Curious and on the move. Dixie is one of our 7 egg layers. An interesting fact about Rhode Island Reds: they can produce up to 250 to 300 large, light brown eggs per year. When free ranged, (like Dixie) their first year eggs can be too large to fit comfortably in a standard egg carton. Rhode Island Reds are also the Rhode Island State Bird
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Hope for the chicken farmer and a new career
In 1936 Clifford Smith along with wife Lena started the Cackle Hatchery, named after the sound a hen makes; "a hen cackle". Clifford had worked in a hatchery prior to opening his own. Things have changed since that time when eggs were only 6 cents a dozen and there were only incubators for 125,000 eggs. Today incubators are heated with electricity; and there is now room for more than 320,000 eggs and eggs are now $1.00 a dozen in the grocery store.
In 1964, their son Clifton and his wife, Nancy took over operation of the Cackle Hatchery. They continue to ship over one million chicks and other baby poultry each year throughout the United States including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam. Third generation Jeff Smith and wife, Edie plan to carry on the operation of the Cackle Hatchery in future years
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