rockethoe
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- Sep 9, 2023
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Hi folks,
I have posted in previous places about this, but thought for progress going forward I’ll keep it in this thread.
We keep a small commercial flock of pastured laying hens. Currently we buy in POL lohman browns, but want to get away from that model to a closed flock model.
I am planning to import eggs from PRC in Slovenia- the breed is Slovenian brown.
Slovenian brown seems to me to be the most commercially viable pure breeding layer of a brown egg. PRC use it as one part of the parent stock for their own version of hybrid layer. Order in may to receive in June.
PRC. Have agreed to export fertile eggs to me. There’s aren’t too many regulations around importing from another eu country, but I will be visiting my local gov vetinary office (kinda like at extenstion office in USA) this week to see what my obligations are exactly.
We have ordered a 400 egg incubator from alibaba, shipping today. This isn’t the classic small Chinese yellow incubator that is so widely disdained. It’s uncharted waters. But I see the same model being retailed in Europe under different names.
I’ll keep updated here how it goes with importing the eggs and the incubator shipping and quality etc. as well as the hatching once we get that far.
I’ve never incubated eggs before so we are jumping in the deep end here, although we have raised flocks from day olds before.
I have posted in previous places about this, but thought for progress going forward I’ll keep it in this thread.
We keep a small commercial flock of pastured laying hens. Currently we buy in POL lohman browns, but want to get away from that model to a closed flock model.
I am planning to import eggs from PRC in Slovenia- the breed is Slovenian brown.
Slovenian brown seems to me to be the most commercially viable pure breeding layer of a brown egg. PRC use it as one part of the parent stock for their own version of hybrid layer. Order in may to receive in June.
PRC. Have agreed to export fertile eggs to me. There’s aren’t too many regulations around importing from another eu country, but I will be visiting my local gov vetinary office (kinda like at extenstion office in USA) this week to see what my obligations are exactly.
We have ordered a 400 egg incubator from alibaba, shipping today. This isn’t the classic small Chinese yellow incubator that is so widely disdained. It’s uncharted waters. But I see the same model being retailed in Europe under different names.
I’ll keep updated here how it goes with importing the eggs and the incubator shipping and quality etc. as well as the hatching once we get that far.
I’ve never incubated eggs before so we are jumping in the deep end here, although we have raised flocks from day olds before.