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I've paid $60 dozen for hatching eggs, it's common anymore...So nice to make my first contact with someone else here. Shipping is horrible. I have purchased 50 eggs from D&H in Ontario. Heather there is great- but a lengthy shipment and delayed shipment- even after 30 hours rest before setting. Shaken to separate I suppose, Not one came to fruition. I placed a control egg of my own, she hatched fine.
Sadly, I have just had to put one of our last chicks down- vinegar/sofa bath today.That’s never easy.
We live on 15 acres and south of Calgary. I found a seller on Kijiji in Irricanna Alberta. . She claimed to have has some shipped from Vancouver Island, a fellow out that way Shipped to her and she says she had a 50-60% hatch rate. Overnight shipping helped I suppose. She has two Roo’s from different bloodline, and claims them to be purebred. Without some DNA test these days, how can one really be sure. Maybe I will ask her next week when I see her. She has recently upped her costs now to $60/doz, you just can’t find them here in Alberta. I want to be more of a breeder ‘or Chicken Man’ as some might say, that uses for his own egg/meat purpose, but also tho assist others with selling/sharing the bloodline to ensure growth for this species.
I understand exactly what you're saying. We try to be self-sustaining and promote the breed. I have several different breeds of purebred chickens and I'm trying to narrow down just my favorites, and it's hard.
I've tried to help some people around where I live to broaden their horizons, so to say, of the chicken breeds they keep. Most people just stick by the old standards, which I have a few but I'm not interested in breeding them. When they die, I won't be replacing them with the same breeds.
