What came first?

[henpecked]

In order to answer that age old question, What came first, the chicken or the egg?? I ordered one of each from off the internet, I'll let you know.

 

[JerseyWendy]

You ordered an egg online????

 

[Calace]

Love it!!!

 

[tab_xo]

You ordered an egg online????

HAHAHA I am sure there is a very good explanation for it

 

[JerseyWendy]

HAHAHA I am sure there is a very good explanation for it

Well I get my egg(s) from the supermarket...but always 18 at a time. The Capt must know something that he isn't telling us. :54:

 

[henpecked]

Oh yeah, you can order eggs online. We've gotten both chicken and turkey eggs on line.You can even get 3 day old chicks through the mail. Now days i just pick them up out of the yard.

 

[JerseyWendy]

Dare I ask what people do with 3 day old chicks??? :11:

 

[henpecked]

Pretty simple really, they feed them until they turn into chickens,LOL. Then it's up to you.

 

[ShellyBorg]

I use to raise heritage breed chickens and made good money shipping eggs all over the us. I made about 12.50 a dozen after shipping. It always blow my mind how happy people where to pay $25 for a dozen eggs that only half would hatch out!

 

[henpecked]

I've had better luck than that. (50% hatching) Our latest venture is raising wild turkeys. I bought 2 dozen eggs, 1 broke,2 infertile, and 17 hatched,1 died. i now have 16 Osceola turkeys that are about 16 wks old. The chicken eggs i've bought online seem to hatch about as good as the ones from my own coop. Of course day 1 eggs are hard to tell if they're fertile, so you'll have a few that aren't.

 

[BillsBirds]

On ebay, you can buy peacock eggs, quail eggs, and many other eggs for hatching. Richard...you are a funny guy! You usually put a smile on my face. Thanks!

 

[ShellyBorg]

Your doing great with your hatch rate! I use to get about 75% avg. with the eggs I ship. We told most people to plan on 50% because you never know with the post office.

 

[henpecked]

I think part of our success is using the broody bantam hens, better than the incubator. Kind of funny to watch them when they're hatching turkey eggs. After a couple of weeks the poults are as large as the hens,LOL.