Do breeders of fancy chickens get mad if the buyer doesn't end up showing them?

[Moochie]

I'm wondering if any breeders of whatever here get bothered by that sort of thing. Like those people who talk about the lines of their chickens and stuff, let's say someone bought a pair of english orpingtons and they ended up selling the rooster to someone else and just kept the hen with their original flock that has a different rooster that is not an english orpington. And then the hen gets broody... And then DUN DUN DUN mixed babies. I know the breeder has no business of knowing that but if one of you serious folk found out about something like that would it bother you?

You're probably wondering why I am asking. I really like the color of buff-laced polish. I don't like the way polish look very much but anything buff-laced catches my eye. I just want a hen though.. Or two hens or pullets. I know someone that has buff-laced polish chickens but I'm too afraid to ask because I don't think the person likes me in the first place because of my mixed birds. And I don't think the person sells just hens/pullets, I think the person sells boy/girl pairs.
I just really like the buff-laced color and I would love babies to see color possibilities.

 

[NYREDS]

I can only speak for myself & once someone has paid me for some birds they're not mine anymore & I don't care what they do with them.

 

[Oregon Blues]

If someone wants to show and tells me that, I will do my best to get them a duckling or gosling who will do well in the shows.

However, not every bird hatched is a show winner, so I have very good quality pets available, too. I suspect that every breeder gets hatchlings that are not quite going to make it to best in show, and those birds need homes, too.

If all you want is the color, then you won't care if the bird is National winning quality. The breeder will be happy to get one of his pet quality birds into an excellent home.

The only breed I know of where you might get shoot on sight for stating you want the bird for cross- breeding is the purebred Cornish large fowl.

Don't you dare come to me to buy a purbred dog planning to breed mixed breed puppies. The world is full of homeless mutts. It's different with chickens. Unwanted birds get eaten. So if you breed mutts and nobody wants them, into the stew pot they go.

 

[Moochie]

If someone wants to show and tells me that, I will do my best to get them a duckling or gosling who will do well in the shows.

However, not every bird hatched is a show winner, so I have very good quality pets available, too. I suspect that every breeder gets hatchlings that are not quite going to make it to best in show, and those birds need homes, too.

If all you want is the color, then you won't care if the bird is National winning quality. The breeder will be happy to get one of his pet quality birds into an excellent home.

The only breed I know of where you might get shoot on sight for stating you want the bird for cross- breeding is the purebred Cornish large fowl.

Don't you dare come to me to buy a purbred dog planning to breed mixed breed puppies. The world is full of homeless mutts. It's different with chickens. Unwanted birds get eaten. So if you breed mutts and nobody wants them, into the stew pot they go.

I don't breed them for other people I breed them for myself. I wouldn't come to you for a purebred dog anyways, I'm quite happy with my purebred miniature dachshunds.

 

[Fred's Hens]

Well, I was blessed this year with a batch of Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch line, via KathyinMo. I grateful for Kathy's incredible generous spirit.

I've no intention of showing. But, enjoy them I am and I shall. I shall breed them as faithfully as I can. Who's to say, down the road, someone might want to show them after I'm long gone? Who's to say that someone would want a true bred, heritage Barred Rock and is able to enjoy them because I kept stewardship on my watch?

 

[Moochie]

Well it's good to see that your taking in heritage barred rocks.

 

[Moochie]

If I had heritage breeds I wouldn't cross them to anything except their own breed. Anything to help out an endangered breed of chicken.

I'm quite happy with my mutts though and I don't have the money to pay like 100 bucks per birdy. I love my 3 silkie/cochin banty crosses though, same cochin bantam and same silkie rooster and I got 3 different colors from them. Black, dark grey, and I guess blue with black ticking and lemony-orange in her crest and her neck feathers. I would love to get a rooster with the blue one's coloring.

(and it's okay because the parent birds are both pet quality)

 

[Fred's Hens]

I don't think there are that many breeders who fetch $100 a bird. I dunno, but I doubt it.

 

[teach1rusl]

I think many breeders (not all obviously) would be upset to learn that a high quality, well bred bird was being mixed with other breeds. Breeders who are serious about what they're doing have a goal to perfect the standard. Now, many sell culls that don't meet the standards, so maybe they wouldn't care as much about those.
Take seramas for example: I've definitely read adament (and somewhat heated) posts discouraging the mixing of seramas with other breeds such as oegb, etc.
But as was said earlier, when you buy a bird, it's yours to do with what you will. So if someone wants to spend $150 on a show quality hen or roo and then use it to create "mutts," then that's the buyer's prerogative.

 

[normanack]

I don't think there are that many breeders who fetch $100 a bird.  I dunno, but I doubt it.

I think you're right. The only one I've heard of is Greenfire Farms, and they have charged $399 for a pair. But that's when they've imported a breed new to the U.S. and there's literally only one flock of them, theirs.

Sandhill Preservation's birds top out, as far as I know, at $6, except for their Cuckoo Scots Dumpies, which are sold as a set of 15 (to encourage serious breeding only) plus 10 of another breed, for a total of $150. Twenty-five rare and/or heritage chickens for $150? Wow. Quite a range.

Are there others? I'm new to chickens, so my knowledge is extremely limited.

Odd as it sounds, I'm kind of glad that chickens are regaining popularity at a time of economic difficulty. We have very little money but have been able to buy chickens for $3 (hatchery) to $6 (breeder, his birds are actually descended from Greenfire Farms stock circa 2003) and have made do with cast-off building materials to house them. For a small flock, it is possible for chickenkeeping to be a very inexpensive hobby. I'm not a real breeder, so I have no idea of the costs involved in that.