Ideal Poultry?

Great! Does your olive egger look like a Welsummer mix?

I got 2 of their regular olive eggers and I actually for 4 of their brand new "Mystic Olive Eggers." They're 5 weeks old now. Mostly black, feathered feet, and a couple are developing crests so my guess is BCM mixed with CCL.
Yes, she is identical to my Welsummer but has a pea comb instead of the big Wellie comb. I REALLY love crests though, none of my olive eggers (I have 3 others, not from ideal), have them. My aunt had a legbar mix OE with a crest a few years back & she was gorgeous, almost pure white with that funky top!
 
Yes, she is identical to my Welsummer but has a pea comb instead of the big Wellie comb. I REALLY love crests though, none of my olive eggers (I have 3 others, not from ideal), have them. My aunt had a legbar mix OE with a crest a few years back & she was gorgeous, almost pure white with that funky top!
Yes when I saw the little black feathers pop up, I was so excited! I can't wait to see what they look like when they're mature.
 
@Iluveggers I forgot to update with a pic of my OEs from Ideal. Here's the Welsummer looking one with a pea comb next to one of their Onyx OEs. The 2nd pic is the other Onyx that has the cute crest.
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@Iluveggers I forgot to update with a pic of my OEs from Ideal. Here's the Welsummer looking one with a pea comb next to one of their Onyx OEs. The 2nd pic is the other Onyx that has the cute crest.
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What a cool mix! Must be Marans and legbar. If they do it right, could be sexlinked babies! The other is 100% mixed with Welsummer! My Wellie OE mix lays a speckled green egg! Have yours started laying yet?
 
While they are most definitely pet quality (something we ourselves are more than fine with as we never plan to show or worry about selling purebreds), we ADORE our frizzle Cochin Bantams from ideal. We got… 5 silkies, 5 frizzle cochin bantams, 5 surprise feather legged bantams, and 5 surprise clean legged bantams. We ended up with 5/5 being frizzles. Seriously a shocker! We were ecstatic. THEN we ended up with a 6th, likely from the surprise batch. It ended up being a calico frizzle cochin or something similar color-wise, something they don’t offer on their site! The only other place it could’ve come from was Cackle which doesn’t offer that coloration either, nor frizzles. Mind blown! So far they’ve been very sweet and enjoyable. The silkies we had a rough time with keeping alive from Ideal, but that’s just what we assumed was the nature of shipping Bantams/Silkies. The ones still alive (we lost 2) are ANGELS. Again definitely pet quality, but if we were ever going to order chicks again, we would 100% be happy to order from Cackle or Ideal. 🥰 I don’t have a more recent pic of him, but he’s a beauty and a sweetie! This is the calico one! It’ll be interesting to see what he looks like as a fully grown out adult.

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