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waterbuffalofarmer

  • Joined Apr 2014
  • Mid Wales
  • Owner of 61 Mediterranean water buffaloes
Hatching eggs?
« on: May 25, 2016, 05:45:12 pm »
Hi
I know this may be a bit late in the season, or not? I have a hen who is going broody does anyone have any good laying breeds hatching eggs for sale atm? Could you PM with a price list plz? She has only just gone broody so may wait a few days to see if she sits tight.
Thanks
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Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: Hatching eggs?
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2016, 09:10:27 am »
Not too late here - I don't let broodies sit after the beginning of July as the chicks won't be well grown enough to face Winter here after that.  I have Cotswold Legbar X Welsummer hens running with a Speckled Sussex cockerel - I don't know what the offspring would look like (all the hens look like a streamlined Welsummer) but they'd probably come into lay a few weeks before most breeds and they're laying 6 or 7 eggs a week each in their first season.  The eggs they're laying are greenish to khaki and olive but with the SS in the mix I'd guess the offspring would lay slightly a slightly lighter version of these colours.

 

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