It's pretty normal for hatcheries to outsource some flocks and breeds. To think every hatchery has the hundred or more breeds in numbers capable of meeting customer demands is pretty idealistic
Not that I've found except from unmoitored places like Ebay. Some breeders I've found refuse to ship cross country or refuse to ship eggs because of the low success rate of eggs but will ship chicks if they have extras (though they also said that wouldn't be very likely because of how they do...
Being able to ship chicks and other poultry has allowed people to get far more breeds than just whatever people within driving distance have. If I had to rely on driving distance, I'd probably be stuck with Wyandotte (silver or gold laced, nothing fancy), Australorp (black, again, nothing fancy)...
I had a snall amount of issues with them when I placed my order years ago. Never informed me that my order had been moved to a later date (found out because I was glancing at my order info while waiting for a class to start, so it was completelyby chance i even knew ahead of time) and basically...