~*Third Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatch-Athon*~ all poultry welcome!

[winteree]

I agree it doesn't mean the eggs weren't fertile. Though I completely agree with how you feel, it is a total bummer to come all this way and then end up with nothing. So Sorry.

don't worry about it. this to shall pass. i will get chickens some how, some way or i'm going to have a conniption

 

[Alaskan]

@winteree

I keep looking at this breeder...... They should be close-ish to you and they sell chicks.



https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/857002/large-fowl-ameraucana-and-blue-laced-red-wyandotte-chicks

 

[lsmith]

yeah i wish my feed store would keep their chicks in stock. i went today to buy some after getting a call that they got a new shippment last friday and they where already out. turns out they only buy 20-50 chicks at a time and someone always buys a butt load before i get there (that has happened 7 times now). I have been trying to get chickens since the begining of december for pete sakes!!  i first tryed online and fell out of my chair apon seeing the prices. i tryed to get some from my grandma because she was lowsy with them, then they for the most part all got killed (but a lone rooster). i then tryed to get them from a not-so-local sancutary per my grandma's recomention from january onward and got the cold shoulder for a little over 3 months. Then i got angery and tryed hatching them out which none of the egg's hatched. And i finally went on crisglist and got a bantam pair which one was supost to be a hen but they will not stop fighting which is leading me to think i payed for two roosters . I may never get the birds i want . i just ordered some hatching duck egg's and when i get payed on monday i'm going to order hatching turkey egg's and if something doesn't give i'm going to save up my money until christmas and order ALL the birds i wanted this year for next year as my christmas present!!!

Try asking where the feed store is getting the chicks. Mine gets theirs locally and gave me the phone number to contact them. The man was very nice and gave me prices, hatching dates, and breeds.

 

[lsmith]

@winteree

I keep looking at this breeder...... They should be close-ish to you and they sell chicks.



https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/857002/large-fowl-ameraucana-and-blue-laced-red-wyandotte-chicks

those are some gorgeous birds

 

[Wasson6Pack]

My feed store will holds them for me and Casio me when they are in. I say, 'When you get the next shipment of...I want X amount and here is my number.' They give me a call and I have to pick them up by the end of the day.

 

[winteree]

Well, 6 of the 9 turkey eggs I set under my bantam chocolate Orps hatched... The rooster proceeded to kill them all and eat parts of some of them then. I moved the last 3 eggs to the incubator along with 4 of their own eggs - one was pipped. I do not have a chick total yet.

I am very upset. 5 hens against one roo and they just let him kill them. I hate that rooster. He's mean anyways.

Edit: 5 of the 9...

That sucks thats why my grams always had us kids sit outside with the chickens close to hatching day. She would tell us that if any chicken would go after the baby's to grab them up and take them to her so she could kill them. She always killed the chick killers in the pen with the rest of the chickens which was werid she never did that with any other birds she eat (she had a shed at the end of the barn for that). We only had to do this about 4-8 times before the rest of the chickens got the message.

 

[winteree]

My feed store will holds them for me and Casio me when they are in. I say, 'When you get the next shipment of...I want X amount and here is my number.' They give me a call and I have to pick them up by the end of the day.

mine doesn't do that they have a first come first serve policy

 

[winteree]

Try asking where the feed store is getting the chicks. Mine gets theirs locally and gave me the phone number to contact them. The man was very nice and gave me prices, hatching dates, and breeds.

i did the hatchery closest to me has a min order of 25 chicks i only wanted 4-8 and 8 would be pushing it

 

[lsmith]

i did the hatchery closest to me has a min order of 25 chicks i only wanted 4-8 and 8 would be pushing it

See if anyone near you would like to get some too! It would be fun to raise chicks with your friends!!

 

[winteree]

@winteree

I keep looking at this breeder...... They should be close-ish to you and they sell chicks.



https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/857002/large-fowl-ameraucana-and-blue-laced-red-wyandotte-chicks

i just looked and once again the shipping is murderous i can order from them in about a month when i get the money together