Looking to trade Serama flock for Bantam Cochins Ohio

[riftnreef]

OK...I admit I have ADD...some folks say I just can't pay att......hey, look....a chicken!

Anyway, I'm done messing with my Serama and want to focus on Bantam Cochins. I currently have 1 smoth and 1 frizzled cockrel(s) over 3 hens. I also have 2 pullets and another roo around 3 months old growing out, along with another 5 (2 cockrels and 3 hens I think) around two months old.

I have been working towards a wheaten color strain for about a year or better now and have started to make some headway. Willing to trade the lot for a good pair or trio of Bantam Cochins in either white, columbian, or possibly blue/black. I would also consider trading for a trio of Partridge Bantam Wyandottes, but they have to have good conformation.

In case you are wondering why I would give up my much cherished Serama and the work I have put into getting a solid color strain going...well the simple of it is that I do not show, but my kids do....so, they do not show well at the County fair, and when it comes to local in state shows, I have to make sure there will be Serma judging before even considering attending....well, I just don't have the patience for all that....so the next best breed IMVHO is the Cochin....hence the offer for a trade.

Shoot me an e-mail if interested....and oh yeah, there are still some eggs in the bator...you can have those chicks too...LOL

 

[catwalk]

Hey, there! Sorry to hear that you are getting out of the Seramas, but I understand the frustration; there are a lot of judges that are unfamiliar with the breed. The SCNA is offering a one year membership to anyone who can get a judge to become SCNA certified. All I have to offer in the Cochin variety is one lone hen. She will be two in May, and she is very friendly. She's got the right shape, but she's a little small. Out in the sun all summer, eating corn all winter, doesn't turn her yellow. I'm working on Wheaten Seramas, so I'd love to trade her for a hen of that variety! I can dust Camilla if it's too cold to wash her, and I can bring her over if I can look over your flock and pick out my bird! I might be an hour away. I have black Silkies to unload, but you didn't say that you wanted any of them.

 

[riftnreef]

Liz...I really wish you would have posted this before last evening...I guy came by to buy some chicks, and ended up buying all my breeders and my two best wheaten pullet chicks...

Now that being said, I am very interested in that hen of yours...I have a white pair right now, and an extra hen would be mighty useful...

I'll PM you with my phone number and maybe we can work something out.

I do still have some chicks...but they are mostly the darker ones with one young roo that looks to have some promise, but he's the ole "rocky road" coloration from what I see so far.

 

[catwalk]

AAAAHHHH, really!?!?!? I'm hoping that you have descendants of my hen Stella. Except for the size of one, every one of her chicks has been amazing. I'm not too interested in mottled, but if you think that you have anything I might like in a plain color, especially wheaten, I'd love a trade. I'll call you later!

 

[riftnreef]

Her genes are still in there somewhere...

I do have one pullet/chick that looks VERY interesting....she is very dark, but she has super bright orange hackles...and she's only 3 weeks old or so. I think she will be a real looker and will provide the darker hackles for a wheaten flock so long as the roo has the buff qualities. The rest in that batch are kind of hard to tell yet because they are so young, but there is one pullet of that batch that shows the wheaten, but still some black on the edges of the hackles. As far as I'm concerned, you can have all three pairs for the hen, and what ever hatches out...I think I have 5 or 6 eggs set still?

I will dearly miss them, and even considered keeping a pair in a bunny cage, but i just can't bring myslf to keep them that cramped and i need the breeding stalls for the cochins.