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I've gone both ways... As long as there are at least 15 birds in the shipment, they do better than hatching eggs. That said, the birds I'm working on--no one will ship live birds, so I'm stuck with buying more eggs than I need to compensate for the lower hatch rate.
I have. Barred Hollands and Rhode Island Whites. I think I have enough RIWs and will know in a couple weeks on the BH.What breed? Hopefully you've tried some BYC sources?
I was talking to my mom about my grandparents' farm in North Dakota and she was telling me about how they got chicks in the mail every spring - and this was back in the 1930's! So chicks have been traveling across the country for a very long time!!Wish I had other options, but no hatcheries around us so mail order it is. Feel so bad for them being shipped, but so far the rest look good and are active, eating, and drinking.
Wow! I love your broody adventures! Very fun!I've had this trio of hens sitting on eggs for close to 5 weeks. First set of eggs, i think they rolled between them too much and none developed very far. I didn't really care if any hatched or not, i have so many already! But finally, day before yesterday, one hatched! I checked the other eggs under them, pulled a couple more quitters, but a couple looked good.
got home yesterday and they were outside with the new baby and left a live one pipped in the coop. I took it, plus the other egg, inside to the incubator for a while, then when they settled in for the night, i tucked the eggs back under them. This morning, we have another baby!
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