Annual breed fads

[iajewel]

I found it.. 5K reserve not met.. do you know how many of those you can import for 5K.. OMG! Do people not know how easy and cheap it is to import form the UK.. You can buy a whole flock for that.

 

[iajewel]

Wait a minute.. Harmony hill farms and Green fire are the same people.. aren't they?

 

[big medicine]

Now I don't know near as much as most of the folks on this website. I'm just an old boy that fools around with chickens some.

I have never claimed to be anything but a guy that raises some chickens in a little coop in his back yard. In fact I had to be pursueded into letting people know what I was working on, and then badgered untill I put a few eggs up for auction.

But I am kind of curious to see your contributions to the development, improvement, or preservation of poultry.

 

[RAREROO]

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No The owner of Greenfire Farms is Paul Bradshaw ( stoneunhenged on here) and he is in FL and the owner of Harmony Hill farms is here in Ga and is also a member on here but I cant remember the username, I PMed her last week about her birds and she gave me the prices of here birds but said she found too much controversy over the importation and such here on BYC so doesnt come on here as much.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Don't know one way or t'other about that, but the same person upped the bids on all those crazy prices, and countered himself SEVERAL times on each auction. There should be a law! This "bidder" will vanish into the woodworks, lwaving others to deal with the mess he deliberately created.

 

[hallerlake]

There are breeds that are recognized in Europe that are not recognized here....yet. That doesn't make them mutts.


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[ultasol]

It was the LF choc orps. At $5000 the reserve price isn't met.

My issue with that whole situation is how can you sell birds you don't even have yet?

It seems quite a few sellers do this, and I guess I'm a bit skeptical.

Just because something isn't recognized doesn't mean it's a mutt,.. and doesn't mean it isn't showable (you can still work on BV and RV placings), but if it is in need of vast improvement I'm just not likely to pay big bucks for it. People will, and, well, the market sets the price. A bird is worth what someone will pay for it, nothing more.

There are some darn nice birds already in the US that are so close to gone,... like TRUELY quality speckled sussex. From what I know of the two people who had them one had cut way back to do mostly judging, a lot less breeding.... and the other lost almost the entire flock in a disease outbreak. If the older birds that are remaining have no fertility, the population might be lost.

This is just one example of many. Breeds fall in and out of favor, and sometimes become lost or nearly so when not in favor. Sometimes when they are out of favor it seems the best lines, and some important features, are lost and are difficult to regain.

 

[kathyinmo]

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[pdsavage]

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No The owner of Greenfire Farms is Paul Bradshaw ( stoneunhenged on here) and he is in FL and the owner of Harmony Hill farms is here in Ga and is also a member on here but I cant remember the username, I PMed her last week about her birds and she gave me the prices of here birds but said she found too much controversy over the importation and such here on BYC so doesnt come on here as much.

Was no controversy she never answered questions,therefore leaving doubt.
But she was never given a hard time,people where asking honest questions anyone would ask a breeder.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=445461

 

[Heckel's Hens]

i find the "trends" to be so funny! Around here, farmers just have regular chickens...nothing exciting, fancy, exotic. I came here to look for help with starting baby chicks, and came upon a WORLD of chicken craziness! LOL Who knew there were so many and that it got dsown and dirty over breeds? Ha, ha. My goal is to have a basket with pretty eggs. That's it. It doesn't take a ton of money to do that. Maybe colored eggs are a "fad", but oh well. I had that in mind back when I though my EE was an Ameracauna.