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I am glad to hear that :)

We are in Michigan, www.fivewiregroup.com. We have Iowa Blues and can ship chicks or eggs. Iowa eggs from our flock have a poor hatch rate after shipping though. Let us know if we can help. You are close enough we may even be able to sell some adult poultry as well. Candy

Hi Al, We will have chicks and eggs. The eggs we ship from Michigan usually have a poor hatch rate though. We have two breeding pens of Iowa's going right now. We breed to the charcoal color and have silvers, birchens, and smokeys. I am the VP of the Iowa Blue Chicken Club. Candy Pilarski

I started with four (a silver cockerel and three pullets) in 2013 and expanded the generations I have now using the rolling method of breeding. We have had about 60 pullets to 40 percent cockerels hatch via incubators. This year, we experienced our first Iowa hatch become broody (she is a...

On the second page of this thread, member named DirtFarmer is also in Northern CA :) I believe he has a hen and a rooster, if you are not that too far apart, you may be able to contact him for hatching eggs or maybe a chick or two?

I got a lot of help posting photos here in the Iowa Breed thread and having the others comment on the birds. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/469317/iowa-blues-breed-thread-and-discussion/ Iamfivewire posted a photo of our flock and you can see the variations we have gotten from almost all...

Welcome to Iowa's MHoock! We started with four, a silver cockerel, what we thought was a silver hen, but since determined she is what is called a "clean" smokey girl (no red or salmon on her body to indicate red or AR leakage) and two mossy colored Birchen hens. With our first hatch, we had...

Fivewire (Brett)and myself (Candy) stumbled upon the Iowa Blue quite by accident. A member here on the BYC site was giving away a couple of Delaware pullets he hatched and I decided to adopt them. One looked like a typical Delaware, but the other one had silver penciling and a pattern I have...