What do y'all do with all the chicks you hatch?

[patyrdz]

I am trying to start a business selling them. I try to buy the ones I would keep, so if I can't sell them it won't be too bad!! I have cochin, so I bought white cochin eggs, and giant cochin eggs!! I have over 100(not all cochins) I need to sell right now!! By next year I want to have enough chickens in my different breeds that I no longer have to buy eggs. Until I want new blood.

 

[pascopol]

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If you hatch chicks just for a sake of hatching without thinking of consequences, you are irresponsible person.

I only hatch chicken I need, if you can not raise and support chicken you hatch just DONT HATCH.

It it's your sole responsibility to provide for live creatures you bring to life, you are not a commercial hatchery which has ready orders for chicks.

I am amazed of people selfishness and irresponsibility to fulfill their whims and desires without ANY regard for a living things they are dealing with, and IRRESPONSIBLY bringing to life creatures they have no intention to support, and refusing to bear any consequences of their action.

 

[Chicken Woman]

I keep some but can't have roos.

I have given some to 4 H kids and I also gave some to a 15 yr old girl that is being raised by her grandma. Her grandma use to have chickens and the girl wanted to raise them as a project that she and grandma could do together. I thought this girl was very sweet.

I have sold a few of my bantams on craigslist to make room for some other breeds I wanted.

I have given all my roos away.

 

[Chicken Woman]

Miss prissy has 246 in bators right now and I wonder what she will do with all of them ?

 

[cluckychick]

I sell some to people through CL, some I take to auction, some I sell by word of mouth, and today I butchered my first roo. Only 6 more of those to go

 

[chick addict]

I just had my first hatch 23 chicks out of 26 eggs!!!!

I just put more eggs into the incubator on thursday evening, and just noticed I forgot to plug in the egg turner....HELP--Should I start over or leave them....Will this affect the hatch...

By the way I have someone locally who is wants to buy all my hatched chicks.....However I cannot part with them all....

 

[Akane]

I know some will disagree with this but since I've been hatching far more than I need and people don't want to buy them until they are old enough to tell gender so at about 6weeks I throw them out in my coop and tell them good luck. They try to free range with the adults but generally stay in or near the coop and when they near adult size I will have left the smartest ones that can best take care of themselves. I then choose the ones that most closesly meet standard with the personality I'm looking for and keep 2 roos and 4-6 pullets. The rest go up for sale as started pullets. After they start laying and I see how the roos treat the hens I pick 1 roo to continue the line and 2-4 pullets to put with that roo or the roo from my other line. Then I put them in pens seperate from the others until I get enough eggs for a test hatch. If I have a good hatch this batch becomes my next generation and the whole thing starts over with putting them in the coop at 6-8weeks and seeing who survives. Then I sell their eggs online for a month or so before putting that breeding group back into the big coop and working with another. I steadily cull what I don't like by selling the pullets and giving away or butchering the roos. My flock is constantly changing aside from a few favorites but this way I plan to get a nice hardy flock that can free range my land without too many predators incidents while still maintaining several pure breeds and improving type.

 

[chick addict]

I have been wanting to sell the eggs online, but not sure how to go about it with the postage....I sell many items on ebay, but with the eggs I don't even know where to begin.....I have to check how much postage will be, and how to properly pack them so they arrive safely...

As for the chicks, what I don't sell immediately they will go into their own chicken coup until they are old and large enough to be with my others...

Does anyone have any answers regarding my egg turner question???????????

 

[ShadyGlade]

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Don't count them out just yet. My advice would be to wait a week and candle them. What incubation days were they with out the turner?

 

[georgialee]

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If you hatch chicks just for a sake of hatching without thinking of consequences, you are irresponsible person.

I only hatch chicken I need, if you can not raise and support chicken you hatch just DONT HATCH.

It it's your sole responsibility to provide for live creatures you bring to life, you are not a commercial hatchery which has ready orders for chicks.

I am amazed of people selfishness and irresponsibility to fulfill their whims and desires without ANY regard for a living things they are dealing with, and IRRESPONSIBLY bringing to life creatures they have no intention to support, and refusing to bear any consequences of their action.

Why do you think I'm asking about it now... a whole year in advance??? Don't you think that is a responsible thing to do? It's not like I just started incubating eggs without a thought to the end product. I don't even have an incuabator for goodness sake.