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I have heard this too! Along with having a flock that their show birds come from and then a flock they sell....which sorta makes sense since u don't want to go to a show and get beat cuz u sold ur best stock to someone else... But I don't want to pay top $$ for a second string hatch.
Pauls says they don't do this but I'm looking for more than 1 breeder to buy from. It wouldn't be an issue if I wanted BLRW but I don't. BLR seems to be hot variety right now and I can't find ones already accepted (SPW and Columbian). Obviously SLW are easy to find.
Idk.. There is big show this fall, and there are some columbians at the local fair in the open show... Gonna watch that tomorrow. Still don't "really" know what is good or bad other than the shape and non-clamped tail.... Anyway, hoping to meet some breeders at sow in fall and tomorrow at fair... We'll see. I figure if they're coming from an hour away to show at the fair they can't be too bad
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Everybody's birds came from somewhere...for example my Blacks and Blues. My blacks came from a good rooster owned by Jim Konecny crossed on my Blues, my blues came from a woman out in Texas a few years back. Now the blacks and blues that I have now (4 gens later) probably reflect what I envision as a good wyandotte and I have been working hard on correct leg color on my blues....type was already pretty darn good when I got them. My SLW came from 4 different sources all mixed together....Bill Guardhouse, Lora Kershaw, Gary Overton, and a 12 yr old boy from Indiana that was at a show (we never could figure out where he got them, but they were good)....now when I buy a bird like that directly from someone I dont show them and claim them as "mine", the old school wyandotte exhibitors really get bent out of shape when you do so....so out of respect I try to show only wyandottes that I raised, and if I do show one of the birds I purchased I make a point to let everyone know where the bird came from. I have shipped plenty of birds and chicks to big time breeders and gotten breeder birds from them.....it is smart to always look for a good new bloodline to add to yours that may have something your birds are missing.
I have been shocked at all the "hearsay" and nasty rumors that competiing "homestead hatcheries" will spread about you, especially if you are more successful at filling orders for the difficult to raise wyandottes like the Silver Laced Wyandottes, the only thing that I can tell you is that I sell SLW chicks from the same SLW that I show. Anyone that buys chicks from me is welcome to come see my breeding pens and what the breeders look like, we are biosecure...so dont get mad if I start spraying oxine mix all over you as soon as you pull in the driveway and you will not be allowed to actually enter the breeding pens.