icepick
In the Brooder
- Jul 20, 2015
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- 47
Experimented on what we would call here "A Yard Fowl" which is your typical wild chicken and cross it with a commercial Layer chicken to see, If! it would produce a Brown egg. And to my knowledge I took the opportunity to build an Incubator to hatch those eggs and of course it is the wild male to the commercial female, it took me a while to get there but it worked the hatch rate was about a 86% and death was 10% and predators was like 70% and beauty was amazing, very loving birds. And I was right! The two laying hen I have to date lays a brown egg weighing 46-52 Grams and have not eaten any commercial feeds as yet and they lay an egg every day all brown, But they started laying after 46-47 weeks. O! And I have gotten Roosters Too. I will not buy a commercial chicken for eggs again, except to breed it, and the meat is of a white texture, (road kill), meaning it can be a meat bird.
Welcome to Backyard Chickens! Would love to hear more about your homemade incubator! That's really cool. 
My incubator is more sophisticated now, I bought a temperature controller for it that regulate humidity and temperature, won't have to be using that cooking one anymore, and it works great. I love to see those birds that you have but don't have any here that I know about, it will be cool to own some.
