EE hatching eggs?

[silkiemelon]

I really want to start doing EE's, but I am at a loss for hatching eggs. I want to avoid hatcheries, simply due to the quality of the birds.

Does anyone know of breeders who sell EE hatching eggs?

 

[ChickFarmer]

You will get a better response if you say where you are. I'll be selling sex link EE eggs of my own recipie next spring. I'm in washington.

 

[silkiemelon]

That's ironic because I am from Washington.
But I don't really want to buy from someone who can't ship, it becomes too much of a hassle.
Unless the person is in my city, I usually won't do local pick up.

I don't mind paying a shipping fee, I just want to find some good EE breeders..

 

[ChickFarmer]

Even with shipping the shorter the travel time the better chance you have of a good hatch rate.

 

[silkiemelon]

Where are you in WA?

 

[ChickFarmer]

I'm in Olympia, but my F1's arn't laying yet. I'll use this fall's matings to comfirm the egg color genetics of my roosters. My goal is a production EE. Moderatly fast maturing, good foraging and hawk responce, a quick molt and 6 large mint green to blue eggs per week in the pullet year. I'm doing this for my pastured egg farm but will sell excess hatching eggs from time to time. F2 will be a 3 way cross of Leghorn, RIR, and EE. Additionaly I will be test breeding for the reccesive cross beak genetics, for a clean rooster line.
(Edited to say: the six eggs per week would be at peak production not at the onset or end of lay)

 

[silkiemelon]

Well, I'm on the other side of WA in Spokane unfortunately. But the line you're developing sounds great, really efficient. That would be something I might be looking for, but like you said, it would have to wait till next spring.

 

[ChickFarmer]

Especially since you never know what might crop up in a breeding progect of unrelated lines. But I was disapointed by the prevalence of crossbeak in hatchery EE.

 

[silkiemelon]

That's why I only buy from private breeders.
I really try to avoid hatcheries, their hatching eggs/birds really mess up the quality of my birds. So I'm starting fresh, trying to introduce quality EE's.

 

[ChickFarmer]

Any one else breeding EE's? I would love for someone to save me a step in my breeding program. NPIP prefered, and would be looking for sex linked gold roosters.