Illinois...

[chickendreams24]

Hi all sorry to barge in I'm not from Illinois I'm just over the state line in so. central WI and I'm looking for hatching eggs nearby that are free or very inexpensive. They don't have to be purbred although I would love some pure bred eggs otherwise any healthy mixes would be appreciated too. Particularly if the parents are known or somewhat known and friendly. The reason I ask is I have set two black oegb from a friend's birds but I am worried about the low number of eggs particularly if only one should hatch.
I am interested in many breeds if you have eggs and are willing perhaps even to ship eggs provided we pay for the shipping.

Bantams I'm interested include: silkies and oegb(especially self blue), American game bantam, sebright, cochins as well as maybe some porcelain d'uccle eggs

Large fowl include but aren't limited to EE/Ameracaunas/Arucaunas, Crested Cream Legbars, orpingtons, cochins, wyandottes, speckled sussex, australorps, Ayam cemani, basically any dual purpose large fowl especially these and any that are sexable at hatch.
Please PM and let me know what you have and where you're located as well as any cost you would want me to pay. Even if you don't have these specific breeds but are close and willing please message me and let me know what you have thank you all.

 

[cavemanrich]

Hi all sorry to barge in I'm not from Illinois I'm just over the state line in so. central WI and I'm looking for hatching eggs nearby that are free or very inexpensive. They don't have to be purbred although I would love some pure bred eggs otherwise any healthy mixes would be appreciated too. Particularly if the parents are known or somewhat known and friendly. The reason I ask is I have set two black oegb from a friend's birds but I am worried about the low number of eggs particularly if only one should hatch.
I am interested in many breeds if you have eggs and are willing perhaps even to ship eggs provided we pay for the shipping.

Bantams I'm interested include: silkies and oegb(especially self blue), American game bantam, sebright, cochins as well as maybe some porcelain d'uccle eggs

Large fowl include but aren't limited to EE/Ameracaunas/Arucaunas, Crested Cream Legbars, orpingtons, cochins, wyandottes, speckled sussex, australorps, Ayam cemani, basically any dual purpose large fowl especially these and any that are sexable at hatch.
Please PM and let me know what you have and where you're located as well as any cost you would want me to pay. Even if you don't have these specific breeds but are close and willing please message me and let me know what you have thank you all.

Welcome to our thread. I just recalled reading post 4447 .. Person is in northern Illinois not far from you. the name is. MeepBeep Maybe you can find some of what you are looking for.
Wishing you best...

 

[MeepBeep]

Yep, I have some mutt offerings, they are listed back a few post... Pretty much what I could offer you is full sized dual purpose barnyard mixes, chances of a blue, green or olive egg is high, but I don't purposely breed Easter Eggers or Olive Eggers as all my birds are communal so no guarantee on egg color, but I can give you blue/green or F1 light olive eggs to hatch or hatch from those eggs... I would prefer to sell day old chicks (pickup only) that way I know you will be getting what you paid for, eggs are always hit and miss and I can't guarantee fertility nor hatchability of any eggs... But, if you really want eggs I can collect them and keep them out of the fridge for hatching, I could ship eggs, but shipping even though you are close comes with it's own hazards and cost...

I'm located about 5 miles West of Gurnee Mills Mall and Six Flags Great America to give you an idea of location... I'm going on vacation later this week so any deal would have to be after the 22nd...

 

[chickendreams24]

@MeepBeep
Okay well my mom is down in Antioch at my aunt's house right now lol too bad I didn't find you a couple of days ago BC it would be perfect if you could run and drop some off. Would you mind posting some of the breeds you have including your roos?

 

[Pixie]

Anyone in Far North Eastern Illinois interested in some standard barnyard mix chicks, mixed bantams or guinea keets? Straight run? I'm in the Gurnee/Lake Villa/Round Lake area...

My kids absolutely enjoy watching them hatch, and I would like to continue hatching for a few more months but I can only handle so many additions to my flock... I'll do Craigslist if I have to but would rather offer them up to someone here vs dealing with Craigslist...

The barnyard mix standard sized would be hatched from green, blue or olive eggs so chances of an colored egg layer (aka Easter egger or olive egger) is very high...

I could also hatch standard sized from my pink to brown eggs or even from white eggs (the only white layers I have are black sumatras) but since they are all communal who knows what you would end up with...

Bantams are, mostly a light cream to white egg... These would likely be limited as my bantam hens tend to go broody this time of year...

Guinea keets are a communal mix of several color mutations, pearl gray, lavender, buff, brown, pied and possibly other recessive colors... So keet colors are random... You can sometimes take a guess a the final color as a keet, since they fuzz out different but some of it is so subtle I won't guarantee the final color and thus it would be a straight run offering based on what hatches...

Let me know, if no interest no worries, just figured I would toss it out there... Price is negotiable, not looking to get rich, but I would like to at least put some money in the feed fund..

Hi!

I just read your post and I think we might be almost neighbors!! (I am near Rollins & 45)

I had been kicking around the idea of getting a couple more, but have a flock of girls who are on the verge of laying and worry about keeping newbies separate and alive.

 

[MeepBeep]

I just read your post and I think we might be almost neighbors!!  (I am near Rollins & 45)

Yes, neighbors indeed I live on Rollins about half way between 45 and 83...

 

[Pixie]

Yes, neighbors indeed I live on Rollins about half way between 45 and 83...

Do you have the cows, or the house with the cute donkey?

I am on Drury (white barn)

 

[MeepBeep]

Yes, neighbors indeed I live on Rollins about half way between 45 and 83...

Do you have the cows, or the house with the cute donkey?

I'm a little further West of those, across from the Carillon North gated community... Two big red barns... I do have 2 llamas and 5 goats that pasture but they are set back and not all that obvious from the road...

I see you added on Drury, that definitely makes us neighbors...

 

[Pixie]

I'm a little further West of those, across from the Carillon North gated community... Two big red barns... I do have 2 llamas and 5 goats that pasture but they are set back and not all that obvious from the road...

I see you added on Drury, that definitely makes us neighbors...

You have goats too?? Can I ask are you raising them for meat or milk or lawn mowing abilities? LOL I wanted to get some, but I am going to try and see how the birds handle the drafty barn first before going crazy with more animals.

 

[MeepBeep]

You have goats too??   Can I ask are you raising them for meat or milk or lawn mowing abilities?  LOL

They are my kids private petting zoo I was picking up two free llamas from a farmer in Wisconsin that was retiring, he said if I took the goats as well he would toss in some of the stuff he had no use for anymore, I ended up getting something like 40 bales of hay, some bales of straw, an expensive electric Oyster sheep shear, a brand new 300 gallon water trough, some feed buckets, some heated water buckets, about $100 worth of de-wormer and some other misc stuff all for free, had to go and rent a moving truck to move it all...