Resource Guide for Owners of Small Poultry Flocks

R. Scott Beyer • Poultry Specialist Many people are interested in raising small poultry or gamebird flocks for eggs, meat, hobbies, profit or 4-H projects. A small flock is usually inexpensive, requires little space and doesn’t require much time. Raising a small flock is also a good way to introduce youth to food production and build a sense of responsibility. However, as the commercial poultry industry has expanded and consolidated, small flock enthusiasts have had increasing difficulty locating reliable sources of chicks and supplies. The following list of hatcheries and supply stores may not be all inclusive, but should be a good starting point for persons interested in producing poultry and gamebirds on a small scale. This resource guide has been made available to assist small flock owners with locating sources of chicks, waterfowl, gamebirds, , pigeons and places to purchase equipment supplies from Kansas producers and others.

Kansas Hatcheries Web site: www.elkcreekgamebirds.com/pages/5/ E-mail: [email protected] Ark Valley Hatchery Friend Farm 9095 South Hutton Road Route 3, Box 24 Ingalls, KS 67853 Fredonia, KS 66736 Phone: 620-335-5399 Phone: 620-378-3946 Beavers’ Game Farm Contact: Kari Friend Hatching Season: 10406 U.S. Highway 50 March to August Breeds Offered: Pierceville, KS 67868 Peafowl: white, blackshoulders, blue Phone: 620-335-5564/5645 Smith Poultry Supply E-mail: [email protected] 14000 W. 215th St. Blue Valley Gamebird Farm Bucyrus, KS 66013 Phone: 1002 Harvest Road 913-879-2587 Fax: 913-533-2497 Marysville, KS 66508 Contact: Phone: John or Terry Smith 785-562-5258 Breeds Offered: Contact: Does not sell chicks or eggs. Gary and Opal Tobin; : Golden, D.T. Golden, Yellow Golden, Jeannette Kloppenborg Hatching Season: Silver Golden, Pied Golden, Silver, Reevs Amherst, April to June Cher, Swinhoe, Horsefield, Elliot, Bartail, Edwards, Breeds Offered: Cameo peacocks, Java Green pea- Mikado, Koklass, Impeyan, Blue-Eared, Brown- cocks, Red Golden pheasants, Yellow Golden pheas- Eared, White-Eared, Temminck , Satry ants, Mandarin ducks Tragopan, Gray. Peacocks: Palawan, Rothschilds, Equipment: Complete line of gamebird and poultry Germain, Malay Crested Fireback, , equipment, netting, etc. Versicolor, Malay, Scintillation Coppers; Geese: Abys- Brochure Available: Yes sinian Blue-Winged Equipment: David White Hatchery Has a nice supply of small flock equip- ment Route 1, Box 136A Brochure Available: Yes (also a free catalogue) Great Bend KS 67530 Web site: www.PoultrySupplies.com Phone: 620-982-4571 Contact: David White Thundering Wings Pheasant Farms Hatching Season: March to September Route 2, Box 178 Breeds Offered: Ducklings, goslings, guineas, white Westphalia, KS 66093 egg layers, brown egg layers, bantams. Phone: 785-489-2411 Brochure Available: Yes Hatching Season: April to August 1 Breeds Offered: Elk Creek Gamebirds Gamebirds, wild turkeys, flight and chicks 8740 150th Road Chanute, KS 66720 Phone: 620-432-4060 Contact: Joe Stich

Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service 1 Other Hatcheries Hatching Season: Quail eggs year round Breeds Offered: Bobwhite and Cortunix quail eggs B&D Game Farm Equipment: Incubators, brooders, feeders, etc. Route 1, Box 812 Brochure Available: Yes Harrah, OK 73045 Grain Belt Hatchery Phone: 405-964-5235 P.O. Box 125 Fax: 405-964-5860 Contact: Windsor, MO 65360 Bert and Dianne Tumey Phone: Hatching Season: 660-647-2711 April 1 to October Fax: Breeds Offered: 660-647-4072 Bobwhite quail, Pharoah quail, Hatching Season: Tibetan quail, Ringneck pheasant, Chukar , Weekly Breeds Offered: (Indian Red), Pearl Guinea fowl Rare and exotic chickens, bantams, Equipment: Shipping supplies for chicks and eggs, turkeys, duck, etc. Brochure Available: video and books on raising and cooking gamebirds Yes E-mail: Brochure Available: Yes [email protected] Web site: www.bdfarm.com Hoffman Hatcheries E-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 129 Cackle Hatchery Gratz, PA 17030 P.O. Box 529 Phone: 717-365-3694 Lebanon, MO 65536 Hatching Season: February to September Breeds Offered: Phone: 417-532-4581 Geese, ducks and chickens Equipment: Fax: 417-588-1918 Yes Brochure Available: Contact: Nancy Smith (owner) Yes Web site: Hatching Season: February to September www.hoffmanhatchery.com Breeds Offered: Offers many rare and production Holderread’s Waterfowl Farm type breeds of chickens along with ducks, turkeys P.O. Box 492 and goslings Corvallis, OR 97339 Equipment: Miscellaneous items Phone: Brochure Available: Yes 541-929-5338 Hatchery specializes in domestic waterfowl. Web site: http://cacklehatchery.com/ Clearview Stock Farm and Hatchery Hoovers Hatchery, Inc. P.O. Box 399 205 Chickasaw St. Gratz, PA 17030 P.O. Box 200 Phone: 717-365-3234 Rudd, IA 50471 Fax: 717-365-3594 Phone: 800-247-7014/641-395-2730 Contact: Dave Hartman Fax: 641-395-2208 Hatching Season: Begins March 1 Hatching Season: Hatch yearly (some broilers), Breeds Offered: Goslings, ducklings, poults, Seasonally for others guinea/cuts, gamebirds and chicks Breeds Offered: Ducks, goslings, turkeys, pheasants, Brochure Available: Yes bantams, broilers, and many others Brochure Available: Yes Crow Poultry and Supply Co. Web site: www.hoovershatchery.com P.O. Box 106 E-mail: [email protected] Windsor, MO 65360 Ideal Poultry Breeding Farms, Inc. Phone: 660-647-2614 P.O. Box 591 Hatching Season: February to September Cameron, TX 76520-0591 Breeds Offered: Has many production and rare breeds of chickens. Phone: 254-697-6677 Brochure Available: Yes Fax: 254-697-2393 Other Information: Also sells several poultry books. Hatching Season: Year round for some breeds Breeds Offered: Has several breeds of chicks, G.Q.F. Mfg. Co., Inc. bantams, guineas, turkeys, ducklings and goslings 2343 Louisville Road Brochure Available: Yes Savannah, GA 31498-2701 Web site: www.idealpoultry.com/index.htm Phone: 912-236-0652 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 912-234-9978

2 Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service Marti Poultry Farm Strickland Quail Farms P.O. Box 27 P.O. Box 9 603 E. Jackson St. Pooler, GA 31322 Windsor, MO 65360 Phone/Fax: 912-748-5769 Phone: 660-647-3156/660-647-3157 Hatching Season: Year round Fax: 660-647-3999 Breeds Offered: Northern bobwhite and Hatching Season: Mid-February to Mid-September quail Breeds Offered: Chickens, bantams, ducks, pheas- Brochure Available: Yes ants, chukars, turkeys and guineas Stromberg Chick and Gamebirds, Inc. Brochure Available: Yes P.O. Box 400 Web site: www.martipoultry.com Pine River, MN 56474 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 800-720-1134 Metzer Farms Fax: 218-587-4230 26000 Old Stage Road Hatching Season: January to August Gonzales, CA 93926 Breeds Offered: Peafowl, guineas Phone: 800-424-7755 Equipment: Books, incubators, brooders, feeders, Fax: 831-679-2711 waterers, pickers, traps and netting Hatching Season: Year round Brochure Available: Yes Breeds Offered: Ducks: Pekin, Rouen, Khaki, Camp- Welp’s Hatchery, Inc. bell, Blue Swedish, Buff, Cayuga, Indian Runners, P.O. Box 77 Mallards, others; Geese: Embden, Toulouse, African, White Cherese, Pilgrim, Buff, Canada, Sebastopoi, Bancroft, IA 50517 others; Guineas, pheasant, chukar, partridge, wild Phone: 800-458-4473 turkeys Fax: 515-885-2346 Brochure Available: Yes Hatching Season: Year round Web site: www.metzerfarms.com Breeds Offered: Exotic and standard chicks, Cornish E-mail: [email protected] Rock broilers, bantams, ducks, goslings, turkeys Brochure Available: Yes Murray McMurray Hatchery Web site: www.welphatchery.com P.O. Box 458 191 Closz Drive Leg Bands and Identification Webster City, IA 50595-0458 Phone: 800-456-3280 National Band and Tag Company Fax: 515-832-2213 721 York St. Hatching Season: Varies according to breed P.O. Box 430 Breeds Offered: Offers numerous standard and rare Newport, KY 41072-0430 breeds of chicks, turkeys and waterfowl Phone: 859-261-2035 Brochure Available: Yes Fax: 800-261-8247 Web site: www.mcmurrayhatchery.com Equipment: This company offers nearly every type of Ridgway Hatcheries, Inc. leg band or tag Web site: 615 N. High Street www.nationalband.com E-mail: P.O. Box 306 [email protected] LaRue, OH 43332 Other Suppliers of Equipment, Phone: 800-323-3825 Medications, Vaccines, etc. Fax: 740-499-2828 Hatching Season: All year on some breeds Nasco Breeds Offered: Many rare breeds, production 901 Jamesville Avenue breeds, gamebirds, guineas, goslings and ducks Fort Atkinson, WI 53538-0901 Equipment: All types of small equipment, books, Phone: medicines and supplies 800-558-9595 Fax: Brochure Available: Yes 920-563-8296 Web site: Web site: www.ridgwayhatchery.com www.enasco.com E-mail: [email protected]

Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service 3 Midwest Livestock Supply, Inc. The American Standard of Perfection 3600 North Sixth St. American Poultry Association Beatrice, NE 68310 26363 S. Tucker Road Phone: 888-342-5657 Estacada, OR 97023 Fax: 312-927-6832 Bantam Standard Web site: www.midwestlivestock.com American Bantam Association Val-A Chicago, Inc. P.O. Box 127 700 W Root St. Augusta, NJ 07822 Chicago, IL 60609 Phone: 800-552-8252 Watt Publishing Fax: 773-927-6832 122 South Wesley Avenue Web site: http://wdiyc.org/valachicago.html Mt. Morris, IL 61054 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 815-734-4171 Fax: 815-734-7021 Brower This company publishes and sells a large number of Highway 16 West commercial and small flock publications. P.O. Box 2000 Houghton, IA 52631 Processing Equipment Phone: 800-553-1791/319-469-4141 Fax: Processing equipment for small flocks is becom- 319-469-4402 ing more difficult to locate. Also, the initial cost of Has processing equipment. new equipment may be too high to justify process- Kuhl Corportation ing your own flock. However, some of the following P.O. Box 26 companies still offer equipment to process poultry on Flemington, NJ 08822 a small scale: Phone: 908-782-5696 Nasco (see previous listing) Fax: 908-782-2751 Brower (see previous listing) Web site: www.kuhlcorp.com Zeitlow Distributing Company Val-A Chicago, Inc. (see previous listing) P.O. Box 424 Lyon Electric Company, Inc. (see previous McPherson, KS 67460-0424 listing) Phone: 316-241-4279/800-364-1605 Poultry Processors Fax: 620-241-4266 Web site: www.zeitlow.com/home.asp There is only one packing plant in Kansas that will Specialty Plastic Fence Netting custom-process small flocks of companies under state Nalle Plastics, Inc. inspection. If you have or will have birds to process, 220 E. St. Elmo Road you should contact them well in advance to make res- ervations to have your birds processed. Other plants Austin, TX 78745-1218 Phone: may process poultry, however, since they are not state 800-531-5112/512-447-7000 inspected, this processing is done on a custom basis. Fax: 512-447-7444 www.naltex.com Bronson Locker Bronson, KS 66716 Tenax Corp. Phone: 620-939-4575 4800 E. Monument St. Baltimore, MD 21205 Egg Cartons Phone: 800-356-8495 Many small flock owners are able to sell excess Fax: 410-522-7015 eggs directly to consumers and need egg cartons to Web site: www.tenaxus.com package their product. For more information, see Books K-State Research and Extension publication MF-2307 Packing Eggs on the Farm for Direct Sales. Usually, the For more information about poultry breeds and cost of purchasing custom printed cartons is too high standards: to justify. It may be easier to purchase generic cartons that meet all labeling requirements then add a logo or

