The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[WallyG74]

I always hate when you have 5 or 6 fluffy, dry chicks and you go to get them out and come back to find a fresh slimy baby with them.

 

[The Moonshiner]

You have people beaten your door down for chicks down there?
It was nuts here earlier. People lined up at the feed stores waiting on their shipments to come in.
It's died down now. Our local feed store actually made it through the week with some chicks left when the next ones showed up last week.

 

[WallyG74]

You have people beaten your door down for chicks down there?
It was nuts here earlier. People lined up at the feed stores waiting on their shipments to come in.
It's died down now. Our local feed store actually made it through the week with some chicks left when the next ones showed up last week.

Yes, it’s crazy! I think the madness is over for now down here too, but it was the same story. I’ve had to tell people I can’t sell to them because of my horrible hatches. It couldn’t have happened at a worse time. Our TSC was holding chicks because they had a bunch die once customers got them home. So, they decide to hold them for a day and set a time for everyone in 3 counties to show up at once to get chicks.

 

[KF0002]

You have people beaten your door down for chicks down there?
It was nuts here earlier. People lined up at the feed stores waiting on their shipments to come in.
It's died down now. Our local feed store actually made it through the week with some chicks left when the next ones showed up last week.

The feed stores can't keep up with the demand for chicks around here. People would rather pay TSC an inflated price for their baby poultry, but they want me to sell mine to them for peanuts. So we only hatched a handful of poults this year, sold a few to a girl at work, gave my son's little buddy a few, and we will keep the rest. We will be eating a whole lot of roosters and will hopefully have plenty of layers and breeders from the chicks we are hatching. I don't even try to sell chicks because it is too much of a headache dealing with people.

 

[KF0002]

I always hate when you have 5 or 6 fluffy, dry chicks and you go to get them out and come back to find a fresh slimy baby with them.

Yeah but I'm always happy to see that fresh slimy baby.

 

[KF0002]

@Amer , I have confirmed the sport Silver Ginger birds from the SDW line of Games are wheaten based. I set a couple of eggs from a hen mated back to her sire, and the only chick to hatch is wheaten based. Unfortunately it was born with really bad crooked toes and can't walk, and will have to be culled. The rooster I have mated to the Brown Leghorn hen is this chick’s mother’s brother.

 

[KF0002]

6 chicks hatched, and 5 more eggs pipped or actively hatching. Looks like all 11 of these are going to hatch.

 

[The Moonshiner]

6 chicks hatched, and 5 more eggs pipped or actively hatching. Looks like all 11 of these are going to hatch.

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Are these browns?

 

[WallyG74]

Everything is brown

 

[KF0002]

Are these browns?

Yes they are the Brown Leghorns. I'm telling you there must be something to the shipping method he used because I am extremely pleased with my hatch rate on these. They were packed tight in a box of fine pine shavings. I had to dig through the box to find them. It was interesting and I was skeptical, but the method works quite well.