In 2020 Performance Poultry still had Golden Laced Cochins- my favourite type of bantam cochin. I picked up 11 Lemon Blue Old English Game bantams from them last year which actually turned out to be a pair of silver blues, 6 splash pullets and 3 blue pullets. Two of the splash died. One must've gotten wet by the waterer and the hen wasn't big enough to cover 11 chicks. One of the splash my son was trying to catch and accidentally broke her neck when she was about a month old. I didn't see on Performance's website that they don't recommend letting children under 5 handle them until too late as my son was 4 last year.
When you stated you can't get your order is it due to the time frame? PP does sometimes have extra birds available if you email or call them to ask.
Most of their birds are sourced from Ideal Poultry in Texas. I've ordered from that hatchery since I lived in the U.S in 2003 so I am glad to have found a supplier of their birds as it costs $300 for them to get health papers (fyi McMurray charges $75) plus if you live in this side of Canada and want to pick them up in Ogdensburg, NY you would need to rent a mailbox for a minimum of 3 months. They do 3 months, 6 months or a year which is somewhere around $100-150.
The pair of silver blues were rehomed to a lady in North Gower along with a splash and a blue pullet. I am picking up my order (specifics are in my signature) on Saturday April 29 and rehoming the last blue pullet to a lady from North Bay who is also picking up her order of chicks the same day. Then two splash pullets Chris maybe I can drop them off and we can arrange a trade pick up (a silver duckwing and a black breasted red pullet and/or the splash pullets' offspring) when I return from my trip from the Toronto area in October? You can PM me more about that if you want.
A blue pullet passed away this past winter, the only bird I lost.
I will be rehoming most of my PP order from this spring. If you or anyone you know are interested in OEGB or bantam Easter Eggers, feel free to let me know or PM
I saw that you are interested in their Pearl OEGB. I wanted to order them but didn't since they weren't in their price list so I didn't think they were available. Maybe next year.
Lemon Blue May 11th hatch 2022:
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The three remaining splash pullets:
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The pullet that was closest to lemon blue that passed in the winter.
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One of the other two blue pullets
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A pearl hen that I had gotten from Ideal Poultry in 2011 when I was living in California.
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Fawn silver hen from that same hatch
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2022 buff cochin mom and the OEGB chicks
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The only cockerel from the hatch, a silver blue
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View attachment 3476424 Once the buff hen Buttercup was done taking care of them at around two months, the head of the pecking order, the white cochin Snowball adopted them.
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Well my son and husband are coming home soon so I apologize that the pictures are all out of order...if I had more time I would reorder them but I need to set up my son's replacement tablet.
with a little bit of leaf litter on top to grow moss. No big surprise there were not a lot of farms in this area. (Which is how it became a vacation area, lots of lakes but no farmable land)
