Cuckoo Orpingtons? Lookie! + Import Discussion

[greenfamilyfarms]

Wow, thanks scbatz33!

 

[scbatz33]

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You're welcome. It's not a problem any way, I got A LOT of time on my hands right now......Hey maybe I'll even update my blog page!

 

[onthespot]

Just spoke extensively on the phone yesterday to a really nice lady in Texas, not a BYC'er, she google found me, and her sister is going to Ireland soon and she was wondering if there was any way to get chocolate orps back here legally, if her sister could be the courier. I just forwarded the info to her. I doubt it will result in Chocolate Orpingtons here in the US, but hey! Sooner or later SOME one is going to get them here. You never, ever knowwwww......... If I can be of ANY help to enable her, I'm RIGHT there! LOL

 

[lildinkem]

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Someone just has to bite the bullet and fly over to the big show, and find the folks who breed them. Buy a pair. Have that breeders flock tested as by law. Quarentine them there and then here. Then after several thousands of dollars, the project begins. Even then I believe their only being breed as Bantams. So, once you get them back it is still a long project to get them to size to compete as LF.

 

[onthespot]

I fully volunteer to upsize whatever comes here, at no charge to the original importer!

 

[JenEric Farms]

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[CityChicker]

LOL, me too, I've never said this before, but "I will test eggs"!! LOL, nobody said it would be cheap to do. I don't think it would end up costing several thousand dollars, but it would indeed cost a couple thousand. The process is well spelled out though on their website. Being expensive doesn't make it necessarily difficult. As far as the financial investment, I have no doubt whatsoever that a person could make that money back and then some.

Obviously, importing hatching eggs would be *much* cheaper and easier. Granted you have the extra concern of whether you get what you pay for and whether the eggs will hatch or not, but that is a risk you take. Once you go through the process, it may not seem like such a big deal, especially when you start selling pairs for several hundred (or into the thousands) a pair. Importing birds has always been an involved process (other than several decades ago) and some of the quarantine process has always been a bit nonsensical, but the point is to protect domestic poultry flocks from devastating disease outbreaks. Newcastle's has cost poultry producers in the US millions of dollars.