- Nov 30, 2012
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I have been a Pigeon Breeder for many years, and recalled my parents having a few yardies when I was kid, and so started keeping a few chickens from around this time last year, actually to the day.
Started out with a couple of common yardies, but then got some Rhode Island Hybrid sex-linked Layers in February, they are THE only chicks for sale from the local hatcheries here in Barbados, except some White Leghorn Layers. Others is all commercial - Broilers & Layers.
Like my pigeons, I keep no prisoners (unless in sick bay or for special reason) so all my birds are free.
However, since most of our Fancy and other Large Fowl chicken breeds have died out - still a few bantams around and of course some Game breeds, as there is still a bit of that 'sport' around, although illegal - and so it has been difficult to source hatching eggs in small quantities, since live chicks would require a lot more red tape, and so I am interested in being able to ship a small number of mixed breeds here to start with and see who it goes from there.
My breeds of interest are as follows:
Plymouth Rock Barred
Black Jersey Giants
Marans (for their very dark brown eggs)
Ameraucana (for their Green/Blue eggs ... EE's, I think they are called)
I have one yardie hen that got from a few days old and raise her myself and she has turned to what look like a Sumatra (or mostly of the blood line), she certain looks like one, is very vocal, loud and raucous, flies well and I tried her with a couple of day-old chicks the first time she laid and immediately went broody (even in an empty nest) and she was VERY protective, etc. She's nearing the end of her second brood period which she will go well pass the 21 days if I don't give a chick or isolate here, so I would like to time getting about a dozen mixed eggs maybe the next time she starts her brood cycle or early in the new year.
Any advice would be welcome.
Thanks,
David / JusRicFarms
Started out with a couple of common yardies, but then got some Rhode Island Hybrid sex-linked Layers in February, they are THE only chicks for sale from the local hatcheries here in Barbados, except some White Leghorn Layers. Others is all commercial - Broilers & Layers.
Like my pigeons, I keep no prisoners (unless in sick bay or for special reason) so all my birds are free.
However, since most of our Fancy and other Large Fowl chicken breeds have died out - still a few bantams around and of course some Game breeds, as there is still a bit of that 'sport' around, although illegal - and so it has been difficult to source hatching eggs in small quantities, since live chicks would require a lot more red tape, and so I am interested in being able to ship a small number of mixed breeds here to start with and see who it goes from there.
My breeds of interest are as follows:
Plymouth Rock Barred
Black Jersey Giants
Marans (for their very dark brown eggs)
Ameraucana (for their Green/Blue eggs ... EE's, I think they are called)
I have one yardie hen that got from a few days old and raise her myself and she has turned to what look like a Sumatra (or mostly of the blood line), she certain looks like one, is very vocal, loud and raucous, flies well and I tried her with a couple of day-old chicks the first time she laid and immediately went broody (even in an empty nest) and she was VERY protective, etc. She's nearing the end of her second brood period which she will go well pass the 21 days if I don't give a chick or isolate here, so I would like to time getting about a dozen mixed eggs maybe the next time she starts her brood cycle or early in the new year.
Any advice would be welcome.
Thanks,
David / JusRicFarms
