My Attempt at a Dual Purpose Heritage Flock

[Tre3hugger]

Would depend on your local market, unless you're shipping.
I would think the purebred Heritage NH's would be much more valuable
than the sexlinks(what is the cross?).

Not shipping just yet. The cross for the sex links is heritage NH cockerel and Delaware pullet. True dual purpose sex links

 

[Tre3hugger]

Well, I just put some food coloring in some cloacas. Not a sentence this Brooklyn boy ever expected to say

 

[Tre3hugger]

I just candled 5 eggs out of the 22 I have incubating, and 4/5 are showing definite development here on day 4! Even though I checked the blastoderms before setting, that is far from an exact science, and I was a little anxious about my fertility rates mainly due to my fat, inexperienced roosters. Happy to report though that in a random test of 5 eggs that 80% were fertile.

 

[Tre3hugger]

Just sold my first batch of hatching eggs. The girls didn't get the memo to hurry up with the laying so I didn't have as many as I'd hoped, but it's all good. I got $25 for 12 sex link eggs and 8 NHs. Feelin good

 

[SheaLoner]

Congrats on the fertility! You probably did better then FR this spring! They had to delay my order do to poor hatch rates. I've been meaning to ask and seeing how I finally found the thread again this is the perfect time! Have you noticed the NH hens not molting regularly? Been wondering if it is something I am doing or a trait of this line. My oldest of these NHs are 2 now and havent molted since they hit full hen.

 

[Tre3hugger]

@SheaLoner none of my are a year old yet, and they are kinda lookin rough right now from breeding, so it is hard to say. Sorry I couldn't help!

FR totally changed their site, and no longer are offering NHs under the Henry Noll name at all it seems.

 

[SheaLoner]

I think that they bought out the hatchery that produced them. Probably rolled them all under their banner, but will have to see what my batch looks like when it gets here.

 

[Tre3hugger]

I think that they bought out the hatchery that produced them. Probably rolled them all under their banner, but will have to see what my batch looks like when it gets here.

def let us know. When are you expecting them?

 

[SheaLoner]

Whenever they have 20 extra to ship. They offered to substitue a breed, not interested, so they will ship whenever they have the stock. Means I wont have much warning.

 

[HomesteadNowhere]

@SheaLoner
FR totally changed their site, and no longer are offering NHs under the Henry Noll name at all it seems.

Yes it's very annoying! That's one of the reasons I didn't order. If I'm not sure the quality of them I'd rather wait and see if the birds are the same quality.. Or wait and try to get eggs/chicks from someone like Tre3hugger.
I'm just sticking with what I already have to experiment with for now.