Poultry for Sale - Alpacas - Chickens - Incubators

Here at Precious Poultry, we keep a range of chickens, heavy and light breeds since 2002. At that time we received by courier our first box of day old pure breeds. We now hold around 20 breeds of which we also have within some breeds different colour. Our aim has always been to preserve the once popular but now less kept birds. From buying our first day olds, many years on we have our own incubator and hatch as many chicks as we can, so we can improve our stock whilst maintaining the characteristics they were renowned for before commercialisation of the poultry industry lessened their numbers.

The dark brown eggs from MARANS soon became popular on the London markets and the "MARANS" were soon being bred by many English farmers. The rush by English farmers to breed "LANGSHAMS" when they first appeared on the markets, was soon repeated for the "MARANS" and MARANS was soon overwhelmed with orders for chicks and eggs at steadily increasing prices. In this initial rush and the anarchy that followed it was almost impossible to ensure a strict respect for genetic standards and it became difficult to explain scientifically the exact components that resulted in the dark brown eggs.