Chicken breeders or Folks in South Africa?

[Nanna34]

Wow ok the entire lot has been bought by a farmer cash

 

[OrangeGrove]

@Nanna34 sorry to hear that!
NONE of my 1st lot of eggs hatched, incubator too cool and Eskom woes. I'm really hoping the next lot will be a good hatch lot on 4th Nov.

 

[Colin Fow]

Hi all I need to let go of my Silkies and Goslings

, I have to relocate soon and I wont be able to keep them were I am going.

If anyone is interested I'm selling them pm me please for more details

darn now i'm sorry I didn't see this sooner

lol

 

[Colin Fow]

@Nanna34 sorry to hear that!
NONE of my 1st lot of eggs hatched, incubator too cool and Eskom woes. I'm really hoping the next lot will be a good hatch lot on 4th Nov.

don't stress @OrangeGrove we had a terrible hatch our first 2 attempts, also thanks too Eskom , our last hatch we ended up with 130 fuzz balls out of 150 eggs

, it will come lol, o by the way , if anyone is interested I have 120 koekoeks at 4.5 weeks old lol

 

[OrangeGrove]

Thanks, I will wait. I'm like a kid with that incubator ... I keep opening the thing

. Going away on the 7th for 2 days so I must find someone to house sit and turn eggs lol. It's one of those nasty polystyrene incubators, I borrowed it and the auto turn thing doesn't work. Hygrometer also buggered. Will be a miracle if anything hatches. I've just ordered 30 Golden Buff chicks to add to the layers. Such a hassle finding transport and eventually found someone this side of the world specializing in Avian transport. It's a bit pricy but his van is nicely kitted out with cages with food & water. The lucerne is growing nicely that I planted in the outbuildings...now just gotta fill them up with chickens!

I had a chuckle...recently we went to a garden festival. I was more interested in scouting for chickens ..found a nice looking indigenous hen that I paid a fair amount for. Got home and discovered she lays eggs that are 44 grams each

. She's been put in my 'faulty family flock' which consists of a rooster with one eye, Fat Betty (the only survivor after the bout of Coryza), a couple other misfits and Herbie (half township chicken, half Brahma)... He was the only chap to hatçh out of ten eggs.

 

[Macksy]

Well that was an interesting couple of days. Poppy and I got really intimate. Realised quite quickly she was struggling to lay her first egg and as she's my lap bird I felt 2 eggs in her. After 2 days of her trying to lay I trawled this site and did as suggested.... A calcium intake, a steam session over a sink of hot water with Epsom salts and then a finger of KY to lube her up. Even phoned the vet who suggested I take her in this morning. However when I woke up she had managed to lay an egg and there's still one waiting to be laid but 1 is better than 2!!!
Relief!!!! Sheesh that was stressful. She wasn't in pain or anything but I could tell she wasn't 100% happy. Just needed a little help popping her egg laying virginity.

 

[Carin]

Macksy glad for you and your lady's egg
OrangeGrove, I also breed partridge Brahmas. I am in KZN North coast. I am however in town and have to keep my chicken numbers in check. No chance on 100 chickens for me

 

[OrangeGrove]

@Carin , I'm from KZN N Coast, Salt Rock. I've only been here 2 years so it's quite a novelty...filling up all the unused outbuildings with chickens. If I come to KZN I would love to pick up a few Brahmas, I only have the one hen.

Something I'm really struggling with...is transport for chickens. No couriers will take birds anymore. I live in the back end of nowhere so although there are guys transporting birds..it's not in the Eastern Cape. .??? Any ideas?

 

[Nadene]

Yep Nadine, I like chickens! I have 3 batches of eggs in the incubator. Don't think the 1st lot will hatch as power was out for 24 hours

I just put 3 batches of eggs under my incubators ;P hope they hatch good. Have 6 broody hens now. 1 is incubating for 2 weeks now, so next week,this time, I might get a handful of flufs. All together 38 eggs to be hatched. Hope the hens keep them children alive this time (out of 28 chicks last year, December, only 3 survived)

 

[Nadene]

 o ok, I just made those out of polystyrene , but we buy chicken egg trays from a local packaging company , they sell pretty much anything like cups and boxes and plastic knives and forks etc , works out too about R1.97 for a box for a dozen eggs.

Yes, the quail eggs trays..but I need for chicken eggs

I don't get that lot of eggs, but my family and friends save their 30 egg trays for me. I also have lots of half dos trays, but they have their own labeling and stuff already