4 Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service farm name with an inexpensive ink stamp. Suppliers Phone: 785-296-2326 of egg cartons on a small scale include: Fax: 785-296-1765 Web site: Lionel Industries (see previous listing) www.accesskansas.org/kahd/ Adelman Fisher Packaging, Inc. If you need assistance with disease diagnosis, you 707 Walnut Street may contact the Veterinary Hospital at Kansas State Kansas City MO 64106 University. They will instruct you on how to submit Phone: 816-842-4961 samples of birds displaying disease symptoms. Contact: Jim College of Veterinary Medicine Web site: www.eggcartons.com Veterinary Hospital Kings Supply Kansas State University 24 Holt Road Manhattan, KS 66506 P.O. Box 302 Phone: 785-532-5690 Manchaug, MA 05216 Fax: 785-532-4309 Phone: 888-852-5340 Associations Web site: http://kingssupply.com The following associations may provide additional Museums information about career opportunities, educational Kansans are fortunate to be able to easily reach the opportunities, industry statistics, product promotion, newly established National Poultry Museum at the etc: National Agricultural Center in Bonner Springs, Kan- American Egg Board sas. A hatchery is exhibiting poultry industry artifacts 1460 Renaissance Drive and collections. The Poultry Museum is conducting Park Ridge, IL 60068 a $3 million campaign to add an auditorium and Phone: 847-296-7043 library. For more information, contact: Fax: 847-593-7007 National Poultry Museum American Livestock Breeds Conservancy The National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame P.O. Box 477 630 Hall of Fame Drive Pittsboro, NC 27312 Bonner Springs, KS 66012 Phone: 919-542-5704 Phone: 913-721-1075 Fax: Fax: 919-542-5704 913-721-1201 Web site: www.albc-usa.org Disease Testing American Poultry Historical Society For information about how to become a certified 260 Science Bldg testing agent for the National Poultry Inspection Plan 1675 Observatory Drive in Kansas contact: Madison, WI 53706 Phone: The Kansas Poultry Association 608-262-9764 Fax: 608-262-5157 Department of Animal Sciences and Industry 130 Call Hall Kansas Poultry Association Kansas State University Department of Animal Sciences and Industry Manhattan, KS 66506-1600 130 Call Hall Phone: 785-532-1201 Kansas State University Fax: 785-532-5681 Manhattan, KS 66506-1600 Contact: R. Scott Beyer, poultry specialist Phone: 785-532-1201 Web site: www.oznet.ksu.edu/pr_poultry/NPIPpage.htm Fax: 785-532-5681 E-mail: [email protected] Contact: R. Scott Beyer, poultry specialist E-mail: [email protected] For information about the NPIP Testing require- Kansas Turkey Federation ments and licensing, contact: Department of Animal Sciences and Industry Kansas Animal Health Department 130 Call Hall 708 SW Jackson Kansas State University Topeka, KS 66603-3714 Manhattan, KS 66506-1600

Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service 5 Phone: 785-532-1201 Exhibition Poultry Fax: 785-532-5681 Contact: R. Scott Beyer Sources of good quality exhibition breeds can often E-mail: [email protected] be difficult to locate. One way to find stock is to join an association. Another way is to subscribe to one Midwest Poultry Federation of these specialized publications listed below. These 2380 Wycliff St. magazines are filled with advertisements of people St. Paul, MN 55114 wanting to sell or trade rare breeds of poultry. Phone: 612-646-4553 National Poultry News Fax: 612-646-4554 P.O. Box 1647 National Broiler Council Easley, SC 29641 1155 15th Street, NW, Suite 614 Phone/Fax: 864-855-140 Washington, D.C. 20005 Contact: Glenda L. Heywood Phone: 202-296-2622 Subscription: $10/year Fax: 202-293-4005 Web site: www.nationalpoultrynews.com www.g-kexoticfarms.com National Turkey Federation E-mail: [email protected] 1225 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20005 Show Bird Journal, Inc. Phone: 202-898-0100 29971 CR #8 Fax: 202-898-0203 Florence, AL 35634-4877 Contact: Poultry Science Association Shelia Clanton Subscription: $22/year 111 N Dunlap Avenue Web site: http://hometown.aol.com/showbird62/ Savoy, IL 61874 showbirdjournal.html Phone: 217-356-3182 Poultry Press Fax: 217-398-4119 P.O. Box 542 Turkey Market Development Council Connersville, IN 47331-0542 1026 Poultry Science Building Phone: 765-827-0932 Purdue University Fax: 765-827-4186 West Lafayette, IN 47906 Subscription: $21/year Phone: 317-494-8567 Web site: www.poultrypress.com Fax: 317-496-1600 E-mail: [email protected] U.S. Poultry & Egg Association 1530 College Road Tucker, GA 30084 Phone: 770-493-9401 Fax: 770-493-9257

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