THE WAITING LIST

Native Colors Exotics

WAITING LIST

 

NCE does NOT require deposits for the waiting list. Nor does it obligate you to purchase a bird when your name comes up. By putting your name on this list, you are simply requesting we contact you when we have birds of your preferred breed available for purchase. At that point you may refuse the purchase without consequence.

To be guaranteed a bird in any particular breeding season (provided mother nature cooperates*), a small deposit may be placed on related purchase to solidify your request. Deposits guarantee your bird (with restrictions) and place you on a priority list as far as gender, color, age, variety or strain preferences you may have noted.

*Due to mother nature being unpredictable, there is a chance we won’t end up with the offspring you’re seeking. If you’ve paid a deposit and we are nearing the due date without any sign if what you’re looking to purchase, we will notify you, at which time you can choose to either apply your deposit to the next available, towards an alternate breed, or be refunded. The choice would be yours in this situation.

 

Email or text to enter your name on our waiting list.

Include;

• The breed you are seeking.
• When you would ideally purchase the bird(s)?
• Any specific variables that may be important to you (i.e. gender, color, age, frizzled, silkied, smooth, etc.). indicate if these preferences are mandatory.
• Have you decided to purchase or are you in the early stages of planning?
• Do you own chickens? If so, how many, what kind?
• Your name, address and phone
• How you heard of us.

If Turkeys Could talk…

I am a self professed turkey talk translator. Recently, I answered the question- “what would turkeys say if they could talk?”

Any other turkey communication pros out there? Add to this list in the comment section below!

If turkeys – the dog of the bird world- could speak our language- they’d surely say this…

First and foremost…

“Please don’t eat me for thanksgiving or Christmas.”

Prologue-

I am a turkey breeder. And I rescue factory farmed turkeys, as I am able to. So one thing is for sure- I know turkeys. I mean, really, really know turkeys.

This may surprise you- but turkeys do speak our language. They learn what inflection is tied to what specific emotion and, like dogs, they have the ability to gauge their next action on their humans reaction, if you will. So, to return the kind gesture of caring enough to learn a new language in order to successfully exist with a species outside of their own, I learned how to talk turkey. I speak their language. This became evident to me after several Instagram posts where people posted videos of their pet turkeys and followers inquired “what is this bird trying to communicate?” – and I was able to translate. I’m not talking about a generic one-size-fits-all, common sense stab in the dark, but rather very specifically translate what they are attempting to express to the human. (ie: this bird must have babies close by. Or my guess is you have a treat in your hand and he wants more) It turns out, each time, I was right on.

I spend incredible amounts of time with my birds. I’ve quite literally learned what they are trying to convey with their wide vocabulary of tweets and chirps and barks and gobbles and purrs. So when I was asked this question about translating turkey talk, I decided I can answer just as good as anyone else who is familiar with turkeys. Maybe better because my birds are pets and/ or exhibition quality only. So in other words, I give them the same regard that you would a family dog. They are bonded with me, and I with them.

So without further ado…

Turkeys usually try to convey the following 16 expressions and emotions with an urgency, and on a regular basis.

1. Please give me more treats/ food that you know I like. (they tend to be fussy eaters)
2. Please don’t hurt me. I’m afraid of what’s in your hand/ you.
3. Please leave me alone.
4. Please give me affection.
5. Where are you?
6. Please open the door and let me out.
7. Please let me breed your leg, or the football, or one of the hens (girl turkey), or the shovel, or the basketball, or the feed scoop … you get the idea. Tom turkeys (males) have very high “drive” and will try to be intimate with any animate – or inanimate object. Although if you shut them down – you’re okay. They don’t get too human aggressive for the most part.
8. Steer clear of my girl(s) (be they human or hen- mine protect me from unknown strangers and animals. They’d lay their life down to save me or the hens in a second- they’re very chivalrous!)
9. Let’s run! (Mine are exersize daily and they love it when I run and they can follow- flapping their wings all the while).
10. Look out! There’s a predator nearby or above! Take cover! STAT!
11. Hey! There’s a sound we don’t know/ aren’t familiar with.
12. Look at me strut my stuff. I’m so very handsome. Don’t you think? Of course you do! Who wouldn’t think I’m a looker?!
13. What’s that in your hand?! Can I see it? Can I eat it? Can I bite it? Or grab it and run?
14. Why are you running from me? I only want to play! Hey! Come back!
15. Help! 911! Help! Hey human! Help! It’s an emergency! Hurry up! Please!
16. And last but not least, they get very bonded or develop an obstinate and utter dislike to certain members of the rafter (a domestic flock) so some noises they make translate as “I’m going to whoop your butt” or on the other end of the spectrum, “where’s my friend?!?”

Bottom line?

These animals are magnificent thinking, feeling and loving beings- with a wide range of emotion. They are far from the stupid, better-off-dead worthless animals that the commercial turkey industry wants you to believe. If you knew to what degree, you’d skip the turkey on Thanksgiving.

If you’re skipping the turkey this holiday season, comment in the comment section designated below with the reason for this wonderful decision. It is our intent to spread the word about how these amazing birds should be #friendsnotfood and #petturkeys!

Our EXOTICS!

Last year, we went on a journey to discover the best bloodlines of show and breeding quality stock to create our parent bird flocks.

We spared no expense ordering eggs from the best show-winning, beautiful-baby-makin’ stock in the world!

(Although it’s worth noting, we rode on the coattails of those who imported these breeds originally, as importing has been banned from many counties in an attempt to keep bird related diseases out of our great country! To that end, we’d like to send a sincere & humble THANK YOU to all of you original importers! We know it takes a great deal of time and expenses to do this! Without you, there would be no Native Colors Exotics! We speak of your name often when telling people about our birds!)

So you may be wondering, of all of the beautiful exotic breeds and varieties out there, what did we choose to focus on and why?

1) THE AYAM CEMANI 

Pictured is NATIVE COLORS SKIPPER, a purebred, well-bred, Indonesian Ayam Cemani cockerel. Skipper was the second baby to hatch in 2019. He got his name after erupting out of his egg very quickly, passing up others who were mid hatch. Skipper came into to the world with a bang and his teenage presence holds the same impact. Where skipper is, you know. He’s got a presence like no other we’ve seen. Truly a top notch example of the Ayam Cemani. Skipper hatched in the morning of January 24, 2019. A side note: skipper’s clutch of eggs was shipped to our home and the breeder highlighted in the top and side of the box to hold for pick-up at the post office. The mail delivery truck is not climate controlled, and Wisconsin winters can be brutal. On New Year’s Eve 2018, brutal and blizzard conditions it was. Our former post office staffer, disregarded the highlighted directions on the box that day. The eggs were left in front of our garage, on the wet ground, in the blistering cold winter wind. We’re not sure how long the eggs sat there. We are surely surprised that two of them developed and hatched into what will be our beautiful, pitch black, black mouthed roosters. And what lovely boys they are!