Houdans

[flower]

If you hatch your own eggs or have a broody hen, you would do better. There is a person on here from TN who sells eggs and several folks have had good experience with him. I myself feel good about him and his birds. You can do a search in the buy sell section. That is if you can go that route.

 

[ItsAZOO32]

If you hatch your own eggs or have a broody hen, you would do better. There is a person on here from TN who sells eggs and several folks have had good experience with him. I myself feel good about him and his birds. You can do a search in the buy sell section. That is if you can go that route.

Yep.. NEK38583 I have a houdan hatched from his eggs. She is pretty and he now uses her pic for his auctions. Shipping for his eggs has not been kind however. She is the only bird I was able to hatch out of 2 batches of 20+ eggs.

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[flower]

She IS a beauty.

Yes shipping is hard on eggs. I have had some luck and I am alway happy to have any chicks to hatch from shipped eggs.
But if you can not find any hatching eggs or chicks that you want nearby what other choices do you have ? Except driving great distances and here in southern Ca gas is over $4 . And I live in the middle of nowhere close.

 

[ccshambhala]

she is pretty - .... I need to give hatching another chance... it is just so disappointing for the kids and I when the results are so poor

 

[ccshambhala]

& thank you langshan for understanding/empathizing... it is frustrating

 

[seminolewind]

I got eggs from Banjoejoe4783, that did pretty good. 8 eggs, 4 hatched and they are all perfect and cute. I think he has nice Houdans.

 

[flower]

I agree BanjoeJoe does have very nice birds and I have hatched a few from his shipped eggs. Very sweet birds I might add. I am not so good at hatching either so I am about to ask some one else to do the job for me.

 

[WooingWyandotte]

I ordered one Mottled Houdan pullet from Mcmurray. So far she's really rambunctious and the sweetest thing ever. I know she far less than a perfect specimen, but I might be interested in purchasing a pair; I would hate to have MH's and WH's die out. So far my experience with this one has been wonderful. So I am looking into this breed more and was wondering if any of you guys know where the SOP is? I've looked everywhere in vain...

 

[seminolewind]

I ordered one Mottled Houdan pullet from Mcmurray. So far she's really rambunctious and the sweetest thing ever. I know she far less than a perfect specimen, but I might be interested in purchasing a pair; I would hate to have MH's and WH's die out. So far my experience with this one has been wonderful. So I am looking into this breed more and was wondering if any of you guys know where the SOP is? I've looked everywhere in vain...

I'll bet Illia knows, I have yet to stump her!

 

[Outlier]

I was curious myself so I emailed an extension agent at the University of Arkansas who in turn put me in touch with the fellow working on the project. Here is some of what he sent me.

Fertile Eggs from the University of Arkansas​

The intended scope and purpose of this project is to provide fertile hatching eggs to 4-H and FFA youth and leaders with the hope of increasing interest in poultry and to encourage learning and developing general animal care practices. We also will provide these eggs for use in school or classroom embryology projects with the idea that the hatched chicks can be taken home and raised for personal use to promote interest in poultry. When possible, these fertile eggs will also be made available to others interested in these breeds purely for exhibition purposes. Any intent to directly sell the eggs or chicks for personal gain will not be permitted or tolerated and could possibly jeopardize the continuation of this program. These breeds are all selected to meet the APA standards for each breed to allow access to breeds of chickens that will be competitive at poultry shows.

If interested in obtaining any of these eggs please contact:


Keith Bramwell, PhD
Extension Poultry Specialist
Department of Poultry Science
The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
(479) 841-6498
[email protected]

or

Scharidi Barber
Extension Poultry Science
Cooperative Extension Service, Little Rock
(501) 671-2189
[email protected]

Here is a description of his Houdans:


Mottled Houdan, Continental Class, (H) – My breeding stock is very good quality as I have been selectively breeding them for several generations and they are continually getting better as they have done well as exhibition birds at poultry shows. Some of the Houdan populations in the US have lost the traditional body type associated with this breed as they become too “polish like” in appearance, so this has been the focus with this breed to return them to the standard. While these birds are a ‘crested-fowl’, they are not directly related to the more well-known Polish breeds of chickens. The birds have a V-comb (originally a leaf comb) and not only have a mottled feather pattern, but they have mottled colored shanks and five toes. They are generally a non-sitting breed and considered fair layers of an average sized white egg. They were originally selected as a dual purpose breed so they should reach 6-8 pounds in weight as mature adults. They are a fairly docile breed that do well in confinement and generally do not make for a good ‘yard bird’ as the crest prevents them from seeing their surroundings fully and therefore could become an easy and tasty meal for any predators in the area.

Here are the other breeds in the program:

Large Fowl:

Black-Breasted Red Araucana
Silver Spangled Hamburg
Naked Neck
Silver Lakenvelder
Salmon Faverolles
Silver Pheonix
Black Sumatra
Red Shoulder Yokohama

Bantam:

Sicilian Buttercup
White Face Black Spanish
White Silkie

He freely gave out his contact information so I'm not afraid to post it here. The rest of what he sent me are descriptions of the other breeds.