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[Duck Drover]

[COLOR=800080]Is Anyone In Our Group Hatching Right Now? [/COLOR]

 
[COLOR=800080]Will Anyone in This Group Be Selling Chicks or Juveniles In Jan., Feb.,  March?   If so, what breeds?[/COLOR]

I am hatching now and I will continue hatching in the Spring. I am hatching English Orpingtons and Silkies.

 

[Duck Drover]

It looks like I will be taking Silkie roosters to the auction in Enumclaw in the morning. Someone filed a nuisance complaint so I can expect a visit from the city in the next two weeks. I assume it is the young Silkie roosters crowing that prompted the complaint since my young roosters are usually sold before they start crowing. I don't want to take the time to list them now so I need to come up with a quick fix. I am sure it will be a death sentence for the roosters but I am not interested in butchering Silkies. I may have to start killing the young Orpingon cockerels before they start crowing but most of them are splash and they are all out of nice imported English Orpingtons so I will separate them and take pictures to list them this week, then if they don't sell this week I may need to kill them all next weekend to keep them from crowing. I have had roosters crowing all summer without complaint (although whoever filed a complaint never said anything to me so I am probably dealing with a coward who is unable to solve problems without involving an authority figure) so the only thing I can figure is the problem is the fact that I have maturing roosters that need to be sold while people keep asking to buy my hens and pullets instead of the roosters.

I have sold groups of pet quality roosters, suspecting they willl be eaten, but I had hoped these would not be killed because they are nice Silkies. I raised a bunch of Silkies so I could keep pullets and sell roosters so I have no interest in keeping these roosters any longer, I just wish I did not have to take them to their death. I need to find some boxes to sell them individually so perhaps even one will have a chance to live beyond the next 24 hours.

 

[Lutefisk]

Anyone have fertile eggs yet? I have a new incubator and can't wait to use it.

 

[DeltaBluezTess]

Anyone have fertile eggs yet? I have a new incubator and can't wait to use it.

where are you located?

 

[Lutefisk]

where are you located?

Shelton. I'm willing to drive an hour or so.

 

[Duck Drover]

Anyone have fertile eggs yet? I have a new incubator and can't wait to use it.

I have fertile eggs (chicks hatched today and my next hatch is on the 17th) so I have been hatching and selling chicks all Winter (keeping some for myself, of course). I keep getting requests for fertile eggs but I prefer hatching my own eggs so now I have decided to offer breeding pairs in order to make room in my coop for pullets I hatched and am raising to become Spring layers. If I don't cut back I will have way too many chicken eggs to hatch and I will need to start hatching ducklings soon. I worry about selling fertile eggs because so much can happen to them once I sell them to cause them to not hatch and I hate the thought of them going to waste that way. I have had so much more success taking eggs from the coop and putting them in the incubator than driving to pick up eggs for hatching. I have not tried shipped eggs because I have heard the results are not usually very good. Anyway, I just listed the pairs on Craigslist so that should help clear out my young roosters and give others the opportunity to start a flock of their own. I was going to wait until Spring to cut back on hens and sell breeding roosters but now is a good time for them to become adjusted to their new homes.

 

[Tikkijane]

It looks like I will be taking Silkie roosters to the auction in Enumclaw in the morning. Someone filed a nuisance complaint so I can expect a visit from the city in the next two weeks. I assume it is the young Silkie roosters crowing that prompted the complaint since my young roosters are usually sold before they start crowing. I don't want to take the time to list them now so I need to come up with a quick fix. I am sure it will be a death sentence for the roosters but I am not interested in butchering Silkies. I may have to start killing the young Orpingon cockerels before they start crowing but most of them are splash and they are all out of nice imported English Orpingtons so I will separate them and take pictures to list them this week, then if they don't sell this week I may need to kill them all next weekend to keep them from crowing. I have had roosters crowing all summer without complaint (although whoever filed a complaint never said anything to me so I am probably dealing with a coward who is unable to solve problems without involving an authority figure) so the only thing I can figure is the problem is the fact that I have maturing roosters that need to be sold while people keep asking to buy my hens and pullets instead of the roosters.

I have sold groups of pet quality roosters, suspecting they willl be eaten, but I had hoped these would not be killed because they are nice Silkies. I raised a bunch of Silkies so I could keep pullets and sell roosters so I have no interest in keeping these roosters any longer, I just wish I did not have to take them to their death. I need to find some boxes to sell them individually so perhaps even one will have a chance to live beyond the next 24 hours.

Would crowing collars be a helpful option? I'm so sorry.

 

[Lutefisk]

When is everyone? Watching the Seahawks?

 

[PheasantsFirst]

When is everyone? Watching the Seahawks?

That must be why the forum is slow right now!

 

[Dwkuska]

I could care less about the SeaChickens. Not much of a sports fan at all really.. never have. Kind of wierd for a guy I suspect. I like fish, chickens, and firearms... atleast I know Im still human lol