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Specializing in Rare, Heritage and Ancient Utility Poultry Breeds of exceptional culinary and historic importance, we raise only:
- Beltsville Small White Turkeys
- Saxony and Silver Appleyard Ducks
- Khaki Campbell, Harlequin, Buff Orpington and White Layer Ducks
- Ancient Roman Geese
- Grey Saddleback Pomeranian Geese
- Standard White Chantecler Chickens
We will sell hatchlings, started birds, breeding and occasional APA show stock for pick-up at the farm. Fertile eggs for hatching can be shipped by courier within Canada.
The 2011 hatchery season is finished, but we plan to have lots of babies again in the Spring of 2012, so please visit in those dark days of late Winter to plan your Spring flock. The "NEWS" page will be kept up to date with planned hatch dates, prices and availability.
Cirrus Hill Farm's heritage Beltsville Small White turkeys, gorgeous, dual-purpose Saxony and Sliver Appleyard ducks, heavy laying light duck breeds, ancient Roman and Pomeranian geese and All-Canadian White Chantecler chickens are ideal choices for the sustainable small family farm. Their gentle temperments make them especially happy choices for the family with small children. Easily raised, these productive and handsome birds all thrive in natural, grass pasture based systems, and produce gourmet quality table birds, and delicious fresh table eggs, while gobbling up pests and weeds.
If you are an aspiring locavore, trying to "slow down" your food, want to know that your food lived a pleasant, drug and pesticide free, natural life at liberty, or just have a sense of cullinary adventure, you will love our carefully finished market birds, and duck and turkey eggs. Raised to exceed the "Label Rouge" standards, and available frozen, in limited quantities, chickens and ducks will appear seasonally at local food outlets . Holiday turkeys and Yuletide geese may be reserved at the 100 Mile Market, Meaford. Delicious fresh duck and turkey eggs are increasingly popular, and may also appear at the markets as production permits.
If you would like to participate in the growing movement to help rare breeds of exceptional merit survive for a secure future food supply, you too can become a conservation breeder of one or more of these exceptional breeds with lively hatchlings from our large breeding flocks, and lots of advice if you are new to raising poultry. Our goal is to see a large, viable local resource flock for each breed, in every county in Canada! Not too ambitious?
If you are a homesteader, I recommend these breeds among surviving heritage and rare breeds for their low input management, combining efficiency of growth with vigour, fertility and disease resistance. Beautiful, friendly and companionable, these breeds are a pleasure to have on the farm.
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