Anyone bought from DC Heritage Poultry or Greendale Heritage Farm?

[ButtonHoarder]

Hi, I'm thinking about considering looking into getting Seramas, and these were the only places in Canada that I found any. Just wondering if anyone has got birds or hatching eggs (or knows someone who has) from them.

https://www.dcheritagepoultry.com/bantam-cleaned-legged.html

https://greendaleheritagefarm.com/

Thank you!

 

[ButtonHoarder]

Or if anyone knows of other Canadian Serama breeders who ship eggs.

 

[ButtonHoarder]

Just they're kinda expensive so I want to check if they're a reliable place before I order any.

 

[Farmily]

My neighbour bought her day old malines from Greendale last year. She is quite happy with them. I am trying to order them now but haven't heard back yet(it's been about a week). I know this is their busy time so I am trying to be patient. I am not able to find a contact number for them, just e-mail. We are in BC. There are a ton of facebook groups with unlisted small farms that have rare chicken breeds. Might be closer to your area?
Hope this helps!
-J

 

[ButtonHoarder]

My neighbour bought her day old malines from Greendale last year. She is quite happy with them. I am trying to order them now but haven't heard back yet(it's been about a week). I know this is their busy time so I am trying to be patient. I am not able to find a contact number for them, just e-mail. We are in BC. There are a ton of facebook groups with unlisted small farms that have rare chicken breeds. Might be closer to your area?
Hope this helps!
-J

Their Malines are so cool! I would love an update when you hear back and if you get them! Thanks, yes that was helpful.

 

[Iluveggers]

Did a quick search on DC Heritage. I would avoid.

DO NOT use this breeder. We made the mistake of several orders from there. Many of their breeds were clearly inbred, and failed to thrive. I have 2 year old cream legbar roosters that are only slightly larger than seramas. Very low hatch rate as well. Afterwards, I learned that the owners also ran a puppy mill until it was shut down. They were able to do this due to the lack of animal cruelty laws. The information I have is from research, personal experience, and from American Poultry Association ACE program examiners and judges.

 

[ButtonHoarder]

Did a quick search on DC Heritage. I would avoid.

Wow thanks for finding that, it doesn't sound like a good place.

 

[Ladybird CA]

I had only bought autosexed chicks from DC since I can't have roosters in the city. One made it past 4 months but died under a year of age when I added chicks that were raised in a brooder but had turned 2 months old and were ready for the coop. She was the only standard hen I had. One made it to 4 months but started getting symptoms of Mareks then died.

They do mention on their website that seramas are hard to raise. I hatched a chick from someone who I got my easter egger bantam from. The serama died shortly after hatch. She did mention to me that if it survived I'd need to keep it indoors in the winter. Here is another serama breeder I found: https://www.facebook.com/LexasSeramas/. There was one who was in a website but I can't find it.

Now I have 11 lemon blue OEGB chicks that I'll pick up in May from Performance Poultry but wish that I'd ordered cold hardy breeds like bantam wyandottes or bantam easter eggers. My bantam silkies that I got from someone on kijiji didn't survive either (one got attacked by a racoon while in the run of the coop) and the other couldn't handle the cold. The bantam easter egger raised with them and my 3 bantam cochins hens did fine but I'm leaning towards breeds with clean legs and rose comb or pea comb breeds. I also want to stick with bantams.

If anyone in Quebec or Ontario wants lemon blue old english game bantams but didn't order in time for Performance I'd be glad to trade for bantam wyandotte and/or easter egger chicks for my broody hens (they all get broody in the late spring/summer)

 

[Pullety]

My neighbour bought her day old malines from Greendale last year. She is quite happy with them. I am trying to order them now but haven't heard back yet(it's been about a week). I know this is their busy time so I am trying to be patient. I am not able to find a contact number for them, just e-mail. We are in BC. There are a ton of facebook groups with unlisted small farms that have rare chicken breeds. Might be closer to your area?
Hope this helps!
-J

I’m also looking for a phone number! I emailed about a week ago.

 

[Farmily]

Pullety, Did you hear back from Greendale?

I emailed them early February and they didn't get back to me until March.

The email from Greendale mentioned there is a big waiting list for the breed(malines) and it would be summer before I got them. It was in very broken english, and two out of four sentences didn't make sense.
I ended up finding local Malines through facebook - rather support the local ladies than the hatcheries if I can.

After this year I am hoping I will have enough variety to not need to purchase chicks or ducklings in the future.
The Malines are going to replace the broilers. We already have layers (chicken and duck) and will soon have all of the tasty proteins!

... just a little excited X)