Australian Dark Barred Plymouth Rock Poultry

Good looking poultry, strikingly marked black & white barred feathers & bright red combs on mature birds.  Sensible, friendly and calm - a joy to keep.

Plymouth Rocks are hardy backyard dual-purpose fowls that can be expected to produce well for up to 7 years - no need to renew the productive laying flock every 2nd year with this breed. 

Docile and hardy, Plymouth Rocks are good foragers and will eat almost anything!  Our Rocks are bred from excellent laying strains.  Fed fresh greenery daily to supplement a grain & mash diet with a large vegetable garden devoted to their health.  Chicks are raised naturally to maintain 'survival of the fittest' toughness. 

Plymouth Rock Roosters - Kings of the Barnyard - they are protective of their flock but perhaps the least aggressive rooster of any breed.  Terrific as cross-breeders to improve home flocks.  Like any rooster - they will crow - although not as less raucous as some other breeds.

Hens - Our hens are efficient layers and good brood hens - regularly producing large pink-beige eggs - delicious eggs for eating & fertile eggs for hatching.  Hens make devoted mothers and purebred chicks can be sexed as day olds. 

Sexing - 'boy' chicks have pronounced white on the head & 'girl' chicks have little or no white on the head.  Chicks are hatched black or dark grey but wings soon show barring pattern.  Eventually the fluffy chick down is replaced by the hallmark dark bars (stripes) of this breed variety.

Please click on the 'Photos' toolbar at the left to see our home farm pictures of rooster, hens and chicks -

Meat - Plymouth Rocks are tasty large bodied fowls with economic 'weight to feed' gains - excess cockerels are always a bonus.

Bloodlines - Our foundation stock is from the excellent Ian Campbell line, his winners can be seen photographed in the book, The Plymouth Rock by Les Dowdle in The Doyens of Poultry series.

We are situated in the Kyogle Collins Creek district, in far north New South Wales Australia.  19km north of the town of Kyogle.

Limited numbers sometimes available but only 'off-farm' as no viable option for delivery has been found. Still, its a scenic drive!

Thanks for visiting.

Email   joannegailmiller@bigpond.com 

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