Nice pictures and write up in the latest Backyard Poultry magazine. Every one go out and get a copy! She snuck in a reference to "on-line forums".
The thing that is putting me off a bit on the Buckeye is the size of the egg. We need to be able to sell the excess eggs, and it is much easier to sell a large egg than a medium egg. Now, my DH likes a medium egg as they fit nicely in the center of a slice of bread (he makes "Hole in One" or "Eggs on a Raft" everyone knows that one right?) But Customers complain that the eggs are small when I try to sell tham a medium egg that is not "special" (blue, speckled, etc). They do not like having to guess how many to use in a cake mix, for example.
So many lovely breeds, and we have the space, but the husband does not necessarily have the patience to put up with the kids and I having lots of birds. He isn't terribly thrilled about the 23 we have now.
However, the county poultry leader wants to loan us an incubator this spring. Maybe a few Buckeye eggs could sneak in there by accident? We'll have to see. I'd love to have mousers, and they are a color that we do not currently have.
The thing that is putting me off a bit on the Buckeye is the size of the egg. We need to be able to sell the excess eggs, and it is much easier to sell a large egg than a medium egg. Now, my DH likes a medium egg as they fit nicely in the center of a slice of bread (he makes "Hole in One" or "Eggs on a Raft" everyone knows that one right?) But Customers complain that the eggs are small when I try to sell tham a medium egg that is not "special" (blue, speckled, etc). They do not like having to guess how many to use in a cake mix, for example.
So many lovely breeds, and we have the space, but the husband does not necessarily have the patience to put up with the kids and I having lots of birds. He isn't terribly thrilled about the 23 we have now.
However, the county poultry leader wants to loan us an incubator this spring. Maybe a few Buckeye eggs could sneak in there by accident? We'll have to see. I'd love to have mousers, and they are a color that we do not currently have.