Arizona Chickens

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I'm confused: Buckeye 4H, but you're from Gilbert?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Sorry we missed you, it was great. Stay tuned, we'll do it again next week somewhere else. I think it's at McClintock and Baseline (?) Seattle Coffee? 8 O'Clock?

8 o'clock at Seattle Espresso, Warner and McClintock (NE corner, near Harbor Freight, back behind the Farmer's Market that starts at about 9 on Saturdays)

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Did you candle to see the size of the air sac? Thats a bummer. Hate to hear that happening. Did you pay much?

they cost 30 dollars
its a member of the ameraucana club
an ameraucana breeder
on craigslist

Ask for your $$ back. While it might be possible for an egg older than 6 weeks to hatch, it is not very likely, and to sell them as hatchable is unconscionable. If they will not refund your money (or alternatively supply new and FRESH eggs (2 weeks or less)), complain to the ameraucana club. I don't know if it will get you very far or not, but at least you will be making people aware of an unscrupulous egg dealer. If they say that 6 week old and older eggs are hatchable, makes one wonder about the quality of their "ameraucanas."

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Rabbits are pretty good at it, too

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Thank you! I am honoured! and humbled!

 

[squeakyballs]

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I don't understand what you are trying to say.

by what i mean i think they would not sell old eggs or refrigerated eggs
to people to incubate they would give the freshest eggs and not refrigerate
eggs so a happy customer would purchase again from them
good customer service is great to have but everyone thinks different
god does not help people when they ripoff other people when
you do something bad god is not happy sorry to be
too religous but i mean god does not compensate them

So, basically, karma.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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My neighbor tried telling me that same thing. She said she had 72 eggs in the bator from her own hens. I asked "how do you collect 72 eggs from 10 hens?" She said took about 6 weeks to do but said that as long as you don't keep the eggs cold they are good if they still sink to the bottom of the glass. I thought that test was for eating them, not hatching them. Needless to say she said she hatched 18 out of the 72.... wonder why???

.. Maybe she will catch on..

If a hen lays an egg a day, in one week ten hens would lay 70 eggs. It's one thing to put old eggs into your own incubator on the hopes that some will hatch, selling them, on the other hand is, in my opinion, FRAUD!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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My neighbor tried telling me that same thing. She said she had 72 eggs in the bator from her own hens. I asked "how do you collect 72 eggs from 10 hens?" She said took about 6 weeks to do but said that as long as you don't keep the eggs cold they are good if they still sink to the bottom of the glass. I thought that test was for eating them, not hatching them. Needless to say she said she hatched 18 out of the 72.... wonder why???

.. Maybe she will catch on..

this person refrigerates the eggs they were cold
when i went to my friends house to incubate them
they were cold that was 2 hours later so she
refrigerate the eggs

I have heard of a number of people who refrigerate hatching eggs without issue. I would guess, though that the temperature of the refrigerator could make a big difference.

 

[mclevinson]

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Rabbits are pretty good at it, too

Raised bed. I suppose I could encase it with chicken wire but it kinda takes the fun out of it. I figure I'll keep plugging away and eventually something will make it to ripeness.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Rabbits are pretty good at it, too

Raised bed. I suppose I could encase it with chicken wire but it kinda takes the fun out of it. I figure I'll keep plugging away and eventually something will make it to ripeness.

Rasied how high? My rabbit used to make it up to the garage roof (he and one of the cats were best friends, and their favourite game was tag. Hart (the bunny) preferred the role of It, but would occasionally let Vash (the cat be It). Sadly, I lost him to a repeat bout of snuffles (very nasty rabbit disease).

edited to add: should mention that there are stairs (tall ones) up to the garage roof.