Incubators Anonymous

[ki4got]

LOL anyone want to 'enable' me with some hatching eggs? 8) this once a month paycheck thing gets real old real fast... 8/

if so, i REALLY like dorkings cochins silkies marans EE ...

 

[Arielle]

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From Livestock classes at University, I remember the answer to this! The percent of non-Ameraucana would become negligent by the 6th generation. This was and is done in many livestock species when an existing female group is already available and change in the genetics is required for whatever the reason. IT's called grading up when it's a generic breed being converted to a purebred breed. I'm not saying that the bird is purebred or that the off spring is accepted by the other breeders; that depends on the culture of the breeders.

Now that is what I wanted to know. Thank you. Probably it is just easier to put the hens I have in the eating egg coop after the purebreds start laying. But information is good to have.

Your welcome!


I'm going the EE route so I don't have my head swimming with too much SOP stuff. I do have 3 pure AMeraucanas and can hopefully get a few more; love those blue eggs. But overall I like the hardiness of the cross breds. ANd I can make olive eggers, too. More eggs for "Henny Penny", my incubator!

 

[gryeyes]

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Oh, soooooo familiar, except for the husband part. Don't got one o' those. Nobody here to yank on the reins and suggest I have a problem.

I just won two auctions of bargain's eggs. Y'see, I need Delawares and Speckled Sussex. Don't even mention Seramas, because I've started eyeing that breed, too! I've several other bantam breeds, which I first considered midget chickens, but now I know they're just as big as large fowl in personality, compacted into smaller bodies.

 

[chickee]

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Oh, soooooo familiar, except for the husband part. Don't got one o' those. Nobody here to yank on the reins and suggest I have a problem.

I just won two auctions of bargain's eggs. Y'see, I need Delawares and Speckled Sussex. Don't even mention Seramas, because I've started eyeing that breed, too! I've several other bantam breeds, which I first considered midget chickens, but now I know they're just as big as large fowl in personality, compacted into smaller bodies.

I have been trying to resist the Seramas myself

I can't help but keep thinking about the rooster my friend brought home from the Stockton show that has ribbons of chocolate color throughout his tail and hackles

I am finding the chocolate color very appealing at the moment

Sure hope some of the bantam Polish eggs I have due to hatch this Sunday have some white crested chocolates for me

If not it will give me an excuse to buy more eggs from Revolutionmama

I do have a broody BLRW hen right now that would love to hatch some eggs for me

I bought EE eggs from Bargain and had a 100% hatch! Her birds are SUPER healthy and she packs REALLY well!

 

[Chicken Chat]

Hi everybody (raises hand hello sheepishly), my name is Tracy and I'm a hatchaholic.... At one point I had 3 incubators going. I've scaled down to just two, making progress towards a cure. I've got one fired up at the moment and also using a broody silkie. My family keeps telling me that I don't need anymore chickens, but I've only got 27 chickens and 3 coops at the moment. That's nothing!
Does anybody see a building, dog house, etc. and 1st thing that comes to mind is "that would make a great coop!"? I keep collecting eggs from the girls and all I think about is that I need to add that one to the bator

 

[CapricornFarm]

Welcome Tracy. You should fit right in. DH mentioned that the unused hay rings would make good chicken pens! And he is the guy who didn't want me getting a rooster. I guess he is getting used to it all. Hatch on, no cure required!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Hi all, my name Shellie and I am a hatchaholic x4! Always 4 bators at work here. We have a 20x24 building with its own breaker and running water for my brooding house.

Currently we raise:

Geese
African
Sebastopol -white, grey, splash

Ducks:
Calls - blue fawn, grey, white, grey pied, blue fawn pied
Silver Appleyard
Pekin
Rouen
Khaki Cambel
Buff Orpingtons

Chickens:
Ameracuana
EE
olive Eggers
Marans
Random other hatches

Quail:
Bob white
Courtnix

And Peafowl

 

[ki4got]

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hay rings?

you mean round bale feeders?

hm. hadn't thought of that before.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Yes, that's the idea. We use just about anything around here. I was going to make a big flight cage with a satellite dish until the goats stomped on it and ruined it.

Welcome Shellie, i used to live in Florida until I got sick of being hot and now I am sick of being hot in TN:-D Looks like you have a nice selection of birds. Hatch on!

 

[Impress]

I made my main coop run out of one of those old above ground pools, just took out the liner and strung chicken wire on it with zip ties. Instant fence! Anyone that wants bantam cochin hatching eggs, drop me a line, you just pay the shipping or drive my way and you can have them for free! My white rooster and hen are pure, but some of them will be from the two black cochin hens that have suspicious silkie lineage in the way of extra toes and boofy heads. They just started laying a couple of weeks ago and they have me swimming in eggs!