Long intro, stay with me...
I had a flock if chickens in high school and a little into college. I majored in Poultry Science, and thought I was going to get a job in the poultry industry, where you can't have your own birds (biosecurity), so we let them live out their days until they died naturally.
After I got my bachelor's, I started my master's in Animal Science, focusing on poultry (and horses), and still thought I was going to get a job in the poultry industry.
Well, it doesn't look like I will get a job with poultry at all, so I might as well put my degree to some use!
I wanted to get hatching eggs from exhibition birds like I did in high school, but it turns out that there aren't a lot of breeders near me, and I have never had chickens for fun egg colors before, so I found some hatching eggs locally on facebook and picked them up last night!
Most of them are barnyard mixes except for a couple.
Roosters:
Black Copper Marans
Blue Marans
Olive Egger
Hens:
Black Copper Marans
Blue Marans
Barred Rock
Speckled Sussex
Blue Azure
Olive Egger
Easter Egger
The eggs:
She did tell me that eggs 1 and 3 are guaranteed pure Marans.
Eggs were set yesterday, due to hatch 2/20!
I had a flock if chickens in high school and a little into college. I majored in Poultry Science, and thought I was going to get a job in the poultry industry, where you can't have your own birds (biosecurity), so we let them live out their days until they died naturally.
After I got my bachelor's, I started my master's in Animal Science, focusing on poultry (and horses), and still thought I was going to get a job in the poultry industry.
Well, it doesn't look like I will get a job with poultry at all, so I might as well put my degree to some use!
I wanted to get hatching eggs from exhibition birds like I did in high school, but it turns out that there aren't a lot of breeders near me, and I have never had chickens for fun egg colors before, so I found some hatching eggs locally on facebook and picked them up last night!
Most of them are barnyard mixes except for a couple.
Roosters:
Black Copper Marans
Blue Marans
Olive Egger
Hens:
Black Copper Marans
Blue Marans
Barred Rock
Speckled Sussex
Blue Azure
Olive Egger
Easter Egger
The eggs:
She did tell me that eggs 1 and 3 are guaranteed pure Marans.
Eggs were set yesterday, due to hatch 2/20!
