FOCUSING ON QUALITY OVER QUANTITY
Experience, Dedication, and Love for the Heritage Breed
Jersey Giants that grow up to be cherished companions, great layers, & potential winners!
Breeding for the Betterment of the Breed without mass Production.
We are not a hatchery and do not offer other breeds of chickens other then QUALITY nicely laced Blues, Blacks, Splash , and
White Jersey Giants.
We successfully ship poultry and hatching eggs all over
the USA. However we can not ship eggs and/or poultry overseas!
CLICK BUY NOW to PURCHASE Jersey Giant chicks and hatching eggs for 2022 .
(502) 548-1075
Black Jersey Giant chicks available from - 6/20/22 hatch
Black, Splash, Blue, and White Jersey Giants expected 7/5/22.
**FALL HATCH PLANNED for SEPT. 26, 2022 - inquire now**
Please fill out a questionaire only if interested in purchasing Jersey Giants and/or Hatching eggs.
IMPORTANT information on COPYRIGHTS and purchasing from other breeders is at the very bottom of the page ............
Maria's Jersey Giants
Box 246
Henryville, IN 47126
United States
alt: Text at (502) 548-1075
MHbluegi
Please refer to the internet for more in depth information. The pages only include a brief description for care of the chicks and a little about the Jersey Giant Breed as experienced. IF if you are ordering baby chicks please visit our GUARANTEE link so you know what is required in the event of deaths during a shipment. We have a VERY GOOD shipment record as we provide food during shipment, handwarmers, and extra chick if available with all day old shipments.
HEAT:
If purchasing BABY CHICKS please have your brooder facilities ready in advance making sure that the temperature level at the level of the baby chicks DOES NOT exceed 90 to 100 degrees.
Your chicks will need to be under a 250 watt heat lamp until fully feathered out well or till about 8 weeks and overnight temps are 70 degrees. A light bulb is NOT warm enough nor is room temperature warm enough for day olds. If chicks are too cool they will not be able to maintain weight and all energy goes into staying warm. PLEASE secure your heat lamp to where heat is not too close to the chicks where they get too hot or whereby newspaper or woodshavings will catch on fire. Place a thermometer down at the level of the chicks and do not exceed 90 degrees temperature. It is important that the box is big enough to allow the chicks to move from one end of the box to the other if they should get too warm. One should provide a heat lamp till the birds are fully feathered out and overnight temps are at least 70 degrees.
FEEDING:
Providing good quality chick starter for your chicks to not exceed 18% protein is recommended through the laying age of 6 to 8 months. Upon layig the birds can be switched to 16% layer. Keep in mind that scratch grains and crack corn are only 8 to 10 percent protein. Please use a feeder that does ot allow the chicks to get stuck. Even with a lid that has little holes for the chick to eat from will be a death trap for a chick. Once the food reduces the chick can hope through the hole and not get out.
PLEASE DO NOT FEED ANYTHING OTHER THAN CHICK STARTER to your babies. Do not feed any human foods such as : bologna, hot dogs etc.
If you run short of chick starter you can boil egg yolks and mash up for them until you purchase more chick starter. .
DRINKING
When your chicks arrive at the post office, please do not offer water in the chick box. Keep the box closed and plan to get them home asap into the brooder facility - with food and water. Please do not put a water dish in with the chicks as it is very important to provide a automatic water such as a base attached to a quart jar. A waterer as such will keep the chick from getting into the water and possibly chilling and drowning.
DO's and DON'TS:
Provide fresh water and food at ALL times. If you have your chicks with other baby chicks make sure that they are of equal size. Larger chicks will push other chicks out from getting proper nutrition and your babies will NOT receive proper nutrition and will not reach its potential.
We recommend NOT to grow your chicks out with GEESE or DUCKS as geese are feed hogs and are extremely messy and both geese and ducks play with their water. Excess dampness is not could when raising birds. A damp environment will create sick chicks!
MIXING CHICKS WITH OTHER BIRDS:
It is important to keep all chicks and/or birds with like sizes. Younger birds will either get pecked on by older birds and will not grow as well due to lack of necessary food. If the older birds are not pecking on younger birds in most all cases a younger bird will just be afraid due to size of the other birds and will therefore not eat as they should rendering a small or malnourished bird. If the immune system is compromised this can create illnesses,
HOUSING:and BROODING: Please provide a large enough area for your birds as they grow. Overcrowdling means that there will be feather plucking and birds will walk over each other leaving the backs of chicks featherless.
ENVIRONMENT: Provide light for your birds, sunshine, and good ventilation for your birds. Lack of ventilation renders an unsafe environment. A dry area for your birds will prevent a moldy environment. We recommend folks to use wood shavings when growing birds out. Birds in cages can get sores on their feet and feed is not utlized properly if they are scratching food out of the feeders. This not only creates lack of nutrition but also wasting of feed.
