Ranch poultry


       Chickens not only provide us with eggs & meat, they aid in insect control by eating fly larvae, livestock manure parasites & garden bugs.
    They add fertilizer to the gardens & pasture and keep rattlesnakes away from the house.
    Some of our Chickens are kept in portable coops, known as chicken tractors. we use the chicken tractors in the garden because free
    ranging fowl might damage young plants, and in the pasture as part of our rotational grazing system. Other chickens, including those
    kept for breeding, free range around the house & barn during the day and are kept in a coop for their protection from predators
    at night.

This is a 16 wk. old Silver Gray Dorking rooster that we have chosen to keep for breeding.
     Dorkings are good layers, raise their own young & provide fine quality meat.
     They are considered the oldest breed of chicken, were one of the most common american farm fowl
      prior to the civil war, yet are now rare. I will be raising Silver Gray Dorkings to preserve the                       
      breed & provide food for our family. I hope to offer Dorking chickens & eggs for sale in the future.

3/21/05 Day old Dork chicks brooding in our bathtub.


                               
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