Up until our recent cold front hit and brought fall with it, I always had pips day 20, hatched out by the end of day 21. Suddenly all my chicks were hatching a day late. I turned my temp up just .3 degrees and now they are back to hatching at the normal time.
I have always wondered if that is a fable. A mere marketing ploy. They taste the same to me.
Me too. But there is a local breeder that is also a chef that markets the BCM that way, as a gourmet egg and also gourmet meat. He gets a lot of money for his birds/eggs, so I guess it works for him! There is also a local college student that sells organic eggs and charges $2 more per dozen for regular brown eggs (not Marans) than he charges for organic white shelled eggs. What the market will bear, apparently...
hink the Oklahoma market could bear it ha! Thanks everyone for the good replies.
Mine lay at around 23 weeks..............unless I'm especially looking forward to seeing the results of a particular pairing and then they wait until I give up looking.
Mine lay at around 23 weeks..............unless I'm especially looking forward to seeing the results of a particular pairing and then they wait until I give up looking.
Are your girls squatting yet when you go to pet them or pick them up? That is usually a good sign that they will be laying soon.
