First Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon- Join us! Set Day: Easter

[debs_flock]

I tried selling eggs at work last spring and was told $2 was too much for eggs because the gas station sells them for $1. I said these are fresh and got into a debate about being able to tell the difference. I just may need to give some eggs to the mail lady. She is great.

I posted mine at work for $3, I think that's why it took so long to get the first order. My opinion, that's how much it costs me to feed the layers, I'm not making a profit. Before I "give" the eggs away to people at work, I'd cook the eggs and feed them back to my girls and dogs. Eggs here are $2.25 for two dozen at Costco, but $5 a dozen at the food co-op/health food store. I had one person ask me how much eggs are at the store when I told them my price. My response, "less than that, but you're buying quality". Personally I don't care if I sell them or not. I'd give them away to friends first before lowering the price to customers. Personally I just enjoy my chickens.

You alsmo must report your preferred color and size straight jacket. It's OK we're all wearing them.

I am looking for the poultry yoga poses BTW.

Geesh, I haven't chosen yet. I'll get back with you on the color. But give me large, I'm quite tall and I don't want that little strappy thing that goes front to back to be too tight!

Not that I would know anything about how a straight-jacket is worn............

Yesterday, I was watching the NYD chicks in their grow-out pen. One chick was lying on it's side, legs stuck straight out. A second chick was lying right next to it, same position, except it had it's wing spread out over the first chick like a blanket. It looked like they were spooning. My first thought, I need them to do that when I have my camera for a yoga picture!

I raise the following (all non hatchery and many are SQ)

Bantam Black split to White Langshans

The rest are LF
Black Langshans
Blue/Black Ameraucanas
Welsummers
Cuckoo Marans
Iowa Blue
Heritage RIR
BBS Cochins
Golden Laced Polish
Olive Eggers
Easter Eggers (F1)
Icelandics

Guineas
Crossbred crested ducks
Cot Quail
Embden/African geese
Royal Palm x Standard Bronze Turkeys

For 2013
Sizzles
Light Sussex
SQ Speckled Sussex (if they hatch)
Sillkies
Jersey Giants
Delawares
BCM
Buff Orpington
Bantam Black Wyandottes and BLRW
Hopefully RP turkeys


I had to give up my dairy herd (Registered Brown Swiss) in 2011 do to the price of feed and lack of price of milk so I needed something to fill the void. I still have a few cows but not what I did have.

And a partridge in a pear tree!

Deb

 

[dsqard]

If it's shenanigans you want, you should have seen the duck idiots tonight trying to eat my fingers instead of the grapes. Amazing how they can get my entire finger in their mouth and almost down their throats in 0.0005 seconds.

I think we know what happened to your finger now. Dreaded duck gnawing. You better get a rabies, tetnus and MMR shots.

 

[Arielle]

I raise the following (all non hatchery and many are SQ)

Bantam Black split to White Langshans

The rest are LF
Black Langshans
Blue/Black Ameraucanas
Welsummers
Cuckoo Marans
Iowa Blue
Heritage RIR
BBS Cochins
Golden Laced Polish
Olive Eggers
Easter Eggers (F1)
Icelandics

Guineas
Crossbred crested ducks
Cot Quail
Embden/African geese
Royal Palm x Standard Bronze Turkeys

For 2013
Sizzles
Light Sussex
SQ Speckled Sussex (if they hatch)
Sillkies
Jersey Giants
Delawares
BCM
Buff Orpington
Bantam Black Wyandottes and BLRW
Hopefully RP turkeys


I had to give up my dairy herd (Registered Brown Swiss) in 2011 do to the price of feed and lack of price of milk so I needed something to fill the void. I still have a few cows but not what I did have.

Sorry you had to give up the Brown Swiss--very pretty girls. I love the aroma of a dairy barn, something about the silage, etc. Saddens me to see the decrease in dairy farms. Lost a big one a few streets over, pastures cut up into house lots. I still get sad when I drive thru, the land on both sides now endless houses.

Glad you are into chickens now!! A little easier in some ways!!! I have tried to explain cow chip throwing to my kids, they only know horse, sheep and chicken poo. A little easier clean up with chickens.

 

[dsqard]

Not that I would know anything about how a straight-jacket is worn............

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Wispering to SCG so we don't startle her..............Get the net, she's hallucinating again!

 

[Wisher1000]

Okay hatchers, I need some advice. I got some more eggs from a lady with Marans and Wellsummers (I really want some dark eggs!) She had already washed, with water and a soft cloth, todays eggs. She did find a few that had not been washed and gave me some of each. I plan to put them under a broody tonight. What do you guys think about setting the washed eggs? I chose the cleanest eggs for the last hatch but none of them hatched anyway. Quick! Somebody tell me what to do! Set the washed eggs, set the un washed eggs, or set some of both. There are too many for one hen anyway......

 

[zookeeper15133]

I have kids!





All went well. A boy and a girl about 6:00 tonight! Mom SeaU and babies Bud and Princess.

 

[Wisher1000]

Precious!!

 

[Wisher1000]

Here are the eggs I got tonight. There are 25. The last broody I had hatched 20 out of 23 and the three that didn't hatch were clear! Was that a fluke or should I give them all to her and see what happens?

 

[Arielle]

Okay hatchers, I need some advice. I got some more eggs from a lady with Marans and Wellsummers (I really want some dark eggs!) She had already washed, with water and a soft cloth, todays eggs. She did find a few that had not been washed and gave me some of each. I plan to put them under a broody tonight. What do you guys think about setting the washed eggs? I chose the cleanest eggs for the last hatch but none of them hatched anyway. Quick! Somebody tell me what to do! Set the washed eggs, set the un washed eggs, or set some of both. There are too many for one hen anyway......

Set the eggs. I have at times.

Realize in the big hatchery, washing is routine to reduce the possibity of breeding germs during the incubation period. How many things grow at 99 degrees!!

Go for it.

 

[Wisher1000]

No one? Come on ya'll what do you think I should do? How about I bribe you with the first poultry yoga picture?