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What is a Heritage Chicken? Uncovering the Rich Legacy of Traditional Poultry

What is a Heritage Chicken? Uncovering the Rich...

Did you know that the chicken you buy in grocery stores these days has little in common with the birds that sustained our ancestors?  While the modern broiler hybrid chicken...

What is a Heritage Chicken? Uncovering the Rich...

Did you know that the chicken you buy in grocery stores these days has little in common with the birds that sustained our ancestors?  While the modern broiler hybrid chicken...

Poultry Processing How-to

Poultry Processing How-to

Melissa Hemken of Melissahof Hatchery shows how to process chickens with kill cones, automatic scalder and automatic plucker.

Poultry Processing How-to

Melissa Hemken of Melissahof Hatchery shows how to process chickens with kill cones, automatic scalder and automatic plucker.

Coop de Trailer Park

Coop de Trailer Park

When you pick up your chicks at Melissahof, you’ll notice lots of trailers retrofitted into mobile coops.Melissa blogged about the retrofit process for the American Poultry Association

Coop de Trailer Park

When you pick up your chicks at Melissahof, you’ll notice lots of trailers retrofitted into mobile coops.Melissa blogged about the retrofit process for the American Poultry Association

The Joy of Poultry

The Joy of Poultry

As a guest blogger for the American Poultry Association, Melissa wrote about how Melissahof Hatchery was hatched. Read more here on this link.

The Joy of Poultry

As a guest blogger for the American Poultry Association, Melissa wrote about how Melissahof Hatchery was hatched. Read more here on this link.

LanderBiz: Pre-order locally hatched chicks from Melissahof Hatchery

LanderBiz: Pre-order locally hatched chicks fro...

Chick hatching season is right around the corner for Lander’s Melissahof Hatchery, and they are now taking pre-orders for their four heritage breeds: Salmon Faverolles, Blue-laced Red Wyandotte, Dominique, and...

LanderBiz: Pre-order locally hatched chicks fro...

Chick hatching season is right around the corner for Lander’s Melissahof Hatchery, and they are now taking pre-orders for their four heritage breeds: Salmon Faverolles, Blue-laced Red Wyandotte, Dominique, and...

Know how your eggs got laid?

Know how your eggs got laid?

JACKSON, Wyo. — Sustainable food, including your breakfast eggs, provide ecosystem services to regenerate our Wyoming lands, according to Melissa Hemken, owner of Melissahof farm. Melissahof’s poultry flocks – Buckeye,...

Know how your eggs got laid?

JACKSON, Wyo. — Sustainable food, including your breakfast eggs, provide ecosystem services to regenerate our Wyoming lands, according to Melissa Hemken, owner of Melissahof farm. Melissahof’s poultry flocks – Buckeye,...