Who would you get your eggs from again?

[Tokajein]

We got a dozen eggs from two different farmers.
Group one being W ($5 a dozen)
Group two being B ( $4 a dozen)
Group W only had two chicks hatch, then two eggs were cracked when we first got them. (and one of the chicks that hatched had curled toes)
Group B had four hatch, and one die after it pipped (was in its egg upsidedown.)
I think group B, but my friend insists on group W again.
Because she likes how they stored their eggs in little cupboards.

Also how do i explain to my friend that the chicks in my remaining eggs are dead? She thinks because she messed up on her candling once I am making the same mistakes (she thought the yolk was a chick) So she keeps saying that I need to crack them open to see if there are chicks inside of them, though I know for fact there are (saw the all moving on day 18, and veins)
I don't think she quite understands that some chicks die right before hatching, or even during hatching.... I have tried to explain this to her several times, but she doesn't really seem to be taking it all in

Oh and no she isn't a little kid at all, she is actually in her 50's, which somehow makes it harder to explain.

 

[Mommysongbird]

So sorry your friend is not understanding you. And sorry for the loss of some of your chicks.

If it were me, I would go with whom ever you got the better yield from even though there were deaths, does that make sense? More fertile eggs I guess is what I am saying.

We got our eggs (all free) from two different homeschool moms, well one of them got them from someone she knows who raises chicken and assured me that they would be fertile. I beleive that all eggs are/were fertile, but the eggs that we got from one person were all upside down in the carton when we picked them up, so I am not sure that they will/are still living??

The others seem to be doing well and I can see veins in nearly all of them (the white shell ones).

Hopefully next year, if we incubate again, we will have our own flock complete with rooster, Maybe???

 

[Chicken.Lytle]

Personally, I would avoid W. Lower hatch rate, worse transit results, and inferior genetics would not leave me inclined to try W again.

 

[Tokajein]

Chicken.Lytle :

Personally, I would avoid W. Lower hatch rate, worse transit results, and inferior genetics would not leave me inclined to try W again.

Exactly what i was thinking. I also like B better because he showed us where he kept his chickens.
W I couldn't even tell he had chickens when we went to his property, cats yes, chickens no.​

 

[Mommysongbird]

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Exactly what i was thinking. I also like B better because he showed us where he kept his chickens.
W I couldn't even tell he had chickens when we went to his property, cats yes, chickens no.

Makes you wonder where W got his eggs from??

 

[Tokajein]

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Exactly what i was thinking. I also like B better because he showed us where he kept his chickens.
W I couldn't even tell he had chickens when we went to his property, cats yes, chickens no.

Makes you wonder where W got his eggs from??

Exactly, didn't smell like there were chickens there either.
Didn't hear any chickens clucking, I was even trying to look behind his house to see if I could spot some, with no luck.

 

[Mommysongbird]

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Makes you wonder where W got his eggs from??

Exactly, didn't smell like there were chickens there either.
Didn't hear any chickens clucking, I was even trying to look behind his house to see if I could spot some, with no luck.

What about his/her neighbors??

 

[Tokajein]

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Exactly, didn't smell like there were chickens there either.
Didn't hear any chickens clucking, I was even trying to look behind his house to see if I could spot some, with no luck.

What about his/her neighbors??

Their neightbors live at least a mile away so I didn't really pay attention hahahaha.

 

[BarkerChickens]

I think group B. My concerns with Group W are the same mentioned above.

 

[Tokajein]

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Yeah, the only part I didn't like about group B is he stored the eggs in a cold room, but obviously that didn't really harm the eggs since I had a more healthy hatch rate.