Maine

[VioletBlueIvy]

Does anyone know of anybody in Maine with Hedamora's?

Almost.
What I mean is I saw an ad on Craigslist this fall. It said they would have Hemedora hatching eggs through the winter. They also had Basques and some other rare breeds (not sure that they were selling those yet) in the Mount Vernon/Belgrade area.

I inquired, but did not get a response. My inquiry was vague though (not "I have cash and want to buy something right now", but more along the lines of "wow, you have Basque, will you be selling them next spring?"). Since then, I have been checking regularly, but have not seen anything. I would love to be able to hatch non-shipped rare breed eggs by just driving down the road a bit.

LOL, thats something anyway!
Re local hatching eggs, it would be nice! I find something I really want and get all excited and ready to buy eggs, I have great hatch rates with my eggs. Then I get to the shipping part and remember what happened the first time I tried hatching shipped eggs. I hached 2 chicks from $55 worth of eggs. I swore I would never do it again. Sigh...

 

[Mainechick168]

Oh My God. It is raining like crazy this morning. Atleast we didn't lose power. Also, Someone laid a mega egg this morning!

 

[VioletBlueIvy]

Oh My God. It is raining like crazy this morning. Atleast we didn't lose power. Also, Someone laid a mega egg this morning!

It's Frankenegg! Laid during the Frankenstorm of 2012! LOL!

 

[Mainechick168]

It's Frankenegg! Laid during the Frankenstorm of 2012! LOL!

Ah!! You know, about an hour after I found this, a big rainbow appeared in the backyard, and it looked to be coming out of the chicken run.

 

[buckabucka]

Does anyone know of anybody in Maine with Hedamora's?

Almost.
What I mean is I saw an ad on Craigslist this fall. It said they would have Hemedora hatching eggs through the winter. They also had Basques and some other rare breeds (not sure that they were selling those yet) in the Mount Vernon/Belgrade area.

I inquired, but did not get a response. My inquiry was vague though (not "I have cash and want to buy something right now", but more along the lines of "wow, you have Basque, will you be selling them next spring?"). Since then, I have been checking regularly, but have not seen anything. I would love to be able to hatch non-shipped rare breed eggs by just driving down the road a bit.

LOL, thats something anyway!
Re local hatching eggs, it would be nice! I find something I really want and get all excited and ready to buy eggs, I have great hatch rates with my eggs. Then I get to the shipping part and remember what happened the first time I tried hatching shipped eggs. I hached 2 chicks from $55 worth of eggs. I swore I would never do it again. Sigh...

Yeah, I hear ya on that. $55 for one pretty French Blue Marans, and one deformed wheaten Ameraucana! I thought she was Basque (same hatch) because she has no beard or muffs, and well, she looks Basque. But she lays a stunning blue egg. I say "deformed" not only because the lack of beard, but she looks like she's wearing a hoop skirt, like the lady in that famous Seurat painting.
Even my Basque hatch, which was packaged beautifully, I only had 6 of 15 hatch (and only two hens, now that we found out "humpy" isn't Basque.
I had an excellent shipped hatch from California once 10 of 13, but only two were hens.
Maybe we need a Maine egg swap. I could offer lavender Ameraucanas and Marraduna Basque, but only in very limited quantities. All my other hens only mate with an olive egger rooster, although I have some nice olive eggs from those crosses.

I try to look at money spent on shipped eggs as entertainment spending. We'll spend $40 going out to dinner and think nothing of it. That's about an hour of entertainment, whereas hatching provides 21 days and beyond of suspense AND entertainment. And sometimes, you get a chicken, too!

Congratulations to Mainechick on her Frankenegg!

 

[ashandvine]

What a great way to justify the expense of shipped eggs. I don't have a bator since that issue with the one BF bought that never got sent to us. I have a turner... no bator. Silly.
I think an egg swap sounds nice and what I think sounds like a great forum for that is a chickenstock here in Maine. I have talked with a few other gals in here (in person) and would love to get it going for spring. I know there are all the regular swaps and what not but we could have a get together and show off our birds for fun and trad eggs and the one I went to in NH Greenfire and other BYC sponsors donated eggs to raffle. It would be so nice to do a big egg trade. They raffled quite a lot and had people spend 10$ for the day to come with a table/chickens to sell so that it paid for a tent and portapotty at the hosts' field. It would be nice to hear who else might be interested...

