Hatching Black French Marans

[fluffycrow]

Yikes! You had to buy eggs!?! If I hadn't have bought those hatchery chicks last spring when we weren't going to buy chicks at all last year... we would have had to buy eggs from the store too, so see, unintentional chick purchased save the day! Lol.

Oh gosh, how did they show up!?!

Yup. I was only getting about two eggs a week, not enough for all the breakfast eggs and the occasional cooking. They arrived in a shoe box, individually wrapped in a small piece of newspaper. The only thing that saved the whole batch from cracking, was the fact that the shoe box was filled to the brim. Like I said, definitely eating eggs

 

[fluffycrow]

Well, I suppose if nothing else, you could decorate them for Easter, take a picture to send them. I just think it'd be more fun and actually funny if you hatched them and showed them chicks.

It probably would be more funny to tell them that I've hatched the eggs instead of eating them. It's just not fair to my birds to hatch these eggs. It's a health risk for my flock, and as much as I'd like to see a bunch of chicks running around (well, more then what I have planned at least), there is only room for birds that I have planned for. Making them Easter eggs would've been a great idea, but Easter isn't till the 5th of May, and these eggs would be rotten at that point

 

[Canadian Wind]

It probably would be more funny to tell them that I've hatched the eggs instead of eating them. It's just not fair to my birds to hatch these eggs. It's a health risk for my flock, and as much as I'd like to see a bunch of chicks running around (well, more then what I have planned at least), there is only room for birds that I have planned for. Making them Easter eggs would've been a great idea, but Easter isn't till the 5th of May, and these eggs would be rotten at that point

You could sell the chicks

 

[fluffycrow]

You could sell the chicks

Potential diseases aside, there are no takers of day old chicks that I know of, so that would mean I'd have to grow them up. That leaves no room for the serama chicks. It also means I'd have to pay more for feed

 

[21hens-incharge]

You could sell the chicks

You're enabling!!

 

[fluffycrow]

You're enabling!!

Totally

 

[Antiocheggers]

French Black Marans. That's a French Black Marans rooster in my avatar.
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Beautiful

 

[Antiocheggers]

How about number 8 then?

8 is available

 

[2ndTink]

Potential diseases aside, there are no takers of day old chicks that I know of, so that would mean I'd have to grow them up. That leaves no room for the serama chicks. It also means I'd have to pay more for feed

And we can't have the serama's crowded out, we need a lot of serama chicks hatching!

 

[Antiocheggers]

It probably would be more funny to tell them that I've hatched the eggs instead of eating them. It's just not fair to my birds to hatch these eggs. It's a health risk for my flock, and as much as I'd like to see a bunch of chicks running around (well, more then what I have planned at least), there is only room for birds that I have planned for. Making them Easter eggs would've been a great idea, but Easter isn't till the 5th of May, and these eggs would be rotten at that point

Easter is May 5th ? It's
March 31st here.