That is a good price. The Murphy NC store sells straight-run as $1.95 each--I helped a couple sex the BRs once, LOL. Bet they didn't want me hanging around there long. They only have them for about a month, though. The higher priced one in Blue Ridge sells sexed pullets and they have chicks 10...
gapeachy, I agree that real Dominiques are more rare. And an excellent quality Barred Rock is becoming more rare as hatcheries just keep producing inferior specimens.
So many times someone comes to my place and sees my Barred Rock rooster then says, "Oh, that's a Dominecker". I tell them, no...
As I said, my entire original ten ladies and a handful of others over the last couple of years have come from Ideal via the feedstore. The good thing is you can buy one chick or a hundred chicks, as long as you are willing to pay her prices.
I do have a Lt. Brahma because she had a brooder full...
The starter varies by brand alot. I can pay $10/50# at the local co-op or up to $15/50# at another feedstore. The cheap stuff is actually quite good-Tucker Milling in AL makes it.
Does this mean that Ideal is mis-labelling their stock or that the feed store is.
The feedstore with the little Dominecker thing gets theirs from Privett. Privett mislabeled the shipment, I believe.
The tidbit about Dominecker vs Dominique was just that, a side comment. Some feedstores are...
Mine does not rehome any roosters. They get their 5000 chicks a year from Ideal. The other feedstore gets a lot less per year and they are from Privett, but they mislabel stuff, case in point below, the "Dominecker". That feedstore owner charges almost $4 per chick, but she gets sexed pullets...