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Does anyone know of a firm that transports small livestock (chickens) by road, please?

I am in NW Surrey and am thinking of a journey from Cumbria to a junction of M3 or M4, or door to door if possible.
 
Hi Val,
If you also register with Practical Poultry Forum, they have a section on their very long forum index page called Odds and Ends, and a subsection called Help is at Hand, where people post requests like yours, it might widen your search a bit.
Sounds interesting ....
 
Marigold thanks for your suggestion.
I cannot access the site as apparently someone is already using my email address (only me) and I do not know the password!
Any more suggestions would be very welcome, as I hope sometime this year to bring down 4 pullets.
I cannot find through Google anyone who transports poultry, and really do not fancy a 6 hour drive.
I think hatching eggs are the answer, but then there is the disposal of cockerels to be dealt with, always supposing the eggs survive the post, and are fertile.
Ah me, a chicken lovers lot is not always an easy one, with decisions to be made!!
 
Did you try to register for the first time, or is it possible that you have registered in the past, using a different username from what you entered yesterday but have forgotten you did so? Try the Forgot Password option on the login page, or try contacting moderator admin via the Help link. Rachel will sort it out for you, she's very friendly.
One more idea - sometimes, if I log in as Fuchsia on there, I get a message saying Username not recognised, although I know it's correct. If I then just go ahead and click on the main page link it all works OK.
 
Val, I can only speak for last years hatch which was the first time I haven't picked eggs up in person but they had a good fertility and hatch rate and they came through the post. I have never been able to log in to PPF either.
 
My Ancona eggs came by snail mail, 5 fertile 5 hatched, 4 girls!!!!!!!!!!!!.
It is not always like that though.
But because of the journey, I will settle for hatching eggs. Just very keen to add to my Croads this year. Last year hatched 5 of which 3 were cockerels.
This year I aim for 6 - 8 Croads, and can't wait to get going.
 
Well, I think that if you're equipped to hatch your own, and like doing it, and have been successful in the past, eggs would be a much better and safer option than buying birds unseen and putting them through a long and stressful journey with an unknown person to your place. And you know you just LOVE little chicks, this would be a good excuse!
Much less expensive than buying older birds and paying transport, as well. A better chance of selling surplus cockerels, as they're a rare purebred strain. And more entertaining for us on here as well, as we follow your progress......
 
Oh no Val, your posts and this video below has got me back at it too!, am going to put a bid in on some Ko Shamo eggs. At least I will have 3 months to build some more housing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4fWx1hbOwo
 
Loved the video, loved the birds, love birds that are different.
Ko Shamo from the way they are must be in the make up of Cornish game somewhere. My second Cornish game, dark girl, "Indi Too", has lots of similarities, v.large legs, in Indi's case bright yellow and squat, same look about the head. Indi is heavy, huge across the chest and always busy and noisy. Love her to bits. She was hatched and grew up with Big Rube and the Croads (sounds like a band,) also a silver partridge Pekin who was her bessy mate for all of their chickhood.
Best of luck with your bid, ebay?
Hope for a huge hatch for you. Cornish do not do very well, don't lay well, mate well because of their shape, I've only ever hatched a single egg, not great fertility because of their shape problems. I would love to have a dozen!
 
I think they both have asian game genes in them. Ko Shamo are a Japanese ornamental breed originally from Thailand, they are really small birds, only about 1 kg in weight. I think a lot of people get them mixed up with the O Shamo which is a cockfighting breed and about 4 times the size. I find with these and Old English game that they look so much better in the flesh than they do on photos. Indian/Cornish Game are good looking birds and I like that gold lacing they have on them. Yes I'm giving eBay a go, generally last years hatch bought there have turned out well though I'm not too keen on the temperament of the Silver Sussex but can't argue with their laying mind you. Unfortunately there only seems to be half a dozen eggs up at any one time, probably do me favour as last time I hatched 18 and was overrun.
 
