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Hi,
I got a mixed group of standard chickens (buff orpington, ameraucana, rhode island red, silver laced wyandotte, cuckoo maran, and now some EEs), then for bantams I have two buff brahma bantams in with the big girls (looking for a home for them since I'm concentrating on Seramas), and my Serama pen has one rooster and 4 hens. Originally since I was only going to have 1 coop, I got the two BB bantams thinking they were mille fleur d'uccles ... then they turned out to be BB bantams which is fine, but now that I have a whole pen for seramas ... I don't "need" more bantams in with my standards, and I can't put them in with the seramas since I want their eggs to be pure.
Anyway, I got some of mine at feed stores, 1 from an ameraucana breeder, and the EEs from Mahalo4 (thanks again!!!). The birds I got at the feed store so far are all pullets (but the buff brahmas were straight run and can't tell for sure). So in the gender department, the feed store did a good job. But in the "what kind of chick is it" they didn't score so well. I had a few that I thought were one thing, turned out to be something else (4 of them). So, don't really trust them about what you are getting unless each kind is in a different pen, even then they might be wrong.
If you go with someone who breeds them you might get more roos if you get them as babies, but you would know what you are getting.
I like my mix because I will get brown eggs, dark brown eggs, blue eggs, and mystery color from the EEs. Also, in my mind it would be boring to have 6 of one type ... anyway if I had 6 buff orpingtons (for example), how would I keep them straight?!?
I love the seramas because they don't normally breed true to color, so you can get all kinds of chicks from them, just having "type" is important
Hi,
I got a mixed group of standard chickens (buff orpington, ameraucana, rhode island red, silver laced wyandotte, cuckoo maran, and now some EEs), then for bantams I have two buff brahma bantams in with the big girls (looking for a home for them since I'm concentrating on Seramas), and my Serama pen has one rooster and 4 hens. Originally since I was only going to have 1 coop, I got the two BB bantams thinking they were mille fleur d'uccles ... then they turned out to be BB bantams which is fine, but now that I have a whole pen for seramas ... I don't "need" more bantams in with my standards, and I can't put them in with the seramas since I want their eggs to be pure.
Anyway, I got some of mine at feed stores, 1 from an ameraucana breeder, and the EEs from Mahalo4 (thanks again!!!). The birds I got at the feed store so far are all pullets (but the buff brahmas were straight run and can't tell for sure). So in the gender department, the feed store did a good job. But in the "what kind of chick is it" they didn't score so well. I had a few that I thought were one thing, turned out to be something else (4 of them). So, don't really trust them about what you are getting unless each kind is in a different pen, even then they might be wrong.
If you go with someone who breeds them you might get more roos if you get them as babies, but you would know what you are getting.
I like my mix because I will get brown eggs, dark brown eggs, blue eggs, and mystery color from the EEs. Also, in my mind it would be boring to have 6 of one type ... anyway if I had 6 buff orpingtons (for example), how would I keep them straight?!?
I love the seramas because they don't normally breed true to color, so you can get all kinds of chicks from them, just having "type" is important
