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Post by Hezz on Jan 5, 2012 0:58:52 GMT
Wow 15 chicks, good for breeders Most people just collect the eggs and incubate them they don't let them parent rear A lot of captive bred ones now have lost the instinct to parent rear so they simply won't sit the eggs. But why?
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Post by Captain Howdy on Jan 5, 2012 15:42:59 GMT
Most people just collect the eggs and incubate them they don't let them parent rear A lot of captive bred ones now have lost the instinct to parent rear so they simply won't sit the eggs. But why? If they collect the eggs the birds will continue to lay one egg a day, depending on how many birds they have they can easily fill an incubator with 50 eggs every few weeks, which means approx 40 chicks say hatching and reaching maturity, as opposed to 15 in the same space of time.
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Post by Hezz on Jan 6, 2012 1:08:29 GMT
So is it all about selling them on, as chicks, or ending up on the table?
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Post by Captain Howdy on Jan 6, 2012 12:20:09 GMT
So is it all about selling them on, as chicks, or ending up on the table? Most people sell them once they reach point of lay, Californians don't tend to be very meaty so probs not very good for the table, your bigger breeds are more the table birds, however it's the same as what they do with chickens for meat and egg production so mass produce them to get the most profit back.
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Post by Hezz on Jan 7, 2012 0:08:09 GMT
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