Almosta Farm

Now that it’s chick season I am seeing this oldie but goodie resurface on my fellow Farm Friends pages. Feel free NOT to reach out to us if you are any of the following 🤪

Sharing from a poultry group. These things happen.

The Top 10 Worst Chicken Buyers by Steve Neumann

1. Nancy No Show- Nothing says, "I respect you" more than failing to call or message somebody that you can't make an arranged time to pick up birds.
2. Rebecca Raise My Birds for Me- The person who strings you along with steady excuses of why they can't pick up chicks you're holding for them as they get progressively older, more well feathered. Puts the seller in the awkward position of renegotiating the price for prolonged care of chicks. they never intended to keep and raise out.
3. Porter the Price Critic- "Your birds are too expensive. I can get one from X for this much." Fine, by all means, please do.
4. Wishy Washy Wanda- "Well, we haven't started building the coop yet, and I need to talk to my husband, so I will call you back." No you wont.
Please stop wasting my time.
5. Hagar the Belated Haggler- After bringing birds somewhere to sell with a clearly listed price and no discussion of price, he starts haggling..after putting the birds in his cage.
6. Samuel the Chicken Student- After asking chicken rearing questions for an hour over info that could be gleaned from any web forum, he disappears, only to call back a couple weeks later and say, "I bought birds from X because they were cheaper, but they're sick. What should I do?"
Please...go look it up and leave me alone.
7. Renae the Rooster Wrath Lady- Sometimes a refund or an exchanged pullet is just not enough retribution in the world for the horrible torture she went through getting a rooster. And she lets EVERYBODY know about it.
8. Howard the Horrible Hatcher- The reason most people don't sell hatching eggs. Somebody who blasts you on every web forum known to man because he couldn't hatch any eggs after the postman kicked the package, and he set
the eggs in a crappy still air incubator he got at a garage sale.
9. Pricilla the Problematic Proxy Breeder- Buys birds from you, crosses them to some ugly hatchery birds, and sells horrible ugly birds she says are from your line.
10. Milton the Misinformed- "Your Marans are supposed to have clean shanks." No dude, they're not. Go look at the standard before you tell me what I have is wrong.

Update:
All spoken for, sold or NFS now. Will update as availability changes.

Just some from the fun pen currently available. I’ll post a video so you can see the full lot of them. Some NFS but most looking for their forever 🏡

Hey all my Silkie lovin peeps! Check out this awesome giveaway from Queens of the Coop. Don’t miss your chance to enter

Hi there Queens of the Coop Friends!

This is going to be a long post as we have a bit of information to cover, but make sure you read until the end as we have a really fun G•I•V•E•A•W•A•Y!

1. We have gotten a lot of new followers and it has been a while so we thought we’d first re-introduce ourselves. There are three of us that run this page: Francene, Dawn, and Katey (Francene’s daughter). We live in Burkburnett, Texas, right along the Oklahoma border. About two and a half years ago we met Dawn through chickens, and since that very first day that we met, there hasn’t been a single day that has gone by without us talking. And coincidentally we live only about 5 minutes away from each other (thankfully, because somedays I seem to make a million trips back and forth between our houses). We decided to make a page together In January of 2022. Me(Francene) and Katey had been bouncing around the idea to make this page, and we decided that Dawn would be a great business partner/addition to the page! ….. We are so incredibly blessed to have made such a good friendship, so much that she feels like family. We understand that having three of us on the same page can make things a bit more complicated, especially when it comes to 💰-ment methods and correspondence, but there are also many reasons that it is beneficial. We each bring different elements to Queens of the Coop to make it as successful as possible. Francene is creative and is constantly brainstorming new ideas, and has spent her entire adult life working in customer service. Dawn works in the medical field and has a better understanding of anatomy and health issues, and Katey is our design and advertising specialist. We have different schedules so if one of us isn’t available, usually the other can chip in and get shipping done or meeting with customers, etc. Dawn is more of a morning person and Francene & Katey are night owls. We realize sometimes when you message us, you don’t know which one you are corresponding with. We are brainstorming ideas to make it easier for everyone. All of that being said, even with three of us, it is still so hard to keep up with messages. So if you have messaged us and didn’t receive a response, please know we didn’t do so on purpose. If we haven’t replied within a day or two, please message us again! Messages can very easily get buried! We can get up to 75-100 messages a day sometimes so it can be a little overwhelming, to say the least!
2. We don’t want our Queens of the Coop page just to be about selling, we want this page to create a community centered around kindness, friendship, and mutual support/respect. We want this to be a space that brings everyone together for the shared love of chickens!! This page is for everyone, as long as you're spreading kindness!
“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They Bless the one who receives them, And they Bless you, The Giver.
- Barbara De Angelis”
3. We are very excited for this year! We have worked very hard and are in love with what we are working with and towards. I’m going to list what we are planning on offering, but of course that is subject to change.

*👑Francene & Katey👑
Silkies- (working towards all feather types and some showgirls for all pens)
• Blue Cream
• Blue/Splash
• Black Mottled
• Buff
• Chocolate Cuckoo
• Chocolate Mottled
• Chocolate/Mauve
• Cuckoo
• Grey
• Lavender
• Lemon Cuckoo/Red Cuckoo/Confetti
• Mille
• Paint
• Pencil Laced
• Porcelain
• Red Pyle
• Red/Buff Mottled Project
• White

• Ermine Ameracaunas
• Kikirikis

👑Dawn👑
Silkies- (Working towards all feather types)
• Mille
• Chocolate Paint
• Black Mottled
• Chocolate Mottled
• Mauve
• Calico
• Chocolate Cuckoo

• A variety of D’uccles
• Zombie Project
• Chocolate and Black Mottled Orpingtons
4. We've had a lot of requests, so we're in the process of working with a local small business that does a great job to create Queens of the Coop shirts and other chicken shirts designed by Katey! We can't wait to share more about it soon! We're also looking forward to offering other merchandise as well!
5. Now it’s time for the G•I•V•E•A•W•A•Y!!! We want to thank y’all for being amazingly supportive! And what better day to receive a gift/w-i-n than on Valentine’s Day!! I mean I know I’d prefer chickens over flowers 💐!! 😂 (well I’d actually love both). This g•i•v•e•a•w•a•y will have TWO W•I•N•N•E•R•S!! And there will be two prize options!

- The first option is a Chick Box! We will gift you a random choice of Silkie chicks with no visible flaws, and cover their box fee, all you would have to do is cover their shipping.

- The second option will be Hatching Eggs and a Queens of the Coop Shirt and possibly other chicken merchandise!

• Entering the G•I•V•E•A•W•A•Y is easy! How to enter Follow all 4 steps:
• 1. Be sure you have Liked and followed our Queens of the Coop page
• 2. Share this post on your page or another silkie page.
• 3. Comment below something positive! It can be anything, just as long as it shares positivity!!
• 4. Tag 4 chicken loving friends who may be interested in our page and joining the giveaway (or more if your heart desires!)

❤️❤️Drawing for the W•I•N•N•E•R will be held on Valentines Day, Feb. 14th! ❤️❤️

👑Once you’ve completed all of the tasks, all you have to do now is comment “Done”👑

Thank you for all of the support, we are thankful for each and everyone of you!

MAJOR news here at Almosta Farm …. We have Kikiriki eggs set in our incubator 😱. Cannot wait for mid January 🐣 PM us if you want to get a spot on our waitlist

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