hatching season?

[Goose and Fig]

I'm just wondering how long everyone's hatching seasons are. Does it vary with your location/climate? I am on my last hatch this year- but if I had room.....

 

[embkm]

I don't know about anyone else, but this is my last hatch until fall. It's just too darn hot here.

 

[walkswithdog]

My last two hatches are due this week and next and only because eggs were reshipped due to shipping disaster.

Otherwise I'd have been done by July.

I'll start up again in fall with the new to me, antique Leahy I found

holds 600 eggses LOLOLOLOL.

 

[Goose and Fig]

So- do you sell chicks that you hatch in the fall?

I always thought people finishedhatches in the summer so the chicks would be all feathered out by winter.

My new ones will start laying in fall/early winter- but I though I'd have to wait til spring for new babies. Hmmmmm....

 

[embkm]

Here, I could hatch in the fall and still have them feathered out by the time it gets cold. It's much easier for me to keep them warm than it is to cool them off when we get weeks at a time of 90*+ temps.

I am not sure that I will hatch this fall though. It depends on if I can find some BBS or Buff Orp Bantam eggs then.

 

[JewellFarm]

I am expecting two more egg shipments this week. When they hatch, I'm done. Notice I said when, not if, lol. Positive thoughts going on.

 

[eggsrcool]

I'm currently doing a few eggs, then I'm going to an auction, then it's holidays so I'm going to put some more in so my last batch will be in August/ September time, I find these are the best time with my birds, and the weather is good then in England. My hatch rate for this batch looks like 100%

 

[TerriLaChicks]

I finished up my last hatch last week until maybe this fall when it gets cooler - same story here, easier to keep them warm in the late fall & winter than try to keep them cool in 100+ temps!

 

[dancingbear]

I may hatch some in the winter this year if we run short of chicken in the freezer. Otherwise, after the ones currently in the 'bator and under hens, I'm done for the season. Getting too crowded, and too expensive to feed, though most of the males will go to the freezer. And some hens may be sold to make room for younger ones. And some others may be sold if I find I just have too darn many!

I might hatch some chicks for sale through the winter, if there appears to be a market for them.