Tis Time for a March 2020 Hatch-a-long!

[Fur-N-Fowl]

First pip on my Cream legbars View attachment 2039088

Good luck with the hatch!

 

[LilyD]

Baby number 9 for the season is out all on it's own humidity spiked from 37 up to 47 after hatching and is starting to drop a little now that it's starting to dry off. Egg that hatched is the one closest to the camera. The one that pipped the wrong end of the egg is still makig noise but not showing any progress. Last egg is now showing a pip. Chick hatched about 5am. Once the next chick hatches I'll assist the last baby hopefully it will be okay waiting.

 

[LilyD]

Backwards pipper just got itself out of the egg. One egg to go and it's rocking like mad.

 

[wolfwalker]

People pay for mixes here. $2-3 for chicks. $15-20 for started pullets. I don't know why you'd have to give away olive eggers.

That is what I plan to do a couple of dollars each as chicks, which is nearly free for me LOL. I normally don't sell before 8 weeks as they no longer need heat, just protection from being chilled and for 25$ up to 30$ each

 

[Mylied]

That is what I plan to do a couple of dollars each as chicks, which is nearly free for me LOL. I normally don't sell before 8 weeks as they no longer need heat, just protection from being chilled and for 25$ up to 30$ each

Oh ok. I don't raise expensive breeds so free means free. ;-)

 

[LilyD]

That is what I plan to do a couple of dollars each as chicks, which is nearly free for me LOL. I normally don't sell before 8 weeks as they no longer need heat, just protection from being chilled and for 25$ up to 30$ each

I tend to be the same way. Unless it's a 4-H kid that wants a baby and then I would hatch babies just for them and give them to them without charging. Generally if people want babies right after hatch it's 8-10 depending on what eggs they are. After that I add on my costs to keep the brooder running and the babies fed between hatch until they are sold and increase the cost of the chicks based on that. So an 8 week chick for me would probably go for 18$ - 25$ depending on the color and the baby itself. Usually if they want the babies to be sexed as cockerels or pullets that fee is extra as well. Otherwise they go straight run.

 

[LilyD]

Oh ok. I don't raise expensive breeds so free means free. ;-)

Mine aren't expensive breeds but they are sought after up here. People want colors other than Lavender in orps up here and there are only a few people breeding. This year we will have mauves, silvers, blues, black, splash and chocolates and any babies that come from my personal eggs are all split to mottled so if bred to a mottled rooster will have mottled babies. Even to get them from a hatchery like Meyers they are 20$ to 30$ a chick at hatch. I would grow them out to full feathering for that price.

 

[FortCluck]

We just had someone pay $10 per chick. I told them they were free and they insisted.

 

[LilyD]

We just had someone pay $10 per chick. I told them they were free and they insisted.

Yeah people up here recognize that it takes electricity and lots of help from the people to hatch chicks most won't take without paying.

 

[FortCluck]

Yeah people up here recognize that it takes electricity and lots of help from the people to hatch chicks most won't take without paying.

My husband tried to hand him the money and I did but he kept saying no so I gave up after a while.