Patty's Poultry
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Copper Black Marans, Wade Gene/Ron Presley lines very dark egg layers of French origin, known for the darkest eggs of all, varying in shade from a brick color to deep
chocolate brown, depending on the laying cycle and genetics of the individal bird. Dark eggs is the single most desireable trait
in this line of birds. The rooster on the left is only six months old in the photo. We are enjoying watching him change and grow every day! The eggs in the photo in
the left column were laid by a hen that hatched from my original eggs. The photo was taken by me and not enhanced in ANY way. What you
see is how they look in real life. We have seven young pullets that hatched from that clutch in late August, early September. They have been laying since the spring and
we are very happy with the results! Their eggs have gone all over the country and apparently they ship well!
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Bev Davis Copper Blue Roo
Bev Davis Line Copper Blue/Black/Splash, This nice flock has been gathered from birds hatched by people who bought their actual eggs the parent birds
hatched out of from Bev Davis, a notable marans breeder who has been working on her line of birds for over two decades. This pen has a blue rooster with only a small amount
of coppering on his neck, a few ticks of it three or four inches below his throat. He does not have any excessive coppering on his breast, nor straw colored hackles. He
really is a nice rooster. Even though he is still growing in his first set of sickle feathers, he has convinced the ladies he is worthy and ferilty is running near or
at 100% at present. The hens are all copper black, except one hen lacking copper on her hackles, and a splash hen, also lacking copper markings, but makes up for it with
her stellar personality and looks! All birds in this pen are feather legged. Some of the hens lay a tad lighter than the other line in the box above, but that is often
to be expected with flocks carrying the blue genetics. They are very nice birds. You will love them. They grow to a substantial size, larger and heavier birds than I have
seen from other lines. You will not be disappointed with the quality of these birds and their eggs. With the rooster being blue, every single egg has a 50/50 chance of
hatching out a copper blue chick. Here is an outstanding opportunity to add the coveted copper blue to your flock, as well as size, substance and disposition.
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White Showgirl Pullet split to Partridge 
2010 Showgirl Rooster out of SQ silkie girl! | Show-Girls! Our showgirl rooster hatched in spring of 2010. He has a spectacular temperament. His mother is a gorgeous show quality white silkie hen. His father is split to partridge, (recessive trait). There is a good chance this rooster will also carry partridge. My other showgirl pullets are black, blue and partridge, so you can get all colors from this pen. They have excellent neck and comb pigment. Some have pea combs, and the toe feathering on the middle toe is sparse on most of my birds. That is something I will be working on in 2011. Toes are excellent usually, generally I get five toes with very nice toe spacing. |
Bantam Mille Fleur Cochin Cockerel 
Bantam Mille Fleur Cochin Pullet | Bantam Mille Fleur Cochin is a quite scarce color variety in this country, very difficult to come by. I got my start from Ralph Phillips in MA, and crossed the one rooster I hatched from the eggs I got, on my mottled cochins. F1 (first generation) was all black mottled. I crossed the pullets back on their father and got several very nice mille fleur offspring. I kept five pullets from that cross. I got an unrelated male to cross on those, again from Ralph Phillips, as well as my best pullet. They should begin to lay in the spring/summer '10, and hopefully I will be off and running to work on this beautiful, wonderful variety. I should also have eggs available for sale at that time. I still keep the F1 flock of black mottled hens with a mille fleur rooster. They are the same hens that these gorgous mille fleurs all came from. I will have eggs available from them also. Each of those eggs would have a fifty fifty chance to hatch out either a mille fleur potential colored chick, or a black mottled chick that can produce mille fleurs. There will be no "unknown split" babies hatched from any eggs sold. Everything you hatch will either BE mille fleur potential colored, (some shade of buff/red/partridge with varying degrees of black and white ticking) or a black mottled, sometimes with other off color plumage, which will have the potential to produce mille fleur if crossed