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Phill
Joined: 16 Mar 2008
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Location: Essex
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 Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:45 am Post subject: Gone Broody |
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Ive never had hen go broody before and she's a Polish Hen too ^_^
I felt a bit mean when I took her eggs away from her but I don't keep a cokeral so they won't be fertile. Kind of sad that I don't have a cokeral id love to have some more Polish chooks.
Sadly can't keep cockerals my family has firmly said no to the idea and it think my neighbours would kill me o.0 |
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mojo
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
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Location: GLENAY north deux sevre FRANCE
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| phill ...........you could of course buy in fertile eggs...............ssssssssssssssssssssssh dont tell the family |
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JC
Joined: 24 Mar 2008
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Location: Sussex
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| Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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Buy some polish eggs!  |
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Phill
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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Is it possible to order fertile eggs that have are a long distence away like 3 hours and still hatch them sucessfully?
Not sure if this is a silly question but would you have to collect the eggs or can the eggs be delivered???
This is something I might consider in the future once I know how much it costs and find out a bit more about it. Ive heard about others ordering fertile eggs and then hatching them out.
Unfortunately they don't go broody for very long a few hours later and Betty left the nest and. |
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JC
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The eggs can be deliverd, most people who sell eggs will send them in a specially made poly box. However due to boxes being chucked about the fertility is generally reduced.. sometimes it is awful other times 100% the best way is to find eggs locally and pick them up yourselves as then you know they have had a smoothe journey  |
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Itsybitsy
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Location: Leicestershire
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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You can buy fertile (hatching) eggs off ebay, they will of course be posted unless the seller is close to you. Posted eggs can have problems.
If you have a local livestock market you may be able to get fertile eggs from there - the range may not be as great as from ebay though.
Finally look at magazines like Country Smallholding and Practical Poultry, they have lists of breeders who will sell anything from hatching eggs to point of lay birds in a great variety of breeds. There may well be someone close to you selling just what you want.
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Phill
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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Alas their are no local Poland Hen breeders Norfolk looks about the closest place to sell Poland Hens and really its too far from were I love to travel.
Are eggs cheap to buy? what price would I be looking at per eggs? |
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Itsybitsy
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Phill wrote: | | Alas their are no local Poland Hen breeders Norfolk looks about the closest place to sell Poland Hens and really its too far from were I love to travel. |
Ah well, keep looking - you never know, somebody more local may start up or maybe not have enough to advertise at the moment.
| Phill wrote: | | Are eggs cheap to buy? what price would I be looking at per eggs? |
It depends. . . . at my local livestock market, hatching eggs can start at a ridiculously low price - cheaper than eating eggs, but of course special breeds will be rarer and more expensive. Ebay seems to be quite expensive these days, I see a lot are now charging something like £6.50 for postage, then there is the cost of the eggs as well, best thing is to keep looking. I recently bought 10 welsummer eggs from the market for a friend, they cost £4.50 including commission, 8 hatched.
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