INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[chicken hawk 33]

After the last hatch under less-than-ideal conditions, CH will find a way to pull it off!

who is saying I won't get chicks

 

[kwhites634]

who is saying I won't get chicks

Nobody

 

[WVduckchick]

who is saying I won't get chicks

I just said don't count them before they hatch! Its bad luck!

 

[Laurel Meadows]

an acher of land y

Sounds good, CH.
BUT- Don't forget you gotta have a plan for all the males in your hatches. Too many can be a real stress on your hens and your wallet ;-)

 

[WalnutHill]

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I only have an acre, too. So as long as you manage wisely, you can do fine. But you need to set goals if you haven't yet.

Do you:
Want to raise hens for eggs for your family and cockerels to eat?
More hens to lay eggs for sale and cockerels to eat (you'll be eating lots of skinny chickens, but they taste good)?
More hens to hatch chicks for sale and to keep growing your flock, and cockerels to eat?

All these birds need feed...on an acre you can probably keep 30 happy year round without having to feed them too much and without having them destroy the plants in your yard completely. That doesn't count baby chicks, they don't eat much. If you keep your business big enough to do you and your family good, and small enough to not be too much trouble, then you'll be on the right track.

One thing about scaling a poultry business...if you plan well, raising 150 chickens is really no harder than raising 25. Same with turkeys, 50 turkeys is no harder than 10. But you need a plan...otherwise you will have birds of all colors, sexes, and ages running around with no plan. If you plan to hatch chicks on the first of every month, using eggs you've gathered in the past week, that would be a plan. Sticking eggs in an incubator every few days or letting a hen go broody whenever she feels like it isn't a plan.

 

[WalnutHill]

These are eggs from my half-Ameraucana roosters over production red hens:


browns are all production reds


browns are production reds for comparison

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

aacreoflandwillfillupinnotime,thenwhat

Get another acre of land... for "then".

 

[Scovy Momma]

Very pretty colors @WalnutHill!

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Sounds good, CH.
BUT- Don't forget you gotta have a plan for all the males in your hatches. Too many can be a real stress on your hens and your wallet ;-)

they will get sold and butcher's I only keep one roo for my twenty something hens.

 

[kwhites634]

Get another acre of land... for "then".

You're good!