Ideal's Black Shamos

Has anyone gotten Shamos from Ideal Hatchery before? I got 2 Black Shamo pullets 8 wks ago along with 2 Saipan pullets (and 17 EE males for warmth , apparently a handful of meat chicks weren't enough, sigh).

The Saipans are large,look great, and extremely friendly, the Shamos though, are quite small, not quite right body shape and very flighty. I have never had either of these breeds before and I had gotten them for my husband so I could get my fancy egg girls from MPC. I understand hatchery chickens don't hold a feather to show birds, but they tend to kinda look enough to be fine for bug hunting pets. I am wondering if they are really Shamos or something else or a mix?


8wk shamo (saipan in the corner she is double the size of the black bird.)

I got a batch a few months back. Their Shamo's are very impressive birds. I was also slightly perturbed by the barred rock looking birds added for warmth - never been a fan of the barred striped look and they like to peck at my feet which annoys me but who am I to complain about added "free for warmth" birds? I love Ideal they are very nice to work with never any issues and even when a tiny issue happens (like wrong breed sent) they've made it right with crazy good support like a full reship and here take an extra 15 for warmth birds why not!

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I got a batch a few months back. Their Shamo's are very impressive birds. I was also slightly perturbed by the barred rock looking birds added for warmth - never been a fan of the barred striped look and they like to peck at my feet which annoys me but who am I to complain about added "free for warmth" birds? I love Ideal they are very nice to work with never any issues and even when a tiny issue happens (like wrong breed sent) they've made it right with crazy good support like a full reship and here take an extra 15 for warmth birds why not!

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Can you share a few picture of what your birds look like?

informative said:

I got a batch a few months back. Their Shamo's are very impressive birds. I was also slightly perturbed by the barred rock looking birds added for warmth - never been a fan of the barred striped look and they like to peck at my feet which annoys me but who am I to complain about added "free for warmth" birds? I love Ideal they are very nice to work with never any issues and even when a tiny issue happens (like wrong breed sent) they've made it right with crazy good support like a full reship and here take an extra 15 for warmth birds why not!

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Some are mixed in here in the first image center is a big Jersey Giant who has taken one of the Shamos under wing at his left elbow. We got the Shamos in April so they are right about 5 months now. Third photo shows a slender one front bottom right you can see the longer than normal legs on it. They can really move.