Oak Meadows Hatchery
Silver Line Breeding Stock Package (Male Line)
Silver Line Breeding Stock Package (Male Line)
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Pricing:
$1,000 for a box of 20 live chicks. We offer a guarantee of 20 live chicks per box as we will ship you 25-27 per box of 20 you order. If you end up with less then 20 coming alive in shipment and provide photo proof of them, we will replace them.
While it is a large investment, for $2,000 you can get a box of 20 black chicks and a box of 20 silver chicks and be on your way to be self sufficient to breed all your own chicken or to start your own business selling chicks. Plus even if you don’t sell many chicks, the eggs the hens will lay will cover their feed costs.
20 is the minimum we recommend for starting out. More is better from a genetics standpoint, but if done correctly, you can start your own line with one good hen and one good rooster.
They come straight run so you will end up with roughly half hens and half roosters
We recommend the Breeders Academy as a great resource for learning all about how to breed your own chickens. https://www.breedersacademy.com
We include shipping in the price of the box and will do either regular or express shipping depending on where you are located. Express shipping will be added at no extra charge if needed to ensure your investment is safe guarded.
History and description of the breed:
Our Dirt Parrot broilers are a cross between two lines, the Black Female line and the Silver Male line. The female line has been bred to be the line that we use the females from for egg production and cross them to the silver males. They are a smaller bird then the silver line with the hens being all black to black with red hackles. We are breeding the males to be consistently black with red on them. See pictures. When crossing the lines, if you cross the silver roosters to the black hens, you will get a barred broiler that looks a lot like the silver line. If you cross them the other way and do a black rooster over a silver hen, you will get a sexlink chick where the hens will be black and the rooster will be silver/barred. They will grow the same either way.
Our male line is a cross of two silver lines. One from genetics that originally came from Henry Noll of Nolls Poultry Farm and the other from Matthew Nelson of Spring Creek Heritage Farms. The line from Spring Creek are called Amrocks. Both the lines we used in making our own line were bred for meat production.
While breeding them to be large bodied, they will also lay around 200-250 eggs per year with proper management.
If you are only going to buy one of our lines for meat production, I would recommend getting this line. Even without crossing them to our black line, they grow very well and will give you a nice broiler from the males in 13-14 weeks and nice hens for laying.
We are working on collecting more data on them as far as egg production and grow out times.
Please reach out to me with any questions on the Silver line.
Barred Plymouth Rock chickens first appeared on the scene in the mid 1800's in Boston Massachusetts. Renowned for its dual-purpose traits as well as being reliable, cold hardy and well behaved. They gained tremendous popularity in the early 1900's. By the 1950s the commercial Cornish had taken its place in popularity. Today the flocks are recovering through the work of dedicated poultry men and women.
The Amrock is our version of a Barrred Plymouth Rock that can compete with today's industry, thriving on pasture, bugs, and blue sky instead of a barn. A lifetime in the making towards achieving our own farmstead independence is finally complete. Unparalleled performance now available for small farmers without a corporate overlord or breeder contract. Your own line of strong growth barred birds without the Cornish cross or shipping costs.
It was part luck, and part skill in finding the key components for strong growth and equaled production working with old lines and show lines of barred rocks. Everyone here at the farm, from 8 to 80, loves these birds for their easy-going personality. The males can have some protective attitude during peak season. They are not aggressive with humans. They are heavy and powerful, and we suggest watching out for the wing flapping when handling.
We developed our Amrocks in North America using imported stock and noncommercial stock. Females are excellent layers if feed is managed properly and can lay up to 250 brown eggs per year. Our Amrocks are a composition of rocks and their cousins and founding breeds over the span of the last 14 years in development. Gender is distinguishable by 5-10 days as the males are a lighter silver than the females. This allows for splitting hatches on pasture for egg and meat purposes and or difference in finishing times between genders. Fittingly the males are ready for the table by 12+ weeks. We currently have several farms who are now vertically integrated for meat production now or have begun selling chicks from our stock as hybrids as another option to ordering Freedom Ranger broilers.
If you have tried American Bresse and found them to be more hype than type, you will find these are a success with local farmers and chefs. In 2023 we decided to test our market by putting about 60 Coq Au Vin in the freezer from that season's additional breeder males and they sold out at $6.99 per lb with amazing clientele feedback. Now there is a waitlist for 2024 Coq Au Vin. We already knew they are fantastic table birds; we just weren't prepared for such a tremendous response.
Amrocks are only available here at Spring Creek Heritage Farms.
Available also as a hybrid cross to keep your genetics in house.
It's not uncommon for our farm manager to hand deliver the Amrock and Le Grand orders. So, don't be surprised if he calls you from the airport or from the road before arriving with your basket of fluffy chicks! These are one of his favorite achievements to date and wants to make sure that clients have a full understanding of the potential and how great these work for us
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