Post your import breed wishes here....

[MissPrissy]

We are not interested in hatchery quality chicks. Thanks for the link though. Hatcheries are wide and varied and we all have probably bought a hatchery chick in or life. i choose not to buy hatchery breed chicks for anything other than eating eggs. i do not breed those. they are generally very poor samples of the breeds in question.

The chickens we would like to breed are very hard to come by. We Americans do not have the quality of plumage form the chickens in the UK and Europe have.

As far as hatchery chicks - you cannot buy my blue orpingtons from a hatchery.

Welcome to BYC.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

Just as an FYI...

This thread is meant to be a general "if you could...what would you want" post regarding the importation of hatching eggs from England.

While I am making lists and beginning to email potential sellers, we are not nearing the point of making any "deals" yet.

By way of this thread I will keep everyone posted on what I'm finding out and then we can discuss the best way of combining our resources, if that is the best way to go.

 

[chickiebaby]

Miss Prissy: I care for your good opinion, so, just so you know, in my previous post,


"Me for the golden laced orps, especially, and I too would contribute to the kind of schemes everyone's talking about."

the word "schemes" wasnt meant to imply, like, deviousness. " The first definition in the dictionary ( I just checked!) is "a plan, design, or program of action to be followed; project." That's all I meant: that I, too, would be glad to financially support someone starting off the breed, legally of course, in this country, as others, above me in the thread, had stated. Ideally, we'd all get something out of it eventualy, in the way of chicks, chick-pics, etc.

 

[chickiebaby]

oblio said "Join the Marines, put in a request for flight school because pilots don't have to walk twenty miles carrying a machine gun, spend a few years scaring the daylights out of yourself and getting seasick on aircraft carriers, get hired by an airline, spend twenty years building seniority and hoping it doesn't go bankrupt, and voila! You can fly all nighters to Europe with large testy flight attendants."

I say, now I am seriously impressed. Guess its not all camembert and silk stockings, eh? Props to you!

 

[MissPrissy]

Thank you. I wasn't trying to point out you thought we were schemeing to do something bad.

I was making sure to clarify that this would be 100% on the up and up if we put something together due to posts on other threads were people hinted at not going by the book.

 

[turtleblossom]

I know exactly what I want! In order from most to least:
Wellsummer (bantam and LF)
Barnevelders (in blue laced)
Cream Legbars
Fenton Blues
Breda Fowl (anyone got more info on these?)

 

[Dilly]

Everyone is getting all excited over this prospect. BamaChicken just brought in I think almost thirty eggs and only two hatched.

So all of you thinking of kicking in some dough for eggs, what happens when a few if any are hatched?
What if only a few if less pullets?
What if? what if?

Who gets the chicks?

The relationships on here are internet relationships, how do you know what actually hatches and doesn't? Yes it is a honor system.

It really will not break your banks to go this alone. Just research and ask the right questions.

You may not get the variety you seek, but it is
do-able to get at least one or two varieties of color.

Why not ask Bama about her experience? costs?
Breeder? etc.

You have at your finger tips someone who just did it.

Live birds are extremely expensive not to mention time consumning.

Eggs are really not that difficult. Just find someone licensed to ship. ---The pricing being toss about on here is really being blown out of proportion.---
It can be done for a couple hundred bucks. Why the need to make this complicated and have conflict over bad hatches or lack of percentages and chicks to go around.

Dilly

 

[Oblio13]

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If she can hook up with some reputable breeders and I can hook up with her and we can figure out the legalities and logistics of this, I'll volunteer to carry some eggs back. I don't have the same carry-on limitations as passengers, and I have four trips to Paris next month, and hopefully more after that. I bring back bread, cheese and wine all the time, I don't see why eggs would be too difficult - although there's often no logic when government bureaucrats get involved.

 

[sara]

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[ninjapoodles]

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If she can hook up with some reputable breeders and I can hook up with her and we can figure out the legalities and logistics of this, I'll volunteer to carry some eggs back. I don't have the same carry-on limitations as passengers, and I have four trips to Paris next month, and hopefully more after that. I bring back bread, cheese and wine all the time, I don't see why eggs would be too difficult - although there's often no logic when government bureaucrats get involved.

I'll sure send her this snippet and see what she thinks. She's really a pretty sharp person, and a hardcore homesteader. HARDCORE. She's coming to the States for 3 weeks next month, so I'll pick her brain before she leaves. Do you think finding a breeder near Paris is the best bet? You're in the best position to find out what the legalities are as far as customs/whatever, sounds like! You can email me, ninjapoodlesATgmailDOTcom, if you like.

Belinda