- Dec 22, 2014
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I'm 4H-er and I currently have a flock of about 50 chicken. My sister and I share the duties of taking care of these birds. We have been the county grand and reserve grand champion the past two years. We enjoy our chickens very much. Lately we have been researching about call ducks. We are very interested in expanding and buying some of these little guys this winter. Unfortunately, I cannot find any hatcheries that sell them and have had no luck on Craigslist. Any recommendations on where I could find some at a descent price? Or even hatch some of their eggs. This brings me to my second question. We are very interested in breeding our cochins. I have begun looking into some show stock birds. I would like to start this project small before I get a lot of money wrapped up into it. I have an incubator and three coops. I'm thinking we should start by breeding black cochins. I don't want to do anything crazy like blue or and kind of lacing. Where could I find some information on this? I have done some research about using the incubator. But I have not found very many resources for breeding the chickens. If anyone has any advice, rescources, or contacts, it would be greatly appreciated.
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