HOW many of WHAT are you going to >>>>>

[ross]

Kinda leanin that way myself OC and the Voorburgs do raise their own . Yep got Levi's book as well . Loaded with info . Luck

[SandyM]

I'm hoping for hatching eggs for Ameraucana's from OC, or Maybe if bodabing has them I'll get from him. No incubator so it's all on the sweet little ladies schedule. Picking up 3 black Silkie pullets Monday (one has started laying) to add to the growing flock. That will be 9 silkies!!
Oh and of course I'm anticipating some Silkie chicks. OMG!! More silkies :) Yay!

I have a few members who would like some porcelain Silkie eggs ... Don't know what or how to store them so gotta figure that out so they don't get all duds in their incubators.

The thought of a spreadsheet to manage my hatching seems scary
Id rather let the ladies do the work :poules-13:

I've always wanted marans ... Until I saw the 'meat' or 'flesh' that can come in the eggs. Big X beside that want. Oh and ducks. Need a duck coop built and be more duck worthy over here .,, then I wonder if the silks can take on some duck eggs :smiley-char026:

[baronrenfrew]

Picnic at Jim's? Better spray the garlic stoff for the mosquitoes. Pick ya up and carry you away. Any bigger and we could put them on the barbeque; like a flying lobster. Barbeque sauce or mustard? Hmmmm

[ross]

I'll send yu some swallows Jim .

[Killerbunny]

Oh no, you're not getting me to put that online LOL!!!!!!

[JimW]

I have the garlic spray, I will be using it regularly come sring time.

[SandyM]

I have the garlic spray, I will be using it regularly come sring time.

We HAD a major problem with mosquitos here. This garlic we found is a season changer!! We are actually able to function outside since .. Amazing!! Non toxic, eco and all that good stuff.

[heyden]

I plan on Hatching 25-50 chicks of the following breeds and also sell hatching eggs. Partridge Chanteclers, Welsummers, Black Australorps, New Hampshires, Delawares, White Bresse, Black/Blue Ameraucana's Hatch all eggs laid by the white wyandottes, Do some sexlink projects with the breeds I have for a laying flock. Hatching Beltsville Turkeys and hopefully Pilgrim and Toulouse Geese.......

[heyden]

Oh and hopefully get hatching eggs to hatch of Buff Chanteclers and Coronation Sussex and Lakenvelders.

[windwalkingwolf]

Every year, between the broodies and my itty bitty incubator (holds 10 eggs comfortably but I've been known to cram 12 in there), I hatch between 50-100 chicks. Half Giants and half layer mixes and project birds. When selecting breeders from a previous years' Giant hatch, it seems I only ever end up with 5 decent hens and 2 not-so-good-but-the-best-I've-got roosters. About the same in the other pens too, not including the inevitable 2 or 3 that stick around because they spark ideas for new projects or just because I got attached to them :/ . I want to end up with double or triple that amount, in the Giants anyway, so this year the plan is to hatch everything that falls out of a Giants vent...now that I have more room to put grow outs. If I could get my hands on a rooster that throws consistently good males, I would be a happy camper.
The bantam 'roadrunner chicken' project...lost loads of them to predators, but keeping hatching numbers the same this year or even scaling back a bit, because I anticipate fewer problems in that department. I hope. Very little tree cover here for 4-leggeds to sneak in and snatch them.
Ducks and Muscovies...I won't be hatching any of them at all until I get the number of drakes down and the two groups separated. I don't want mules, and there are a few drakes in there in line for the axe that I do NOT want reproducing at any rate. Until I get more pens built, I don't have anywhere to put the extras but the freezer, and I simply haven't had any time to get to it.
The geese...I want to move away from the brown Chinese and keep a meat breed, and plans are to buy a few goslings in Spring...but I think my two oldest girls heard me talking about it, and decided to lay eggs in December. One is now broody. They certainly can't be beat for egg laying ability, and now I'm waffling about keeping both them AND meat geese LOL
The turkeys...as long as they stay healthy, the plan is to hatch hatch hatchety hatch, and buying meat poults in spring to later cross with some of what I've got here. I recently got a quad of BSW from Killerbunny, and one of the girls is exhibiting nesting behaviour--tossing straw around herself. I hope she doesn't start laying just yet, because I haven't got anything set up for brooding mamas yet.
I'm getting a couple pullets from KB and also in Spring I plan to buy a handful of red sex links for eggs as well as a white egg laying breed. Which one hasn't been set in stone yet, but I've got my eye on brabanters if I can find some reasonably close at a reasonable price. If not, I'll likely go back to white prod. leghorns, and just make sure I breed selectively this time around. I found them spazzy, ugly, and except for their unbeatable egg-laying, didn't enjoy them at all. But now I know I can fix the spazzy and ugly lol
I don't know yet if I'll be breeding Easter Eggers again this year. If there's a demand for fertile eggs I might, but otherwise I have enough on my plate and enough beautiful colourful blue and green egg layers. I'm putting the black gold and silver duckwing projects on a back burner. Gonzo the Super Rooster is a permanent fixture though, and once I get breeder coops set up, I will probably put him in with a couple hens just to keep him happy :D

So. What do I do with extras? After predators, illness and defects have their pick, extra or wonky chickens and turkeys go to Freezer camp, do not pass 'go'. I never sell anything that's been raised here, or been here long enough to leave quarantine, because many of my adult birds have been exposed to nasties like Coryza and I.L.T. and nobody wants that s**t possibly inflicted on their birds. Extra waterfowl get sold or freezercamped, usually the latter, though last year I just had SOOOO many ducklings from just 8 muscovy females, that I sold off a whack of them. That's the exception though, and this year the plan is to keep them better contained so I can nip nesting in the bud after one or two hatches.
All that said, I've got a bachelor pen (currently serving double duty as a waterfowl pen as well) full to bursting with roosters and cockerels that are way overdue to have their heads come off. Some have been waiting two years, because the last time I had a slaughter day, I only did 17 and packed it in. Between extra toms, ganders, drakes and roosters, I think there's about 45 birds in there to go. I'll get to it.