Feather lover farms Hawaiian chickens. How are they? What are they?

[Chickenosauurs_RexNo54]

I would like to know about Feather Lover farms newly imported Hawaiian chickens. Is there any information about them?

 

[TropicalBabies]

$79 for an unsexed chick?! Did I read that right?!! Heck, I got a $1,000 bucks in my back yard

 

[Coops Dad]

That's insane. $79 for a hot mess of a chicken plus $39 for a Marek's vaccination?!?

It's expected, though; I've been to Maui, Oahu and the Big Island a few times. Their cheeseburgers are priced the same way.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Most of that must be for shipping. Some wiley entrepreneur must be going about the island picking up baby chicks, slapping them in a box and loading them on a plane!

Great deal for a hen who will only give you 30 eggs per year, hop any fence to make her nest in the neighbors yard to hide her eggs and go broody every 4 months lol. What a novel chicken. Oh, and go nuts when broody like you won't believe and carry the wildness for many watered-down generations. And then there are the boys....

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Wow, they sound like amazing birds. They are now definitely on my wishlist of breeds and landraces to get when I'm older. DO you have any other breeds to recommend? Also how many are in your area? Would it be possible in the future if you could send some to the mainland?

If you do get junglefowl, you may want to get them from a different source than feather lover farms:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/feather-lover-farm-scam.1423280/

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I would like to know about Feather Lover farms newly imported Hawaiian chickens. Is there any information about them?

Buy from anyone but them.. look up real reviews about their service and alleged quality.. and don't regret your purchase!

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

The pictures of birds on the FLF web site do not look half bad actually. They are straight BBR decended from Filipino fighting chickens in the first half of the Twentieth Century. Some people want to call these junglefowl but that is a misnomer because there is no eclipse plummage and the leg and earlobe color may be off. A larger problem is that many feral flocks in Hawaii have introgression of more recent gamefowl and production breeds so they can no longer breed true to type. This puts the true BBR landrace under constant threat and there is no way to protect them. In Hawaii there are people who love wild chickens and people that hate them. But, nobody discriminates between any ole' wild chicken and what is, for the time being, a legitimate and established landrace.

The “junglefowl” sold by hatcheries are generally much closer to feral gamefowl mixes than actual junglefowl. However, they would still be a bit different than feral Hawaiian gamefowl mixes.

 

[Lunes]

I would like to know about Feather Lover farms newly imported Hawaiian chickens. Is there any information about them?

They scammed me. Stay away

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Most of that must be for shipping. Some wiley entrepreneur must be going about the island picking up baby chicks, slapping them in a box and loading them on a plane!

 

[TropicalBabies]

Wow, they sound like amazing birds. They are now definitely on my wishlist of breeds and landraces to get when I'm older. DO you have any other breeds to recommend? Also how many are in your area? Would it be possible in the future if you could send some to the mainland?

Do you have an incubator? I've never tried to send eggs to anyone YET but would be willing to collect and send to you.
I guess only a DNA test could tell the true story in each individual chicken but I must admit. They are consistent in looks and behavior for the most part over on Kauai with the exception of pockets of flocks. Not saying anything about breed one way or the other. They are definitely a mix. I will ask my aunty about the wild chickens as she is close to a century old and always been on this island. All islands are different with their populations forsure. Kauai does not have mongoose and that keeps our numbers up. Oahu was and is much more populated with humans and all that that curtails.