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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Okay, I'm confused.  You already had hens and a rooster to fertilize their 
eggs, and you've been stealing their eggs to hatch in an incubator.  Why not 
just let the chickens hatch them naturally in their chicken nests.  They 
wouldn't harm their own?

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--- On Sun, 11/23/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Eggs are hatching-UPDATE
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, November 23, 2008, 1:01 PM
> I should also say that I am thinking of asking a neighbor
> for a few eggs
> to fill out the incubator.  He has more chickens than I do
> at present.
> He may want some chicks as well, but I doubt it..
> I'm just trying to think of what to trade for the eggs
> if he doesn't
> want any chicks.
> 
> B
> 
> 
> EarthNSky wrote:
> 
> > This is round 1 of chicks.  I am already collecting
> eggs for round 2 
> > of incubation, which, if I can get enough eggs, should
> start next 
> > weekend. As long as I have use of the incubator,
> I'm going to hatch 
> > as many as I can.  If my girls stop laying, then I am
> dead in the 
> > water.   There's an economy of scale here, it
> makes no sense to run 
> > the incubator(and then lights) for a dozen eggs...at
> least, that is 
> > my break point, but I haven't done the math on it.
>  I should.
> 
> -- 
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> Anger leads to
> hate. Hate leads to suffering.”        Yoda
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