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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Bev, this is going to sound naiive, but I don't know about raising chickens.  
You are getting the chicks for free and feeding them for free; why do you 
limit their numbers?  If you have a bunch running around all of the time, 
even if the predators took a percentage , wouldn't you still have plenty left?

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--- On Thu, 12/18/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Hatching Round 2
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 7:13 PM
> I painted the interior trim in the kitchen today-the back
> door, designed 
> a stencil and decorations for the toy box Ron is making for
> our little 
> Princess, wrapped some gifts(homemade birdhouses going into
> a gift 
> bag..lol....) and did general cleaning, but every few
> minutes, I was 
> checking on those eggs...mama hen style..lol..tomorrow I
> will be pretty 
> darn busy, I'm sure.  It really is fun.  Tonight,
> I've been hanging out 
> on the computer, looking at various 'health'
> related sites now...
> If you do break out the incubator, be sure and write on
> your eggs.  I 
> have found that very informative.  I date each one and note
> where I got 
> it from(either mine or neighbors), and then I mark each one
> with 
> 'candleling notes': checks, question marks, etc.  I
> felt confident 
> enough this time to toss the eggs that I did not think were
> developed, 
> and I was right.
> When I pick eggs, I try to pick the largest and cleanest
> ones to hatch. 
>   The first one hatching is so small that you would think
> it a pullet 
> egg.  I was desperate for eggs, so anything clean enough
> went into the 
> 'bator.
> 
> B
> 
> Robert Walton wrote:
> > I was seriously thinking about breaking out the
> incubator until that
> > hen set. It's so much fun to watch them hatch. I
> think an incubator is
> > more fun, cause you get to actually see it.
> > 
> > Rob - Va
> > 
> > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:56 PM, EarthNSky
> <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >> Two eggs have cracked to hatch...no beaks or pips
> yet.
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