Connecticut!

[Squeak61]

Hey fellow CT people Is anyone interested in some bantam pullets and/or bantam cockerels? An assortment of breeds, I’d be happy to give more details to anyone interested! Here are photos of two of the pullets.

 

[RoosterML]

Extra Cockerels!! I have a 1-White leghorn3-4 weeks old, 1-Delaware 10wks, 3-Lavender Orpington 6-7wks. All cockerels if anyone is interested. I will have them for a little while until processing time. So if you want one make a fair offer and you are welcome to them. All from different breeders not hatchery stock.

 

[jfillback]

I'm in Portland, CT and I'm looking to rehome 3 of my 4 Indian Runner ducks. All boys. We "rescued" them from someone who was going to "process" them. But they keep going after my chickens. So it's time for them to go, but I don't want to process them. It's not their fault they were born boys. lol. So, ideas? Locations that will take and protect them?

 

[RoosterML]

I'm in Portland, CT and I'm looking to rehome 3 of my 4 Indian Runner ducks. All boys. We "rescued" them from someone who was going to "process" them. But they keep going after my chickens. So it's time for them to go, but I don't want to process them. It's not their fault they were born boys. lol. So, ideas? Locations that will take and protect them?

Hope you find someone. I am pretty sure my rooster would set them straight but if not I would end up processing them myself so I am not your “protector”. Good luck

 

[fantomas]

Has anyone gotten fertilized white leghorn eggs from the UConn Poultry Farm? I called a couple times today and left a message. Just curious what the actual process is to getting a dozen... if I have to call ahead to pick up, or just show up and get them?

 

[RoosterML]

Has anyone gotten fertilized white leghorn eggs from the UConn Poultry Farm? I called a couple times today and left a message. Just curious what the actual process is to getting a dozen... if I have to call ahead to pick up, or just show up and get them?

Heck why didn’t I think of that. I am about 15 minutes from UCONN. I ordered Leghorn eggs out of PA and not a one hatched. I never even thought about them. Have you tried emailing them at all? Please post back what your finding were and how you made out. Good luck!

 

[fantomas]

Heck why didn’t I think of that. I am about 15 minutes from UCONN. I ordered Leghorn eggs out of PA and not a one hatched. I never even thought about them. Have you tried emailing them at all? Please post back what your finding were and how you made out. Good luck!

I'm sure you also probably paid more than $1/egg lol. I only called this afternoon so I'm not going to bombard them. I'm sure with the drop off in students since the end of the semester the staff there is working extra hard at the moment. I'm about an hour away in Middletown and have only been on the campus once in my life so I literally have no idea where I'd even go even if they do allow walk ups. Do you buy fertilized eggs directly from the UConn Dairy Bar? This is the only info I found for the eggs http://animalscience.uconn.edu/poultry/poultryFarm.php

 

[JMotuzick]

Dairy bar is not what it once was.... no more home made ice cream, they buy heresy like everyone else....

 

[fantomas]

I completely forgot to check back in. After a couple rounds of phone tag, I went and picked up a dozen white leghorn eggs for $12. Got home and there were only 11 in the carton... I don't think that's how chicken math is supposed to work. Anyways, I had to throw out one egg that somehow cracked a week into incubating. This is my first hatch, and I'm not really sure what I'm looking at when candling, but there's at least 2 that seem to be developing fine, and the rest are questionable. I don't want to count them out quite yet, but I'll candle them again maybe Monday and decide what to do from there. I'm trying not to over handle the eggs, because again, I have no idea what I'm doing.

 

[fantomas]

Alright 5 days to go until hatch day. The candling light on the Nurture Right 360 I bought was useless. Decided to get this candler https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FQNX9WF/?tag=backy-20 and it work fantastically. Was finally able to see movement! Had to toss 2 more eggs due to them being no good, but now we have a possibility of 8 chicks out of the original 11 eggs. Very exciting! I'll check back in again in a week after the hatch! Unfortunately now I have only 4 weeks or so to build a second coop for them to go in until they get big enough to be with the current 5 pullets we have.