I have 1 pair of Grey calls and she is sitting on 7 eggs... there are several ppl down around Malvern with them... Check on some of the Facebook poultry groups in AR...
Well i am at work and my power is out at home... Ashley (my wife) is at her moms... i have about 50+ chicks under a week old that need heat, about 300 chicken eggs, 150 quail eggs, 30 duck eggs in incubators... and we just got told it might be 3 days before our power comes back on... i am trying...
i had 3 ppl at my swap in Clinton on Sat that said they where not going to sell at Beebe any more... they are going to try selling at the smaller swaps like mine and the Payton Creek swap... and one guy says he sets up down by Conway somewhere as well...
maybe someone should call them up and ask them about it... they might have just gotten a bad batch of feed out and not no it yet... they might replace your bag of feed or refund your money...
the only thing u are gonna get from Ideal or any other major hatchery is production birds... the reason u have the losses at 2 or 3 years old is they hatchery birds are breed for 1 or at most 2 years of production... many of your heritage breeds will be good into there 4th or 5th year and live...
it can be very simple... most of what u read about will be only needed very rarely if ever... there have been free roaming flocks of chickens where all the owner does is throw out a few hand fulls of scratch every few days... no coop, very little feed, no medicines or diseases, no incubator, no...
We live and we learn... i did not mean to sound so harsh on my last post lol... and ridgerunner thanks for the very good explanation... i just don't have the way with words some times... i have been hatching chicks on and off for the last 20 years (boy that makes me sound old lol) and in the...