North Carolina

[DSTchickencraze]

I am actually not looking for anything! Just wanted to give you a chance at him before we culled him. I put him on facebook for $8, but may negotiate. Charlotte is about an hour away depending on traffic ( up to 3 if it is rush hour! LOL)
I will ask and see if we would be able to take him in. No guarantees but maybe. Is there like a certain day you need to know before or anything?... And still want $8 for him?

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Yeah I knew my chances of getting a hen for him would be next to none. Theres just that small like 0.01% chance that there is someone and thought hey can't hurt to ask.

 

[lindz8504]

Probably by this weekend or next at the latest.

 

[DSTchickencraze]

I'm not sure we're going to be able and come out and get him. We are completely booked this week. :/ Darn.

Would anyone be able to send me a link or tell me anything about organic scratch? We are either trying to make our own or buy some. We have found organic feed we're going to use and now we are just looking into organic scratch.

And If you ferment feed does it still count as being "organic"?

 

[dutchbunny83]

If you start with organic food that you ferment it's still organic.
If you add in any ingredients that aren't organic then it isn't.
I was making my own organic feed, but then our local feed store stopped carrying what I needed!
If you find something let me know!

 

[lindz8504]

I'm not sure we're going to be able and come out and get him. We are completely booked this week. :/ Darn.

Would anyone be able to send me a link or tell me anything about organic scratch? We are either trying to make our own or buy some. We have found organic feed we're going to use and now we are just looking into organic scratch.

And If you ferment feed does it still count as being "organic"?

If you for sure want him I can wait but you need to let me know that you're going to get him.

 

[BHep]

if you're getting that many males your incubator temp could be too high.
female eggs will door before males in high temps.
I've also read theories that the temperature you incubate can determine sex like in some reptile eggs but hasn't been proven.

If you incubate at a lower temp...you are going to get nothing but dead chicks. !! I never change the temp in my cabinet..it stays at 100.5 ALWAYS.... I hatch plenty of pullets.

kidsbme3: Where did you order those Buff Orps??? Next time, pay the extra 5c cents and order pullets...that is horrible that they sent all roosters !!

 

[dutchbunny83]

I wasn't suggesting to lower it below where it should be in an attempt to get girls, I was saying if her incubator was running higher than the 100.5 where it should be it could be resulting in all the males.

My first hatch it wasn't callibrated right and it ran at 102. The ones that did hatch were all males.

 

[BHep]

JUST FYI: The HEN determines the sex of the chick..unlike mammals where the make determines the sex... Learned that in HS....MANY years ago.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

JUST FYI:  The HEN determines the sex of the chick..unlike mammals where the make determines the sex... Learned that in HS....MANY years ago.

And my students can't remember what they learned in high school when they just left it! Good memory there, Beth!

 

[lindz8504]

JUST FYI: The HEN determines the sex of the chick..unlike mammals where the make determines the sex... Learned that in HS....MANY years ago.

I don't think that is what is in question. I think they are saying that the males are more hardy and are able to withstand the higher temps where the girls can't take the higher temp and die before hatching.... At least that is the way I took it. Kinda the same as preemie babies.... Girls tend to do better than boys when born earlier. At least that is what the NICU people told me when I was having premature labor with my daughter. One nurse specifically told me at 26 weeks to be glad it was a girl because boys didn't deal well with the stress. When she arrived at 34 weeks, she only spent a week in NICU, before coming home at 4 lbs 5 oz.