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POULTRY

Our feathered endeavor at the Ark is breeding rare and heritage breeds of all sorts of poultry. Actually, we've been breeding poultry for many years, we just never noticed that what we were working with was considered "heritage" or "rare"! Some will be quite familiar to you, or you might remember from your childhood, and others will not be so familiar as they are rare not only in this country but around the world.

We are working with our healthy natural-raised flocks to pair up the very best of the best for some of the prettiest, most functional poultry you'll find. We did not just purchase a pair or a trio and start selling the eggs as soon as they were laid. Instead, we have worked with each and every breed to set up many breeding pairs, trios, groups, etc. Culling is rigorous - the bird must meet the basics of the standard of their breed or they do not keep their jobs here! A great amount of time and effort has gone into combining excellent genetics to develop separate lines for each breed. By the time we offer them for sale, the birds have shown they are capable of what we expect, have gone through several generations, and produce accordingly.

We have narrowed our focus, eliminated some of the breeds that were not living up to expectations due to lack of quality available outside breeding stock, and continue to breed the best to the best in our pursuit of high quality birds for breeding, show, and of utmost importance to us - breed preservation. We don't raise and sell just because a breed is "popular" or the fad of the moment - everything breeding here is tended responsibly, with a careful eye to genetic lines, CORRECT birds that match the APA SOP or their respective country's SOP - or in the absence of standards, as with the rare landraces, they are bred to the best of that breed's capabilities.

Now is the time to get in reservations for eggs, chicks, and juveniles for 2012!! The incubators (GQF 1500 Professional) and hatchers (GQF 1550 Professional) will be up and running again starting in February, 2012.

Waltz's Ark BIRDS 2012

Heritage

Sultans

Sicilian Buttercups

Sussex - Red, Light, Speckled

Rare Breeds

These are breeds that are rare in the United States, due to very limited importation or very rare around the world as other countries have also faced the decline in numbers of many of their beautiful and functional heritage breeds.

Sussex - Silver, Buff, Coronation

Marans - Black Copper, Blue Copper, Birchen

imported English Orpingtons - Black, Blue, Lavender, Gold Laced, Lemon Cuckoo, others

Swedish Flower Hens

Several More Surprises to come!!! (we won't spill the beans or "count the eggs" until we are satisfied with what we are working with!)

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