Welcome To Sumner-Byrd Farm, Inc.
Listed below are helpful links "to click on" that will help guide you through our website along
with the main menu links at the top on the left side of this page. Just click on any link below.
Business Information & Closing Schedule:
We are OPEN for business 6 days a week on Tuesday thru Sunday from 10:00 AM until 6:00 PM.
We are closed on Monday. You do not need an appointment to come out and visit our farm and
business operation. If you need to do a pickup only on Monday that you are not able to do during
our regular business hours, just give us a call and we will help you schedule your pickup. We
ship all orders to you from our business partner hatchery.
Hatch Schedule For 2 Days Old Pullet Chicks/In Stock & Pickup Date:
Breeds Stocked/Pullets/Sexed/Vaccinated In Stock Date
Japanese "Pharoah" Quail Chick 01/15/12
Barred Plymouth Rock 
01/20/12
01/20/12 Rhode Island Red 01/27/12
01/27/12Dominique Chicks 01/27/12
01/27/12 Ameraucana 01/27/12
01/27/12Buff Orpington02/03/12
02/03/12Turken Naked Neck 02/03/12
02/03/12Barred Plymouth Rock02/03/12
02/03/12Dark Brahma 02/10/12
02/10/12Black Star Sex Link 02/10/12
02/10/12Golden Red Sex Link 02/10/12
02/10/12Black Australorp 02/17/12
02/17/12Ameraucana 02/17/12
02/17/12 Light Brahma 02/17/12
02/17/12Chick Purchase Pre-Order & Stocked Products Inquiry Request Form:
Make sure to fill out our Order/Inquiry Request Form and click the Submit button at the bottom of
the page to send your request to us for processing. We will send a reply/response to your request
as soon as possible. Responses are usually processed in the same business day. Just click the
showing the total amount of your item(s) and the invoice "Due Date" when your order/request
item(s) will be in stock and ready for your pickup. We will send you a notice for pickup when your
request is ready. To email us just, "click here".
About Us, Our Farm, Services, Business, & General Information:
Please feel free to contact us by phone or by email and we will be more than happy to help
you with your questions, concerns, chick ordering, chick reservations, information on caring
for baby chicks, chick health, cures for sickness and any other special requests or information
that you may need. We also provide a help line to provide fast and up to date information and
answers to your questions about the care and raising of your backyard flock.
Read all about Sumner-Byrd Farm and our business, "General Information".
Information About Our Fertile Hatching & Fresh Eating Eggs:
Featured Specials, Store Collectables, Monthly Stocked Items:
Make sure to visit our featured items and specials at "Featured Items & Specials", and also visit
our store to see and to purchase some of our Sumner-Byrd Farm special items and
collectables at, "Sumner-Byrd Farm Collectables" webpage.
Monthly featured items that we will stock for the 2012 season, "Monthly Featured Items".
TV & Radio News (News-14, WRAL-5, FOX-50, G105) Broadcasts:
Bob And The Showgram Mornings, Bob's Birthday Surprise With David Lee Byrd Of Sumner-Byrd
Farm, Inc. - May 18, 2011: "Bob And The Showgram Mornings with David Byrd"
News-14 Carolina, High Temperatures Damper Flight Of NC Poultry Farmers With Roy Sumner Of
Sumner-Byrd Farm, Inc. - July 12, 2011: "News14 Carolina with Roy Sumner"
WRAL-5 and FOX-50, Outdoor animals' deaths preventable despite heat With Roy Sumner Of
Sumner-Byrd Farm, Inc. - July 22, 2011: "WRAL-5 and FOX-50 with Roy Sumner"
Roy's Chicken Photos, Portfolio, Photo Archives, Photo Gallery:
Click the link at the end to view 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 picture portfolio archives,
Click the link at the end to view Pelikan Photography's picture gallery of Sumner-Byrd Farm
Local Area Backyard Chicken Forums, Meetup Groups, & News Articles:
The Holly Springs Sun - April 24, 2008: "Backyard Chickens: An Urban Movement".
The Cary News - March 30, 2010: "Pets or Poultry?".
Get answers to all of your chicken raising questions and other helpful information from your local
areas Raleigh/Durham Backyard Chicken Meetup Group. Make sure to visit this site and feel
free to join our group "Raleigh/Durham Backyard Chicken Meetup Group". We are looking
forward to seeing you.
More exciting links to chickens in the news. Read all about the on going Garner backyard
chickens in the news at "Friends Of Hens".
Read the on going news updates about Cary backyard chickens at "Cary Chickens".
How To Raise Backyard Chickens From Baby Chicks:
How you start and grow your baby chicks and other poultry is very important. If you feed and
manage them along the lines we outline here, they should perform extremely well for you.
If you "cut corners" at any point, the chances are good that it will cost you in the long run.
Here are the step by step instructions explaining brooding, feeding, watering, the litter, the heat
source, the draft shield, floor space, light, picking problems, the chicken coop, feeder space,
roosting/perching space, taking care of, and "Raising Your New Baby Chicks".
Find out about chicken diseases, affects, primary cause, signs & lesions, prevention &
treatment, "Chicken Diseases".
Find out about coccidiosis in chickens. One of the most common diseases that chickens can
get. It can be fatal if treatment is not started soon enough, "Coccidiosis In Chickens".
Supplies You Need To Raise Your Baby Chicks:
Here is a list of "Baby Chick Supplies" you will need to brood, feed and raise your new baby
chicks.
Where To Purchase Chicken Coops, Plans, & Designs:
Need to purchase a pre-built chicken coop? Need a custom built chicken coop built on site? Or a
custom built yardbarn? Visit Curtiss Coops & Yardbarns website at "Curtiss Coops Yardbarns".
Need plans or design ideas to build your own chicken coop? Or need to purchase a pre-built
chicken coop? Visit Carolina Coops website at "Carolina Coops".
Would You Like To Sign Our Guest Book?:
Feel free to sign our, "Guest Book" and let us know how we are doing and how you and your
backyard flock are doing too. We would love to here from you about your chicken flock, your family,
and your friends. Make sure and visit us on Facebook.com. Give us a call or send us an email
anytime you need help with your backyard chickens.
Thank you for your business and visiting our website.
"Live Green, Raise Your Own Backyard Flock!"
"We are a NPIP approved business as of September 2008. We are licensed as a certified Chick Dealer, Hatching Egg Dealer,
and Poultry Dealer."
