Hi Everyone,
I don't post very often on here, but I had some chicks hatch and would love to give BYC'ers a chance at them before I go listing on Craigslist. Price is VERY cheap, they will be 10 chicks for $15 or 20 chicks for $25 or buy all of them (almost 50 so far) for $1 each if you want the whole lot.
This is my "home grown" Aloha chicken breeding project - lovely spotted chickens that are about the same size as Leghorns up to RIR size - small standards to medium average size. They lay medium sized cream colored eggs. Chicks are STRAIGHT RUN (boys and girls) as there is no way to sex these at hatching - or at least I'm not experienced enough to do so.
This project was started over 8 years ago to try and create "Swedish Flower Hens" in the US, before they were imported by Greenfire Farms
These are found nowhere else in the world - a unique strain here to this state. I have shipped a few batches out of state but so far nobody has been offering chicks or eggs from those small flocks yet.
My boyfriend has really been pressuring me to get out of the chicken breeding business so these likely won't be available for many more years. I would love to try and get new breeders but have not had much luck.
There is also a Naked Neck version that pops up in these which has been VERY popular. Hatching eggs from the Naked Neck line sold on
Ebay a couple years ago when I offered them for $70 for one dozen! Price dipped down to $35 per dozen in the next few auctions, and I had more orders for these eggs than I could fill. They sold really well. I prefer to hatch and sell Live chicks over shipping eggs, however. So there is no competition - currently nobody is offering hatching eggs for Alohas or Aloha Naked Necks that I know of at this moment. If someone is interested I think they could sell Aloha hatching eggs for $10 to $25 per dozen plus shipping on
Ebay and the Naked Neck variation would probably sell for $25 to $40 per dozen as hatching eggs.
Anyway, hatching season is here, and from this point on I will be trying to create as many of these spotted cuties as I can to get them out into AZ homes. Very heat tolerant, as they have been developed here in the Valley.
Alohas have been featured in Backyard Chickens magazine and on the TV show "Coop Dreams" but sadly I am still the one and only breeder and if my boyfriend has his way that will stop soon as well.
He would like for us to move out of state (to Hawaii) and travel more which means no more chicken breeding. Makes me really sad, as I've invested a lot of time and effort into creating this strain, and knowing it may very likely disappear forever in a few years really bums me out.
But I get my boyfriend's point, if nobody in 8 years has shown serious interest in breeding these, I guess I should take a hint already. He's tired of having the chickens get in the way of traveling.
Tons of pics on my Pinterest page here:
https://www.pinterest.com/alohachickens/aloha-chickens/
