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If you're going to contact me about birds, please do me a huge favor and read this whole page first! It'll probably answer your questions. :-)

Current status of selling eggs:

2012 is going to be a complicated year here at Random Rosecombs. I would like to be able to sell eggs this spring or summer but right now I'm not sure that's going to be feasible. Stay tuned...

Current status of selling birds:
Updated January 4, 2012. This page stays up to date, please do not email me and ask to be on a waiting list, I don't keep a waiting list because despite my best intentions I WILL forget to contact someone and then I'd feel bad. I'm really busy, chicken sales are a teeny tiny part of my life, so bear with me if I don't seem to get around to this as quickly as you think I ought to. Want to be totally in the loop? Join our Facebook page!

Random Rosecombs is moving a couple hundred miles away in the spring of 2012. As much as I would like to continue raising four varieties of Rosecombs, it's not practical for me to do so, and I've had to make some hard decisions. While I hope to keep one of two of each variety, I will be focusing almost entirely on the BBReds.

Because the Brassy Backs and Blue Brassy Backs are quite dear to me, I will only sell them to approved homes. I am looking for someone who has experience raising and showing birds, and who will be committed to continuing the work that I have put into these varieties. If I don't find this person, the birds will stay with me.

Discounts will be given if birds are purchased in quantity.

All proceeds from selling these birds are going toward the construction of new coops at the new place. I have to start from scratch. :-(

Yes, I can ship. You will pay the actual shipping charge + the cost of a box (I'll order that) + a fuel charge because the post office is 30 miles away and takes about an hour and a half out of my day. I can deliver to any of the following California shows: Hollister, Stockton, Eureka, Fresno.

This flock is NOT NPIP certified. So there will be NO paperwork sent with your birds. If that is a problem for you, don't buy them... sorry.... NPIP is an expensive pain in the butt in California and I have chosen not to be a part of it, because it's not required for showing in-state.

BLACK ROSECOMBS: Unfortunately in the last few years my Blacks have started to throw a significant percentage of red in their offpsring. I honestly don't know why... whether this is something they've been carrying for generations or whether I mis-marked a chick from a BBRed breeding and mistook it for a pure Black. I don't know which birds will produce red and which won't. Not happy about this, but I believe in full disclosure about this sort of thing... so there you have it. It's not the end of the world, you'll still get mostly Black chicks from them, an outcross would probably wipe it out, and I continue to do quite well showing my Blacks despite this little annoyance.


Black Hen # 81
 Hatched in 2009
Breeding stock, no longer a show bird.
$50

BLACK BREASTED RED ROSECOMBS: SOLD OUT FOR THE SEASON!

"BLACK RED" (aka BBRed breeding stock). These are half Black and half BBRed. I've done this cross a few times to improve the type on the BBReds. The best thing is to breed these to BBReds, that will give you 50% BBRed. You can also breed them to each other, but that only yields 25% BBRed.


"Black Red" (Black X BBRed) hen 1
Hatched in 2009
Bred to a BBRed she will produce 50% BBRed.
Bred to another Black Red she will produce 25% BBRed.
Breeding stock, non-showable.
$50
"Black Red" (Black X BBRed) hen 2
Hatched in 2009
Bred to a BBRed she will produce 50% BBRed.
Bred to another Black Red she will produce 25% BBRed.
Breeding stock, non-showable.
$50

BRASSY BACK/BLUE BRASSY BACK: SOLD!!! CONGRATULATIONS AND BIG THANK YOU TO THOMAS FROM OREGON! :-)

BLUE & SPLASH ROSECOMBS: I am selling ALL my Blues and Splashes. A couple years ago I hatched a few solid Blues out of my Blue Brassy line. I bred more of them simply to increase the population a bit, but I'm interested in focusing on BBReds and I don't need the Blues for that. So they are all available. You need to know this: they are from a Blue Brassy line. They WILL throw some colored offspring. They are NOT "pure" Blue.


Blue cockerel 1
hatched in 2011
He has not been handled or caged before, pardon the crappy pose. These blue males don't seem to have the feather quality of the Blacks, their tail feathers often look ragged and not "zipped up". You will see a brassy tinge to the hackles in some lighting.
$60
Blue cockerel 2
hatched in 2011
He's a little darker in the hackles than the previous cockerel, but the biggest difference is probably their combs. These blue males don't seem to have the feather quality of the Blacks, their tail feathers often look ragged and not "zipped up". You will see a brassy tinge to the hackles in some lighting.
$60

I catch a lot of flack for not selling all that many birds. Well...I don't quite know what to say. Let me give you my philosophy on raising birds though. I raise Rosecombs because they interest me, I enjoy showing, and I like to work with the rare colors in this breed. I do not raise birds for the sole purpose of selling them. I hatch enough to improve and propegate my own bloodlines. If I happen to have enough to sell a few, that's like frosting on the cake...it's a nice bonus. But I am not and probably never will be one of those people who has lots of fabulous birds for sale all the time. I'm not equipped to raise or house that many, nor do I want to. I also CULL pretty ruthlessly. If a bird isn't one I'd consider for my own breeding pen, it goes off to auction. Probably I could really sell a lot of those birds as breeding stock, but I don't want to do that. If I wouldn't consider them for my own breeding pens, I will not sell them as such.

I know there are a lot of people out there looking for these colored Rosecombs and I'm sorry I can't help you out. In the past I have tended to sell myself short, and I'm not going to do that anymore. I wish that more people who I have sold birds to in the past were actually making an effort to raise them (that's why I've gotten pretty strict about who I'll sell birds to!) Seems like when I have an abundance of birds I can hardly give them away, but when I don't have enough then everyone wants them.

If you are looking for Rosecombs right now, go to http://www.rosecomb.com/federation/members.html If you think you have the patience to raise colored Rosecombs then PLEASE consider making your own strain. It takes a few years (ok, more than a few...it's a never-ending thing...), but you're not going to get instant perfection out of mine or anyone else's anyway. Truth be told there really need to be more strains of these birds out there. I've already run into some major inbreeding problems, and spreading that around really isn't going to do much good!

That said, I truly appreciate the people out there who are actually dedicated to raising these birds!

My Rules:

1) I do not sell chicks. I do sometimes sell eggs. If the upper part of this page doesn't say that I'm currently selling eggs, then it's the wrong time of year for that, or I simply don't have anything available. I don't take advance orders, please oh please do not email me and ask to be on the waiting list. There is no waiting list.

2) I sell finished adult birds, in ridiculously small quantities. I do ship birds again now, but it involves jumping through a lot of hoops and driving nearly 60 miles and taking about an hour and a half of my busy day to do so (as of 2011 I am adding a fuel surcharge to shipping costs), so don't expect me to be too thrilled about it. I am not NPIP certified because it's an expensive pain in the butt in CA, not worth it for me.

3) I reserve the right to refuse sale.

4) My birds are NOT perfect. Please don't expect perfection.

5) I will ONLY sell top quality birds to serious breeders. I have sold far too many birds to people who were not serious and they gave up and sold the birds without even bothering to contact other breeders. These are not easy varieties to find, and I won't put up with that anymore. You'll have to convince me you're very serious and not just a "chicken collector."

6) Here's a new one: please do not ask me to sell you something that is "guaranteed to win" regardless of how much you are willing to pay. I have always hated that sort of attitude that pops up from time to time in the fancy, and besides that if I was lucky enough to have a bird that fabulous, I sure as heck wouldn't sell it! :-)

7) I do not export birds or eggs. Asking or begging will not help you, the answer is no. Sorry.
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