jellykelly Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I am taking a shopping trip this morning to a little place that I discovered on the internet. Cockerdoodlequack it's called. I need to buy some food, straw and heatlamps and thats it - but I'm sure that I'll be tempted by their orps and bantams. I know that I don't have the room (even though I have created a new house for my growers-to-be) and I know that I don't actually 'need' anymore hens but you know how it is. One of them will look at me with a twinkle in it's eye and cluck "you know I'd look good in your garden". So........ I'm going to be good and leave the boxes at home, and maybe load the car up with kids as a further measure (though they'll probably encourage me!) Wish me luck in my plight to show restraint! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margaret Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Be a good girl then, good luck. be brave, very brave and we expect photos by tonight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I am sorry but I don't agree. You HAVE to come back with a chocolate orp bantam, a lavander orp bantam and a buff columbian brahma bantam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Oh an also steal me a couple of their pure black runner ducks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 As a bizarre coincidence I came across their website yesterday although I was put off a bit by some of the prices(orps). Can you report back, what was it like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarlettohara Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Good Luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MummyHen Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Please do report back as I feel a trip coming on -- ooh diary is free Thursday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopetofinish Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Wow - I just looked at the prices Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I bought 12 Orp eggs from them, alot were clears unfortunately, and B&F are terrible broodies when it comes to sitting tight, but I do have 4 big fat baby Orps toddling around the garden now Bridget & Francesca are doing a brilliant job looking after them. A friend wanted to add a few Orps to her flock of ex-batts so she was going to have all the girls eventually but if I had to put money on it now I think there are three boys and only one girl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Thats such a shame, I remember you posting about Boris and another boy and the difficulties with late-onset-too friendly-despatch. I wonder if the clears were because they need to trim bottoms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I think you're right about the fluffy bums, seven of the eggs were all the same colour, so I presume the same pen too, and from those only one was fertile and that one hatched. B&F managed to crack a fertile egg at around day 9 which I tried to patch with nail varnish but at 14 days it stunk to high heaven so was removed Nail varnish worked on another egg though, it arrived with a hairline crack which I patched and eventually a lemon cuckoo hatched from it Growing at a rate of knots though so one of my suspected boys Still, they're only two weeks old so it's too early to be certain and there's still time for them to turn into girls I've got one buff, one black splash, one lemon cuckoo and a tiny tiny white one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Surely 100.00 is ridiculous for a hen. I would pay 35 tops if I fell in love maybe a bit more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellykelly Posted August 17, 2010 Author Share Posted August 17, 2010 I'm back and I was a good girl. The prices of the chickens was obscene. Some he was asking for £100 -and there was a waiting list The lavenders were very pretty, the chocolates sadly don't do anything for me with their colouring. They look like a grubby black really - I'd sooner have the rich almost mahogany colour of a rhode island red. I came away with a new drinker, some feed and my heatlamps. A couple of hatching eggs may have slipped into the bag too - but they don't count as additional chickens yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 No they don't count as chickens So what eggs did you get ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellykelly Posted August 17, 2010 Author Share Posted August 17, 2010 They're definatley orp eggs - but I told him to surprise me with regards to colour - watch this space! As much as I'd like a gold laced, silver laced or lavender, I expect he's put in buff, black or white. I'm sure he wouldn't have shoved in a chocolate egg - I told him in no uncertain terms that I wasn't keen on the colour! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I bet you have all the plain colours that you wouldn't really want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flutterby Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I'm tempted to have a look at the site .......... but I'd only be tempted ........ so perhaps not!!!!!!!!!! Well maybe a little peek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daphne Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I bet you have all the plain colours that you wouldn't really want. Don't say that within the hearing of my big black orpington hen or she'll be having you for breakfast A good quality LF from a reputable and experienced breeder will now cost around the £50 mark, more if its a showstopper. Although of course you can get them cheaper - particularly if they're younger. Well I suppose as lemon cuckoo is quite unusual somebody might want a stock cockeral and there aren't masses of whites around either. People do use splashes to improve blues (I can't remember why or if the hen or the cockeral is required) but that would mean the splash would have to be very good. Still there's plenty of time for them to be girlies, so lets keep our fingers crossed! Thanks for telling us how you got on Jellykelly and have fun with raising them all both of you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 You can get show quality lemon cuckoo, buff, black, blue and sometimes splash from www.powerpoultry.co.uk at 35 each Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellykelly Posted August 17, 2010 Author Share Posted August 17, 2010 I will just say, the only brand of food they sell is farmgate. I told the guy that I had heard nothing but bad things about Farmgate and didn't want to buy if no good. He immedaitely brought out a bag to reassure me that packaging had changed to stop the stale/mould issues. There was no dusty rubbish at the bottom nor plastic in the feed. As I had gone there for feed and my feed bin was empty, I had little choice but to buy a bag. I've since emptied it into my feed bin, and again saw nothing that should concern me. I'll give it a go, and if no good, won't try the brand again. I will go back there for bits and pieces, maybe hatching eggs but not for actual birds. Although nice, they don't warrant the money - especially as I'm only buying them for my back garden and not to show or breed from. For anyone that will go up, I warn you, in some of the breeding pens, the girls are looking at bit worse for wear. He did say that he would be seperating them all very soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 The hens and cocks should of been separated by now My breeder separated them on the 1st of august to give his girls a break. He has a buff orp male who is shooting blanks and in retirement with his wife who he has been with since 2005. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frizz Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I'm back and I was a good girl. A couple of hatching eggs may have slipped into the bag too - but they don't count as additional chickens yet! That really made me LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted August 18, 2010 Share Posted August 18, 2010 With a name like that you'd have to come back with something surely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
