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I know what you mean. Last year I had a bunch of anacona's laying that where with my bantam Phoenix and I just couldn't make myself not put them in the incubator. At the time I had home made turners and it was such a pain. I had 1 incubator that I kept full. As soon as some went to lock down, I added more. And I ended up giving away all the chicks.
Now I hae 3 incubators. One of those I use for a hatcher. They all have eggs in them. My silkies started laying so of course I can't just throw them away. I have some project eggs that have yet to be fertile but I won't know if I don't put them in, right?
I'll be glad when I get all these quail I hatched out big enough to process. I way over did it with them compared to the space we have available. They where living in crapmed cages till I processed a bunch the other day. Now it's more acceptable. I bed I don't do that again.
I was thinking of selling my EE flock bu they are going thru a heavy molt right now and they really look raggedy. They wouldn't bring a good price at all. I have 9 of their chicks now and more in the incubator but they have stopped laying already for the winter and they didn't lay well at all this year. Although I love the pretty blue/green eggs, hardly anybody else does. So I may just stick with the brown egg layers.