Bucka... I don't have an olive egger. I would like one after seeing your lovely colored eggs. Keep me in mind...
As an aside, just to share somewhere that only others in here might understand: I just lost my white layer. I lost my Breda. I know she was a chicken. I know. I know I butcher them and try not to get attached but she was a little different than most of them. We got her from KLF as a 'freebie' fo sorts because Breda had a slightly twisted beak. She was smart and funny, curious and just so gentle. I speak very highly of the breed because of her. We all knew her voice apart from the others. She got hurt somehow, a head trauma, and I found her in the grass. I am not going to cry over a chicken but in my head that little emoticon is working over time. Sucks.

 

[hoppy]

we understand.

As an aside, just to share somewhere that only others in here might understand: I just lost my white layer. I lost my Breda. I know she was a chicken. I know. I know I butcher them and try not to get attached but she was a little different than most of them. We got her from KLF as a 'freebie' fo sorts because Breda had a slightly twisted beak. She was smart and funny, curious and just so gentle. I speak very highly of the breed because of her. We all knew her voice apart from the others. She got hurt somehow, a head trauma, and I found her in the grass. I am not going to cry over a chicken but in my head that little emoticon is working over time. Sucks.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

we understand.

What she said. This is the place for support. Sorry for your loss. My crossy was really special to me, too. Gentle and sweet.

 

[buckabucka]

What a great way to justify the expense of shipped eggs.  I don't have a bator since that issue with the one BF bought that never got sent to us.  I have a turner... no bator.  Silly.
I think an egg swap sounds nice and what I think sounds like a great forum for that is a chickenstock here in Maine.  I have talked with a few other gals in here (in person) and would love to get it going for spring.  I know there are all the regular swaps and what not but we could have a get together and show off our birds for fun and trad eggs and the one I went to in NH Greenfire and other BYC sponsors donated eggs to raffle.  It would be so nice to do a big egg trade.  They raffled quite a lot and had people spend 10$ for the day to come with a table/chickens to sell so that it paid for a tent and portapotty at the hosts' field.  It would be nice to hear who else might be interested... 

Bucka... I don't have an olive egger.  I would like one after seeing your lovely colored eggs.  Keep me in mind...
As an aside, just to share somewhere that only others in here might understand:   I just lost my white layer.  I lost my Breda.  I know she was a chicken.  I know.  I know I butcher them and try not to get attached but she was a little different than most of them.  We got her from KLF as a 'freebie' fo sorts because Breda had a slightly twisted beak.  She was smart and funny, curious and just so gentle.  I speak very highly of the breed because of her.  We all knew her voice apart from the others.  She got hurt somehow, a head trauma, and I found her in the grass.  I am not going to cry over a chicken but in my head that little emoticon is working over time.  Sucks.

 

Oh, so sorry about your Breda! It is hard to not get attached, at least for me. I've never even butchered any of mine and don't think I could.

You didn't go to the NH chickenstock way out in Claremont, did you? Seems like I would have met you. It was a really long drive, although not much farther than Lubec, and some of my chickens made that ride.

I might attend a Maine chickenstock, but I think hosting one might be a ton of work. Here's my micro chickenstock idea: get 10 or 15 people who have good hatching eggs. Sign up for eggs you want to buy or swap. Make a big pan of brownies and invite everyone over. Eat the brownies, grab the eggs you signed up for, share a quick laugh about chickens, and you're done in an hour! Ha!

I do plan to hatch again sometime soon, since I kept 2 Basque roosters and a lavender Ameraucana rooster. My problem is that I'm trying to stick to a 50 chicken limit, and I haven't had the heart to get rid of the older hens.
You are welcome to olive-egger eggs. Maybe an incubator is in your future....

 

[MustardTiger]

Hoppy those stained glass are lovely!

Ash sorry about your soft spot chicken We all have em.


Lights are up and running and I did get a weird egg that was a little thin and misshapen earlier this week so I will hope it is from a new layer.


Finally got power back this evening! Thank goodness for woodstove top hamburgers and fries