Maryland Poultry Swap & Farmer's Market **UPDATED w/ PICS pg.43**

I'm ready to spend some time with my chicken buddies! If I bring anything at all home that is alive (snicker) I only have you all to blame when DH says and now where are you going to put those!!!!!

Is there some sort of prayer for self control you can do before a poultry swap? I found myself looking up rabbit breeds this morning... Need I remind everyone that my coop-to-be will be on display at the show so I don't even have a permanent home until this week? Plenty of brooder/cage/small coop room in the meantime of course...just in case.

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I hope you get a great turnout, with all the work you have put in! I saw the weather was supposed to be perfect, so that won't be keeping people away! Can't wait til Saturday morning! I plan on being there as close to 8am as possible. Just have to get all the kids moving, very early lol.

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lutz if you find one please let me know!!!!!

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Rabbits to me are a good companion to poultry within any system. Rabbits give meat and pelts, a "cold" manure to fertilize the garden beds and feed for the worm bins. Worms process the manure, giving me even better fertilizer for the garden beds and eventually a good protein source for the chickens. I've not met a chicken yet who didn't love me forever when I or the kids come with a red wriggler or two.

It's odd when you mention breeders in the area, as I actually have more folks travel from far away than locals with interest. A few years ago, I was just about the only breeder of Americans in the eastern part of the country, but I've managed to spread out the breed a bit since then so the numbers are slowly building up. I think my rabbits have new homes in maybe 12 or 13 states now spanning just about the entire country. Someone made a trip up from Georgia last month which added GA and SC, so I think that now puts them from NY to GA to CA to OR to WA. LOL, I even had someone contact me from Alaska a few weeks ago asking about shipping to them.

I've tried to make it to each and every swap at TSC, but something has always come up, either a massive heat wave hits, or one time it was a honey bee delivery, another was piglets being born, and the most recent one, I had a first time heifer in labor that I didn't dare leave. Hopefully, no impending crises will hit and I'll see you there.

tom

Well I really hope you make this one!! Fingers are crossed. The area covered by your progeny is quite impressive!!! If I may ask where in the panhandle are you located?

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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that I will buy more chickens than I need, the courage to tell my husband and the wisdom to figure out where to put them all!

It's not a self-control prayer but it's much more realistic don't ya think??

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Martinsburg.

I just got a canopy to keep the sun off the bunnies and my own head, so it's still looking good.

tom

It has grown a bit bigger, I think, than anticipated so we will have an officer hanging out for part of the day. He's a friend of one of the vendors and has offered his help in any way ..parking cars, etc. Im thinking we'll be pretty balanced though with vendors and customers as I've been getting equal amounts of calls and emails. We keep getting a few more vendors each day. Recently, I have been on the run and and can't remember what the most recent said they were bringing but, here's THE updated LIST... enjoy


