Papa's Poultry Review

oregonkat said:

Hi there, I realize that this is an old post but I was wondering if you could tell me how your partridge brahmas turned out especially if you ended up with all splash or with a good variety. I have just had a hatch from Papas Poultry (disastrous due to a lousy incubator experience) but managed to hatch one of my brahmas and the chick is yellow. Folks on the brahma thread think possibly a splash but I wanted to know from anyone else who ordered the partridge brahma. Also, how did your cream legbars turn out? Thanks for the time.

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Hi!

I didn't get any of the brahma to hatch, but such is the problems with shipped eggs.

My cream legbars did hatch and were easy to sex at hatch. I gave the roos and one hen to my sister-in-law and kept a hen for myself. She just began laying last month and her eggs are a very brilliant blue. She is a shy bird that has not warmed up to me and lower in the pecking order in my mixed flock. My sister-in-law's hen started laying earlier than mine, also with a blue egg. She butchered the roos last fall as she raises for meat.I did not keep any roos as I cannot have any where I live.

Hope this helps.

Autumn Leaves said:

Hi!

I didn't get any of the brahma to hatch, but such is the problems with shipped eggs.

My cream legbars did hatch and were easy to sex at hatch. I gave the roos and one hen to my sister-in-law and kept a hen for myself. She just began laying last month and her eggs are a very brilliant blue. She is a shy bird that has not warmed up to me and lower in the pecking order in my mixed flock. My sister-in-law's hen started laying earlier than mine, also with a blue egg. She butchered the roos last fall as she raises for meat.I did not keep any roos as I cannot have any where I live.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks so much for responding. All in all, do you still recommend these folks for hatching eggs?

oregonkat said:

Thanks so much for responding. All in all, do you still recommend these folks for hatching eggs?

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Yes! I love Papa's Poultry. He is great with communication and when you order with the Black Friday deals its awesome.

On that note, if you are looking for Rocks I just had a wonderful hatch from DMRippy (a member here). Had 14 of 17 hatch, which is amazing for shipped eggs. And he has blue rocks! I hope some of the blues I hatched are girls.

I have 9 brahma, 5 cream legbars, 7 blue laced red wyandottes from Papas Poultry in the incubator now. I only ordered 4 of each so he was very generous. I am hopeful as I am using my brand new incubator and it seems to be holding temp and humidity really well. What combination is a blue rock?

Autumn Leaves said:

Yes! I love Papa's Poultry. He is great with communication and when you order with the Black Friday deals its awesome.

On that note, if you are looking for Rocks I just had a wonderful hatch from DMRippy (a member here). Had 14 of 17 hatch, which is amazing for shipped eggs. And he has blue rocks! I hope some of the blues I hatched are girls.

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I found papas poultry on the web and called to order hatching eggs. I picked them up at their farm. They were a little concerned about fertility and gave me a couple extra “just in case eggs”. I put them in the incubator that same night. 21 days later I had a 100% hatch.
Really impressed with these folks honest and fair.

I was thinking about ordering from Papas Poultry to start a breeding flock of Orpingtons. How is the quality of their birds?

i ordered once from them and was very pleased with the quality of silkies that i hatched. i had ordered in winter and the hatch was not 100% and honestly i dont remember what the rate was but i was happy with it and extremely happy with the quality of birds. i recommend them often.
as a side note the silkie in the pick was NOT from Papas. it was from ideal. not great quality there but my favorite hen.