May 2022 hatch along

[wolfwalker]

Setting 180 eggs tomorrow for a hatch date of May 3rd.

Black Copper Marans
Heritage Dark brahma
Crele Legbar
Crevecoeur
Aloha

Time to fill the barns again

 

[The-White-Elephant]

Never heard of some of those breeds!

 

[SilverBirds]

Never heard of some of those breeds!

Nor have I.

 

[wolfwalker]

Nor have I.

A couple of pics.

Aloha's currently they are down to around 100 breeding age birds in the world.

Large dual purpose with hens ranging from 6-8 pounds and Roosters from 8 to 13 pounds. lays a light brown egg.

Golden Crele Legbars were the first Legbar breed imported and I think have better coloration and lay a blue egg.

I can't seem to find the pictures on this computer, so here is a link to a couple of pictures. https://creamlegbarclub.com/photos/

 

[samanthaoverton]

Wow..that is a lot of eggs. Do you keep them for meat or eggs or sell them or both. Excuse the questions. Just curious

 

[SilverBirds]

Those are some beautiful birds! I'm sure those eggs weren't cheap, haha! Best of luck with you hatch!

 

[wolfwalker]

Wow..that is a lot of eggs. Do you keep them for meat or eggs or sell them or both. Excuse the questions. Just curious

I do sell hatching eggs and ship chicks. I'm was a npip small hatchery in Arizona. And now that I have 230 acres here in Kansas I will be again, but most likely not until next spring.

Extra roosters go in the freezer as I normally sell chicks at 6 weeks old locally so they can get all pullets. Chicks being shipped go out straight run.

Right now I am ramping up numbers. I've been putting 40 Aloha eggs in the incubator weekly hoping to get the flock up to 100 breeding hens. of course that means I will probably have to hatch 500 to 600 to get those numbers.

 

[samanthaoverton]

You've got your work cut out for you. I've never heard of an aloha egg. Thank you for answering my nosy questions

 

[Honora]

Well I wasn’t going to hatch this year but I have 4 broody hens right now so I figured I might as well let them hatch. I am planning to give them some Swedish Flower eggs on Monday, however many eggs the Flowers lay between now & then! I might not let all of them sit though, because I don’t know where I will put them if they start to fight.

 

[Dinoroar]

I just set 12 buckeye and 16 lavender ameraucana eggs. These were shipped & the ameraucanas are pretty dirty but we’ll see how they’ll do.