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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: moorlander on December 28, 2010, 01:21:59 pm

Title: Norfolks have done it!
Post by: moorlander on December 28, 2010, 01:21:59 pm

After the great surprise of my first two eggs from teh Scots GRey self-hatched pullets on Christmas Day, I discoverd my first egg from my self-hatched Norfolk Greys today.
All the eggs so far are small but it is great start - bodees well for a potentially good hatching season when we get to the Spring.
Paul

(Happy New Year Everyone)

Title: Re: Norfolks have done it!
Post by: manian on December 28, 2010, 03:40:39 pm

will you be selling day old chicks?

Title: Re: Norfolks have done it!
Post by: little blue on December 28, 2010, 04:05:08 pm

congrats!
great feeling isnt it?!

Manian, sounds like you're in the market?  ;)

Title: Re: Norfolks have done it!
Post by: manian on December 28, 2010, 06:42:51 pm

i love my layers
i want to hatch eventually... :o (scares me a little).... try day olds first and progress....
eventually i hope to have table and layers.....

Title: Re: Norfolks have done it!
Post by: princesspiggy on January 06, 2011, 11:20:55 pm

my white sussex have started laying too,  ;D ;D, (hatched june) nice surprise when my others have gone off lay!
dont be scared of hatching out, just accept that not all will survive, but neither will natural hatchings with a hen. our first broody hen experience was 2 hens fighting over who sat on the chick, and ended up flattening it til death between them, (now have a broody coop)
if ur gona incubate, get a good thermometer and a humidifier, neither are expensive. and try and find out what went wrong so it doesnt happen again.  :chook: :chook: