Greetings from Wayne County in SEMO.
Currently cutting my 'chicken teeth' on hatchery stock and looking to move on to better quality stock in the near future.
Right now we have a few each of BOs, BAs, RIRs, Black Minorcas, EEs, Silver Spangled Hamburgs, and Colombian Wyandottes.
Eventually plan to cull the SSHs, the BMs, the BAs, the RIRs, and the CWs. Would like to add Jersey Giants, more BOs, Dark Cornish, NHs, and a few more EES - all decent quality non-hatchery stock. A few Marans would be nice too, eventually. I like a colorful egg basket.
But that is not a priority.
If anyone has any of the breeds listed in the 'would like to add' part and your flock is not hatchery stock, I'd be interested in acquiring some day old chicks this spring, or, if I have a hen go broody, some hatching eggs. I want to begin adding heritage LF to my flock and removing the hatchery stuff.
I do not need SQ or SOP birds, but would be interested in birds that have potential within a decent breeding program - in other words, a bird you might cull as an exhibitor/show breeder, might work just fine for me. I just want decent heritage birds to build a good solid flock with. The BOs, NHs, and JGs are particularly high on our list - particularly a BO roo, as I have just pretty much confirmed that a BO cockerel I bought and was told was not hatchery stock and was pure BO, definitely has some Leghorn in him.
Thanks, and howdy!