California Hatchery

[yoie]

Has anyone ordered from them before? I have searched on here and haven't found much about them

. They seem similar to My Pet Chicken, where they drop ship but they have chickens, ducks, turkeys, and geese.

 

[pawtraitart]

They are seriously over priced IMHO.

 

[EweSheep]

2x

They are seriously over priced IMHO.

 

[Wifezilla]

They are also thieves. They are using photos of my Welsh Harlequin ducks without my permission. The really funny thing is the two hens featured are poor examples of what a Welsh Harlequin should look like. I do not use Wendy (the darker hen) for breeding. The other hen was eaten by a hawk, but I wouldn't have used her for breeding either. Both of them came from Metzer.

The other photo of mine is of a young drake from HOLDERREADS! He was a good breeder and a gorgeous boy when he feathered out, but he was NOT any of THEIR breeding stock.

I was going to call them and chew them out, but they don't even have a phone number. I emailed them giving them my stock photo rates and told them to pay up or take the photos down.

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/5151/picture4zr.png

The only image not mine is the one with the white background. That one looks suspiciously like one from a different hatchery I saw last year. Can't remember which one though.

 

[Wifezilla]

Just got a reply from the company... "We have removed all welsh harlequin photos that were not exclusively owned by us. If you have any welsh harlequin photos of the duck on a white background image we would consider purchasing them for $25. "

My photos are down and I am satisfied.

 

[EweSheep]

$25 dollars, are you kidding me? Maybe around a 100 ducklings would pay for the photos LOL!

 

[shadow rabbit10]

Their photos are all wrong. They were using a picture of two Sebrights to show Quail Antwerp Belgians! They are also crazy expensive!

 

[Wifezilla]

If you were really a breeder selling quality ducks, why would you settle for stock photography of someone's random ducks?

Something seriously wrong here.

 

[brewmonkey]

I just came across them as well and was wondering about the same thing.
Thanks for the input, I am not liking the fact that there is no address or phone number it makes me a little nervous.
I wonder if anyone has had positive experience with them.

 

[Joe.G]

I had spoken to them by email a few times and they were very short with me, I had asked about a contact number and they said they were in the middle of changeing there number and don't have one at this time. I got a weird feeling so i didn't order from them.