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That is really great Connie! I'm so jealous! I still can't imagine hatching on that scale.Happy dance!
Just got home after a day of traveling about with the kiddos, including a trip to Port to pick up one of the Dickey incubators...and the 5 tray hatcher...
Really honey, I needed the hatcher, too...it was such a good price!
Came with all the trays (will need to get chicken egg sized holders, he had pheasants) and both have the 5 gallon autofill humidity tray and reservoir, electronic thermostat and humidity gauge, wafer backups.
Got them unloaded, sitting in the basement waiting for me to play basement tetris to find the perfect spot for them after I disinfect them.
Super nice guy had them available, he'd been raising pheasants with them, 1200 breeding pairs or so, he said. They came with the pheasant eggs inserts, so I'll pick up some chicken sized ones and probably can use the pheasant for bantam eggs, huh? DS2 (who is most proud of his Thomas skivvies and won't cover them) helped inspect the new toys.
(Awww, my poor little red incubator in the background was used to thinking of itself as the "big incubator".)
Pretty boy! That's what I thought about the SIlver. I have kept a few splits around because that was the least of my problemsMine have stayed nice and silver. I did cull a few birds for leakage and it was obvious by the time they were 3 mos old. My breeding pen of them is under shade, but I do have a couple of cockerels in my cull pen. That pen gets a lot of sun and I haven't seen any sign of sunburn/brassiness in them. The breeding group in someone else's flock that I saw were in full shade and they were all brassy.
This is my main cockerel, so far he refuses to grow a tail. He has been a VERY slow bird to mature.
Why not? With the interest this thread is generating in the breed, you may not be able to keep in eggs and chicks within 6 months. I've had between 8-10 emails from people wanting to buy either chicks, eggs, or grown birds and of course, I have none to offer. You folks in IA must be getting ten times the calls I've been getting. There will be a lot of culled birds to get rid of as well; probably 90 out of 100 so a brisk market will be necessary in order not to get over run with chicks.To be honest, I'm not looking for hatching on that scale so much as consistency in incubation. LOL I know with my snake eggs, the bigger the incubator, the easier it was to keep stable and easier it was to work within. I don't mind having the extra room, but I don't intend to crank out 200 chicks every 3 weeks, either.
I'm all for that, Roll Tide!Getting a lot of interest, but the tide is swinging to wanting SPs only. LOL, going to be a wait on that, me first!
I had several SP roosters but most of them were culled for Autosomal Red and I lost the ones I kept to fox. I don't think too many of my eggs will go in the skillet this year. If you want more Dan, better get back on my list!
