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[welasharon]

Not yet it seems. I am wanting one at least for a pet. THey are as rare as hen's teeth....
sharon

 

[Illia]

Green Acres occasionally has some hatching eggs for sale. . . But they cost a LOT and so far from the people I've heard who got them, noone's had good luck or even decent luck. One person sadly spent over $300 on eggs just to get a deformed chick, ended up culled, and a cockerel.

 

[welasharon]

I am just patiently waiting (well maybe not patiently) but still I am waiting, hopeful, to buy a cull. I don't want to breed them or hatch any eggs....just wanna look at em and pet em and drool over em...
sharon

 

[forstadt]

My WCB hen, Zosia. I've had her for about a week, and she is being horribly dominated by my other hens. I hope it's just a pecking order thing that will get sorted out soon.

 

[poultrycrazy]

Are any of these colors in BANTAM polish rare? W.C. cuckoo, W.C. blue, W.C. khaki, W.C. chocolate, W.C. black, Golden laced, buff laced or pure white polish

 

[Illia]

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Answered that question in the other thread.

I've seen breeders even here on BYC of all those colors except white. White is pretty hard to get a hold of, both LF and Bantam.

 

[cmsdvm]

I breed bearded white bantams. They are definitely poorer layers than my white-crested varieties- who could rival some leghorns in their productivity. Still, I wouldn't call them truly rare. It is hard to get the white frizzles without some buff in their hackle feathers- that's what I'm working on now, cleaning up their color. The tollbunts are undoubtably the rarest of the varieties. I know I gave up on them after a very long 2 years of incubating every egg with precious few chicks to show for it. In addition, it will be years or never before the variety is recognized by APA, and, I admit it, I like to win. They are beauties though. I miss mine just for the eye-candy factor.

 

[sutillman]

My 6 month old frizzled tolbunt polish "hen" crowed this week!!!!! That means I have one roo and 2 hens!!!! Yea!!!!!! Best Christmas present ever. Of course if he is as slow at doing his manly duties as he was starting to crow I may never get chicks!!!!! Maybe by spring. This is Curly Sam, previously known as Curly Sue.

 

[Illia]

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Congrats!! Aren't frizzles just the toughest to sex?

I still LOVE the curliness on that cockerel. Never seen one so curly-Q'ed as that guy.

 

[sutillman]

Yes, he is extremely curly!