[cudders]

Mercury,

Where in Yorks can I get POL? I'm after some Hybribs just for egg supply. I'm having to thin my stock as there are some oldies in there that just eat and never lay so time to get some new blood me thinks.

Cudders

[Aunt Sally]

Have a look on the poultry pages cudders.  John is building up a breeders list:

http://www.poultry.allotment-garden.org/poultry-suppliers/index.php

[mercury]

Pm, for you cudders

[SnooziSuzi]

Have a look on the poultry pages cudders.  John is building up a breeders list:

http://www.poultry.allotment-garden.org/poultry-suppliers/index.php

Thanks Aunty.  Will have to wait until the list is more populated because the closest to me is Cumbria and that's still over 100 miles away!!

Mercury: why not add your details to the list if you're selling commercially?

[GrannieAnnie]

Prices for 2008

Bantams                6 - 12 weeks old             Over 15 Weeks old
                     From £17.00                 From £22.00
 Large Fowl              From £19.00                 From £24.00

They definitely look like pure breed prices NP, although someone on the River Cottage forum was quoted £12 for hybrid POL's in Kent!!!

[Aunt Sally]

Have a look on the poultry pages cudders.  John is building up a breeders list:

http://www.poultry.allotment-garden.org/poultry-suppliers/index.php

Thanks Aunty.  Will have to wait until the list is more populated because the closest to me is Cumbria and that's still over 100 miles away!!

Mercury: why not add your details to the list if you're selling commercially?

Please do mercury  

[Bodger]

Chickens on a small scale do cost a considerable amount to raise to the POL stage and some of the prices charged represent a very small profit margin to the breeder. However there can be no doubt that some unscrupulous people see inexperienced poultry keepers as an easy touch and then continue to screw them into the floor with hugely inflated and unreasonable prices. There's a saying ' a fool and his money' but if you don't know any better ? What can you do ?

Pure breeds are generally less prolific than commercial hybrids and are thinner on the ground and so when it comes to buying them, IMO its quite appropriate to expect to pay more from them., It's a matter of supply and demand. Remember, that pure breds will breed true and that hybrids wont. In theory if you buy a trio of pure breds, you will never have to buy anymore again because you can breed your own replacements.

People should also be aware as to what constitutes a pured bred and what doesn't. Some of the hybrids have been given 'lovely' appealing names in order to capture the 'Poultry Snugglers ' amongst us. You know who you are    

[mercury]

A few years ago when netherland dwarf rabbits were all the rage in my area, they were selling for between £8 - £15 each, now this is 15 years
 ago, it was a lot of money for a pet rabbit, so what did i do, i started breeding them in a big way, and flooded the market in my area with them at, £1.75 each, you should have seen the other prices drop, and the same could be done with poultry, after all the vast majority of breeders of purebreeds only do it for a hobby  

[babe]

 'Poultry Snugglers ' amongst us. You know who you are    

thanks for giving us nutters a name bodgy, now i now what i am... a poultry snuggler.. and what a lovely phrase it is too.
 

and proud of it

[WG.]

What?  No specialist quirky animated GIF for Poultry Snuggling??  Babe, you should be ashamed!

[babe]

just for you waggy x

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[WG.]

Thank you ... ... I think  :?  :?

[mdueal]

We were looking for laying hybrids for our next door neighbour and the cheapest weve managed to find them pol is £6 each - most places were £12.

[SnooziSuzi]

take a look at your local ad trader, that's where I found mine