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

[ChickenCanoe]

Awww! They make good flock protectors though.

I got the eggs when they were a few days from hatching. Then I turned them over to geese peace to care for. Then I spent a couple hours cleaning the hatcher and unclogging the fans.

 

[dan26552]

I got the eggs when they were a few days from hatching. Then I turned them over to geese peace to care for. Then I spent a couple hours cleaning the hatcher and unclogging the fans.

That's cool. I see.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That cool. I see.

They came from a friend that is licensed by the state and federal govt. to take down Canadian nests that create nuisances in urban areas. She usually oiled the eggs but knew they were fairly far along so she brought them to me.
They all hatched.

 

[kajira]

Those are honest prices and accurately reflect the value of the bird.
Around here, people still expect to be able to buy a grown hen for $10.
I refuse to sell anything for less than it cost me to raise.

I want that shirt so bad. Where did you find it?
I need to wear one to my next chicken class.

Let the buyer beware. That's the downside of swaps. Then you also bring home lots of lice and mites from less than careful owners.

I found it on amazon.com for like 16 dollars.

I'm going to buy one for myself, soon.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Does anyone else have white chickens that lay brown eggs.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I found it on amazon.com for like 16 dollars.

I'm going to buy one for myself, soon.

Explaining chicken math is a significant part of what I impart. The shirt should do it.

 

[NaJoBeLe]

pic of your eggs

I will try and snap a pic tonight!

I have a question what age chicks sell best because that is what I am hatching this batch for to sell

Bit behind on this one but unless it's something special and you have a buyer lined up or a reputation for that breed it will hardly be worth it to raise them to POL. It will undoubtedly cost more to house and feed them than you get. Anything past a day old starts costing money. If it's strictly for the money it's a losing game unless you can manage to go large scale. My neck of the woods people seem to like day old and I can usually get $2 for my mixed layers. For now I'm fine tuning my incubation process before I step up to pure lines and decide how I want to proceed.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Does anyone else have white chickens that lay brown eggs.

I did.
White Jersey Giants and White Rocks.

White Barnevelders, White Chanteclers, White Empordanesa, White Cochins, White Cornish, White Delawares, White Langshans and many, many other breeds that come in white varieties lay brown eggs.
Egg color and feather color have nothing to do with each other.
Egg color is breed specific, not feather color variety specific.


Most breeds with white earlobes lay white eggs and can have any number of feather color varieties.
Most breeds with red earlobes lay brown eggs. They can come in many feather color varieties.

However, Penedesencas and Empordanesas have white earlobes and lay extremely dark eggs.

 

[Beer can]

White naked necks also lay brown eggs
Watched a cooking show once, I actually believe it was Bobby Flay, said there was no difference between a brown egg and a white one, just that dark colored chickens laid brown eggs and white one's laid white eggs :O

 

[chicken hawk 33]

I think I did it yay Yay our thermostat in the house showed 73 and my thermometer hygrometer showed 73.4