THE LIST

black rosecombs
welsummers and hatching eggs
delawares and hatching eggs
jumbo coturnix quail chicks and hatching eggs
bantam cochins
white leghorn pullets
cart coop
yard tractor coop
silkie chicks (exhibition lines)
Polish (exhibition lines)
dutch (exhibition lines)
australorp chicks
1-2 mottled Java roo chick(s)
EE roo
1-2 white (hatchery) Silkie
More silkies from breeder in southern MD
wire cages for rabbits or bantams
Red Bourbon Turkey a
rhode island red
More silkies and polish!
8 Large Fowl Partridge Wyandotte chicks from Mr.Urch that are for sale.
List of what I will have is:
Lemon Blue Cochins Large Fowl (LF)
Dominique LF
Blue wheaten Marans LF
New Hampshire Reds LF
Blue Wyandottes LF
Partridge Wyandottes LF
Guineas mix of colors(White, Pied,Pearl,Lav,Royal Purple)
Turkeys ~ Blue Slate (few), Silver Penciled Palms, Burbon Reds,
Black Spanish,Narragansett
Citron Hamburg Bantams (few)
Buff Wyandotte (1) LF
May have SLW (1) LF
Extra roosters:
Blue Wheaten Marans(Davis line)
1~ Wheaten Marans (Cree line)
May have 1 extra roo from my AM/EE/OEL pen.
6 tray hatcher GQF
call ducklings and/or eggs (blue fawn pied and butterscotch)
English riding tack, some plants (cottage style type stuff, lambs ears & daisies & the like)
Runner Ducklings both crested and non-crested.
large fowl blue/black/splash Cochins
large fowl blue/black/splash Orpingtons
LF buff cochins (show quality)
black cochin bantams (show quality)
local honey products
horse tack
old crocks
wire cages (used for rabbits)
farm fresh eating eggs
Silkies, from chicks up to 4-6 weeks old in several colors
ShowGirls
heritage rhode island reds (the dark reds)
Black Australorp
Buff Orpingtons
Easter Eggers (blue/green egg layers)
Bantam black cochin
Light Brahma
Sulkie (the cutest little Silkie x Sultan babies) & some OEGB
Chick waterers & large waterers
iris and daylillies
strawberry plants, grapevines
mint,grapes,sage,salvia,beans,sunflowers,catnip,
pigeons,ducklings
MORE SILKIES
Rhode Island Red pullets
white rock pullets
white crested b/b/s polish straight run.
naked necks 4 hens and 1 roo that are 9 months old
a few extra roos.
welsummer chicks
guinea keets
more silkies 4 weeks to 6 weeks old in blue,black,and project blue partridge
exhibition standard buff leghorns 6 week olds
call ducks, mixed ducks
geese
red and golden pheasant
mixed turkey poults (royal palm and easterns)
‎2 Nigerian Dwarf (2 month old boys) and 2 or 3 Mini Nubian does
rabbits, used rabbit cages and a few used aquariums
guinea pigs
muscovy ducks
two started pairs of Davis blue wheaten Marans
nesting boxes
wooden wine boxes
plywood brooder with lid
hoop house tractor coops
Wheaten Ameraucana, Blue Marans, Sumatra,
Coronation Sussex, Exchequer Leghorn, White Phoenix,
Mottled d'Uccle, Sebastopol Geese
PEAFOWL YEARLINGS MUST BE PRE ORDERED - india blues, cameo,cameo pieds, white and more. PM me and I will get you her contact info.
blue wyandottes
dark brahmas
excellent quality welsummer started birds
light brahmas
black tailed white japanese bantams
several pea hens
Aracana chickens
Banties
a few pigeons
two lambs
11 month old miniature horse filly
barn kittens
goat cheese
goats milk soap
half ENGLISH B/B/Splash Orpington hatching eggs
holland lops, mini rex, n. dwarf, new zealand, jersey wooly and
lion head rabbits
rabbit hutches
Antique farming supplies and vintage country stuff
Wheaten Marans just turned 1 year old and are Davis/Presley lines. 1 roo 4 hens
Olive Egger pair
organic fed cornish rock crosses -raised on non medicated game bird starter
handcrafted wooden show crates just like the old ones... but better (GORGEOUS!!)
jams and jellies
potted plants and hanging baskets, annual arrangements
herbs & flowers
50 gallon barrels for rain barrels or compost bins (40 of them)
pair of Magpie ducks. Blue young Hen & Black young Drake
Started Ameraucana chicks in diluted Silver (thanks Lavender gene) lay BRIGHT blue eggs. No olive drab here.
Tons of Silkies. Started chicks to breeders & show birds.
Large Fowl Wyandotte chicks- Golden Laced & Blue Laced Red
Bantam Wyandottes- Selling out of the Black Show string - not for the faint of heart/ FS to serious breeders only - including my Champion Star winning cockeral from the Sussex Fall show.
bat houses and ladybug houses
mille fleur d'uccle pair
dark brown bantam leghorn pair (show quality) + silver leghorn roo and a dk brown roo
magpie ducklings
blue orpington chicks
light sussex started birds
silver fox rabbits
flemish giant rabbits
handcrafted nesting boxes
moscovies
1 light brown leghorn pullet 16 weeks
2 exchequer leghorn pullets 16 weeks
1 LF white crested black polish hen 1 year old
splash silkie chicks (2 days old to 4 weeks)
white silkie chicks (2 days old to 4 weeks)
LF WCB polish chicks (2 days old to 4 weeks)
and I might be bringing a 16 week old pair of splash silkies, but I'm still undecided.
blue orpington chicks (3 weeks old)
2 bantam salmon faverolle roos (2 and 3 weeks old)
1 bantam salmon faverolle roo (8 months old)
3 blue laced red wyandotte chicks (1 week old)
1 lavender orp roo (1 year old)
2 wheaten ameraucana roos from John Blehm (5 weeks old)
red comet laying hens almost 2 yrs. old and laying huge eggs now
holistic poultry feed
pair of blue orpingtons from English lines 5 months old
rabbit cages
peachicks
more silkies

Ok so finally got some pics of some of the birds I'll have at the swap. Head cold, single handedly running the entire farm, now falling & pulling/tearing a leg muscle......what a week! But here are a few of the birds coming with me:

Magpie Duck Pair-Blue Duck, Black Drake $40.00 for the pair



Lavender (self blue) Silkie Cock- From Brenda Gambil in TX- Has been in the breeding pen,proven breeder. $45.00



Black Bantam Wyandottes- Lungren Pair $40.00


Ameraucana / Goldenlaced & Bluelaced Red Wyandotte chicks $5.00 to $10.00



Serama Chicks $10

Silkie chicks $5.00 to $25.00 depending on Quality & Age




Silkie Cockerals $5.00 to $20


I also have a select few of my breeding pullets available. Email for pricing of these:




These pullets will only be at the swap for pickup to presold buyers.

Can't wait to see everyone there!

Beautiful birds. Thanks for the photos.