Well after a good start in 2009 with my little chicklets I am now completely addicted to chickens!
In 2010 I had my first experience with raising chickens for meat, I adapted my garden to include a permanent chicken pen, and I hatched my first eggs in an incubator.
This year I have rather grander plans:
I am modifying my chicken pen into smaller breed pens and I plan to rais some purebreed chickens, and hopefully show them in some "chicken shows" later this year.
At the moment I have silver laced, blue laced and buff laced bantam wyandotte eggs booked, and due for posting on Monday 31 Jan. I have 12 cream legbar (CLB) eggs which, hopefully, should arrive tomorrow 29th Jan. I also have 12 black brahma eggs arriving at the ned of next week.
Further to this I have ordered more CLB eggs for the middle of Feb, and I've reserved some cochin, brahma and Faverolles eggs. I have also sent email enquiries for silver black and silver blue Marans eggs.
If they all turn up, I should be incubating in the region of 110 eggs this spring, which should hopefully result in approximately 25 pullets (based up on 50% hatch rate for posted eggs, and 50% pullet:cockeral ratio of hatchlings.
I intend to use this blog to redord eggs received, and chicks hatched, as well as the growth of the chicks into chooks.
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