South Carolina

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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I won't go but one other feed store. I may change that one before long. All my birds eat Williams' feed except my silkies.

My turkey poults are doing good on the chick starter. So do our ducklings.

What r u feeding your silkies??

Most of the time, gamebird feed, seems to make them happier for showing

Other times, layer with added extras like oats, boss, and a little williams layer mixed in. (summer time usually)

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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I am sooooooo behind.


Hmmmmmm. I would say collect for up to 3 days and then 3-4 to get to me........ and that is fresh. anything older than 7 days when I get it in my hands, I consider old.

Now I do hold onto my own eggs sometimes to set. I will say, that even with ideal storage conditions, anything older than 12 days seems to end up going bad during incubation

 

[FarmerJohn3285]

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I am sooooooo behind.


Hmmmmmm. I would say collect for up to 3 days and then 3-4 to get to me........ and that is fresh. anything older than 7 days when I get it in my hands, I consider old.

Now I do hold onto my own eggs sometimes to set. I will say, that even with ideal storage conditions, anything older than 12 days seems to end up going bad during incubation

I CONCUR

 

[pinkwindsong]

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there is Lebo's in greenville on haywood road in the same group of stores as baby's are US. but better prices are at cultured cowboy in greenwood..
Pink

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Oh he is grand! I put 8 girls in with him and he thinks he is hot stuff!
Cowboy has the big pen at the top of the hill where my Frizzle roo and his girls were. I traded those birds for a Muscovy pair so that pen was empty. However, all the girls in with him now are not staying. They are ones I do not need in my programs and as soon as they are sold I will put my Mottled Cochin girls with little or no color to him. They are pullets yet and can have an extra month or two to mature out and let their eggs get bigger.

I am now up to 9 Muscovy! Ack! I told my friend "okay already!" I tell her I want something one time and by golly she finds it for me, again and again!

But I try to do the same for her in turn. Well, really, I try to for everyone here.

I am now up to 15 Guinea keets and have another 16 that might hatch. Plus Guinea Bird is still hanging out with me and cooping up with the chickens at night. If I just don't look at his funny face I think he is real pretty. I love the gorgeous feathering on the body. The horn on the head is weird but then everything about the head looks odd to me. I never noticed them much when I was growing up.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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TSC didn't have anything? I know it isn't exactly the best place to shop but I have found some nifty buys there.

 

[emptynester]

I just have to tell somebody!!!! I just got a hova-bator 1602N incubator for only $10!!! And it works!!

It's a still air, but I can upgrade it. It didn't come with a turner but I can add that later too! I was wanting an incubator but not wanting to spend the money. God put this right in my lap! I am soooo gonna be dangerous once I get it figured out!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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I am sooooooo behind.


Hmmmmmm. I would say collect for up to 3 days and then 3-4 to get to me........ and that is fresh. anything older than 7 days when I get it in my hands, I consider old.

Now I do hold onto my own eggs sometimes to set. I will say, that even with ideal storage conditions, anything older than 12 days seems to end up going bad during incubation

That's what I am saying. Thank you for answering, Kimberly. I know you get eggs quite often.

A lady on another forum put 2 dz "fresh hatching eggs" up for sale and I had drooled over her birds for a while so I sent payment. She told me that she would send them out the next day and send me the tracking number because her birds were laying like mad and since I have talked to her on the forum for almost 2 years and others had great things to say about her I trusted her judgement. I didn't hear from her for several days so emailed her and asked if the eggs were sent. She said sorry, no but she would get them right out and they would be "fresh!" Again nothing for several days so I emailed again and she said she was holding off because they were having a heat wave and she didn't want them to get too hot. I replied that she may as well send them because we will be in a heat wave down here for the next few months and there was no way around that.
So I am waiting again and still no eggs for a few days. At this point I figure I just need my money back. Geez! Nothing like a liar! Which I totally can't stand and deal with way too much. I emailed again and she replied that she had sent them and I should get them any day(still no tracking number though).....so yeah, the next day the PO did call me for the pick up. They were in transit only 3 days, the usual for me.

I unwrapped them and set them in my plastic incubation tray to rest for the day and the dates are going back 11 days! The freshest 2 eggs were the day before they were sent but most were 10-11 days old. Arrrrgh!

So I email her and told her that I hoped they hatched and by the way I paid for 2 dz and only 21 were sent (I did say it nicely.

). She apologized and said she thought I only wanted one dz and thought she sent plenty of extras.......And she said that eggs shipped at 8 days old was VERY fresh! She didn't see what the problem was. Trying to be nice I did say that the older the are the less likely they were to hatch after being shipped and fresh eggs were usually within 3-4 days before shipping. She disagreed and I scratched my head and thought I would ask around. I usually am not picky about stuff but thought perhaps I was over reacting.

All this made me a bit wary of what I was actually going to hatch out!

So she said she would collect over the weekend and send me out my other dz after I told her I would send her verification from my PayPal that I did indeed order 2 dz and I always type it in the message box what breed, variety and amount I ordered. For me and for the seller, since I print it all out each month for my records.

On Monday I receive my other dz and all are dated Thursday and Friday. Finally. <sigh>

And now you know the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey was so good about saying.

But really, she could collect up a dz fresh within 2 days but couldn't collect 2 dz in less than 8 days?

But they ain't fresh and I will certainly be watching those dated eggs with interest. Not that I expect all shipped eggs to hatch. I have gotten 100% hatch several times this year, once from Bargain but also from ebay eggs shipped from KY and CA. I have also not gotten any to hatch from as close as NC. It happens. But we have to have the best chance for them with freshness, right?

I would not send out eggs over 3 days old unless they were all I had for extras. And that would be from day 4. I have a reputation to keep up and do my best to try and help people, not hinder them.

Yeah, yeah, I'll shut up now. I had my rant. Thank you for listening.

 

[Joycats]

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GREAT deal - Congrats!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Whohoooo! You are going to have a blast!

I can't wait to see what all you put in! And what all comes out!

I am almost as excited as if it were me!