calling any one from missouri

[bullets]

Hello all! Was wondering if anyone here sells hatching eggs? I live in Camdenton and have received many shipped eggs but I'd be curious how much better my hatch rate would be from shipped inside the state. If you eggs/chicks/birds whatever, please feel free to post a link to your website. I'd like to see what maybe some of you have available.

 

[daxigait]

This time of year I just have eggs for bluee and green egg layers. Mixed hens with EE, Ameraucana, and CL cocks. My Heritage RIR are not laying yet.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I'm getting one olive and one brown egg each day. 10 mature hens and 5 POL pullets that haven't started yet. Every day it looks like someone had a pillow fight. 3 roosters molting look really rough.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Hello all! Was wondering if anyone here sells hatching eggs? I live in Camdenton and have received many shipped eggs but I'd be curious how much better my hatch rate would be from shipped inside the state. If you eggs/chicks/birds whatever, please feel free to post a link to your website. I'd like to see what maybe some of you have available.

IMHO, shipped eggs are shipped eggs. They aren't likely to get any worse treatment going from LA to NYC than they would shipping from STL to Lake of the Ozarks.
Best bet is to hand carry them.
I'll be selling again come December into spring.

 

[Jensownzoo]

I'm getting one olive and one brown egg each day. 10 mature hens and 5 POL pullets that haven't started yet. Every day it looks like someone had a pillow fight. 3 roosters molting look really rough.

LOL, at least you have breakfast? My 9 month olds and all the guineas/geese/ducks are having a mild molt right now too. I'm enjoying gathering up some of the prettiest coverts scattered, well, everywhere to use in making some xmas ornaments this year. Egg production has been halved, but am getting about 9 a day.

 

[daxigait]

Hello all! Was wondering if anyone here sells hatching eggs? I live in Camdenton and have received many shipped eggs but I'd be curious how much better my hatch rate would be from shipped inside the state. If you eggs/chicks/birds whatever, please feel free to post a link to your website. I'd like to see what maybe some of you have available. 

There are two good sources right near Springfield. One is rare breeds of the Ozarks (NPIP), and the other has some common breeds and beautiful first generation EE. PM me if you want her number.

 

[microchick]

My 18 month olds are enjoying their first molt also. The coop and run look like a pillow fight happened when I wasn't looking. The hens look particularly ragged but what's funny is to see the roosters strutting around trying to look tough with a single tail feather sticking up in the air.

I have about a dozen hens from the original flock that aren't laying right now. I'm getting 2-4 eggs a day from my younger hens. Even my momma hen with 7 babes that are 4 weeks old started laying again, laid one egg, then stopped and went into molt. I'm really glad as she laid the first egg after brooding her new family for a week and I wanted her to stay with them until at least they were fledged out due to the cooler weather.

 

[Howard E]

Anyone in the Columbia area use Bourn Feed's custom layer mix?

There is a BIG price break on it (about $10 / 50# vs. the $16 to $17 they charge for their Purina bags), but you need to take it in 500# min orders. If you don't know, they grind and mix the grains and then add a protein and nutrient supplement that I suspect they also get from Purina or one of it's subsidiaries. They also add calcium for the layers.

Seems to be a good deal if the birds will do well on it.

 

[Rickie Taylor]

Hi! Southeast Missourian here!! From Wappapello!

 

[BurbsteadGirl]

Sounding off from Blue Springs Mo! Where we are not allowed to have chickens, or quail, or pheasants, or livestock, or anything remotely resembling self-sufficiency, or any fun... I need to move. One day I will find my happy place, and live the life I want to live.

So, yeah... Hello from BSMO!