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Delaware Cockerels for Sale - unrelated parents (Ideal and Murray McMurray lines) 12 weeks old, we can pick out the nicest one/s with good tail barring for you- pick up at the farm only - $15 each - Our rooster dads have been chosen for fastest growing and largest/early maturing traits - hens for laying size large to extra large eggs. We are focusing on meat and egg laying traits rather than just for show - we want a useful heritage breed for the farm. Our birds have been raised by us and we feel they are calm and not flighty-

Delaware Chicken Fertile Hatching Eggs for Sale - Big jumbo in the middle, to the right the first egg a chicken (pullet) lays, then after awhile they start laying the nice large to x-large eggs to the left. We are now offering hatching eggs from our unrelated lines of heritage rare Delaware chickens - Pick up from farm is available now - NPIP certified

We are not shipping eggs from June - September - pick up from the farm only

Delaware hen on a sunny fall day-

The sheep and chickens get along very well...

We are interested in preserving a heirloom American breed of chicken, plus one that is a good dual purpose bird.

We are now members of the American Livestock Breed Conservancy

More information about Delaware Chickens

Delaware Chickens were developed in 1940 from select New Hampshire and Rhode Island Red varieties. They are very good egg layers - and a fast growing meat bird as well.

We accept US postal money orders and Pay-Pal. Contact us at 503-537-9210 or Annie@Dolcefarm.com for more information.

HATCHING EGGS - We are NPIP certified

We are focusing on the meat and egg laying attributes of the Delaware, keeping conformation in mind. If some have experience dwarfism - we have not had this in any chicks we ourselves have raised - only noticing that chicks fed layer pellets under 2 months of age instead of grower rations do grow much more slowly, if chicks are crowded there may be a few some that do grow more slowly than others. Slow growing roosters are culled and make a fine soup or broiler! We wash our water containers daily to prevent coccidia which also might slow chick growth. With any heritage breed, one needs to breed the best and cull the rest.

Our hatching eggs are weighed individually, only size large or larger eggs are mailed out for hatching. Our roosters are chosen for fastest maturing, conformation and size. We do not wash hatching or refrigerate hatching eggs, which removes the protective bloom from the eggs. Eggs are gathered several times a day - only fresh, clean eggs are sent.

At this point we are not shipping eggs - too many delays and rough handling

by the USPS, even with extra packing - :(

Hatching Eggs may be picked up here at the farm - $15 per dozen.

Delaware Chicks - Our incubator has arrived - after a couple tries we are sending it back to be adjusted - plus purchasing a hygrometer -this will delay any more hatchings by awhile - we'll keep you all posted with any progress we make-

Looking for goodies outside

EGGS FOR CULINARY USES

We have begun to use a locally milled soy and corn free feed. Our former feed was shipped in from the midwest. Trying to reduce our carbon footprint is very important to us - the grains that our chickens are eating are almost all locally grown. Soy is also considered by some to be a hormone disrupter and increases the number of eggs that chickens lay - even organically grown soy. Corn (also organically grown) uses vast amounts of a disappearing resource - well water. The aquifer in the midwest is being used up by irrigation. Most of the other grains are more easily dry farmed. Almost all of the corn and soy in this country is genetically engineered (GMO).

Our naturally fed chickens are truly free range and have access to several acres of pasture. They eat vast quantities of grass and weeds which increases the amount of Vitamin D and Omega 3s in their eggs. According to Mother Earth News, pastured eggs tested at a Portland, Oregon lab contained the following-

• 1/3 less cholesterol
• 1/4 less saturated fat
• 2/3 more vitamin A
• 2 times more omega-3 fatty acids
• 3 times more vitamin E
• 7 times more beta carotene

Since we do not cage our chickens on pasture, they are very happy and free to choose the choicest grasses and weeds, even during the hot summer months. They also are able to enjoy dust baths if they so choose, which contributes to their overall well being. And they relish sun bathing - either on a warm, wooden step of the chicken coop or on straw in the barn.

Our hens are not given antibiotics or hormones, give eggs so full of flavor that you cannot compare them to a store bought egg.

Pastured/Free range - Soy and Corn free eggs for sale

Combo of extra Large/w some large $5.00 doz at the farm

Handsome boy...