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About a decade ago Greenfire Farms in FLA was an active importer of rare chicken breeds from around the world. It cost them roughly $10,000 per import w/restrictions plus USA quarantine time up to 6 months before birds would be released to Greenfire to start breeding the rare birds. USA...

I know Buckaboo Farm in Santa Ana breeds/ships Silkie eggs and D'Uccles & many other breeds but not sure about Sebrights? Have you hatched shipped eggs before -- I hear there's a 40 to 100% failure rate because no matter how careful they're packed cracking is an issue. I never got any hatching...

Faverolles are so cute! I love gentle temperament breeds but w/ reports from owners that Faverolles are prone to be bullied in spite of their large size and not known as too smart I decided not getting them for our backyard. We free range our backyard limit of 5 hens/no roos so we needed...

I've never been to a poultry show either & don't even know if our Southern Calif area ever has them. During Newcastles or AI outbreaks I know past shows around the country were canceled in past years. If you ever do go to a show take a lot of pics and post them plz :fl

@kurby22 -- Wow you've got your work cut out for you! Running a breeding program is more hobby sport than money-maker. I guess like the rest of us you're chicken crazy too -- teehee! It's good to get breeding stock from several different sources. Buckaboo Farm gets their stock from different...

@kurby22 -- 4H Yeah! Good for you! And you say bantams are hard to find in Calif? I found NPIP/AI Clean Buckaboo Farm in Orange County area here in So Calif. They have Frizzles, Satins, Laced Satins, D'Uccles, plus other breeds. They're a small operation but have a good enough reputation to...

@casportpony -- I call my peafowl peachicks until they are a year old. Once they are a year, I call them yearlings. Ducklings are ducklings until they feather out. Once feathered out, I call them juveniles. :D ____________________________________________ Teehee -- takes too long to say yearlings...

@Nifty-Chicken -- very good to stagger hen additions -- when one age group slows down egg production the new hens pick up the slack -- plus the younger hens learn from the elders -- and all birds young or old are great for the garden, fertilizing it and foraging for insects. However, all OUR...

@shroomie -- there are often posts for free birds but sometimes not. Good luck & :welcome:welcome

@mg15 -- I have seen other posts about scabbing on hens too. I will ad pictures. __________________________________ mg, what CAUSED the scabbing? Something new I haven't heard of in chickens?

I had an NPIP Silkie breeder who called her birds "chicks" 'til they were 6 months old! We call our youngest birds in the flock "chicks" all the time even if they're 2 or 3 years old -- if they are the youngest then they're always "chicks" to us! :D

A BYC member @casportpony is very knowledgeable about chicken ailments IMO.

What a beauty! Hope he finds a good loving home and not some creepy dinner plate! I had to return a cockerel we got attached to because we aren't zoned for roos either! I have two Rose-Combed Dominiques and I can tell them apart at instantly looking at their combs. It's amazing how rose...

@ronott1 TY!!

1/4 acres is NICE! Here in SoCalif most properties are much smaller in the city and suburbs in L.A. County that many local ordinances prohibit poultry. I'm lucky that our neighborhood section allows 5 hens/no roos (but a Silkie counts as 1/2 a chicken, right?). Many properties are so small...

@keepercjr So easy to go wild getting birds, eh? Years ago I just wanted two little pullet Silkies as backyard pets and throughout the years I have now cycled through 19 chickens of various breeds LOL (not all at the same time though)!!! It's amazing that one of the original Silkie pets is...

Too bad there's a quarantine going on. Amber Waves Silkies in Norco, CA (Riverside County) sells all varieties of DNA sexed Silkie chicks anywhere from $65 to $125 each depending on how many cockerels showed up in the DNA test batch and before quarantine they shipped birds -- now it's...

@ronott1 The last voting a couple or so years back to split California into 3 separate states got quashed by some picky-yoonie legal technicalities.

Teehee! We have property in Calif Pines - free state of Jefferson! For anyone that isn't aware -- there once was supposed to be a vote for Jefferson (a little bit of No Calif and a bit of Oregon) to be a new USA State but on Dec 7 1941 -- whoops -- the war effort took precedence and it never...

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