Why Do People Buy Live Chicks From Breeders and Farm Stores‭?

[Shadrach]

I've been away too long.
Now I have pageS to catch up on.

It's kinda warm here atm

 

[aart]

I'm doing exactly that. @aart

Huh?

 

[MissChick@dee]

Your wrong and if you read the articles and the stories and looked at some posts you would realise this. Instead you're making assumptions with no knowledege or evidence.

No....lol it’s from your responses. Once it’s typed it cannot be untyped.

 

[MissChick@dee]

I do stand out in the yard and pretend I’m Ace Ventura. They rarely come to me though. I think it’s the yellow pants. How’s that for random?

 

[Shadrach]

No....lol it’s from your responses. Once it’s typed it cannot be untyped.

Don't you believe it

 

[Anna Ranieri]

It makes me wonder how hens manage to hatch chicks.
Interestingly, chicks used to get hatched in an incubator here.
They then got moved to a wire cage with a heat lamp over it and once they had feathers they got put in with the rest of the flock one night.
They died like flies.
They died from coccidiosis.
They died because they didn’t get properly accepted into the flock and wandered about on their own and a predator got them.
A couple just wandered off, never to be seen again.

I threw the incubator in the bin when I took over looking after the chickens.
There is a reduced egg hatch but those that do hatch so far have lived longer.
Since making some changes to the two nesting boxes (the egging boxes are different) the hens hatch a much higher proportion of the eggs they sit on, 4 out of 4 on the first trial and 5 out of six on the second.
Of course, with an incubator if large enough can hatch many more eggs than a hen can. I restrict the hens to a maximum of eight eggs.

 

[1cock2hens]

8 years taking care of other peoples chickens hardly seems like enough time to gather enough information to be able to write a well informed book. you are still very early on in the learning phase, in my opinion. i have nearly 20 years of chicken experience and i still dont feel as though I have the experience to cast judgment on ways of chicken keeping i dont know anything about. i surely wouldnt call my way the best way seeing as how i havent tried every way. that would be a bit arrogant. //

back to why i buy live chicks and not hatch. I dont have the expertise to succesfully hatch eggs and the type of fowl i want arent available just anywhere. why risk waisting time(money) to try to hatch eggs that might not ever do a thing when you can just go pick them up and save time.

 

[Shadrach]

Aww, how sweet is this. I've just been PM'd for some larger pics from one of my articles......not of me unfortunately,,,the chickens

 

[centrarchid]

This thread is so far off the original subject, it is effectively dead.

 

[MissChick@dee]

I was going to bring up the whole drinking/drunk thingie but I got distracted by Rooster’s bright britches.