It has begun

[Plucky Clucks]

Hatching really is an addiction and one you start it just keeps going! I was thinking about having one of my local friends order me a couple chicks when she put in hey own order as an add on but when I got home from work yesterday I had several boxes on the door step. One was a larger styrofoam cooler I ordered to rebuild my incubator and another was a shipment of eggs! The eBay seller that sold me that batch that came half crunched sent me a whole new shipment + extras! That combined with 8 BCM I got from our local poultry judge/4H leader I've got my bator filed again....

 

[Tumbling K]

Have you thought about trying an autosexing breed? ie Bielefelder

I did look at the auto sexing breeds. They are difficult to find as well.

Hatching really is an addiction and one you start it just keeps going! I was thinking about having one of my local friends order me a couple chicks when she put in hey own order as an add on but when I got home from work yesterday I had several boxes on the door step. One was a larger styrofoam cooler I ordered to rebuild my incubator and another was a shipment of eggs! The eBay seller that sold me that batch that came half crunched sent me a whole new shipment + extras! That combined with 8 BCM I got from our local poultry judge/4H leader I've got my bator filed again....

This hatching was fun, but not what I would qualify as addicting.

It may be different though when we start hatching our own eggs.

 

[gimmie birdies]

This rooster "Boss" is like the giving tree... he gave me...







and it looks like 2 more on the way + more later in the month.
and now he will be soup some day in the future. Thank you Boss!

 

[Tumbling K]

Nice-looking rooster. Looks like you get a lot of soup from him

 

[gimmie birdies]

This was the hulk. He took along time to process. surprisingly a chick hatched 1 month ago had a lot of meat on it. I bet it will taste better than the 8 month old roo.

 

[WVduckchick]

Boss is lovely!

 

[gimmie birdies]

Yeah and other people on this backyards chicken site said not to breed him. I listened to them.... well not right away.

 

[Tumbling K]

Yeah and other people on this backyards chicken site said not to breed him. I listened to them.... well not right away.

What was the reasoning behind that?

 

[lindalouly]

Howdy sir. Where you been? Good job on your hatch.

 

[Tumbling K]

Howdy sir. Where you been? Good job on your hatch.

How do you Linda, how have you been?