I guess you did not read all of my post #56. I aquire the eggs, hatch them, and at 3 to 5 days old allow the kids to pick out the one's they want. They will have the chance at pure bred chickens, if they want them.
Happy mtn---Why would I go out and get purebred eggs to hatch and give to kids to raise that do not meet the SOP???? You can't tell me that what you have in your backyard has not been crossed with something in the past to come up with what you have!!!! When you get right down to it, most...
I do not sell any of the chicks that I hatch to the 4H kids. I hatch eggs that I am able to aquire and when the chicks are 3 to 5 days old, I allow the kids to pick out the chicks they want. No money ever changes hands. A lot of these kids have absolutely nothing, and it is my way to give the...
So how would a poultry project leader be able to get some of the eggs to hatch and then disperse to the 4H kids to show at the local county fair?
I have been running my incubator close to a month now for the children who do not have the means of buying birds, to show. I would like to buy some...