the Organic Chickens website before making any calls to your city officials, because how you phrase the question may well determine the answer you receive. See our Backyard page for more information, and don't miss our Housing pages for photos and building plans of our arks, chicken tractors and hen houses, as well as our informative pages on brooding chicks, the best books to own, and recipes for making your own feed, as well as links to purchasing organic pre-mixed feeds.
Click on Backyard Flock to begin!
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In this age where it's now easy to clone and delete parts of photographs,
and some farmers and webmasters are doing this to published photos of their livestock,
please note that all photos on this website are unaltered in any way!
Colors, conformation, etc are exactly as depicted.
3.5-month-old pullets above and below, housed in our chicken tractor, are labeled as follows:
1 = Australorp, 2 = Columbian Wyandotte, 3 = Partridge Rock,
4 = Rhode Island Red, 5 = Single Combed Brown Leghorn.
4.5-month-old pullets above and below are housed in our A-frame ark.
