Cream Legbars

[faykokoWV]

I totally agree sol2go, hatch those eggs out while you can!

I am about ready to throw in the hatching towel this year on Cream Legbars. ANOTHER male heavy hatch, 10 males 4 reg females 1 white female. Of the eggs that almost made it, 2 were female and 3 were male. YIKES!! Even Stinky can't keep up with the amount of males I'm hatching. I sold 32 males of various breeds to a guy last week who is going to grow them out and eat them, and this batch I am putting down all but 3 males. Man I hate culling perfectly healthy chicks. This makes 4 or 5 hatches in a row that I've had VERY heavy male hatches.

Rinda

I was trying to catch up and the thread - so hard to keep up with, but I had to comment on this one - out of 2 dz eggs hatched - only 2 were female here - I feel your pain lol

 

[darkbrowneggs]

I am not sure how long your chicks are journeying but until a few years ago I often bought chicks which came by rail.

They were packed in the normal chick transport boxes, but the boxes were always full of chicks, so you could only order them in 25's I think it was though you probably paid for 24.

The double boxes held 50, so I would guess 25 is an optimum number. The chicks being very close together held each other up and kept each other warm. There was often one maybe sometimes two dead on arrival and there was a possibility of losing maybe another one or two in the first couple of days, but I was never aware of any heavy losses, even when the boxes arrived one cold Feb and were left standing on a draughty train platform.

They were purchased as "dayold" so I would guess were packed straight from the hatcher once dry and fluffy and dispatched to arrive same day. Don't know if any of this is helpful but thought I would post it anyway.

Forgot to say, but the boxes were lined out with wood wool with the chicks in the middle. Assuming hatched chicks don't need to eat/drink for 2 or even 3 days then properly dry fresh hatched chicks should make it ok. I suppose over with you excess heat could be more of a problem - not something we suffer with that often in the UK

As far as I know there is no way of moving live birds round the country here other that by special journey couriers, which are ridiculously expensive - £600 to take a trio of Marans from the Midlands to Isle of Skye :~0

 

[dretd]

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So I have to ask, what is wood wool?

It seems like from the Midlands to Isle of Skye really should just be a good days drive, or am I remembering wrong? Couldn't you transport your own birds and make a weekend of it? That is a ridiculous price!

 

[darkbrowneggs]

I just knew you would have different name for it in the US - here is a piccie. What is it called with you?

http://www.packitdirect.co.uk/acatalog/Bottle_Protectors_and_Box_Fillings_Products.html

I agree about the courier charges. I don't get out and about that much, hence my interest in breeding poultry as it is something I can do at home, but folk often ask me if I can arrange transport, I told the lady involved in the £600 trip that it wasn't justified but someone I know sold her a trio and I later spoke to the courier who took them up, hence knowing the cost of the trip. As you say, nice work if you can get it - a weekend away in a lovely part of the country and £600 in the pocket

 

[Bama1]

I just knew you would have different name for it in the US - here is a piccie.  What is it called with you?

http://www.packitdirect.co.uk/acatalog/Bottle_Protectors_and_Box_Fillings_Products.html

I agree about the courier charges.  I don't get out and about that much, hence my interest in breeding poultry as it is something I can do at home, but folk often ask me if I can arrange transport, I told the lady involved in the £600 trip that it wasn't justified but someone I know sold her a trio and I later spoke to the courier who took them up, hence knowing the cost of the trip.  As you say, nice work if you can get it - a weekend away in a lovely part of the country and £600 in the pocket

In the US it is called Excelsior or wood curl shavings. Excelsior is the company that sells it also hence the name.

 

[TherryChicken]

Here is my new gorgeous boy

 

[TherryChicken]

My new beautiful pullet

 

[ChicKat]

Here is my new gorgeous boy

Hi Therry,

wow -- amazing birds -- more info is needed.............. where did they come from? how old are they? etc. You have a really gabulous pair of birds there from what I can see.

 

[TherryChicken]

Hi Therry, 

wow -- amazing birds -- more info is needed..............  where did they come from?  how old are they? etc.  You have a really gabulous pair of birds there from what I can see.  

Hi, thank you! They came from the breeding president in marble falls, tx andthese babies are 16 weeks

 

[FridayYet]

Hi, thank you! They came from the breeding president in marble falls, tx andthese babies are 16 weeks

They are really nice birds. (Wish I lived closer to GaryDean26!) Welcome to the thread.

Legbars are so fun; mine are so curious. Not to thrilled to be picked up, but mine settle right down when I do. I was working in the run today and had picked them up and put them on a roost so I could rake. Thing 2 flew over and sat on my shoulder so she could supervise. (Startled the heck out of me at first!)

They handled the heat pretty well yesterday. It hit 108 degrees and they were panting in the shade under the coop, but ran out for chilled cherry tomatoes and didn't look too stressed or lethargic. They didn't even go in the wading pan I put in there.