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

[daxigait]

Mornin Beautiful Dax

Good morning Sally!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Those land acreage make me dizzy! Me and my 1/12 of acre garden!

Come on over to North America, there's plenty of room for everyone

Thank you for the offer, but I won't leave my beloved country for any place in the world!

 

[daxigait]

Glad to hear it. I'm alive and so are all the animals. Although I'm contemplating selling about 75% of them lol

Me too

 

[Chaos18]

selling or eating? and whuts wrong? too much to do after work?

Sell some, eat some, just open the gate and say screw it

goats are a pain and I have to many chicken eggs

 

[Chaos18]

Me too

You have a market for them?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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glad he was smart enough to find a place inside. I have the dang big maran cockerel jumping the fence, typically they are good with staying in the run, he must not be heavy enough yet, or else he just very brave. the little oe hen is always free ranging herself in and out of the run, she is also the only chicken the goose wont stand up to. which I dont understand at all. even the goats listen to goose.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

She also has too many pullets, but won't ship live birds. *cries*

There's about 40 NPIP silkie breeders on the list I sent you.

 

[Akrnaf2]

 

  

Like minds.

I have lots of land and all my birds are nestled on 1/2 acre because I am not carrying water to the back 40. My birds could free range for miles and rarely get over 50 feet from the coop. Guess they have everything they need close to home. Although I do plan on building a large chicken tractor on a hay wagon with 55 or 110 gallon water storage/rain barrels. I have areas of pasture with old cannery grass the beef don't eat off. Mostly because the beef have 50 acres of pasture so they can be picky. I am hoping if the chickens clear the old out the beef will like the new.

That's why they make good backyard livestock. They are homebodies.

I wouldn't hold out hope for them to eradicate the grass unless you fence them around it.
When I move chickens into different paddocks, they wipe out everything but the tough grass.

Those land acreage make me dizzy! Me and my 1/12 of acre garden!

But that's why your garden is so nice - because it is manageable.

 
I don't need them for broodiness, and I don't intend to breed. I just *like* the silkies for pets, and want enough girls/flock big enough to replace the silkies every 3-4 years as needed.

Despite only having a couple girls out there, the roosters don't fight over them and get along well with each other and let the kids handle them all.

Try Estes and Heartland hatcheries on the list I sent you. They may vent sex.

I really could use a 1-2 acers of forest! It is a wonderful resource for keeping animals!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: list them on CL silly as hatching eggs or eatin eggs.. freeze some, dev eggs are a must always as are breakfast burritos, and those freeze well too after making them!

 

[The Duck Ladie]

sounding like boyz already?
oh hope you get more!

Yep. Never had them change this early. They haven' gone into boy voice completely yet, still some peeping, but they sound hoarse, and the other one is already making honk/quack sound, though she has been for a couple weeks now. I wonder if the fact that I didn't use artificial heat really has anything to do with their early maturity.