on a mille fleur colored rooster. I also kept back an exceptional black mottled rooster with golden hackles from my F1 cross, because of his EXTERMELY good cushion, and supremely nice temperament. He will be crossed on my most typey mille fleur hens to breed for the most correct cochin type I can get at this point in my breeding program. Mille Fleur Cochins are a work in progress and quality can vary quite a lot from breeder to breeder, as well as in the same breeding pen. Very strong culling is neccessary to allow this wonderful variety to move forward. Hopefully some day it will be an APA accepted variety. I am working toward that goal in my program. If you would like to be a part of the effort, please do not hesitate to contact me for hatching eggs. Prices vary from what pen they would be from. Availabilty very limited. |
Barred Bearded Olive Egger Roo
| Barred Bearded Olive Egger is another variety we are working on. In addition to the mother, shown left, we are growing out six promising young pullets to add deeper egg color and genetic variety to our flock. Some are bearded, some clean faced. Some have a small amount of leg feathering, a reminder of their recent infusion of deep brown laying marans blood. We look forward to great things in the coming year. The advantage of the barring gene is once the trait is "set" and fully inherited to predictable patterns, you could sex the chicks and be able to use your time and money raising all pullets instead of cockerels if you wanted to only keep pullets for any reason. Speaking of cockerels, we are VERY PLEASED with our junior rooster who will be taking on his role as head flock roo this spring and summer! He has a beautiful, correct pea comb, a beard, small wattles, double barring gene and clean shanked legs! Talk about hitting the jackpot! You still may get clean faced and/or featherd shanks on the birds hatched from this year's eggs, but their egg color should be varying shades of khaki, olive and deep olive green. These are very striking looking birds, a wonderful addition to any flock! |
Lavender Orpington Cockerels light and dark phase
| Lavender Orpingtons are a new color variety, extremely rare in the Untied States and not yet Rcognized by the APA. (That means you can show them as "any other variety" and not compete for best of anything. Lavender is a recessive gene that modifies black, and works the same in any breed of chicken. There are dark and light phases of lavender, which adds beautiful subltle shading variety in the flock. The birds we have now are all hatched 2010, and we chose only the very best of the best hatched this year to continue on with. We are looking forward to crossing them on the black orpingtons we hatched this year from show breeder, Julie aka BamaChicken in Alabama! |
Our Black Orp Rooster! Sweet!
| Black Orpingtons were the original color of orpingtons when they were first deveoloped. This flock is the "English type" orpington. The feather is more profuse, and tail feathers differ slightly. To be show quality in the US the lower feathers on the belly should not hang lower than the hocks, or you will lose points for wrong type. Some judges have been known to write "cochin" on the card and disqualify the bird, so if you are looking for show quality US type orps, maybe these are not the right flock for you. If you want GORGEOUS, LARGE, GENTLE birds that lay cream/tinted eggs and are great yard ornaments, or to cross on your lavender orpington project birds, these two strains would compliment eachother very well! The project orps are mostly still sort of narrow bodied with stiffer tail feathers and smaller heads, finer boned feet than the show type orps for the US standard. These English type black orps could really help you to improve your type on your lavender orps in fewer generations than would be possible just working with the blacks that come out of lavender orp project pens. We have three pullets and one roo, so eggs will be in short supply for 2011. |
BLRW Splash Roo
| Blue Laced Red Wyandotte are one of the most striking colored varieties of chicken avaialble, in my opinion. They come in three phases, blue laced, splash laced and black laced. Some of the blues are very dark and look almost like black laced, but you can see blue in the tips of their wings and in their underfluff. They are a variety still under development, with many breeders working on them all around the US. Our flock derived from Barber lines, a Foley/Paul's cross and a few from a wonderful breeder in Texas, who we all just know as "Katy". They lay nicely tinted eggs, ranging from nearly white, to a rich peach color, some with light spotting patterns to add interest. They are BEAUTIFUL in real life. Our photos just don't do these birds justice! I will work on getting better photos when I can. |
