28/01/2024
As spring draws near, I’m getting more and more inquiries about hatching eggs and chicks as my waitlist continues to grow. As much as I am grateful for the interest, I want to remind everyone that I am just a hobbyist. I am not a big hatchery. I have small breeding pens, and my goal is to breed for quality, not quantity.
Breeding chickens is just something I enjoy, and the beautiful eggs (and meat) are a bonus. A number of the eggs I collect get sent to shows while many chicks that I hatch are sent to grow out pens. That leaves a *very* limited number of hatching eggs and chicks that I make available to others to help pay for feed and maintenance costs.
In addition, I am also at the mercy of the weather and the chickens themselves. We typically have a late winter and often still have sub-freezing temperatures until after Mother’s Day in May. That means my laying season starts very late. I know some breeders have chickens that lay all through the winter. I am not one of those. Most of my chickens have now stopped laying for the winter, and I am unsure of when they will start back up. My hope is that they will be laying again by February/March.
If you are on my waitlist, I thank you for your patience and will let you know as soon as I have something available. Until then, enjoy this photo of the last olive eggs I collected before the laying hiatus and feel free to reach out if you have any questions about my chickens or my goals for this year. Thanks! ☺️
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