Poultry Breeding

Poultry Breeding

Our business is built on customer service and quality poultry, from rare white and brown egg layers to broilers, ducks, country chicken and rabbits.

Lalith Farms, the leading poultry breeding company, developing pedigree lines for the production of commercial broilers and turkeys. Lalith Farms delivers day-old parent and grandparent chicks for meat type production to Maldives, UAE and Srilanka.

Maranst
The Marans is a breed famed for the deep mahogany colour of it's eggs. The poor examples often found are responsible for it's unfair reputation as a poor layer. The Marans we keep are extremely good layers for their breed, and come into lay at 25 weeks at any time of year. Marans were originally a regional fowl from France

Black Leghorn
		They are good layers of medium/large eggs, creamy white in colour. They are a little nervous, and could sometimes need one wing to be clipped.

White Leghorn
Leghorns are very good layers of large white eggs. They are alert, and lively. Their large combs and wattles, and upward stance give them a characteristic appearance. Leghorns are becoming much more popular for small scale poultrykeeping, and are a worthwhile breed for this purpose. The utility White Leghorns we offer are superb producers, and an example of a true prewar type. Leghorns' provenence is the port of Leghorn in Italy, and White Leghorns were the colour variety which received most attention in the stock improvement era (20's - 50's)

Light Sussex
		Light Sussex are an excellent laying breed. Eggs range in colour from creamy ~ light brown. They do sometimes go broody, and are good winter layers. At first, Sussex were primarily a table fowl, but the valuable resource they offer in terms of egg production was not overlooked by prewar breeders who fashioned laying strains.

Rhode Island Red
Synonymous with productivity, and brown eggs, the Rhode Island Red strain we keep is a durable, dependable layer. Characteristics of this strain of Rhodes include early maturity, good egg size, non-broodiness, and good tough feather. Rhode Island Reds used in commercial farming are quite different to our old style Rhodes, and commercial hybrids (produced using commercial Rhodes) are often confused with the beautiful, deep Burgandy birds.

White Wyandotte
		White Wyandottes were at one time famed for their productivity, vigour, and hardiness, but their popularity waned after the 2nd World War. They are docile, and fairly good layers of tinted eggs. and have a characteristic rose comb.

Rearing Methods

Chicks are hatched in Automatic Western Incubators. They are transfered when 'fluffed up' to 7x5 brooding sheds which are prepared first by thorough cleaning and disinfection.. They are brooded under gas lamps, and are given chick crums and fresh water, twice daily. Straw bedding is used as it encourages them to scratch and peck, and they don't tend to eat it unlike shavings.By keeping them in fairly low light levels(simulating that of their natural habitat), it is possible to rear chicks without featherpecking. This unfortunate vice is caused by lack of stimuli, very light conditions, stress & overcrowding.

Once they reach 6-8 weeks, the chicks are fully feathered, and with care may be allowed out to range. They are given fresh pasture, and grow quickly. Most birds are fully grown at 16-20 weeks.