Ideal Silver Laced Wyandottes

[wjallen05]

Does anyone have any SLW from Ideal Poultry? (pics please?) I have 3 pullets in my order shipping on the 28th of this month. Just wondering what to expect.
Thanks!

 

[brooster]

well, its hatchery stock, so dont expect anything too nice. I will look like a SLW duh!

but it will, just not anything special.

 

[wjallen05]

From pictures that I've seen, some are mostly black with a little bit of lacing, some are light with tons of lacing, etc. Just wondering the difference.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! Not recently. I got sl Wyandottes in '05 from IDEAL and got a 'right-combed' girl and a 'single-combed' girl.
The girls were just beautifully laced, great layers, and very laid-back.
That was 'way back when' and I'm sure they are using different breeders now.

Lisa

 

[speckledhen]

Had three SLWs from Ideal at the beginning of my chickening career. Two died from internal laying this past year. I have two pullets of laying age from there, one has nice lacing, one has almost no lacing in the chest area. They're good layers. Of the older ones, one had a single comb and she didnt have a terrific body shape, but the original three were very sweet girls. The younger two are very skittish, but weren't handled as much as my original SLW girls.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Had three SLWs from Ideal at the beginning of my chickening career

When do you think they were hatched? I sold mine that were hatched spring '05, but they are still going strong and laying well at a friends place.
Mine were just too laid-back to get along in a big mixed flock.

Lisa​

 

[speckledhen]

Lisa, they were hatched in Jan 06, the original ones I had.

 

[paduanchook]

i got a few from them this past spring...they are pretty, quiet, and have had no truble w/them at all. wish i had more

 

[silkieluver_07]

I got 4 packing peanut SLW males in my order in July. Very sweet boys, just didn't have the room for more roos, so they went to auction. Since I loved their personalities so much I orderred 4 pullets with my order from Ideal for this year. I'll try to find the pictures I took of them on my computer....

 

[Chickndaddy]

Here is a pair of mine from Ideal. Sadly they along with every other Silver-laced Wyandotte on the place were stolen on a weekend I was out of town. From the breeders and started birds all the way down to the chicks and the eggs out of the nest.

Matt Dylan was a very good rooster to the girls. But me and him didn't always get along...lol Miss Kitty and Wind Blossom were great layers. Usually got an egg a day from the two hens, sometimes two and sometimes none. Very sweet birds; except for the rooster.

Matt Dylan and Miss Kitty:

Edited to add: Sorry the original is so grainy. I lost the original photo and this a a scanned copy of a printed image.