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First of all, @abpatchy congratulations for your prize and for your beautiful birds! @fluffycrow so far I didn't get any shipped eggs either. One of my hens is sitting on a bunch of eggs since sunday but I didn't have the time to search for the eggs I wanted... I just gave her some of her...

@fluffycrow Oh, I'm happy for you! I couldn't hatch any eggs so far, the broody hen I had in April changed her mind when temperatures dropped, we had a very cold spring this year and no other hens went broody since then. I really hope your hen will try again soon! Anyway, due to my severe chicks...

I would go with Mao Tsiou-Tung then, but that would be definitely a more controversial reference! :hmm Ah and I listened to that Eurovision song, it really refers to Edgar Allan Poe, that's funny! It's not that big, but it's oddly shaped and that makes it harder to fence it. I totally want to...

Eh eh thank you, her complete name is Edgar Allan Pio (pio is the chicks noise in Italian, not sure how it is in English, maybe "peep"? It could work also as Edgar Allan Peep), I thought she was a he when she was born! I don't know the Eurovision song, but I'm going to search it now!

Thank you! So a lot of chicks for you, good luck with all these babies, I hope to see some pictures when these Brahma eggs hatch! :jumpy Yesterday I saw a fox from the kitchen window, my yard isn't predator proof, so I wasn't happy. I closed the chickens in the run and went out with the dog to...

Finally I have a broody! I hadn't the time to collect eggs from the breeds I wanted, so I let her sit on the eggs she chose, since I would like some more Olive Eggers. This hen is called Edgar and she was the very first chick to be born here from a Blue Copper Marans and my rooster who is an OE...

so cute!!! :love

If only I could be reasonable, I would say 10 is the perfect number to get to know their personalities. Sadly I'm not reasonable at all and I have a lot of space! :D At the moment I have 8 adults and 4 chicks, but in my coop I can host up to 20 in complete comfort, so let's see what happens in...

happy for your eggs, @abpatchy! I finally found isbar eggs for 2 euro each and I can drive to pick them up, so they don't have to be shipped... that's good! still, I have to wait for hens to go broody and here it started snowing again, so it's going to take some time! @fluffycrow I'm still...

I'm afraid in Italy 3 euro/egg is a normal price for rare breeds. I'm searching for Isbar eggs (definitely hard to find here) and I can't find any in the dutch website (I only see some Isbar cockerels or roosters ads, but maybe this is because I don't speak dutch!). I found Isbar eggs from...

I agree, I read enough stories about incubators to know that there are many things that can go wrong when you lack experience and I wouldn't try with rare eggs for the first time. Well, I'll let you know what I find, I guess a breeder just need some time to collect the number of eggs that you...

@fluffycrow I'm working for you! 😊 I asked a breeder I know to find me some Aseel breeders who could send eggs by mail and he told me he will let me know! He's into chicken competitions, so he knows a lot of breeders. Hope something will come out of it!

Shamo are more common here, they're still expensive, but at least they exist! Tomorrow I check if I can find someone who sells egg to ship. From Italy it wouldn't be a long trip, but mail service REALLY sucks here, I'm not sure if it would be better than from the UK, ahah! About my hen: I don't...

You could also try the German club linked by abpatchy, I didn't know Aseel were so hard to find. The breeds I was searching for are rare and expensive in Italy, but nothing compared to Aseel!

Oh I'm sorry it has been so hard for you, but this is the right place if you need to vent! :)

Oh I found it in an Italian forum about farming. I was banned from that forum (oops!) years ago and I can't write on it anymore, but I can still see the ads wall. There's also a big list of breeders. The forum isn't really active anymore, but you can find some good breeders there. There are 3...

I would really love travelling in search of chickens , but it's not really an option at the moment: I live alone in the middle of nowhere with lot of animals and I couldn't go to Austria and come back in just one day. Let's see if I can hatch some shipped eggs next spring!

I don't expect a good hatch rate, I would like to give it a try though, because some breeds are hard to find where I live and when you find them they cost tons of money or birds are kept in such dirty and small cages that I just can't give money to those people. I searched for aseel chickens in...

Well done, let us know how it goes! I think this year I'm going to try to hatch eggs ordered by mail for the first time. I found some breeds I was searching for, I like how the breeder keeps his birds, I just have to wait for some hen to go broody. How much does it cost (approximately) a...

I already did it, thank you! Didn't receive many answers, but now at least I know is something that can happen (it happened to other users) and as long as she is active, eats, poops etc., I don't have to worry!