Got The New CaCkle Hatchery Catalog 2010 Today

[prov31gal]

i ordered the day after i got my catalog, i ordered 5 rir, 10buff orp, 6 light bhrama, a bunch of ancona ducks and i wish i had ordered a hatchery suprise, but i think i will im may. i emailed cackle about whaen the best time to order a supprise was, they emailed me back that i just needed to order for the birds to be shipped at a time when what i might like to recieve was in season. like may, the month when everything they have is hatching. they also said that they would throw some guineas in the box if they had any to add at the time of shipment.
i read somewhere on here that a person was told that they dont put guineas in a suprise with chicks because they peck the chicks feet. so i asked specifically.
i was pretty sure that at least most of the pictures iin the catalog are of cackle birds, mine always look like the pictures. now someone is telling me they called cackle and was told the pictures are not of their birds...........hmmmmm.......the catalog says they are. but i love cackle ! even if it turns out that only some are of their birds , i dont care too much, my birds always look like the pictures, and at least they dont have stylized drawings like some catalogs...to (im my opinion) throw you off the fact that their birds are of super poor quality and dont resemble the actual breed very much.
yay cackle........how many people sit and read the catalog over and over daydreaming about what birdsa they would get if they lived on a huge farm!

 

[IggiMom]

I usually do ok with Cackle. The ones I have now continue to do fine. I don't think it was Cackle, not sure, but I did get Guineas and chicks in one order and there was no problem.

My Guineas are mean as little snakes, but it took a little while to develop in them!

Catherine

 

[tammyd57]

My catalog is already dog-eared and has coffee rings on it! I have plenty of room to get all the chickens I could ever want, but the cost of building secure housing for them slows me down. I bought Buff Orpingtons from Cackle last Spring and I love them, they are beautiful and they do look like the pictures in the catalog. They aren't quite adults yet but very large.