Re: " Chick Days " To wait or Not Wait????
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I think I'd wait, not just the savings which is a plus but less winter for caring for chicks. Are you wanting layers only or meat birds too?
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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Re: " Chick Days " To wait or Not Wait????
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delewares are great dual purpose bird
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Re: " Chick Days " To wait or Not Wait????
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If you want hens, you should always buy chicks Sept-Oct; they will be laying throughout the summer while the feed is free. Spring chicks will start laying just in time for winter to make them stop laying. This is the best way to do it, if you don't already have chickens and want eggs. However, few people do it that way and few people are willing to pay more for pullets just starting to lay than chicks they will have to brood for a few months and feed for 6 months before getting a return, even though it makes economic sense. Keith
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Re: " Chick Days " To wait or Not Wait????
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If you want hens, you should always buy chicks Sept-Oct; they will be laying throughout the summer while the feed is free. Spring chicks will start laying just in time for winter to make them stop laying. We have too many Hawks here that ate my first birds... So we have a Roomy Insulated coop with a Long chicken wire enclosed run. ACTUALLY Two coops So I feed all year and they lay well even when its -zero out.
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Re: " Chick Days " To wait or Not Wait????
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If you want hens, you should always buy chicks Sept-Oct; they will be laying throughout the summer while the feed is free. Spring chicks will start laying just in time for winter to make them stop laying. We have too many Hawks here that ate my first birds... So we have a Roomy Insulated coop with a Long chicken wire enclosed run. ACTUALLY Two coops So I feed all year and they lay well even when its -zero out. You can often buy pullets, just starting to lay, for well under the price of purchasing chicks, plus the electricity used brooding them, plus the feed fed them for 6 months, plus a heck of a lot of time watering, feeding and cleaning up after them. Check Craigslist. Keitj
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Re: " Chick Days " To wait or Not Wait????
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You can often buy pullets, just starting to lay, for well under the price of purchasing chicks, plus the electricity used brooding them, plus the feed fed them for 6 months, plus a heck of a lot of time watering, feeding and cleaning up after them. Check Craigslist.
Keitj
Its fun to be able to select your preferred breed and raise the birds and gain that connection with them. Pullets are not typically priced low locally, usually 15-20 per bird.
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Re: " Chick Days " To wait or Not Wait????
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You can often buy pullets, just starting to lay, for well under the price of purchasing chicks, plus the electricity used brooding them, plus the feed fed them for 6 months, plus a heck of a lot of time watering, feeding and cleaning up after them. Check Craigslist.
Keitj
Its fun to be able to select your preferred breed and raise the birds and gain that connection with them. Pullets are not typically priced low locally, usually 15-20 per bird. Same here, used to be like Keith said in my neck of the woods but now they want premium. If I were still doing it I'd hatch my own, on my time frame.
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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Re: " Chick Days " To wait or Not Wait????
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i am gonna wait till tractor supply or rural king has some meat birds hatchery prices have gone nuts
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Re: " Chick Days " To wait or Not Wait????
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put 17 in the incubator yesterday and 13 today.batch 1 is on its way.
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Re: " Chick Days " To wait or Not Wait????
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I would wait and not just because of the delivery money.
typically in a chick delivery they ride from hatchery to drop location kept warm with the post office not a guarantee.
march 17th is not that far away and spring is far enough away that you don't want to have to heat and house them inside for longer than needed.
true you will get eggs 3-4 weeks sooner but your waiting 20-25 weeks to egg 1 any way.
generally hatchery days are based off common annual weather for your area much before first hatchery day and your keeping them inside that many more days and paying heat.
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Re: " Chick Days " To wait or Not Wait????
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Keith, I never seen that kind of rise in my electric bill. We hatched our own in the spring and had two lights going in the pen. I don't have my books anymore but it was cheaper for me to do it that way or I wouldn't have done it. We had a variety of chickens before we settled in on Golden Comets for laying. The meat birds were separate.
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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Re: " Chick Days " To wait or Not Wait????
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I would order now to make sure I get what I want but would also order from a different place that had the white Plymouth rocks as well.
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