New girls coming soon

I have been researching for ages to find somewhere I can get some new girls. I really want to add a couple of girls to our flock. I have exhausted Pippinchick for now. I like “clean” bantams, that is no fancy head dresses, beards or feathered feet and I like to have all different colours in my flock as in no two the same. I know, I am fussy! I have had all the breeds that Pippinchick have to offer for now.

I called the farmer/breeder that I got my game girls from, that is Emerald, Toffee, Flame and Ebony. He no longer breeds game birds since covid. I called the breeder I got my ancona, Speckles and hamburgs, Spot and Dot from amongst other breeds in the past and she has cut right back due to the loss of parents and an impending move and has nothing for me at the moment.

I kept researching bantam breeders within a radius of us and there was nothing I wanted coming up. I then had a light bulb moment and put in to the search bantam breeders that offer a delivery service. Of course Pippinchick comes up first.

I then found Chickens To Your Door. I got quite excited but it turns out they deliver to your door if you have ten or more birds and the delivery service cost is quite high. However they offer a service where they deliver to collection points all over the country for you to pick up from and it’s free. The nearest one to us is Pangbourne, Theal, which is near Reading.

My husband, because of his failing eye sight, is no longer comfortable driving apart from locally and I don’t drive on motorways so with me driving it’s a fifty minute journey but that’s doable.

I picked out four breeds that I would like. When I called them there turned out to be only two breeds available this year. They were two breeds that have been on my wish list for a very long time. Sebright which I have long wanted is available in one colour which is citron and dutch bantam also available in only one colour which they didn’t have a name for but sent me a photo of. The colour is a cross between Cloud and Gold, being the front half of Cloud and the back half of Gold.

An added bonus is that sebrights are non broody.

I have ordered and paid for them. They are currently three weeks old and they deliver them at four months old so they have given me a collection date of 16th August.

I am so excited but it’s a wait yet until I get them. I will have to keep them separated and on growers for two months but that’s something I am used to doing. It is so good to have found a second breeder for the future. I have to be patient for now but can’t wait to pick up my new girls.

They will e-mail me two weeks before the collection date and then again one week before with a pick up time. I now just have to wait. It will be lovely to have new girls again. I am so excited and looking forward to it.

I have taken these two images from google to show what they look like. Beautiful girls.