Assorted Bantam bin. More pics post 21 still confused :(

[Crickett B]

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I have clicked on every feathered breed there, and the only thing it looks close to is the D'uccle, but then if that is it, what then are the other two I thought were D'uccle? I was under the impression that these were all from the same batch of bantams she ordered the end of the snow days here (so the week after Christmas) I wonder if she had TWO batches come in, as my first Silkie (the black one) and the silver sebright are alot bigger than the white Silkie and the gold seabright that I bought on Tuesday.

Crickett

 

[speckledhen]

She got some the second week of December, I'm sure. Mine came in the week before Christmas and I bought them on Dec. 24th. They already had full wing feathers, so I'm guessing they were a week old when I got them, which would put them in her store around Dec 16/17.

 

[Crickett B]

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Now this would make sense then!

The silkie I bought on the 18th. the OEG and the silver sebright, I bought on the 20th. So they must have come out of a batch from the second week. These last 7, I bought this week on Tuesday and then today. So they must be out of a second younger batch.

Now this would be somewhat cool, as if that last picture is a D'uccle, who looks to be a roo, and then the first two are D'uccle, and don't appear to be rooish (yet), I'd have a trio.

I am really going to have to stay out of her place for at least a month now, I am out of space to keep babies inside!

 

[speckledhen]

She charges lots for those chicks, but who else has them year-round, huh? I won't get any that she takes or Brian takes to raise and brings them back (golly, who could afford those prices???), but I like to get them out of a fresh shipment. I won't be getting any standard breeds from there again, though, just the bantams. I'm doing a big hatch in March of breeder type birds--BRs, BBS Rocks, BW Ameraucanas and some D'Anvers, so could be I'll have some extras, if the hatch goes well, that is.

 

[Crickett B]

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When I first moved up here, after the original 12 came, I'd go in there and buy those older ones. Heck I did not know any better, and I was afraid of the babies. Well, after buying almost everything there (the frizzled polish roo they had in the summer, the Sizzle hen, gold wynadotte hen, the hen to the half silkie rooster that she has a pet now, the three half grown Guinea Hens, two Black Australope hens ALL live with me now. Not to mention my causalities due to my dog getting loose- 3 turkeys, 1 silver wynadotte hen and the beautiful colorful duckwing crossed rooster she had late summer) I thought to myself, this is getting kinda expensive and the babies were looking easier and easier to raise. Good thing I found the Co OP for feed, or I would have been broke by now!

Please keep me in mind if you hatch out extras(err minus the roos, as I have NINE that I know of already) I'm really interested in the BW Ameraucanas and D'Anvers (though I might just HAVE to have a roo of those too.....lol)

Good thing we have 5 acres, I see at least 6 new coops and pens in my future this spring and summer

 

[speckledhen]

Looks like the hatch will start about March 10/11, that is if I can coordinate the shipments for March 7. I won't keep more than one D'Anvers cockerel so there may be an extra for you. They're from Boggy Bottom Bantams in south GA. His little birds are gorgeous and I'm getting all porcelains, unless for some reason, he doesn't have enough of those to send, in which case, I'll have him fill in with lavenders.

 

[Crickett B]

Cool Beans

I have decided that I need to find someone up here that will split the cost of buying birds with me straight from a darn hatchery.
I figured up what I have spent alone in the last month up there, and it's outrageous! 28 for the EE's, which I had to go back and by a bottle of sulmet for as they had bloody poo (16 bucks for that and come to find out, the co op has the same darn bottle for 8 bucks

. ) In the last week alone, bought 2 silkies at 5 each, and 11 of the bantams at 3.79. So the total is close to 100 bucks!!!! I could have just sent the money to ideal, and received 50 birds!!!

Went back up there this morning, thought I'd try to buy the rest of what we think the D'uccles are, and I'll be darn if EVERY one of the little sap suckers are gone! I could have sworn there were at least 5 left in the bin yesterday. Plus all the gold sebrights, are now in the 5 buck bin with the silkies!

I did ask about the shipments, and Linda said all the bantams were all from that first shipment prior to Christmas, so that knocks out my theory of what my mystery bird now is

She also said she was going to try and order another assorted 100 in two weeks.

Crickett

 

[speckledhen]

Linda has outrageous markups on everything, though I saw that Ideal charges $3 each for D'uccles and I paid $3.70 for them at her place, but did you see the 5 gallon plastic waterer? Everyone sells it for about $30-something. Hers is marked as $52!

That said, people are paying it, I suppose, and she does have chicks year-round, so guess she can charge for them whatever she wants. The adults are crazy prices, but if folks don't know their chickens, they'll pay it. She used to sell my extra cockerels for me, but I never really liked them being fed only corn and caged for so long. Now that she and Brian raise some up and sell them, there is no way for me to sell mine there, anyway. She has more competition now that Cohutta Feed is open, but she is in a more accessible location than they are, and right around from the county co-op. The co-op has better feed prices, but even theirs went up recently, just like everyone else's.

Some bantam breeds are smaller than others, so maybe that's it. Also, there will be a runt every once in awhile.

 

[Crickett B]

Too bad we just can't "rent" the place across from the Marathon on 60 and sell the extra's there

 

[speckledhen]

Yeah, no kidding!