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Some searching landed me at an old school like, 1999-style threaded messageboard for Finland's poultry keepers and it's called MUNANETTI (Egg Net... or DickNet in slang), LOL, and I eagerly went through the entire list of dealers.
There's someone in Pori who has quail and a bunch of kinds of ducks and easter eggers, painted silkies, and the kinds that lay light blue and olive eggs respectively.
There's someone in Salo who has peacocks alongside their chickens, and someone near Helsinki who has two varieties of peacocks and four kinds of ornamental chickens.
There's someone from practically the next city over who has 7 cool breeds including silkies of Hannibal fame (magnificent but fiddly to keep), Cochin bantams, and Booted Bantams (plus the 'polish' chickens - the punk ones with floofy head crests - but I don't particularly want those). Someone else nearby has Wyandotte bantams.
There are two sub-varieties of native Finnish breed from this area, the Piikkiöläinen or Piikiönkanta and the Tyrnäväläinen, both extremely popular, but all of those are the big kind. I want the small kind because the big kind are too large to comfortably perch on your hand, so you'd be training them to fly to objects or perches instead. This isn't to say I ONLY want the small kind - a couple of full sized ones for eggs would be good - but my focus is on bantams for Project Flying Chickens.
NB: This is all speculative future research; I would not be acquiring chickens until after moving to Pargas (which would lengthen Wax's current bus commute unacceptably) and probably until we no longer have rabbits (up to 6ish years from now, by lifespan).
There's someone in Pori who has quail and a bunch of kinds of ducks and easter eggers, painted silkies, and the kinds that lay light blue and olive eggs respectively.
There's someone in Salo who has peacocks alongside their chickens, and someone near Helsinki who has two varieties of peacocks and four kinds of ornamental chickens.
There's someone from practically the next city over who has 7 cool breeds including silkies of Hannibal fame (magnificent but fiddly to keep), Cochin bantams, and Booted Bantams (plus the 'polish' chickens - the punk ones with floofy head crests - but I don't particularly want those). Someone else nearby has Wyandotte bantams.
There are two sub-varieties of native Finnish breed from this area, the Piikkiöläinen or Piikiönkanta and the Tyrnäväläinen, both extremely popular, but all of those are the big kind. I want the small kind because the big kind are too large to comfortably perch on your hand, so you'd be training them to fly to objects or perches instead. This isn't to say I ONLY want the small kind - a couple of full sized ones for eggs would be good - but my focus is on bantams for Project Flying Chickens.
NB: This is all speculative future research; I would not be acquiring chickens until after moving to Pargas (which would lengthen Wax's current bus commute unacceptably) and probably until we no longer have rabbits (up to 6ish years from now, by lifespan).
