8+ Black Quechua Olmec hatching eggs

[MA Mama]

Yes, I should have said that! Sorry! Just updated my location...

 

[MA Mama]

Reserved now through about mid April.

 

[enola]

Do you sell adult birds?

 

[MA Mama]

Do you sell adult birds?

No, not really. I may sell extra cull cockerels at the end of summer when I can take a look at who I hatch this spring. But in general I don't sell adults or chicks. Plus I get attached. :/

 

[JanetMarie]

Hi Ma Mama, thank you for replying. Would they also be able to evade foxes? Is there a tendency for them to go feral, because I've read they are more wild than some other South American breeds. I plan to make modifications to the barn, or build a cote.

 

[MA Mama]

Hi Ma Mama, thank you for replying. Would they also be able to evade foxes? Is there a tendency for them to go feral, because I've read they are more wild than some other South American breeds. I plan to make modifications to the barn, or build a cote.

No, the BQO do not go feral at all. I can't IMAGINE anyone saying the BQO are more wild than the other South Americans. I know people with BQO and we ALL are in love with their personalities. I think it was Yashar that wrote that about them being a little wild, and he wrote that a looooooong time ago. I'm not even sure he would say that anymore! (Hopefully he'll chime in!) Now, the Huastecs are a tad wild - they stick around but only will sleep in trees and highly resent being told to do otherwise! I've never had any South American go feral. I think when people say "wild" they mean behavior - like spazzy. BQO are very calm and not the slightest bit spazzy. Huastec hens are nippy and tough. My one Huastec roo was so terribly aggressive I had to rehome him. BQO roos are lapdogs, sweet and trustworthy. I can't really speak to foxes. I have tons of coyotes here and I have never lost a South American to a coyote. We may have foxes at night when I don't see them, but my coop is seriously Fort Knox at night, and everyone is locked in, so nothing has a chance anyway. My birds free range during the day and hawks are a HUGE HUGE HUGE issue. I've never lost a BQO ADULT to a hawk - young juveniles, but no adults. BQO are really easy to keep.

 

[JanetMarie]

The Huastecs are beautiful, and another consideration. I don't want them to sleep in the trees though, but they must do ok, or you wouldn't have them anymore. The South American breed I choose has to be very good at evading predators, because the foxes here hunt during the day in the spring. Could be a mom feeding a litter of kits. They have watched and waited for me to go inside, then struck. I know that there are breeds that will survive in my free range area, as I know a previous home owner had bantams who went feral and lived in the marsh.

Thanks for taking the time with the information. I love lapdog roosters.

 

[MA Mama]

The Huastecs are beautiful, and another consideration. I don't want them to sleep in the trees though, but they must do ok, or you wouldn't have them anymore. The South American breed I choose has to be very good at evading predators, because the foxes here hunt during the day in the spring. Could be a mom feeding a litter of kits. They have watched and waited for me to go inside, then struck. I know that there are breeds that will survive in my free range area, as I know a previous home owner had bantams who went feral and lived in the marsh.

Thanks for taking the time with the information. I love lapdog roosters.

I don't have Huastec anymore. I got sick of fishing them out of the trees every night. I gave the Huastec to a friend.

 

[smoothmule]

Ma Mama,
Do you have any of the other SA breeds? or know of any breeders who got any of Yashar's Koro Sea chickens?
The Black Quechua Olmecs are awesome

 

[MA Mama]

Ma Mama, 
Do you have any of the other SA breeds?   or know of any breeders who got any of Yashar's Koro Sea chickens?
The Black Quechua Olmecs are awesome 

I don't have any other kinds... I had the Sweet Potato but they were very disease prone and weak and the few I had, died. I had Huastec also, but I gave them to a friend and she doesn't sell eggs. I'll ask her to chime in on here if she does. I don't know anyone who got Koro Sea. Maybe contact Kermit Blackwood on Facebook?