VACCINATIONS: Please keep in mind that our baby chicks have not been vaccinated where some hatcheries vaccinate. Vaccinated birds will shed the virus through waste whereby LIVE vaccines are used and could render sick or dead chicks. (while vaccinated birds are protected, unvaccinated birds can become ill). To vaccinate is a personal choice as it is intense requiring updated shots or water treatment for every bird. Some vaccinations are for 1000 or more birds. Once vaccine is opened it needs to be used then and there. Any remainder vaccine should be thrown away, This can be costly and intense. We have chose to have good biosecurity verses vaccinating.
ROOSTERS: As your chicks reach maturity it would be good idea to separate out roosters from the pullets when 3-4 months of age. Too many roosters with hens will create an unhappy environment for hens with roosters bothering them. Once mature..........We keep a ratio of one cock per 6-8 hens to achieve good fertility. Too many roosters will mean that your hens will be afraid to be on the floor eating for fear of being attacked by a rooster. A hen that is not getting nutrition will render a weak unhealthy bird with poor laying production. Too many roosters can mean over mating for the hen and can even cause death.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION CONCERNING JERSEY GIANTS AND GENERAL CHICK CARE !
Feeding protein levels over 18% can cause leg problems . To feed scratch grains and/or cracked corn only contains protein levels of 8-10% and will produce a less than satisfactory bird.
Caging verses Free Ranging:
A bird that is grown in a cage and given high protein will take on the appearance of a broiler with lack of exercise. The coordination of the bird is under developed and lacks in free range leg motion. If you do feed a bird in a cage make sure the area provides space and the feeder is as such that allows no waste. Quite often caged birds peck and scratch their food out of the feeder and it falls underneath verses them gettting the actual nutrition.
MATURITY AND FERTILITY: While our birds have great size , longevity, and super fertility............
PLEASE NOTE
WHEN CHICKS ARRIVE:
When your chicks arrive you might see a little buldge on the right side of the neck near the breast bone . This is not a tumor, but is where the crop is located. With all of the feasting on treats in the chick box the crop has been stuffed with food. From the crop the food moves into the gizzard of the bird and food will be stored there to be digested. So eventually this area will reduce in size as the bird empties its crop out. Don't worry.........everything is working as it should.
If purchasing BABY CHICKS please have your brooder facilities ready in advance making sure that the temperature level at the level of the baby chicks DOES NOT exceed 90 to 100 degrees. ORDERS will be filled in the ORDER RECEIVED.
Copyright 2022:
NO PHOTOS AND/OR ANY PART OF THIS WEBSITE ARE TO BE USED AND/OR QUOTED NOR IS THE NAME MARIA HALL AND/OR MARIA'S JERSEY GIANTS ARE TO BE MENTIONED WHILE IN THE SELLING OF BIRDS AND/OR HATCHING EGGS THROUGH FORUMS, ADS, AND/OR AUCTIONS.
My reputation is most important and Maria's Jersey Giants has NO control of the future breeding programs set forth by past customers nor do we have anything to do with the type of business that is conducted whether it be ethical or unethical. UNLESS WE KNOW YOU VERY WELL AND THERE IS TRUST ESTABLISHED WITH YOUR BREEDING PROGRAM WE WILL ABSOLUTELY NOT SWAP BIRDS AND/OR EGGS. THERE IS TOO MUCH JUNK BEING PRODUCED OUT THERE AND WE DO NOT WANT ANY PART OF IT. TOO MANY PEOPLE OUT THERE SAY THEY HAVE SO AND SO'S BIRDS AND LET ME JUST SAY IT IS NOT THE SAME UNLESS YOU PURCHASE DIRECTLY FROM THE SOURCE ITSELF !!!!! WHILE A BREEDER USES THE APA STANDARDS AS AN AIDE IN SELECTION OF FUTURE BREEDERS .........EACH OF US AS BREEDERS ESTABLISH OUR OWN STANDARDS........AS WE KNOW SOME BREEDERS HAVE HIGHER STANDARDS THAN OTHERS. This is what establishes the quality produced by good breeders and the qualities of those that have lower standards producing QUANTITY OVER QUALITY and by producing numerous types of breeds. We breed only QUALITY splash, blacks, and nicely laced blue Jersey Giants with exceptionally nice lacing! Please note that our baby chicks come from quality BREEDER AND APA Quality birds, however with this being said we can not guarantee "Show" birds. Expect to have possible pet, breeder, and our APA show bird types just as the case if you are raising any other species. Some birds will turn out nicer than others.
NO OTHER BREEDS RAISED HERE.
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Maria's Jersey Giants.
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Maria's Jersey Giants
Box 246
Henryville, IN 47126
United States
alt: Text at (502) 548-1075
MHbluegi