March 2nd, 2020

It's that time of year that breeders look forward to the season of unveiling what they have been working all winter on, new lines, juveniles, and chicks!
Just as important as buying from a reputable breeder is selling to a reputable BUYER for us. When we decline a sale, it is for a good, legitimate reason. To some it doesn't matter where their birds end up or what happens to them. We are not those breeders.!!
As we know, there are some seriously shady "breeders" that will try to exactly duplicate your bloodline and pass it off as their own, or mass flock breed a bird they got from you and claim your lines, and some that have not a drop of your blood in their coops that claim to breed your line...
Any decent reputable breeder is happy to furnish any information you ask of them, an NPIP number (you would be shocked that some ship ILLEGALLY) if you ask for an NPIP number and get an excuse instead of an NPIP number,RUN....current day pictures of the parents if you are buying eggs (not their ad pictures). Then we have the Bad Buyer. The entitled person that will stop at nothing to get what they want. The one that nothing is too low for them to consider to get a bird, even sending in another buyer to buy your birds and then bragging about it. Or perhaps even an egg flipper who would buy your fertile eggs and resell them at a hugely inflated price (especially when that line was in the very beginning stages, with lots of culls at that time.) Who is the joke really on? At the end of the day, all of these people are on most breeders DNS, DNB lists for the level of sheisty. We breeders DO communicate and share our experiences. Again, we urge both buyers and sellers to do your research. Ask questions. Ask for pictures. Read reviews.
​ Do what you need to do to be assured the experience is a pleasant and HONEST interaction.
These shady characters are the absolute minority of who we deal with but definitely noteworthy if for no other reason to warn others and save them the Tylenol.