Rancher columbian seems to be the third most common variety of wyandotte behind SLW and GLW. buff and partridge I've only seen a few hatcheries have, including the hatchery in the finger lakes. I've also seen white and black, and some other varieties I'm not familiar with the names of. They are a really cool breed, my 7 week old SLW's are so really sweet, highly entertaining and very pretty. They are really quiet so far as well. My 4 GLW's and my lone columbian are pretty chicks, not sure how they'll turn out personality wise. So far i think the columbian might be a bit of a whiner, when we pick her up to check for pasty butt she won't stop peeping. Theres also one GLW that seems like a bit of a bully, always pecking the rest in the face and stuff.
Its to bad that people have had a bad experience with the local hatchery, as they have the birds I want, albeit on a seasonal basis. My dad's first cousin has a 70k egg bird farm in vermont and he gets some of his birds from them. At his level of business they have to be alot more proffessional than they do with those of us, due to the fact hes buying huge quantities of birds quite frequently. he was telling me he has 6 groups of layers, 10 weeks apart in age, after they get past 60 weeks they are sold to make dogfood. Kind of sad really. If I wanted leghorns I could get a ton of layers at a cheap price.
Its to bad that people have had a bad experience with the local hatchery, as they have the birds I want, albeit on a seasonal basis. My dad's first cousin has a 70k egg bird farm in vermont and he gets some of his birds from them. At his level of business they have to be alot more proffessional than they do with those of us, due to the fact hes buying huge quantities of birds quite frequently. he was telling me he has 6 groups of layers, 10 weeks apart in age, after they get past 60 weeks they are sold to make dogfood. Kind of sad really. If I wanted leghorns I could get a ton of layers at a cheap price.
