6th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2015 Hatch-A-Long

[tommysgirl]

I thinks we should invite these guys to play with us.

http://www.worldpoultry.net/Breeder...ans-hatch-eggs-the-traditional-way-WP008725W/

 

[LAChick]

Tommysgirl, thank you for letting me know about the Marans. I live in Ferndale, Ca,a small Victorian cowtown. If you could come up with the contact for the splash Marans's eggs, I will go that route. Thank you!

 

[Aphrael]

I hope they hatch!

Quite an assortment of parents too!

Yeah. I should have pure bred SFH, pure Lavender Orpingtons, Lav Orp over EE and OE, and most likely a few Lav Orp over BA/RIR. Because there are a couple whose eggs are very difficult to tell apart from the orp eggs. I hope they hatch good too! I'm so excited! First run in this new incubator.

I have found some eggs. Mixed breeds but there is a NN rooster in there with them. May be getting a few Cochin cross eggs also. I've ordered 2 dozen and will gather some from the few that I still have laying.

Those should hatch out some very interesting babies!

I thinks we should invite these guys to play with us.

http://www.worldpoultry.net/Breeder...ans-hatch-eggs-the-traditional-way-WP008725W/

Okay, now that is just cool.

 

[tommysgirl]

They look so nice!

The person with Marans in Sanoma is @dldolan

Tommysgirl, thank you for letting me know about the Marans. I live in Ferndale, Ca,a small Victorian cowtown. If you could come up with the contact for the splash Marans's eggs, I will go that route. Thank you!

@LAChick I know Ferndale.

I actually am planning an overnight there en route to Gold Beach to celebrate my husband's and my 25th anniversary in May. Ron came up with the breeder name so deserves the credit. Pretty sure you can click on the hyper link in the first quote on this post and it takes you to their member page. They have BEAUTIFUL Marans.

 

[ronott1]

@LAChick I know Ferndale.

I actually am planning an overnight there en route to Gold Beach to celebrate my husband's and my 25th anniversary in May. Ron came up with the breeder name so deserves the credit. Pretty sure you can click on the hyper link in the first quote on this post and it takes you to their member page. They have BEAUTIFUL Marans.

Ferndale is a nice place. I have been the car show before.

 

[tommysgirl]

Yeah. I should have pure bred SFH, pure Lavender Orpingtons, Lav Orp over EE and OE, and most likely a few Lav Orp over BA/RIR. Because there are a couple whose eggs are very difficult to tell apart from the orp eggs. I hope they hatch good too! I'm so excited! First run in this new incubator.

Okay, now that is just cool.

Glad you found SFH

Isn't it...can you imagine a walk in incubator?

 

[Suze357]

I think hatching eggs are ridiculously expensive! people trying too hard to make a buck!!! I sell hatching eggs (when I have them) for fifty cents a piece and will gladly pay that! I will no longer pay a dollar an egg and would never pay three dollars an egg when you have no idea whether or not it will hatch!!! If you think you have some super special stock you have worked on breeding or collecting I will gladly pay you 5 dollars per chick that does hatch but people need to get a clue and quit being so greedy !!!!!!!

 

[chicken pickin]

I think hatching eggs are ridiculously expensive! people trying too hard to make a buck!!! I sell hatching eggs (when I have them) for fifty cents a piece and will gladly pay that! I will no longer pay a dollar an egg and would never pay three dollars an egg when you have no idea whether or not it will hatch!!! If you think you have some super special stock you have worked on breeding or collecting I will gladly pay you 5 dollars per chick that does hatch but people need to get a clue and quit being so greedy !!!!!!!

I don't think it is greed in most cases. I personally think that paying $1-5 per egg is very reasonable and very acceptable. The reason being is that the person that is selling those eggs has put in extra work, they need to make extra pens, keep breeds separate, collect eggs numerous times throughout the day. Once collected the eggs need to be stored properly and turned 3 times per day until eggs are set or sold or shipped. Work is put into raising the birds and I believe the work should be repaid. Im not into chickens to make money off of them that's for sure lol, but this is a way to help the chickens pay for them selves and the owners deserve it.

I myself sell mix breed eggs for $1 each, non SOP pure breeds for $2 each and Cream Legbar which I am breeding to the proposed SOP are currently for $5 per egg. And I would gladly pay these prices (and have) to others.

 

[tommysgirl]

I think hatching eggs are ridiculously expensive! people trying too hard to make a buck!!! I sell hatching eggs (when I have them) for fifty cents a piece and will gladly pay that! I will no longer pay a dollar an egg and would never pay three dollars an egg when you have no idea whether or not it will hatch!!! If you think you have some super special stock you have worked on breeding or collecting I will gladly pay you 5 dollars per chick that does hatch but people need to get a clue and quit being so greedy !!!!!!!

This is how I look at it...If I go out to dinner and to the movies it's easily 35.00. or more ...for that 35.00 I generally get a meal and some decent entertainment. But there are no guarantees I will really like either.

If I spend 40.00 to 50.00 on hatching eggs I get:

the fun of picking out the breed
the happiness of finding a breeder
the excitement of the arrival of the hatching eggs
the pleasure of making a broody hen happy
the joy of seeing dancing embryos
the thrill of the hatch
and every time so far...at least 1 new pullet who can make me a meal a day and this year multiple cockerels who can feed my family

If you compare it to a night out... there is really no comparison. I get so much more pleasure over so many more days and ultimately weeks and months and years when I hatch. I guess it is all in the way you look at it but hatching eggs is a bargain when compared with most other forms of entertainment and in the end you get chickens

!!!

BTW if anyone knows where I can buy well shipped Houdan eggs...I will almost certainly pay their asking price.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

@MrsBrooke: I keep infant liquid vitamins (without the iron) and triple antibiotic ointment (without pain relief) on hand when hatching. I use both of these often.