EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[summerb123]

 

[Pensmaster]

@BantyChooks

Update
Of the 10 the broody Altserier hen set 8 hatch 7 survived.

Experimental incubator now has 27 eggs. Mutts and Altsterier set 10-15-16

 

[BullChick]

@BantyChooks Ten mutt eggs due November second. Every single one of them needs to hatch.

 

[BantyChooks]

 

[BantyChooks]

Question: Can chickens molt in their first year of life? I was told that the two sultans I got were 6-8 months old, but they're molting in full force. They don't seem like they should be molting- i.e. pullet body shape and silky soft feathers.

 

[Pensmaster]

So feed store today was $95 for 4 bags layer feed and 2 bags starter non medicated 18%. Eggs sales, from last feed purchase, paid $56 of that $95 not bad considering I'm raising 14 meat birds and 13 Altsterier chicks along with the hens laying eggs. And there's food left over from last egg sales. Now if they could keep that up all winter we'll be doing something.

 

[BantyChooks]

How many lbs?

 

[kwhites634]

@BantyChooks

Update
Of the 10 the broody Altserier hen set 8 hatch 7 survived.

Experimental incubator now has 27 eggs. Mutts and Altsterier set 10-15-16

Another change of plans...I'm getting dizzy

Not roofing with corrugated panels of any kind; going with 3-tab shingles, instead...whole lot less $$....should be done later this week
Bought two 10' lengths of Z-bar from Lowes...p/u tomorrow

 

[Pensmaster]

Question: Can chickens molt in their first year of life? I was told that the two sultans I got were 6-8 months old, but they're molting in full force. They don't seem like they should be molting- i.e. pullet body shape and silky soft feathers.

Yes I believe chicks molt multiple times the first year

 

[Pensmaster]

How many lbs?

6 50# bags