About Us
' Keeping purebred heritage Poultry breeds has been on my
bucket list for a long long time, now settled on our own block
I finally have my wish '
We are very excited to be the new owners of Poultry Valley & Lifestyle and look forward
to meeting many other poultry fanciers soon!
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The History of
Poultry Valley & Lifestyle Poultry Valley & Lifestyle was originally founded by Sandy & Shane who spent over 15 years building up Poultry Valley to what is now with all its proven quality breeding flocks and the 'Poultry Valley & Lifestyle' name to what it is today.
In April 2017 we, a farming family, purchased the business and moved it to our 20 acre block in Waiuku. With many other farming ventures in our past which have kept us busy including traveling overseas, this has been a 30 year dream fulfilled for me (Fiona) to raise quality poultry. Bruce and I now finally have the time and a space to keep these beautiful heritage poultry breeds, and continue with what Poultry Valley first established. We are excited to carry on preserving these beautiful heritage breeds, something which our grandparents took for granted. As a four year old, I remember tagging along with my Grandfather as he tended his birds and playing with them in the orchard. |
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Unfortunately many purebred examples of these heritage breeds are becoming hard to find now and are considered rare. This is one reason why we have also recently joined the rare breeders’ society and take up the challenge to preserve these heritage breeds for Kiwis.
Poultry Valley & Lifestyle offers a wide variety of products, including fertile hatching eggs, live chicks & pullets from all of our quality heritage breeding stock. . We also have own feed mix, which is supplied with all our pullets, as well as other products, such as poultry feeders, water-bells, health products, leg bands & dry untreated shavings for all. We also rear a few cockerels for those interested in breeding stock. . Contact Us here |
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“Poultry Valley & Lifestyle” was founded by Sandy & Shane in 2000 and is now based in Waiuku, a pleasant 30 minute drive south of Manukau .
Buying our Pullets as a rule means you get quality birds, not just backyard breeder's birds that are more often than not crossbreeds being sold on as purebreds !
Our birds are all bred from our own quality purebred heritage breeding stock, and reared indoors on high quality medicated feeds with multitudes of clean shavings and lashings of love and care until they are feathered up and ready to go outdoors, this all costs and with continually rising feed costs and other essentials such as health care, labour & bedding etc, not excluding keeping all the quality breeding flocks to breed the chickens from - we think our prices are very fair and unlike most other sellers of poultry, we also pay GST, which is included in our poultry & products prices. .
We breed & keep many popular & different coloured breeds of poultry here, of which form the basis of our quality breeding stock to ensure our birds are indeed the best birds we can possibly supply, all require individual / separate housing to ensure we can provide the best purebred birds for everyone to enjoy!
In 2011 a troop of birds from Poultry Valley were entered into the Auckland Poultry Show and returned home with very pleasing results and many prize winning ribbons. However showing is very time consuming and does cause much disruption within the breeding pens, including the risk of exposing our quality birds to disease and sickness . The show birds must come home and go into Quarantine for quite some time before being introduced back into our breeding pens. This is very upsetting for not only our poultry but also to our breeding programs and business targets. Therefore we have decided to give shows a miss.
Sandy has had many pleasing updates from a number of past and repeat customers that have been winning shows all over the country with our birds. These show birds have either been purchased directly from Poultry Valley or hatched from eggs that we have supplied. Needless to say, we are thrilled, with these ongoing fantastic results.
Poultry Valley strives to breed from the best birds available for the supply of high quality heritage poultry. They are reared not only for their magnificent good 'looks', but also their laying ability and table meat quality. We focus on breeding from the best, biggest, quality purebred heritage birds for our own replacements so we can continue to supply these beautiful purebred pullets to all whom delight in owning them!
Buying our Pullets as a rule means you get quality birds, not just backyard breeder's birds that are more often than not crossbreeds being sold on as purebreds !
Our birds are all bred from our own quality purebred heritage breeding stock, and reared indoors on high quality medicated feeds with multitudes of clean shavings and lashings of love and care until they are feathered up and ready to go outdoors, this all costs and with continually rising feed costs and other essentials such as health care, labour & bedding etc, not excluding keeping all the quality breeding flocks to breed the chickens from - we think our prices are very fair and unlike most other sellers of poultry, we also pay GST, which is included in our poultry & products prices. .
We breed & keep many popular & different coloured breeds of poultry here, of which form the basis of our quality breeding stock to ensure our birds are indeed the best birds we can possibly supply, all require individual / separate housing to ensure we can provide the best purebred birds for everyone to enjoy!
In 2011 a troop of birds from Poultry Valley were entered into the Auckland Poultry Show and returned home with very pleasing results and many prize winning ribbons. However showing is very time consuming and does cause much disruption within the breeding pens, including the risk of exposing our quality birds to disease and sickness . The show birds must come home and go into Quarantine for quite some time before being introduced back into our breeding pens. This is very upsetting for not only our poultry but also to our breeding programs and business targets. Therefore we have decided to give shows a miss.
Sandy has had many pleasing updates from a number of past and repeat customers that have been winning shows all over the country with our birds. These show birds have either been purchased directly from Poultry Valley or hatched from eggs that we have supplied. Needless to say, we are thrilled, with these ongoing fantastic results.
Poultry Valley strives to breed from the best birds available for the supply of high quality heritage poultry. They are reared not only for their magnificent good 'looks', but also their laying ability and table meat quality. We focus on breeding from the best, biggest, quality purebred heritage birds for our own replacements so we can continue to supply these beautiful purebred pullets to all whom delight in owning them!