Sandhill Preservation

[Minniechickmama]

I hatched out 5 Favs last spring. Very friendly, the Salmon Blue boy was gorgeous, but yes, they were picked on by every other breed I had out here. The Salmon cockerel was so timid that he was getting beat up on a daily basis and I had to separate him out for a while and then got rid of all of them. They are very pretty to some, ugly to others, depends on your taste in features, but all were very docile and I love that.

I have heard that you should pass on the Orloffs at Sand Hill too. I think what they are attempting is a good thing, however, when you deal in rare breeds you are always going to run into in-breeding issues if you can't get your hands on new blood. Perhaps that is part of the problem there. But some of their breeds are very good. Yes, I think their prices are high for the quality they are putting out.

You can keep researching which breeds to look at from them though, it might pay off.

Good luck.

 

[Chickielady]

I have heard several people say the same thing about the Orloffs at Sandhill.

 

[farmgirl1995]

I'll check out the thread. Its really too bad about the faverolles.

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

I will get a picture of my black orpingtons up tomorrow. I have 5 hens and I am very happy with 2 of them. Big, beautiful girls at 4 months old. The others may fill out and look just as good. I had 2 big roosters from them too, but I recently sold them. They have friendly personalities, and they did not get handled as chicks.

 

[farmgirl1995]

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Oh goodie!

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

Here's a picture of a bunch of them. The one in the very back isn't an orpington. Unfortunately, I couldn't get too close because my lavender rooster doesn't like the camera and was trying to attack me. They are a little over 4 months old.