Mottled Java Rooster
| Mottled Javas are one of the oldest breeds in the United States today. Brought here by china trader clipper ships, they have been around since the days of George Washington and even before. They are an excellent, hardy, docile, dual purpose breed, used both for meat and eggs. They are great foragers and really tend to stick together as a flock. Their mottling helps to break up their outline and make them less visible to predators. It is a fun color addition to multi-colored flocks! They lay a light brown/cream/tinted egg. Fertility is 100% as of January 2010. Contact us for eggs or chicks. |
Dark Brahmas, LF | Dark Brahmas are a large, beautiful, gentle natured bird. They were introduced from China to the Untied States 1864. Originally a meat bird, they weighed as much as 14 lbs! Now they are mainly an ornamental and pet breed and are a wonderful addition to any flock. The hens are silver penciled pattern, an intricate pattern of alternating black and silver lines on each feather. This helps to camoflage them from predators, for those who like to let their flock free range. Close up they are just fantastic eye candy! The roosters are primarily black with full neck hackles and saddle feathers of cascading silver feathers. They have a pea comb which makes them more hardy in freezing weather, less prone to frostbite. The hens are good broodies. At the present we have only the one pair shown and expect to have only a very limited amount of eggs available from them for sale in 2010. |
Midget White tom Showing off!
| Midget White Turkeys You gotta love these little guys! Midget Whites are a heritage breed, which means they can reproduce naturally, and are excellent brooders and good mothers. They will raise their own young if given a good nesting site and a tom to father the chicks. Midget Whites claim to fame is that they won the Ayershire Farm taste test. In 2008 a blind taste test of nine turkeys (eight heritage breeds and a very common commercial breed) was conducted. Approximately seventy food professionals sampled each of the nine turkeys. The Midget White turkey came out on top, and not surprisingly, the commercial bird finished last. This is a rare breed, availale only from private breeders, not from hatcheries. In 1971 only six specimens of the midget white turkey were left alive. They have been brought back as a breed to the point where they are rapidly gaining popularity as a homesteading and backard bird. The ALBC still currently lists their status as critical for becoming extinct. Their small size is ideal for the table, with a surprising amount of meat on the carcass for such a small bird. Their gentle temperaments make them wonderful family pets. They are more manageable than the larger, heavier, stout broad breasted varieties, which can mature up to eighty pounds! The midget white tom averages 20-22 lbs. full grown, while the hens are about half that size, averaging 8-10 lbs. They are a surprisingly meaty bird for their size and are excellent converters of feed to "food" LOL. Please DO consider the Midget White for your next breed to try. You won't regret it. |
Our Handsome Tom! 
Some of our ladies in moult lol. | Bourbon Reds came in second in the above mentioned taste test. They are a slightly larger bird, but still one of the heritage breeds, able to set and hatch their own eggs and care for their young. My small flock consists of a single tom and two hens that are from Sandhill Preservation crossed on Whelp Hatchery stock, and two hens hatched from the show flock of Chris Maddalena, APA judge and master breeder and exhibitor of several breeds of poultry and waterfowl. All my birds were hatched at various times in 2009, so we expect the hens to begin laying at different times during the season. Bourbon Reds are also fairly strong fliers and you should take that into account when you design your housing for them as well. |
Auburn Tom
| Auburn Turkeys are a heritage variety of tukey, similar in size, temperament and pattern to the Narraganset, but in a chocolate phase. They have a deep chocolate background color and beautifully barred wings, and subtly shading in their tail, most visible when the male struts. They are larger than my midget whites and bourbon reds. If you are expecting a few extras at the table at thanksgiving, but still want a heritage breed that is long lived, healthy, reproduces naturally and can rear their own young, maybe the Auburn is the type for you! I would consider selling the whole quad (tom and three hens) if the price was right. Contact me for more info. |
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