I think 'O' denotes greatness and respect in Japanese and seeing the Shamo on Wikipedia I don’t doubt its a fitting title. Ko Shamo sounds like a much better idea! (I think that’s 'little' or 'child' maybe)
They are a very animated family aren’t they :)
 
I don't know if you've found this link to the Poultry Breed Clubs of Great Britain
http://www.poultryclub.org/poultry/breed-clubs/
which might provide more reliable links to good breeders than eBay.
It doesn't list Shamos, though there is a contact for the Asian Hardfeather Club, further down the list. Also, the secretary for Croads is in Alton, Val.
 
Marigold,
thankyou for the info., my two current Croads are from Lyn who is Secretary of the CL club, she lives just a few miles from me. Her birds are wonderful, and I did email her weeks ago about hatching eggs, but no reply as yet.
I also emailed another devoted Croad keeper famous for her stunning championship birds but who no longer supplies hatching eggs or birds. She gave me the name of a lady who has a flock from her who will supply hatching eggs; I emailed her, again, no reply.
So will just have to keep plugging away, I am a member of the CL society and there are people with birds for sale, but either they are miles and miles away, or the birds are bantams.
 
rick said:
I think 'O' denotes greatness and respect in Japanese and seeing the Shamo on Wikipedia I don’t doubt its a fitting title. Ko Shamo sounds like a much better idea! (I think that’s 'little' or 'child' maybe)
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Your right Rick, O is an honorific in Japanese used to denote respect, Ko is a prefix for child, as in kodomo. If you thought the O Shamo on wiki was impressive take a look at these two exhibition quality birds, they are stunning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNMWrrODNmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYMrJmXPbco

They are from what I know about them hard work to raise, they need special housing because of their height, a low protein diet because they don't mature until 2 years old and can outgrow their frame and they can't be kept with other poultry because of their aggressiveness however they are from what I have heard quite human friendly, which all in all means they aren't for the casual keeper. They also have the downside of a certain section of our community coveting them and will be stolen if they ever get wind that you own any.
 
Well I have bought 6 Ko Shamo eggs plus 6 Old English Game bantams to go in with them from a separate breeder, will cross my fingers and hope for the best as you always do when either hatching or using eBay. The problem with the breed clubs is that with their listed breeders there is often just no availability especially with the rarer breeds. They hatch most of their own eggs as why would you want to sell an egg for a couple of pounds when you can charge £50 per pullet if you grow them on. The remainder of the eggs that are available are snapped up at the double.

Val, there is someone selling a trio of Croads in Sidcup on preloved, perhaps they may have some eggs if you contact them?
 
Phoned and heard from the breeder who supplied my Croad eggs from last year.
She can supply eggs later in the year, and I can collect them. The excitement!!!
Any cockerels, if they were like the previous three I hatched, should not be difficult to dispose of, there were homes waiting for them, I heard from both recipients of them, and they are still as nice and kindly as they were originally, just very much larger; only hope they are fertile do the deed and help the breed!.
Hope to hear of the progress of the Ko Shamos and the gamebirds, preferably with photos.
Still cannot do it - post photos that is. My granddaughter has had a go and gave up in disgust, my son said "impossible", must be us. Do not have a problem posting elsewhere though.
 
Looking forward to seeing the CLs in due course - what stately birds they are!

My neighbour has a bantam OEG male - he is a complete delight; handsome, small crow, will follow you about but still likes to roost in trees, tough in all weathers, cheap to feed (!) and although he has a miscellaneous harem of larger girls, there is never any aggression to them or you.
 
Sold two of my Ancona girls through preloved, but had so many enquiries it got a bit ridiculous.
Got into conversation with a lovely lady who wanted them and although they were already promised elsewhere, and to cut a very long story short, offered to try and get some CLanshan eggs today from a friend in Somerset that she is visiting.
As long as the girls are purebred, which they are, I said yes please to hatching eggs, which I will collect either later today or tomorrow.
I still have eggs from the breeder of my last year's two girls, to collect sometime. Life can get good sometime when you are least expecting it!!!!!
 
That's a stroke of luck for you. Your very good at selling and rehoming birds by the way.
 
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