2015 HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long, Join us IF YOU DARE!

[Cynthia12]

ron, have you baked anything yummy lately? Today? Or cooked something? You always have something going.

 

[tracyjg]

Any chance you could try buying chicks and raising them to adults?  At least to start with, while you perfect your incubation.  You probably wouldn't want to raise all 100 chickens at once, I have a couple hundred birds and only raise my meat birds 25 at a time.  It's hard to find freezer or canning jar space for 25, much less 100.  If you were to buy 25 Cornish Crosses you could harvest them before Christmas, maybe a couple by Thanksgiving.

There is no reason you should need to chill your house that much!  Just set your eggs within a week or 10 days.  A dozen hens should be able to provide enough to fill your incubators.

What do you plan to do with the rest of the eggs you don't set?  Collecting them and letting them sit is not healthy for you or for them.  Can you donate or sell them to someone who can use them?

Yes we did these already. 10 in back yard where bought at a day old.there big children know.7 where give to us. The rest off spring

 

[Cynthia12]

Any chance you could try buying chicks and raising them to adults? At least to start with, while you perfect your incubation. You probably wouldn't want to raise all 100 chickens at once, I have a couple hundred birds and only raise my meat birds 25 at a time. It's hard to find freezer or canning jar space for 25, much less 100. If you were to buy 25 Cornish Crosses you could harvest them before Christmas, maybe a couple by Thanksgiving.

There is no reason you should need to chill your house that much! Just set your eggs within a week or 10 days. A dozen hens should be able to provide enough to fill your incubators.

What do you plan to do with the rest of the eggs you don't set? Collecting them and letting them sit is not healthy for you or for them. Can you donate or sell them to someone who can use them?

Not candling is okay, chickens don't candle their eggs. But you won't know if you are doing things right if you don't, and won't be able to correct issues in time. Even if you don't pick them up, as long as you have the eggs fat end up in the turner (if you use a turner), you can just shine a flashlight or cell phone light into the fat end without moving them.

This is a grand idea. Buy the chickens to eat. Donate the eggs. There are a lot of hungry families out there.

 

[Cynthia12]

Prizepete, where are you?

 

[tracyjg]

The ones in little giant or in the turner I only candied one row.its not possible to get any more live chicks at the moment. Because of my medical and surgery . I have to do with what I have on property.

 

[tracyjg]

I can't sell them. It didn't say anything about donating to charity.selling is money it deals with money and riches in religious world that sin.

 

[tracyjg]

I not sure.wouldn't donation of eggs eating be the same sin as us eating them.

 

[tracyjg]

I don't now gods law on ones not used in incubation. He say bury the ones not hatched by hen. Bible law goes back way before incubation .

 

[Cynthia12]

We can't really talk religion .. it is one of those things that is very different for every one. We are here to talk about incubating eggs for this Halloween Hatch A Long. And, sometimes some other ... fun things get brought up.

 

[WalnutHill]

The ones in little giant or in the turner I only candied one row.its not possible to get any more live chicks at the moment. Because of my medical and surgery . I have to do with what I have on property.

I understand. Let's focus then on getting a successful hatch in just the Little Giant incubator.

Most religions place a high value on charity to the needy. Donating eggs that have not been incubated shouldn't be an issue, but if you pen up your roosters away from your hens after you gather some eggs to set, the eggs would not be fertile after a couple of weeks and that should pose no problems at all.