I will be there with Blue/Black/Birchen Marans, Large Fowl Cochin (black and mottled) and possibly a pair of Blue Wheaten Ameraucana. All between the ages of 8-16 weeks.
Also a Barred Rock hen (just under a year old) and a White Crested Black bantam Polish hen (1 1/2 years old).
Cant wait...
I have had excellent hatches from April! Never a broken egg! Here's a pic of a couple of chicks I hatched recently (I have more of hers in the incubator now)
In the incubator:
All fluffed out, more are hiding under the Ecoglow:
Yes, I'm in Maine.
I'm not sure if its food/feed grade wheat, since the cashier knew what I wanted it for I just asked what the prices on wheat/oats/barley were and accepted what she said. I'm going back this weekend and I can ask a little more about it and give you some more details then...
I checked prices when I bought feed yesterday (at Paris Farmer's Union, just a couple miles from me). Seemed reasonable from what I've been reading here.
50# bag of Wheat for $14.86
50# bag of Oat for $13.02
50# bag of Organic Barley (the only kind they can get) for $23.25
I wound up in a...
Well, I finally finished reading EVERY post and checking out EVERY link that everybody posted!
SONEW123 turned me on to this thread. Great information..can't wait to start this!!!
The problem is, now I want to raise meal worms, fathead minnows, start fermenting feed, and growing...
I received an assortment of Marans eggs from chick-among-us and Wheaten Ameraucana and LF Mottled Cochin from aceschix. I claimed both of these on 01/12/13 and received both on 01/17/2013. Both sent lots of extras and did fantastic jobs packaging.
Mine, Marans (I don't care which variety, whichever lays the darkest egg is fine)
Offer:
$18 PP
or
$25 Amazon Gift Card (I can email the number off the back so you can use it immediately or I can mail it to you)
I have a question. I know it's paypal/egg swap, but would it be okay to offer a $25 Amazon Gift Card? I wanted to ask before posting it. I can email the number off the back so, it would be instant, unless someone wanted the physical card, then I could mail it.