Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[SnapdragonQ]

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10101533275242897&id=197604227

OMG I about peed my pants!! Thank you.

...for the laugh...not the pee.

 

[BitterSweetCitrus]

That's wild, based on the last time I went to my local feed stores (for chicks), they hadn't started with store pick up, or curb side pick up! I assume they'll have a section where they set out chicks that has heating and maybe a security camera, I mean that's the only way I could see them doing it.

 

[FortCluck]

From your own eggs?? I want to hatch from my own eggs so badly but the cockerels are only 4 months old

They should be mating soon

 

[FortCluck]

We're starting our incubator for our first hatch this year.
I'm pondering putting in two dozen eggs. We have them to spare right now.

Just chicken eggs?

 

[FortCluck]

As soon as any commercial place near you gets chicks RUN, we stopped at a feed store about an hour after the chicks arrived and they were practically ALL GONE! Apparently upon opening (before they even got chicks), people had been coming in waiting for them to get them in!

I'm so glad that I got my bantams when I did because our tractor supply has been selling out like crazy ever since this whole virus has started.

I got my Bantams probably 4 weeks ago or something like that before anything really got bad here. I went there one day and they had just gotten their delivery that morning I got the best of the best for my bantams too.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

From your own eggs?? I want to hatch from my own eggs so badly but the cockerels are only 4 months old

Just chicken eggs?

Yeah I have a flock of low quality wheaten Ameraucanas (roo and hens) and half wheaten am easter eggers (hens only). I wanna work on the lines but that means hatching out a LOT of chicks. We might do more than that.

We got a chicken plucker this year. That's where all the roos and retiring hens will probably end up, the cull pullets will probably be sold as easter eggers (since they basically are).

And just chickens. We don't own other birds. Just the one flock. It's 8 chickens total right now but we have the capacity for more.

 

[sdm111]

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Newsweek says chicks are being sold out nationwide. Meyer hatchery is sold out for a month and lines are forming outside TSC on chick days.
https://www.newsweek.com/baby-chick...-americans-panic-buy-feathery-friends-1494868
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ns-sell-families-try-set-small-holdings-make/

 

[FortCluck]

Yeah I have a flock of low quality wheaten Ameraucanas (roo and hens) and half wheaten am easter eggers (hens only). I wanna work on the lines but that means hatching out a LOT of chicks. We might do more than that.

We got a chicken plucker this year. That's where all the roos and retiring hens will probably end up, the cull pullets will probably be sold as easter eggers (since they basically are).

And just chickens. We don't own other birds. Just the one flock. It's 8 chickens total right now but we have the capacity for more.

We have a lot of chicks plus eggs in the bator right now.

I'm done seeing all the meat gone at the grocery stores. I don't see how people can't butcher their own animals... If there was any time to start it would be now!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Newsweek says chicks are being sold out nationwide. Meyer hatchery is sold out for a month and lines are forming outside TSC on chick days.
https://www.newsweek.com/baby-chick...-americans-panic-buy-feathery-friends-1494868