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

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BantyChooks said:
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I keep talking to them in lock down. Trying to be encouraging. I've been good about not being too nervous this time around, but this period is always the worst, when you're like, "Will they hatch? Will they hatch?"
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So I just keep telling them how excited I am to meet them.
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Fire Ant Farm said:
I keep talking to them in lock down. Trying to be encouraging. I've been good about not being too nervous this time around, but this period is always the worst, when you're like, "Will they hatch? Will they hatch?"
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So I just keep telling them how excited I am to meet them.
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I sing to mine... instead of "love in an elevator", I sing "chicks in an incubator"
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they either love it or pop out so I'll stop-I sing awful
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Fire Ant Farm said:
I keep talking to them in lock down. Trying to be encouraging. I've been good about not being too nervous this time around, but this period is always the worst, when you're like, "Will they hatch? Will they hatch?" :barnie

So I just keep telling them how excited I am to meet them. :lau
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I just stare at the Bator for 3 days muttering "C'mon eggies, HATCH!!" :lau
 
meltel said:
I would highly suggest that since people are charging top dollar for garbage birds. I hate to say it but unless you have an insider connection, people who are advertising "show quality" often take pics of their best birds but don't send from those pens... and out of the 75% that hatch, only 10% are breeder or show quality and I have when kids have to be in the position to either show bad birds they hatched and get a low score or DQ or cull. right now white is the only accepted breed with hopefully black soon to come so hard for 4H cage. That or top breeder are offering birds to kids who cant afford a good pair for the cost of shipping and they are culls with DQ's instead of telling them to save another $35 or so fora decent bird locally. I will sell people pet birds from good lines but I ask they send me an email understanding that the birds are "pet quality" and not meant for breeding or showing. hatching on shipped eggs is 30% at best too
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Because I was informed I love to disagree I am going to "semi_Agree' I sell show quality birds , however, I think 10% is a high number of those that hatch being show birds. I think it is closer to 5%.

I wish I could get more for my chicks, People do not pay much for chicks around here. When a parent brings a kid to get chicks, and picks 2 or 3 birds the chances of them getting a show bird are pretty small.

I raise a ton of birds to pick my showbirds from, the rest become layers or breeders or fryers.. Its a fact of life.


I have found that the showbirds are not always the best breeders. Depending on what I am trying to breed in or out of the line. The system is kind of rigged against must 4h kids. They need the birds as chicks but few of them have room to raise 30-40 chicks to pick the winners.

Also Production/hatchery quality birds lay more eggs and are more fertile show quality birds many times. I had a judge that raises Speckled Sussex asking about my birds at the last show. He did not show at that show, he was telling me he had to add in hatchery stock to his to get fertility up.

Any bird can be pet quality. I have a ton of them! Anyways I think you are just a tad tough on "breeders" when they are not the whole fault. If the kids could get the birds at 6 weeks there would be a better chance of a show bird. BUT then the lose the other parts of bird raising.. Oh well, it is what it is..
 

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