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

[Pensmaster]

Nice! Have you had them before?

New for me

 

[Pensmaster]

Thanks for the good rundown. A friend of min in Washington (formerly from Wisconsin) has been breeding White Chanteclers for years.
After 30 breeds I've found "my" breed?variety. The Black Penedesenca.

I’m still trying to find mine.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I’m still trying to find mine.

If you haven't been overly enamored, perhaps you'll find ideas in these excellent breed selection charts with characteristics.
http://www.albc-usa.org/documents/chickenbreedcomparison.pdf
http://www.sagehenfarmlodi.com/chooks/chooks.html (includes diminutive bantams)
For true bantams
http://www.sagehenfarmlodi.com/chooks/bantam.html

 

[aliciaplus3]

If you haven't been overly enamored, perhaps you'll find ideas in these excellent breed selection charts with characteristics.
http://www.albc-usa.org/documents/chickenbreedcomparison.pdf
http://www.sagehenfarmlodi.com/chooks/chooks.html (includes diminutive bantams)
For true bantams
http://www.sagehenfarmlodi.com/chooks/bantam.html

thank you for the links! I am still trying to decide what breed is my one and only.... maybe mutt?? I LOVE a colorful egg basket so getting that in a single breed flock is not happening... maybe if I work with the Necked Necks and introduce the egg colors I want?? ok still a mutt but fun!

 

[Pensmaster]

thank you for the links! I am still trying to decide what breed is my one and only.... maybe mutt?? I LOVE a colorful egg basket so getting that in a single breed flock is not happening... maybe if I work with the Necked Necks and introduce the egg colors I want?? ok still a mutt but fun!

Same here. Customers love a variety of colors

 

[BullChick]

... and I see your true colors shining through!

 

[Pensmaster]

If you haven't been overly enamored, perhaps you'll find ideas in these excellent breed selection charts with characteristics.
http://www.albc-usa.org/documents/chickenbreedcomparison.pdf
http://www.sagehenfarmlodi.com/chooks/chooks.html (includes diminutive bantams)
For true bantams
http://www.sagehenfarmlodi.com/chooks/bantam.html

Thanks CC I just got a chance to check the link. I’ve read that many times. Trouble is once I get “the” breed it doesn’t do what they say they will do.

 

[mlm Mike]

I'm betting money.

I have officially kicked off this year's hatching season with a set of 28 quail eggs. So far, they are all fertile and developing well. I am happy with the performance of my cabinet incubator and can't believe I waited so long to build it.

 

[mlm Mike]

My only chicken news is extra roosters will be going to a neighbor's in a little over a month.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Thanks CC I just got a chance to check the link. I’ve read that many times. Trouble is once I get “the” breed it doesn’t do what they say they will do.

Then you have to breed and select for those characteristics they were originally bred for. It takes hatching and culling big numbers.