For some reason I like the looks of this breed, so I ordered 15 chicks from Meyer hatchery, they should be here this week.
Has anyone ever raised this breed?
From what I understand they are a dual purpose breed, having a decent body size and a good egg layer.
I ordered eggs from Myshire Farms, I put them on lockdown today and two have hatched without any problems, I do have about 25 of my own eggs in the incubator also.
I’m doing a 100% dry hatch so I’ll see how they do.
I have about 85 quail and 30 chicken eggs that will hatch in the next week...
My son works with a guy that raises Ayam cemani chickens, he told my son he has a market for them, he said he would sell me some hatching eggs for 3-$4 an egg.
I’m going to try to hatch some when I get an empty incubator, and he has the eggs.
Has any ever tried incubating them before?
I’m...
I was looking for quail eggs, a coworker of my oldest son had some and instead of selling me eggs, he just gave me his quail, 15 of them because he was tired of them, it was supposed to be no more than 4 males, but instead it was 9 roosters and 6 hens and one of the hens was crippled, I kept 2...
I have two NR 360 incubators, I decided to try the maticoopx 30.
I ordered it through Amazon and it didn’t take but two days delivered.
It’s very easy to set up, I put two digital thermometers in there and it didn’t take no time for it to get up to temp.
The two thermometers are ready what...
After having excellent hatches out both of my NR 360 incubators, I had a bad one, I thought it might be the temperature fluctuations, so I put a thermometer in there this morning after cleaning it, when I hit the turn buttons it acted like it didn’t want to turn, I went to town and bought...
My Son was wanting a couple of RIR roosters, I was at TSC today and they brought in some NHR’s straight run, what I read about them sounds good, especially for me because I’m wanting meat birds, he’s wanting eggs, then I hatch the eggs, has anyone had experience with these for meat production?