Order Glitch, Tired of Waiting, Moving Forward

Today was strike 3 for the previous supplier of broiler peeps. That was George Dibert of Mt-Di Poultry near Altoona PA. The last time delivery went well as he met me near Cumberland with the peeps. Pricing was good at 60 cents each. He has not returned 3 messages so I had to move forward. I find this hard to understand as I was a non demanding, courteous and prompt paying customer, the kind of customer I would think a business would try to retain. Perhaps he had some sort of issue and has no birds to sell, but he should at least contacted me. Perhaps he sold his whole hatch to a larger buyer. Still he should have followed up with me. I've been trying to call him for weeks now. We're doing one last batch of just 30 birds for the year. I called Moyers in PA but they are back ordered until Sep 10. I can't imagine they are that busy this time of year but I couldn't wait that long. They did have K-22's but they wouldn't finish until Thanksgiving so I didn't order them. Perhaps I can try some birds from Moyer's next year. I thought about asking the Yahoo pastured poultry board for a supplier recommendation but didn't bother. Just wanted to get an order in place. I plan to buy one of Ray's K-22s to see if there is any taste difference at all. So I ended up back at Ideal Poultry out of Texas. Long way to ship but their service and delivery has been just fine in the past. Peeps will ship on 8/29 and I should get them on Friday 8/31. I have butchering planned and scheduled for Oct 30th. I'll call Berry Blossom and cancel the appointment for the turkey processing on Nov 13th since the turkeys won't happen this year. I plan to run this small batch in the Salatin pen as a chicken tractor over the recently mowed off market garden area. They should have a field day digging things up with the all the seeds and scraps there. Corn, tomatoes, sunflowers, weeds, grass seeds, etc. I think they'll be quite content there as well as help aerate and fertilize the whole market garden area. I'll move the pen probably daily.