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[Little Ondine]

Great find! I found Rock Island fertile eggs in my local SaveMart. I will be buying some for the Easter Hatch-along.

Ooo! Good luck!

 

[Cyberous]

Just wondering....do these become part of your laying flock or would they be suitable as "dual purpose" birds?

I lost all my chickens last year when I decided build a coop away from the house. My poor house sitter was texting me daily saying "another chicken has gone missing" by the time I got home from Hawaii all were gone!

I had to start over and the main reason I keep chickens for egg production, however my partner wanted some reds as "friendly" birds so that's why we got the reds. I like any production chicken for the feed-conversion ratio and what better way to get a production chicken than from production eggs? lol

The California Whites are not good meat birds as they are very small compared to any dual purpose bird. I honestly don't believe in dual purpose. I've tasted a dual purpose chicken and does not compare to Cornish X's

 

[Audio51]

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Aww man...that sucks about losing all your birds. It is so ard when things are going badly and you can;t get home to deal with it. Hope you at least has a really great trip to Hawaii.

I just bought 4 Cornish X about a week ago and will be trying my hand at processing in about 6 weeks. Those guys are huge already for 2 week olds. I was just wondering if that would be an option with ones hatched from store eggs. I will have to do some investigating to see if I can find out what kind the Rock House eggs are likely to be.

 

[Cyberous]

Good luck with the Cornish X, don't name them or get attached!

Back in 09 I did 8 and they were delicious, to this day I cant understand how you can buy at Fryer for $5

So much work!

Post pic's when they hatch, the experts will likely be able to ID them for you.

Don

 

[BaileyBoy]

day 7 for me (started on the 19th) so i canceled and out of the 12 TJs that i have in the bator, 1 was infertile, 1 was an early quitter, and one was a bit questionable but seemed to be developing. SOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Cyberous]

Nice numbers. I think we should start putting locations where we are finding viable eggs, city and state?

 

[BaileyBoy]

Nice numbers. I think we should start putting locations where we are finding viable eggs, city and state?

Found mine in a trader joes in california near LA. a lot of the stores in the less busy parts of LA sell fettle eggs (e.g. Trader Joes, Whole Foods, Sprouts etc.)

 

[BaileyBoy]

Jus thought id post this to help out

Pic Found on http://maplegroveplace.blogspot.com/2013/01/eggs-of-different-color.html



I don't know if this one is too accurate...
Pic Found On http://www.wilco.coop/stores/chickville/

 

[Audio51]

Good luck with the Cornish X, don't name them or get attached!

Back in 09 I did 8 and they were delicious, to this day I cant understand how you can buy at Fryer for $5

So much work!

Post pic's when they hatch, the experts will likely be able to ID them for you.

Don

I definitley will not get attached. That is one reason I bought them ....so my first ones would not be ones I am attached to. They are in the garage in a brooder and I just feed and water and clean up after them. I figure once I get thru it the first time it wil not be as hard in the future, even if I have to do one of my layers. I have a Red Sex link that is a couple of years old and has laid mostly rubber eggs for the last 6 months. She may be next after the Cornish....but will be for the stewpot.

I went to the website for the company that produces Rock Island eggs (Judy's Family Farm via Petaluma egg Company). The hens there look like prduction reds.

 

[Audio51]

Jus thought id post this to help out

Pic Found on http://maplegroveplace.blogspot.com/2013/01/eggs-of-different-color.html



I don't know if this one is too accurate...
Pic Found On http://www.wilco.coop/stores/chickville/

Thanks! They look pretty accurate on the ones I am familiar with...except the Ameraucana egg on the second one. That looks more like an olive egger to me. True Ameraucanas lay blue or blue-green eggs like in the first pic......at least the ones not sold at hatcheries that should be called Easter Eggers