Ideal Hatchery :(

[Indiana Dave]

Ordered several day old chicks from Ideal this spring, all bantams wyandottes. My BLR's ended up being white-laced red CORNISH...WTHeck? One of the Buff Columbians is more of a tan than buff, and one of the Columbians has a single comb. I expected better than that. The six 'males for warmth' were 6 RIR, so I know that the cornish were a mistake. I won't be ordering from them again I don't think. But should I call and complain about them? Really don't expect them to do anything, I don't want anymore birds from them. Not sure what to do, if anything. Anyone else have this issue very often?

 

[StewedMammal]

Ive heard about a lot of their wyandottes end up with single combs. As for the cornish, they probably didn't have the BLR wyandottes so they changed them to the cornish.

 

[marvun22]

Hm, that's strange. I know Ideal has its good and bad. I ordered 15 and they all are great. You can pay an extra $1.75 (I think that's the price) if you don't want males for warmth.