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@featherhead007, chicken addictions (especially my extremely dangerous case of Showbirdorosis) do get expensive!! I spent over $2500 on birds in the last 2 months!!!!
It's not so bad when you end up with actual birds... I've spent about $160 in the last two months on hatching eggs, and not one of the poor things developed far enough to even go into the hatcher.
I'm thinking I need a source for that particular breed of critter that's not a thousand miles away.
Most of the ones that started then quit were in eggs whose air cells were still wonky and unsettled. I even let them set and rest for two days before I put them in the incubator, too.
See, I lost my entire flock of turkeys last fall to a loose dog. and once I was ready to start rebuilding my flock, I saw Sweetgrass turkeys, and fell in love with them. And, no, I didn't care that they were about the rarest breed around, and therefore expensive. What I didn't realize was that the nearest breeder was going to be soooo far away. And once I found one closer, they didn't list any new eggs for sale... Because $70 a pop for what is generally 8-10 eggs, total, is a little steep to just keep getting dead eggs.
So, it looks like I either have to wait and hope next Spring, or spend about $200+ for enough poults to be shipped a loooong way, and wish for the best...
It's much better to spend $$$ and actually GET birds, LOL!
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