5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[AK FLOCK SWAP]

I want to join, I really do. But I don't even have a bator and we worry about hatching roosters. Ugh, I really want to join!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/homemade-chicken-egg-incubator-designs-pictures these are easy an inexpensive to build i built one for $15 it can be done and in just a few hr "IF" you have all the part and knowledge.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/homemade-chicken-incubator<<<<< here is the one I copied
Here is what I made<<<<<

 

[Haveandtohold]

You could always sell or rehome any cockerels you get... Or send them to freezer camp... Just sayin...

Let's talk about freezer camp for a second could we? I worked in a genetics lab and the "humane" way to deal with fruit flies they did research on was to freeze them but things like mice and rats were done with cervical dislocation. Is freezing considered ethical with roo chicks? I'm only hatching ornamental bantams right now so I hope it doesn't come to that but I like to have a back up to my back-up plans just in case.

 

[AK FLOCK SWAP]

I don't see anything wrong with it personally but other might. Plastic bag and freezer they will sleep pretty quick I would think...

 

[ronott1]

Let's talk about freezer camp for a second could we? I worked in a genetics lab and the "humane" way to deal with fruit flies they did research on was to freeze them but things like mice and rats were done with cervical dislocation. Is freezing considered ethical with roo chicks? I'm only hatching ornamental bantams right now so I hope it doesn't come to that but I like to have a back up to my back-up plans just in case.

Unless they are auto sexing or Sex linked crosses it take 3 weeks or much longer to tell Cockerels from pullets.

Freezing may work but would be slower than other was for birds as opposed to flies.

A couple of times with chicks that were not going to make it I used a zip lock bag, a pair of scissors and a paper towel. It is quick but hard to do emotionally.

 

[Aphrael]

Let's talk about freezer camp for a second could we? I worked in a genetics lab and the "humane" way to deal with fruit flies they did research on was to freeze them but things like mice and rats were done with cervical dislocation. Is freezing considered ethical with roo chicks? I'm only hatching ornamental bantams right now so I hope it doesn't come to that but I like to have a back up to my back-up plans just in case.

I don't see anything wrong with it personally but other might. Plastic bag and freezer they will sleep pretty quick I would think...

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Nonono I didn't mean freezing live little chicks... I meant freezer camp as in raising them until they have some meat and then eating them... That is what we do with all extra roos (or any roos that don't behave themselves suitably).

 

[Haveandtohold]

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Nonono I didn't mean freezing live little chicks... I meant freezer camp as in raising them until they have some meat and then eating them... That is what we do with all extra roos (or any roos that don't behave themselves suitably).

Lol Ok wow that's really different! Yeah I was kinda thinking it was wasteful to cull so young when they're not really any use at all besides being adorable!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Not all Trader Joes and Whole Foods carry fertile eggs. It will say on the carton. The TJ in my town does not carry fertile eggs. They thought I was crazy. The WF here does carry fertiles but they didn't hatch. They were about 2 weeks old. They have to travel from the farm in Wisconsin to the distribution center in Chicago and on to St. Louis.

They all have a Julian date on them so you know the date they were packed which is probably a day or two after lay.

 

[ronott1]

!!!!

Nonono I didn't mean freezing live little chicks... I meant freezer camp as in raising them until they have some meat and then eating them... That is what we do with all extra roos (or any roos that don't behave themselves suitably).

There is no chicken tastier!

 

[tadpole98]

Got some mottled Cochin eggs and going to bigs on some Malaysian/serama eggs in a few hours *crossing fjngers*

 

[ronott1]

Got some mottled Cochin eggs and going to bigs on some Malaysian/serama eggs in a few hours *crossing fjngers*

I hope you win the auction!