Great Hatcheries?

[AtRendeAcres]

I have ordered from Hoffman, Welp, Ideal & Meyers!

Ideal has a wide variety, great custumer service pretty EEs

Meyers chicks seem to bigger than other hatcheries & have pretty EEs in many shades of blues! & cheap cornish that foreger

I buy most of layers at hatcheries because they breed for egg procuction

If you buy from hatchery you will have more culling to breed for qualities you are interested in (show, temperment, ect...)

Joanne

 

[bossynbella]

We have gotten birds from cackle and mcmurray and I am not happy with either.
Cackle we just got BR and though to me a BR is a BR there personalitys are nothing like everything I read said BR's are.
Mcmurray we got the ornamental layers and I am dissapointed in the quality of almost every bird we got. Also ordered 5 blue silkies and ended up with 3black 1 white-frizzle and 1bluish frizzle. and 5 cochins blue and got all black but one splash.
Next year I am getting eggs from people on here.
We also got Two Crevecours and one has white spots in its creast. The Mcmurray birds are very friendly though.
Melissa

 

[ThePamperedPullet]

We have ordered our out of Cackle Hatchery and had great luck with great looking birds. We recommend them to everybody.

 

[Buckhunter]

I was very pleased with Welp Hatchery

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Thanks everyone!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I'm looking to better the breed, as well as to perserve it. I only want GREAT birds, not just decent. Yes, these are for selling as hatching eggs & show birds to those that show as I always end up with a few extra birds, or even trios/pairs that I have to sell each fall...

 

[LilPeeps]

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I'm looking to better the breed, as well as to perserve it. I only want GREAT birds, not just decent. Yes, these are for selling as hatching eggs & show birds to those that show as I always end up with a few extra birds, or even trios/pairs that I have to sell each fall...

If this is the case, then go with a breeder, not hatchery birds.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

That's what I figured. Thanks!! I'll just tell hubby that I can't do that and that I'll have to suck it up & butcher the extra males no matter how nice or rare.

 

[dancingbear]

Sandhill Preservation is supposed to have good birds, and since they're a rare breed preservation organization, rather than a traditional commercial hatchery, you might get some good birds with them.

I haven't yet bought birds from them, so I'm just going on what others have told me.

I agree, you can't get true-to-type birds from hatcheries. If a person just wants a fast crop of meat birds, or some hens for eggs, they're fine, you can get lower cost, healthy vigorous birds. But not for any serious breeding projects, they won't be anywhere near breed standards.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Thank you! I've heard bad things about their Faverolles, though...