I had some shipped guinea eggs. All the keets that did hatch were deformed and died. The rest of the eggs never developed or started to develop deformed keets that did not even hatch. Never thought of the shipping may of caused it. I just thought I had bought bad eggs.
I tink it may just depend on the rooster. I had a ram I played with and he was like a puppy dog. Sweat as could be. My best friend did the same thing and her ram got super mean and had to be put in a pen where feed was dumped over to him as he would break your leg with his head butts. I know...
27. If youve suffered stitches, scratches and smashed fingers building a coop.....more than once, you might be a chicken farmer
28. If your user name is chickenaddiction you just might be a chicken farmer.
I wish I lived close to you. I want blue, black, and splash orpingtons. Right now I have buffs and I put a few blue mutts in there so hopefully they will cross and have blue orpington looking mutts but it would be so much easier to just start with purebreds.
I've seen the same thing at swap meets. People's chickens are either in really great shape or really beat up. There are always tons of roosters also. I have not been to an auction yet as I don't know of any around here. I used to go buy horse stuff at auctions but it was so sad looking at...