Chicks are like drugs -- you need to be sure you can trust your dealer . . . .Yeah, I realized after i wrote that. You can't go studding out chickens these days, the way you can with dogs. She is a very happy pullet here -- I kind of feel like I have a half bantam flock since my marans is small for a marans, and my largest hen (olive-egger) is so demure she is at the bottom of the pecking order.
So i bought some Salmon Faverolles from a hatchery, and it is a bit of a disaster. They arrived filthy, malnourished and at death's door with coccidiosis. Now I have to keep them quarantined in my basement until they heal (or die.) One already passed. Never again.
