- Aug 24, 2009
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Ok I need some advise on my flock and what to do. As some might know I was going to pick up two ex show hens from a breeder near me. I got my two girls but what I thought I was getting and what I ended up with was two very different things.
Ok first off there was a ton of people there, members of the club got first pick and then the general public where allowed in. So that there was enough to go around we where only allowed two each which was fine so Dad and I waiting untill it cleared a bit (because he is blind and to many people are two hard for him) when we finally got upto the pens there where a few big fat scruffy looking hens left. I asked why there where so scruffy and was told they had been in the breeding pens and any eggs they lay in the next 5 days will be fertile.
I thought this was strange and asked him why he was not keeping them and he told me as neither of these hens where going broody and so he did not have time to keep transferring the eggs and then making sure that he marked them and none broody hens are no use to him.
So I got my new girls home, they are a bt freaked out so locked them in their coop and will let them settle tonight and then will see about letting them out tomorrow.
However what should I do with the eggs it the next few days? I can't get my hands on an incubator so was wondering if anyone knows of a really cheap easy to make that will let me try and hatch these eggs (if they lay but a few breeders there said that my chances are really good)
Either way so not the situation I thought I was going into and I know I should have walked away but found out that those who did not get sold where going to the table so I could not let them get killed so took them. (yes I am a bleeding heart)
Any suggestions would be great
Ok first off there was a ton of people there, members of the club got first pick and then the general public where allowed in. So that there was enough to go around we where only allowed two each which was fine so Dad and I waiting untill it cleared a bit (because he is blind and to many people are two hard for him) when we finally got upto the pens there where a few big fat scruffy looking hens left. I asked why there where so scruffy and was told they had been in the breeding pens and any eggs they lay in the next 5 days will be fertile.
I thought this was strange and asked him why he was not keeping them and he told me as neither of these hens where going broody and so he did not have time to keep transferring the eggs and then making sure that he marked them and none broody hens are no use to him.
So I got my new girls home, they are a bt freaked out so locked them in their coop and will let them settle tonight and then will see about letting them out tomorrow.
However what should I do with the eggs it the next few days? I can't get my hands on an incubator so was wondering if anyone knows of a really cheap easy to make that will let me try and hatch these eggs (if they lay but a few breeders there said that my chances are really good)
Either way so not the situation I thought I was going into and I know I should have walked away but found out that those who did not get sold where going to the table so I could not let them get killed so took them. (yes I am a bleeding heart)
Any suggestions would be great