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Here are some chicks I hatched out last week from my project Olive Egger flock.

DK, That is the funniest thing that you named your Bresse roo Stalin. I have a Bresse cockerel named Hitler, because when he was little, his toes were bent at 90 degree angles and his feet looked like little swastikas.

maggiemo, I haven't eaten one yet. I bought chicks last year, and raised them up for breeding. I am still waiting for my first hatchlings to get to finishing size. While I don't have any personal experience yet, I've never read of a person who has raised Bresse who claims they raised another...

DoubleKindness, I'm sorry to hear about your hatch. Hatching shipped eggs is a crapshoot here in Colorado, especially in the winter and the summer when temperature extremes have the possibility of ruining viability. If you're wanting more Bresse, I'd be happy to sell you some, or exchange...

Quote: That must be devastating. I'm so sorry to hear of your problems.

Double Kindness, I'm just finishing these on grain since these capons are only Buff Orpingtons and one huge Olive Egger. If my flock produces enough eggs into the winter, after I have what I need, I'd be happy to set those eggs and sell you some from my flock for adding biodiversity. Mine come...

Double Kindness, let us know how your tools work. I may be interested in one of those kits if they're good. My first batch of capons will be ready to butcher soon. I'm eager to see how many are slips and the difference in quality between slips and clean capons. One of my Bresse hens is now...

What I find with my Olive Eggers is that winter laying is highly individualistic. I am curious for people who keep large homogeneous laying flocks of pure breeds how much variation in winter laying they see between individuals. When I kept Buff Orpingtons, they all shut down over a two week...

Just to throw it in for the previous conversation, I don't use supplemental lighting either. I hatch late summer chicks though, that come into laying late in late fall and seem to lay better through the winter than the older hens that usually stop. I also note which individual hens lay well...

I'm glad you had such an easy time rehoming him. I am not sure how my advice was interpreted as advice to kill him, unless he was indeed aggressive toward people or a nocturnal crower.

The vast majority of people who want roosters want them for eating. You actually want to beware of rehoming them for pets to people who have never kept chickens. (You'd be surprised who responds to ads for a free rooster-many flaky people who want the bird on impulse because it's something...

CoChix, Honey was a very pretty hen. I am sorry for your loss.

I don't know where you're at, but this person has a lot of used jars pretty cheap. http://fortcollins.craigslist.org/hsh/4636871447.html

You could raid a newspaper recycling bin. I used to take my household paper, and would snag clean bundles that were still baled. Lots of schools get them for free, bundles of them, and sometimes they don't even cut the bundles open so they're very clean.

COChix, we're starting to get some too. I picked my first Listada de Gandia eggplant yesterday! We made tomato and basil chicken yesterday from the garden. Mmmmm, it's summer. On a more sour note, my fatty, greedy hen broke into the garden, the first jailbreak this year. With 35 tomato...

They're 11 weeks old.

maggiemo, I bought the 5 chicks that Judi hatched from a breeder in CA who was breeding Greenfire Farm stock. They're fabulous birds. Very mellow personalities, large and densely solid, obviously meat birds, but they are excellent foragers and and really get along great with my Buff...

I've only been setting 30-40 per week. I've been keeping the best prospects for growing out to select for breeders and selling the rest. I was setting a lot more eggs to help pay off the new cabinet incubator, which was a bit more than I could afford, but is worth having, since it works...

Mine sits like a rock at 47 until hatch, where it spikes up to about 55 during the peak of the hatch.

The two in the first pic are definitely from me. And the one in the front of the bottom picture, also. The other one could also be from me, but I'm not positive. I got a few chicks that look like this, which is similar. Regardless, I'm glad some of mine hatched for you!