NY chicken lover!!!!

[stonykill]

and I have had people NOT buy one of my Sumatra pullets because I ask $25 for a nearly ready to lay pullet. MOST people understand and IF they want a good Sumatra hen they are FINE with paying the $25. And as I explain to them, I breed these, feed them and IF I can't get $25 I'll keep her for eggs and breeding.

But $125. Sorry imho that is just plain silly. NO CHICKEN is worth that. Silly I say...silly!

 

[Overhill Flocks]

and I have had people NOT buy one of my Sumatra pullets because I ask $25 for a nearly ready to lay pullet. MOST people understand and IF they want a good Sumatra hen they are FINE with paying the $25. And as I explain to them, I breed these, feed them and IF I can't get $25 I'll keep her for eggs and breeding.

But $125. Sorry imho that is just plain silly. NO CHICKEN is worth that. Silly I say...silly

So...you're not going to be ordering the pair of Cemani for $5K I take it?

 

[JLaw]

I went to GF 's site and they show a Lav Wyandotte on the cover of the Practical Poultry mag. I went to TSC to get the new copy of the mag but it's not the same cover. 

I have considered the Blue Wyandotte.  Does anyone know how the  Blue orp is related to the Lav orp?  

Are the Lav and Blues of breeds related?  

Lav is a ressive gene and breeds true. Blue wont breed true you get. 25% blue 25% black and 50% splash when doing blue to blue. Blue to black gives 50/50 blue black. Google. "Blue breeding chart" for a chart on how to breed them.

 

[stonykill]

So...you're not going to be ordering the pair of Cemani for $5K I take it?

I have never paid that for my trucks. NOT even close to that for a truck. Ain't no way ANY bird is worth that. Jeepers, I get $8000 as a starting price for this

 

[featherz]

Speaking of emu, I SO wish to hatch one this year. It's on my mini bucket list. I'll drive to pick up an egg if anyone has them locally (when they are laying of course)..

I scanned the potholder pattern - pm me your email if you want it. It's a pdf file. Never seen a crochet pattern before - I vaguely know how, but it's like another language to me.

 

[ke5hde]

Wow. You guys have been busy today. I would never pay $89 for a blue barnie chick. Not in a million years. GF prices are pretty crazy. Sure they've imported some nice birds but when you only import a pair, somewhere down the line you have to add domestic stock to them to be able to sell chick's. There's a few people that have very nice blues and I hope to have some come spring. Silvers in the states are still a work in progress. They're silver penciled rocks crossed to a Barnie. Some lines are nearly pure barnevelder now but there seems to be a problem with red leakage into the silver. If I wasn't so set on the blues, I would have started working with the silvers.

 

[rancher hicks]

I think the cover of the magazine is an English lav wyandotte. If you want lave wyandottes, ask Trish, I sold her mine just last week. The need a little work, but she should get quite a few lavendars this year.

I don't I was just considering Wyandottes. They look very much like Orps to me. Might as well keep them as their combs are already small.

 

[Lynzi777]

Wow. You guys have been busy today. I would never pay $89 for a blue barnie chick. Not in a million years. GF prices are pretty crazy. Sure they've imported some nice birds but when you only import a pair, somewhere down the line you have to add domestic stock to them to be able to sell chick's. There's a few people that have very nice blues and I hope to have some come spring. Silvers in the states are still a work in progress. They're silver penciled rocks crossed to a Barnie. Some lines are nearly pure barnevelder now but there seems to be a problem with red leakage into the silver. If I wasn't so set on the blues, I would have started working with the silvers.

Is this maybe why the woman (I forget her name) at Fossil Rock Farms was looking for silver penciled rocks? I remember she had a roo that was beautiful.

 

[ke5hde]

Is this maybe why the woman (I forget her name) at Fossil Rock Farms was looking for silver penciled rocks? I remember she had a roo that was beautiful. 

You got it. Her silver project is coming along nicely. I saw them in the fall and they were certainly beautiful. Just like the other breeders, they just aren't ready yet.

 

[Lynzi777]

You got it. Her silver project is coming along nicely. I saw them in the fall and they were certainly beautiful. Just like the other breeders, they just aren't ready yet.

Well this is probably a good thing for me then considering I just downsized my large flock to focus more on my silkies.

No more larger breeds for me for a while. Unless of course I get a splash orpington from Gru and my blue orp - who I'm cosidering naming Nervous Nancy. She's a nut out there! Nothing is going on, nothing at all and she's running around like a chicken with it's head cut off! She's so easily startled too and so FAST! I'm glad she's finally warming up to Gru and Stella though, staying close by instead wandering off by herself.