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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: miccon63 on March 06, 2011, 06:08:49 pm

Title: looking for fertile eggs ?
Post by: miccon63 on March 06, 2011, 06:08:49 pm

Hi all
One of my wee girls have just went broody and was looking for some fertile eggs.
i was hoping for to pick them up local (Cupar or north east fife).
the wee girls only a bantam so was only looking for 3-4 eggs
never done the chick thing before so any advice is welcome thanks again .....Mark.  ;D ???

Title: Re: looking for fertile eggs ?
Post by: BlueDaisy on March 07, 2011, 08:26:03 am

try sending meebh a PM - sure they will be able to help.
see this post
http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?topic=13014.0 (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/index.php?topic=13014.0)

Title: Re: looking for fertile eggs ?
Post by: miccon63 on March 07, 2011, 08:36:52 am

just got a pm from her last night
nipping up on wednesday ...thanks Mark

Title: Re: looking for fertile eggs ?
Post by: miccon63 on March 09, 2011, 02:55:58 pm

Thanks again for the eggs meebh , fingers crossed we might get a result in a wee while.  :chook:;D

Title: Re: looking for fertile eggs ?
Post by: meebh on March 09, 2011, 04:17:39 pm

Thats ok Mark, sorry I couldn't chat longer.  Do you have a candler?  We usually candle around day 5 to see if they are all working, the only prob though is the araucana shells are so thick and dark you don't see an awful lot. 

Thanks again for you kind donation to Short Stature Scotland too, we have a social coming up and will pass it on to the committee then. 

Looking forward to hearing the progress of the broody  :wave: