Post your import breed wishes here....

[kinnip]

I'd be willing to go in for a couple hundred, five being too much. I'd like to see any standard Orps, Legbars, Dorkings, Marans, Welsummers, Barnevelders, White Faced Black Spanish, and umm...pretty much anything else that looks cool and makes eggs, no reptiles.

 

[Katy]

I'm seriously interested, but my question is once we're successful in getting the eggs will the people near to the hubs they have to be picked up from be able to re-ship them out to those of us in other locations? I wouldn't be able to travel to the east coast to pick them up.

 

[normajean]

Quote:
You can have all of mine! I am specializing in a handful, and brahma bantams are not going to be one of them.
PM me if interested.

 

[Swamp Roo]

I'm a rabid fly fisherman, and fly tyer. I would love to raise some Gallo de León (Coc de León) particularly of the Pardo "family". To be even more specific the Aconchado or Corzuno Claro variety. Like that is going to happen!

But you don't know if you don't ask. I'd love any any of them though, Pardo or Indio, in any color variety. The problem is that I'm new to chickens and have never even hatched eggs before. I'd certainly be willing to go in on it with someone more experienced and then get some chicks from them. Here are some links:
http://mouches.free.fr/pagesus/articles/leon.html
http://www.flyfishinghistory.com/coq_de_leon.htm#marker2
http://personal2.iddeo.es/campohermoso/english/cocks.htm

Oh, yes I speak and read German. Translating can get interesting depending on the subject mater though. In other words I can certainly translate a conversation, but probably not a paper on genetics. My vocabulary does not always cross over back and forth. Let me know if I can help in that regard.

 

[wegotchickens]

Quote:
So you can legally hand carry eggs into the country with proper paperwork? So we could have a legal 'egg mule' if all the documents were in order?

 

[Guitartists]

I don't think I want mine shipped again after all of that. I wouldn't mind paying for hatched chicks or as I mentioned earlier... if there is a breeder getting involved that would use my money and then give me a return on my eggs in a year or so when the hatched chickens grow up and start laying eggs of their own

 

[MissPrissy]

From what I understand it is a possibility.

 

[wegotchickens]

Quote:
Ditto. I'd gladly chip in $100 to have eggs in a year or so.

Especially if MissPrissy were in charge of hatching and raising them

 

[keystonepaul]

Please count me in. As Miss Prissy said- all above board and legal or no go. Lavender orps, buff orps, blue orps, silver laced orps or any other orps folks might see a reason to get, perhaps some brahmas, marans. Great idea folks. Lets see what we can do. Keystonepaul

 

[hcammack]

I think that is you want to start succesfully breeding a color varitety in the US it will take more than one dozen eggs ! If it were my investment I would choose one color of orph or marans and ship atleast 3 dozen eggs the first time. Then over the next few begining years you would have to do several more shipments of eggs for the # and genetic diversity to build up and create a viable breeding population. They should not be spread out all over the country but concentrated on one or two responsible breeder on the east coast so that they can directly
recieve and hatch the shipments. It should also be a breeder that has worked with marans or orphs before. Also one breeder should not be solely responsible becausue accidents happen bators break, stock gets killed, and disease happens and all the hard work would be a waste if one breeder makes a mistake.

Good Luck

this would be exiting and cool!

Henry