Anti-hatching.... Wait for spring

[rodriguezpoultry]

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This I hear is really early, not really considered very late. This idea might be one of those things like the egg-shape sexing trick...

I suppose it's how you look at it. My hatching season starts in early January and ends in March or April. To some it's late but for me, it's normal.

 

[Oregon Blues]

There is no reason for the chicks to be any different. They get the same genetic material.

The only reason for them to be inferior would be if you are one of those people who doesn't take adequate care of their chickens. If chicks are born late in the season, there might not be good forage left, so chicks could end up stunted from lack of a balanced diet. That doesn't have anything to do with when they are hatched. It has to do with poor animal husbandry.

 

[Oregon Blues]

In fact, if chicks hatch late in the season, both the parents are fertile over a long time period, which ought to be a good thing when raising poultry.

 

[chicmom]

I was impulsive, and I hatched out 12 bantam chicks in early December....They're just fine.

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

I am hatching like crazy right now. I have people who want to raise hens to start laying late spring, early summer and now is the time. I like to hatch new breeders for next year in November.

 

[buffalogal]

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I've found my best layers are hatched very late in the fall or very late winter, months before the equinox. Even a sparrow is laying eggs in the spring.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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Or it could be that younger, immature birds won't place as high in a class when compared to birds hatched out earlier in the year.

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

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Or it could be that younger, immature birds won't place as high in a class when compared to birds hatched out earlier in the year.

No, the rule doesn't have anything to do with showing...

 

[flgardengirl]

Seems like my darkest layers hatched out in fall. Hmmm maybe there is something to that LOL! Seriously though, I haven't had any problem hatching any of my breeds in the fall but then again, I am in Florida and birds do better here in the winter in general than in the heat of the summer.

 

[zzGypsy]

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this makes good sense to me.