brucifer
Songster
The price of ACs has been steadily dropping the past few years, but they are still very expensive if you get good lines. For example, just a few years ago, Greenfire Farms was selling them for $1,500 per pair. ACs were relatively new in the USA back then and hardly anyone had good stock. There are still a lot of poor-quality ACs on the market, so you need to really do your homework and find a trustworthy breeder before you buy hatching eggs; otherwise, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.Flower, I hope what I said didn't come across as you overcharging the person. I didn't mean it that way at all. I just didn't realize they were that high dollar, that's all. I hope I didn't offend you.
I think it's cool that those birds not only have a black outside, but everything black on the inside as well. Very strange bird indeed. I'd like to see one of those butchered just to see what the internals look like, but that'd be a pretty expensive butchering.
If you buy AC chicks, don't go on a blind date and order them by mail without getting good-quality photos of your birds first. It's best to show up face-to-face and inspect the birds, and if you're going to either breed or sell them, find out their pedigree.
As cool as ACs look, they're not really birds for beginners. You really need to know the backstory of these chickens, or you can get duped and ripped off very easily. *Buyer Beware* if you buy AC hatching eggs from eBay. Because of the high retail on ACs, there are a lot of scammers out there. @Flowerbh got some top-quality AC chicks from a trusted source: me!
Had I not been moving, I wouldn't have sold them. I got AC hatching eggs with the intent of breeding the adult birds.As for eating chickens with black meat, some Asian markets carry processed silkies, so black chicken meat is available. Usually its made into soup. I believe that according to Chinese medicine it is supposedly good for a woman to have silkie soup right after she gives birth. Anyway, I'm digressing here. Have a nice day!
