purebred Mel Sims Brown Red Black day-old chicks

purebred Mel Sims Brown Red Black day-old chicks

Start your heritage gamefowl flock from day one with Purebred Mel Sims Brown Red Black Day-Old Chicks, available fresh from the hatch pens of Game Fowls Ranch. Traceable directly back through master breeder Mel Sims’ legendary dark-plumaged lines—revered across gamefowl history for their intense dark feathering, heavy bone structure, broad chest, and dark brown-to-black eyes—the Mel Sims Brown Red Black line is world-famous among poultry historians and avicultural breeders for its physical power, constitutional stamina, and genetic consistency.

Ordering fresh day-old chicks is the most effective and cost-efficient strategy to establish a uniform brood, raise high-vitality heritage stock under your own brooder management, and create an early imprint bond with your birds from day one.

Legendary Heritage Lineage & Specialized Hatchery Transport

At Game Fowls Ranch, our Mel Sims Brown Red breeding stock is maintained with strict adherence to strain purity, physical conformation, and constitutional vigor. As day-olds, these chicks display dark down feathering, sturdy legs, and high alertness. Grown out, they mature into high-stationed, broad-shouldered birds featuring rich dark brown to lemon hackles, deep black breast feathering, dark eyes, and clean dark slate legs.

Every chick order is prepared under rigorous hatchery protocols:

• Freshly Hatched Vigor: Shipped within 24 hours of hatch, utilizing the natural absorption of their yolk sac to sustain them comfortably during transit.

• Health & Vitality Inspection: Checked for clear eyes, vibrant energy, unhealed navel absence, straight legs, and robust physical conditioning before boxing.

• Climate-Controlled Live Express Packaging: Shipped inside specialized, temperature-insulated chick transit boxes lined with thick absorbent nesting pads and temperature control materials to ensure a safe, warm arrival.

Product Highlights & Specifications:

• Bloodline: Purebred Mel Sims Brown Red Black (Gallus gallus domesticus Heritage Lineage)

• Age at Dispatch: Day-Old Chicks (0 to 24 Hours Post-Hatch)

• Sexing: Sexed

• Adult Characteristics: High-stationed, broad body frame (hens reach 3.8–4.8 lbs, cocks 4.8–5.8 lbs). Features dark brown to lemon hackles, deep black breast feathering laced with brown, dark brown/black eyes, pea or straight comb, and clean dark slate legs.

• Brooding Requirements: Require a clean brooder set to $95^\circ\text{F}$ ($35^\circ\text{C}$) for the first week (reducing by $5^\circ\text{F}$ per week), high-protein starter crumbles (20%–24% gamebird starter), and fresh, clean water with electrolytes/vitamins.