Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[hillfloweranch]

Reposted from "hatchery orders" thread

Just had a crazy idea...
How about a hatchery get together..where people in their area gather the breed orders from BYC members and place an order then get together to deliver the babies? Thus allowing for a large order but since you can mix an match breeds to make up the minimum everyone would be able to get the birds they want without having to worry about the quantity of one breed?

 

[Gardeningmama]

That reminds me! I would love to see how your BLRW's are growing out!

I'll show you, but not impressive, yet, ugly teen phase. Sally Sunshine is my favorite though! She's a Splash Laced Red, with tons of personality! My only other pullet is a BLRW, but has a single comb

. I got 4 roos and 2 pullets (all that work and $$). Kiomey got the other 6, and I'll bet she has 4 pullets, 2 rooos

(Ki: Ya know I love ya, if you read this!)

 

[frankensusan]

Reposted from "hatchery orders" thread

Just had a crazy idea...
How about a hatchery get together..where people in their area gather the breed orders from BYC members and place an order then get together to deliver the babies? Thus allowing for a large order but since you can mix an match breeds to make up the minimum everyone would be able to get the birds they want without having to worry about the quantity of one breed?

ok. So if I can't the hatching eggs I want I might be in! I'm not that far away from you either.
Susan

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: OMG your silly! I certainly know those ugly stages! about the only birds I have that DONT have a uggly stage is silkies and cochin! LOL

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Reposted from "hatchery orders" thread

Just had a crazy idea...
How about a hatchery get together..where people in their area gather the breed orders from BYC members and place an order then get together to deliver the babies? Thus allowing for a large order but since you can mix an match breeds to make up the minimum everyone would be able to get the birds they want without having to worry about the quantity of one breed?

OMG I couldnt even imagine the organization!

After reading all this stuff about sickness and disease I am not sure I ever want any live birds coming into my place. not sure its worth it! I know I know I read to darn much!
Sucks I didnt make the Poultry Tech Cert last week!! uggggg

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Oh gosh... The conversation is too many chickens?

I started with a beautiful flock of 12 LF cochins. I then started hatching,and hatching, and hatching until we had nearly 50 of them. Mom put a stop to it and said I need to sell some, so I got the number down to 30. I lived happily with my flock of LF cochins for 5 years, but then last year, it all changed.

I decided that I needed more breeds, and that I was going to breed towards the standards of perfection. So I went out and bought a ton of different hatching eggs last fall. I now have 15 LF cochins, a dark brahma, 2 silkies, a sizzle, 2 leghorns, about 35 cochin bantams including buff, barred, silver laced, blue, black, white, silver pencilled, birchen, red, partridge, and a few others, 3 fantail pigeons, 3 black east indie ducks, 10 khaki campbell ducks (1 crested), my new sebastopol gosling, and I'm still counting. There are many breeds on my want list.

I'm going to set up a bunch of breeding pens for the different colored cochin bantams. I figured if I was going to breed something, it's have to be bantams to keep the price of food down.

Also, a guy wants me to hatch his peacock eggs and he said that I could keep some of the peachicks.

Now here comes the sad part, mom gave me a new 20 bird limit. How am I suppose to do that? It's not going to happen, haha. I'm hoping that selling and shipping eggs from breeding pens will help pay for feed to keep her happy.

I wish you were closer I would sell my two dark brahma hens to you as I am not sure I want to breed them. Good decision with bantams plus they dont take so darn long to grow out! OMG my fancies are sloooowww

20????? oh NO!

 

[sumi]

Quote: oh Sumi hit her up with your castle thread! she will love those pics or your adventures!!
Thanks for reminding me. We actually found another castle yesterday... A private home. I'm jealous! LOL Pics on thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/732027/castles-ruins-and-gatehouses-pic-heavy

 

[sumi]

Quote: The more the merrier! What are you plans with them?

 

[tlpounds]

Thank you so much. I'm thankful to have found this thread. I have the same model incubator.

 

[hillfloweranch]

OMG I couldnt even imagine the organization!

After reading all this stuff about sickness and disease I am not sure I ever want any live birds coming into my place. not sure its worth it! I know I know I read to darn much!
Sucks I didnt make the Poultry Tech Cert last week!! uggggg

Wouldn't be bad to organize, keep the limit of 25 per ea order but can order each week, then just setup meet day. The only hard part is to make sure people that place orders are committed so no one gets stuck with chicks they don't want and the cost of having ordered them.
But was just an idea, not sure if anyone is interested. I'm on this conservation kick at the moment, that's how I ended up choosing the breed I did plus it fits well into my climate area so kinda just fit. But that would be another great thread to start, getting BYC peeps to pick a breed that is endangered that fits their area/climate and have a conservation contest or something like that.