ISO Nankin Bantam Single Comb(may take Rose Comb)

[MROO]

I'm on the tail end of a cold, but I may be able to pick them up in a week or so. I see your profile is northeast Maryland. Do you have any other breeds available in hatching eggs or chicks to make the trip more worth the time? I'll pay. I know its a bad time of year for it, but I already have some nakins, cochin and silkie bantams as well as an assortment of Pavlovskaya in my incubator. I also have plenty of room in my brooder, because as I tend to do I over engineer and build big so I don't have to build again. So a few more won't hurt. Pictures of my Brooder:

What a great brooder set-up! I don't dare have one that big. If I did, I'd fill it ... and I don't have enough space for too many more birds!
At the moment, all I've really got is Nankin roosters. My ladies took the winter off, this year, and haven't started seriously laying again. I don't even have fertile eggs from them, yet. The only eggs I have are from my "Kindergarten Dropouts" - two older pullets I "rescued" from our local elementary school hatch. They turned out to be a New Hampshire Red and a Jersey Moose ... err, I mean Giant. They're currently in with my little Nankin flock. There's no telling what sort of chicken you'd get out of those mixes!

 

[JesseGlaser]

What a great brooder set-up! I don't dare have one that big. If I did, I'd fill it ... and I don't have enough space for too many more birds!
At the moment, all I've really got is Nankin roosters. My ladies took the winter off, this year, and haven't started seriously laying again. I don't even have fertile eggs from them, yet. The only eggs I have are from my "Kindergarten Dropouts" - two older pullets I "rescued" from our local elementary school hatch. They turned out to be a New Hampshire Red and a Jersey Moose ... err, I mean Giant. They're currently in with my little Nankin flock. There's no telling what sort of chicken you'd get out of those mixes!

I Already built a smaller brooder, because I've yet to finish the nankin's coop and the first round of hatching eggs have hatched and I was expecting a 50% or less hatch rate and ended up with 75% in one mail order of nankin RC and silkies and 90% in the second mail order of Pavlolskaya. I guess my obsessive helped the hatch rate. I did get some curled feet that were fixed easily, except for one. The poor guy hatched at the size of a 3 day old chick and curled feet which may have caused some splaying in the legs. I worked on the guy for 2 days taping his toes and binding his legs for the splay and then finally I, with little confidence, took off the leg bindings added him to the brooder and gave him the day to see if he'd make it or I cull him. To my surprise he kept his legs underneath his body and walks funny but he walks. I plan to breed the Pavlovskaya so I'll keep them in small pens if need be. I finally got a decent nights sleep today after the hatch and fixing the chick's feet.