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suncatcher said:
I too love to read. Have you heard of any Chicken Magazines that one can order, and they come once a month? I am looking to broaden my chicken knowledge which is very little!
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Poultry Press is the only monthly I've heard of that might be worth a subscription (www.poultrypress.com), but I can't say I've done extensive research on them. I have so much to read right now it's crazy - I have three physical books I'm in varying stages of completion in, and three e-books I'm partway through as well :) I guess I kind of got into the habit of being partway through multiple books while I was finishing my degree, and now reading just one at a time feels like I'm being lazy LOL. Some are about general keeping and breeding, one is about Dominiques, one is about the genetics of color breeding - this last being a gigantic volume which begins with how the domestic chicken came to be, comparing all the theories, proof, etc. - someone very kindly sent me a scanned copy, it is out of print, and old copies are dear.

One thing I've taken note of is that writers discussing poultry a century or more ago were very sure they were right, and somewhat indignant that they had to publish it to prove it LOL. One book I'm about through is one called The Call of the Hen (Walter Hogan) - the writer's style is really entertaining, at the same time very informative and he does say he's proven his methods repeatedly. It was recommended reading by someone on the Heritage Large Fowl thread. The pictures in it are almost useless because they're bad copies of bad black and white photos, but no less fascinating to read and re-read instructions on how the author improves the laying percentage of his flocks.

I also have the new APA Standard of Perfection, which I've barely cracked except to read over the standards for Sussex and Leghorns, but I'm told the first 50 pages or so have very useful information, so I am planning to make time to read them (and read the standards again) in the next few weeks.

If you want the names of some other books that were recommended to me let me know, I can post them here.
 
Pozees: When you come over we'll go through my digital poultry old-time library and you can have copies of whatever you want. I really enjoyed "the call of the hen"

I took some time over the weekend and set up a tentative breeding/setting/hatching schedule. Of course, it is all subject to change, but I needed to have something of a plan writen down. There will be specific periods that I will have fertile eggs available. After we do 4 hatches, if the hatch rates are good enough (i want about 100 chicks this year) I can keep the breeding pen running until people don't want any more fertile eggs, at ehich point the breeding pen will be shut down.
Here is the tentative schedule:

2013 Eggs collection and incubation/hatching schedule
Windy Ridge Dominiques

1 cockerel, 6 hens in breeding pen

Feb 23: Set up breeding pen
Feb 27: collect eggs 1 week
Mar 07: Set eggs
Mar 8-20: collect fertile hatching eggs (potentially about 70 eggs available)
Mar 20: collect eggs 1 week
Mar 28-ish: 1st Hatch
Mar 29: Set eggs
Mar 30-Apr 11: collect fertile hatching eggs (potentially about 70 eggs available)
Apr 12: collect eggs 1 week
Apr 19-ish: 2nd Hatch
Apr 20: Set eggs
Apr 20 – May 6: collect fertile hatching eggs (potentially about 70 eggs available)
May 07: Collect eggs 1 week
May 13-ish: 3rd Hatch
May 15-?: collect for selling fertile hatching eggs
May 15: Set eggs
Jun 05-ish: 4th hatch

If we get an 80% hatch rate, then we should have around 100 chicks. More could be set…..
 
I built a nest box where the eggs will roll away from the chickens. I am pretty sure I got the dimensions correct. Can't wait to see it work! Just need some astro turf, and I am ready!!
 
wsmith said:
Pozees: When you come over we'll go through my digital poultry old-time library and you can have copies of whatever you want. I really enjoyed "the call of the hen"

I took some time over the weekend and set up a tentative breeding/setting/hatching schedule. Of course, it is all subject to change, but I needed to have something of a plan writen down. There will be specific periods that I will have fertile eggs available. After we do 4 hatches, if the hatch rates are good enough (i want about 100 chicks this year) I can keep the breeding pen running until people don't want any more fertile eggs, at ehich point the breeding pen will be shut down.
Here is the tentative schedule:

2013 Eggs collection and incubation/hatching schedule
Windy Ridge Dominiques

1 cockerel, 6 hens in breeding pen

Feb 23: Set up breeding pen
Feb 27: collect eggs 1 week
Mar 07: Set eggs
Mar 8-20: collect fertile hatching eggs (potentially about 70 eggs available)
Mar 20: collect eggs 1 week
Mar 28-ish: 1st Hatch
Mar 29: Set eggs
Mar 30-Apr 11: collect fertile hatching eggs (potentially about 70 eggs available)
Apr 12: collect eggs 1 week
Apr 19-ish: 2nd Hatch
Apr 20: Set eggs
Apr 20 – May 6: collect fertile hatching eggs (potentially about 70 eggs available)
May 07: Collect eggs 1 week
May 13-ish: 3rd Hatch
May 15-?: collect for selling fertile hatching eggs
May 15: Set eggs
Jun 05-ish: 4th hatch

If we get an 80% hatch rate, then we should have around 100 chicks. More could be set…..
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