Hi texaschickmom
Lacombe is on the northshore of Lake Ponchartrain about 60 miles north of New Orleans. Jeff is nice to think of me and our humble specks,.. but we don't have any roo's at the moment,.. we are looking to get some new bloodlines in and are looking for one ourselves. I have a lead,. but nothing definite,.. everything I find I like is too far away.
Hope to be working on a better line in the spring but don't want to breed if it's not going to be a SQ hatch,..
Even lost a breeding hen a few months ago,..
We had one of our best looking girls go through a full molt and came back almost all white! So she had to be pulled from breeding,.. but she is kinda purty,.. and a great layer,.. she she gets to stay on.
Hope you find a nice roo!
I didn't realize how tired I was and how much I needed to get away from work . I"m sure my co-workers were glad to see me go. 
He had bought 10 SICK hens from this guy and he didn't know the chickens were sick until they started showing serious symptoms. (How can anyone with a conscious sell sick animals to another person?) He explained that they stopped eating, then hens stopped laying eggs and then just started laying in the corner with their heads down. He said that he put his newly bought chickens with his other chickens (he didn't quarantine them) and he later noticed that all of them were sick. He said that some had died and he had to kill some that were really bad. He asked if I could go over and look at them and help him. He remembers how I treated "Mr Turkey", my oldest Tom and he said that if I could bring him back from the dead, then he knew that I could help his chickens. Well, I suited up in my hazmat gear (shoe covers, gown covers, gloves and face mask) and went to his house. When I got there, I heard all of the sneezing, wheezing, gurgling and saw discharge coming from his chickens. They were SICK SICK SICK. 
I picked up a few and they were skin and bones. I confirmed with him that all of his chickens were sick and nearly dead. They all had a respiratory infection. The look in his eye was heart breaking when I told him. I told him that I could help him as far as providing and giving them the necessary meds that his chickens would need but I couldn't promise that they would live because they were too far gone. So to make a long story short, I was going to his house 2 times a day since last Sunday (a week ago) and giving them medicated water and administering Tylan orally to them and checking on them. Well as of yesterday, he has not lost any chickens since I began treating them and all of them look and sound so much better. They have more life and are eating again and jumping and flying around. I might add that being as though he was an older farmer, he had been feeding them just corn. :/ I tried to break the news to him and tell him that he really needed to feed them a feed that has more protein and that he really should feed lay pellets to his layers. None of his laying hens had layed any eggs in months. I bought him a bag of lay pellets to start him off last week in hopes that he can continue giving them a good feed. Once they started eating again, we could tell how big their crops were from having a hearty appetite. He was paying $12.50 for a 50lb bag of corn, so just for another $2.00, he can upgrade to lay pellets. I'm crossing my fingers that all of his chickens make it and his hens begin laying eggs. 
Needless to say, I have to order more hazmat gear. :/ I must say that I was paranoid after leaving his house. I made sure that I took off all of my hazmat gear and threw it away in a trash can far away from my house and stripped down at my door and immediately washed my clothes and took a shower before going out into my chicken yard. That scared the living daylights out of me. 
