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| Steve Newport |
 Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 3:08 pm |
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Where in the UK (I live in Sussex) can you buy chicks or eggs to
hatch?
I want to raise a couple of birds to lay white or blur eggs.
Do you have to collect them or are there other means to have them
delivered?
Thanks |
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| Jill |
| Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 5:06 pm |
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Steve Newport wrote:
Quote: Where in the UK (I live in Sussex) can you buy chicks or eggs to
hatch?
I want to raise a couple of birds to lay white or blur eggs.
Do you have to collect them or are there other means to have them
delivered?
Thanks
there are lots of places
- decide on your breed - exactly
- find a breeder - the various magazines from the bigger newsagents, online,
or if you really want to gamble - ebay
- collected is so much better - you get to meet the breeder, you will learn
so much, you can decide if they are breeding the way you want, you will save
postage, your eggs will not have been shaken, stirred, thrown, rattled,
heated, chilled, decompressed, kicked, squashed and generally otherwise
abused [you can tell I LUV carriers and the PO  ]
- you do have an incubator and the wherewithall to raise young birds inside
for 8 weeks don't you?
Good luck and happy hatching.
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regards
Jill Bowis
Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
Housing; Equipment, Books, Videos, Gifts
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine nursery
Working Holidays in Scotland
http://www.kintaline.co.uk |
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| pammyT |
| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 12:52 pm |
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On 9 May, 21:08, Steve Newport <ste...@newport47.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
Quote: Where in the UK (I live in Sussex) can you buy chicks or eggs to
hatch?
I want to raise a couple of birds to lay white or blur eggs.
Do you have to collect them or are there other means to have them
delivered?
Thanks
so what will happen if you buy 6 eggs and 4 of them hatch out and they
are all cockerels? |
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| shiver |
| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:57 pm |
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Quote: so what will happen if you buy 6 eggs and 4 of them hatch out and they
are all cockerels?
Stewpot. |
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| Steve Newport |
| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 2:20 pm |
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On Mon, 14 May 2007 18:57:33 GMT, shiver <shiver@me_timbers.com>
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Quote: so what will happen if you buy 6 eggs and 4 of them hatch out and they
are all cockerels?
Stewpot.
Shredder
Kidding, honest....
Stewpot sounds good though.
Mind you there are a few foxes around here that could do wth feeding
up.
Joke, alright, just joking. Let's not go there again.
Seriously don't know. Had thought about that and I know somebody does
want one but I guess something quick just has to be necessary? IUnless
somebody knows anybody taking baby cockerals? |
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| Jill |
| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 3:46 pm |
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Steve Newport wrote:
Quote: Unless
somebody knows anybody taking baby cockerals?
Most pure breeds are not sexable as babies
You ahve to rear them first and then cull them
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regards
Jill Bowis
Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
Housing; Equipment, Books, Videos, Gifts
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine nursery
Working Holidays in Scotland
http://www.kintaline.co.uk |
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| Steve Newport |
| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 4:45 pm |
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On Mon, 14 May 2007 21:46:32 +0100, "Jill"
<news@NOSPAMkintaline.co.uk> wrote:
Quote: Steve Newport wrote:
Unless
somebody knows anybody taking baby cockerals?
Most pure breeds are not sexable as babies
You ahve to rear them first and then cull them
Thats interesting. There was a program on the other day about the
future of British farming and the guy (dairy herder was the main
income I believe) was saying that on large scale production the chicks
were sexed early to produce layers and any males were thrown into a
shredder. Instant death I suppose if it is true.
At what age does the sex of the chick become easily apparent?
I assume they must destroy any males as you cant specify you only want
females? |
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| Jill |
| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 5:36 pm |
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Steve Newport wrote:
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Thats interesting. There was a program on the other day about the
future of British farming and the guy (dairy herder was the main
income I believe) was saying that on large scale production the chicks
were sexed early to produce layers
That is because they are not pure breeds but are hybrids with either one of
various genetic quirks used to determine sex pretty early on [like early and
late feathering genetics]
or very well paid and extremely highly trained and skilled sexers who vent
sex at day old.
Males are an unwanted cost. They are of no use to the industry and as its
the grandparent stock which are most important are of no use for breeding.
Most of the 40 million or so produced in the UK are culled as waste - a
small proportion go to the likes of raptor or such as snake food.
--
regards
Jill Bowis
Pure bred utility chickens and ducks
Housing; Equipment, Books, Videos, Gifts
Herbaceous; Herb and Alpine nursery
Working Holidays in Scotland
http://www.kintaline.co.uk |
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| shiver |
| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:29 pm |
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Quote: Jill <news@NOSPAMkintaline.co.uk> wrote:
extremely highly trained and skilled sexers who vent
sex at day old.
Well I just ate a chicken salad sanny.... Yummy Yum Yum.
Over here in the colonies I've seen a couple of TV shows that showcase
large hatcheries where the little chickies are sexed on the spot by
looking for the difference in two or three feathers at the base of the
wing.
When you do the same job thousands of times a day I presume they are
very good at sexing the little darlings with high accuracy.
Quote: a small proportion go to the likes of raptor or such as snake food.
Mink farms over here.... from what the TV programs showed. |
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| Geoffrey Ritch |
| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:54 am |
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pammyT <pam@fenland-fowl.com> asked:
Quote: so what will happen if you buy 6 eggs and 4 of them hatch out and they
are all cockerels?
coq au vin? |
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