Roosters, Hens & Chicks
Duckie Doodles
The Cluckin' "A" Dogs
The Farm House
Duck & Chicken House
The New Barn
Pupskill Bay Lake
and the Grounds
The Alpacas
The "Bunny Brothel "
Peeps, Poults and Chickens
When we started the farm, both Vick and I thought it would really be neat to raise some chickens, so we went to the local farm store and bought a total of six peeps that were a day old. We raised them in the basement in a huge tub, with a heat lamp over the top, until they grew big enough that we could transfer them to the chicken barn we bought. We divided it down the center and housed chickens on one side and duck peeps on the other side. It was soon evident that we would need another building to separate the chickens and ducks, providing each with an outside screened in run area. We would also need a brooding house, used to exclusively hatch, and raise broods of ducks and chickens until they were big enough to go to the barns. The rest is history!
Getting real close...
The first little guy to hatch out
Here they are, one day old....
Here they are at two weeks of age.....
They're starting to pop open...
Wondering what it's all about....
What's to figure out? Food, water and heat...
A month later and almost ready for the barn
When viewing this page, remember...... in recent years, the demand for chicks and pullets has increased so rapidly, that you cannot get them from the farm stores unless you order ahead. That means what does come in, are promised to ordering customers only. This makes it virtually impossible to get them after the start of the season. Last year by June, you could not even order them because the hatcheries were swamped with orders through the end of the year. We had such loss of eggs and time in incubating eggs that we finally decided to quit hatching. We now buy Comet pullets, which are hybrid, non-reproducing chicks that are 100% guaranteed females, that lay large brown eggs. The problem is the eggs are not fertile, so we can no longer hatch any eggs because we cannot tell which eggs are which!
We offer regular adult Jumbo white Cornish rock and Silver Cockerel meat birds year round, which are always in our freezer. They are free range and all natural, having never had steriods or anything to enhance growing, beyond their natural free range diet.
All chickens are picked up here at the farm. We will not ship live chicks or adult birds or processed birds due to the cost of shipping!
Broiler price runs $4.00 per pound dressed & Frozen
