WBE Chicken Varieties

Hyline Leghorn – Excellent white egg layer with 3.60 to 3.80 body size…287 to 307 eggs per hen housed…..3.2 to 3.5 lbs. feed/dozen eggs.  Excellent shell texture and egg quality. 

California White – Excellent layer with a mature body weight of 4 to 4.5 lb. Docile temperament a cross between a Babcock Pullet and a California Grey Rooster.

Barred Rock – Brown egg layer with mature body weight of 5.5 pounds; this bird lays very well and carries nice egg size of medium brown color.  Demand for this beautiful “barred” layer increases each year.

Gold Star – Brown egg layer with mature body weight of 4.7 pounds. Excellent egg size and fine shell quality.  Straight run chicks give you RED pullets and WHITE cockerels.

Production Red - Brown egg layers with mature body weight of 5.0- 5.5 pounds.  This is the same type bird as the Rhode Island Red.  Nice egg color and good egg size with strong shells. 

White Rock – Brown egg layer with 5.25 pounds of body weight.  Produces nice brown eggs with nice egg size and fine shell quality.  The White Rock is a beautiful appearing bird that lays very well.  Many use these as a meat-type bird that is slower growing than the Broiler.

Black Australorp – Brown egg layer with mature body weight 5.0 – 7.0 pounds. Glossy black plumage with greenish-purple sheen.

Buff Orpington- Rich golden buff colored Brown egg layer. Large 6 pounds.  Quiet birds.

Silver Laced Wyandotte – Silvery white edged with black.  Lays a large BROWN EGG.  Mature weight about 5 pounds. 

Aracana - Easter Egg – Chicks can be assorted colors-white, brown red or black.  Eggs- all shades of blue green and light cream color.  A 5.5 pound native bird.  Not intended exhibition.  No color choice in chicks or eggs.

Cornish – Rock Broiler – JUMBO-size Cornish Rock broilers will weigh 4.5 to 5.0 pounds at 8 weeks of age.  Their broad meaty breast and thighs along with rapid growth, makes these broilers one of the most efficient converters of feed to meat there is available today.  You will agree that HOME GROWN BROILERS taste much better than the store purchased chicken.

French Poulet Ranger (Freedom Ranger)- Freedom Rangers are mostly used in non-factory farm production, and slower growing breed, they are better suited for an all true-natural raising system, such as full pasture free range, organic or backyard….  The chicks can vary in color from, yellow, red brown to tricolor, but all are of straight stature with yellow strong shanks, beaks and skin. Generally take 2-3 weeks longer than the Cornish. 

Baby Chick Care
Baby Chicks need WATER, FEED,HEAT (a draft shield is essential), LIGHT, VENTILATION and SPACE.  Have one gallon waterer for each 50 chicks.  MOST BABY CHICK LOSS IS CAUSED BECAUSE THE CHICK DOES NOT START TO DRINK RIGHT AWAY.  WATER IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN FEED THE FIRST DAY.  NEVER LET THEM RUN OUT OF WATER.
Give your chicks a chick starter with a coccidiostat in it.  Broilers do best if you feed them at least 21% protein feed.  Do not push them the first 3 to 4 weeks.  FOR BROILERS, RESTRICT ACCESS TO FEED (AFTER FIRST TWO DAYS) TO 10 HOURS PER DAY FOR THESE FIRST FOUR WEEKS.  Be sure that all chicks have adequate feeder space so that most of the chicks can eat at the same time.  Slowing a broiler’s growth at the very beginning so that heart and lung size matches muscle (meat) is very essential.  NEVER feed drastically lower protein rations or grain only rations as this can cause severe and permanent leg or joint problems.  Feed broilers in the morning and evening but DO NOT keep feed in front of them at all times.
Keep your chicks warm.  A brooder temperature of 90 to 95 degrees is recommended the first few days.

White Pekins Ducks, Rouen Ducks, Mallard Ducks, Large BB White Turkeys, Large BB Bronze Turkeys, and French Gray Guineas also available.

Please call our Store (262.334.2337) for pricing and more information.

8/8/2011