White Hackle Chicken. Tom whiting with the goal of producing the highest quality value and selection of feathers for the fly tiers of the world. These colorful hackle feathers the long spindly ones from the cape and saddle are how fly fishers are able to sell their deception.
These fighters are built with broad shoulders fairly compact and with heavy plumage each rooster having an average weight of 2 to 2 4 kgs. The breed has a long history. While 90 are yellow red in color the remaining 10 are spangled mustard colored hackles.
What sets cackle hatchery apart from many other hatcheries is that we allow mother nature to dictate chick season.
Whiting farms was founded upon the exclusive purchase of the hoffman hackle line from henry hoffman in 1989. Henry s parents had had a small meat chicken breeding enterprise in california and so henry grew up learning the basics of poultry selection and husbandry. White hackle game roosters fighting style the whitehackle gamefowl are straight combed with red eyes and are medium stationed. They wind the feathers snug around the shaft of a hook to splay the tiny barbs in a fuzzy circle.