DAY OLD CHICKS?

[Guest Frank]

As it says on the tin.

I found a source for me ferts, when they have no rabbit, not easy i can tell you over here and they are 50 cent each.

Do you think im paying too much?

I have tryd to find a hatchery, but to no avail, their not too common over here, well in my local area anyhow.

 

Frank.

[bolio 49]

That's a rip off Frank, twenty odd years ago we used to travel about 10 miles to a hatchery that left out massive vats of freshly killed d.o.c.'s on a monday and thursday morning when they did the culls of all the male birds. They were free to anyone who wanted them and we used to fill two plastic bins on the back of a trailer for dog and ferret feeding. You had to get there before 10:00 a.m. because they were picked up for incineration after that. Years later they began boxing and blast freezing them and you had to pay £5 per box, but the box was as heavy as you would want to be carrying, with hundreds of chicks. Alas this hatchery closed down a few years ago and I had the very last box they sold. You want to find out where the nearest hatchery is to you and get direct from them.

[Guest Frank]

Thanks bolio.

But the nearest hatchery to me is over 70 odd miles away.

Ill keep looking.

As a matter of interest, what do you pay now?

 

Frank.

[Ron Weasley 83]

I pay about a fiver a box (of around 200) from a company called Honeybrook. I don't know, but I'm sure they have a website.

[Guest Frank]

Is that in the Uk Ron?

 

Frank.

 

Its ok, have just found the web site, their in the UK.

Too far to be sent i would imagine.

Thanks Ron anyway.

 

Frank.

[Guest Frank]

Thats right Chilli, i know that thanks and will still be giving them rabbit. I am also feeding them rats, i get from pet shops which are frozen for snake food, aswell as some mice.

The chicks are as a substitute for when i have no rats, rabbits, mice, pigeon, pheasents, duck, venison ect.

 

Frank.

[SeanTheHawker 0]

frank have you no huntign permission near the hatercy, 70 odd miles aint much, i travel that 4 or 5 times i week for hunting, when need be, i call into the hathery on the way home free of cost, but can get them from a local reptile shop for 10p each, which is still very very deer

[Guest Frank]

Worth a try i suppose Sean. Ill give the hatchery a ring.

 

Cheers,

Frank.

[lampinglurcher 36]

alright lads, i work in a reptile/aquatic shop in cornwall and we sell them as snake or lizard food for 15p each. anyone on here though, i'lll give a 100% discount!

pm for details.

[gnipper 5,966]

I used to get them for £20 a thousand then sit bagging them up into bags of 10 and in the freezer. Not used them for years as i think they are crap. Basically its an egg with fluff on not a shell, after they have been eating for a week or so they are better. Have you got any broiler cabins round your way? I used to go and get culls for free, ones that weren't growing the same rate as the others.

Gnipper

[Guest Frank]

Not sure gnipper, ill check it out thanks.

When i use to get them in the uk before, i also got them a bit older and yes, they were better.

 

Cheers,

 

Frank.

[Kay 3,709]

I used to feed mine chicks but noticed they all had coughs and used to cough up bits of the yellow down fur stuff, so i stopped feeding them

[Guest Frank]

I have at last found a supply of not day olds, but 8 weeks old, should be better and their free.

 

Cheers all.

 

Frank.

[gnipper 5,966]

Nice one Frank, the stinkers will do much better on them too I'd get the broiler hens myself still if i had freezer space, mine has about 90lb of mince and half as much lamb necks for the dogs in it. The ferret food ive got in there is a couple of rabbits and a fair few pigeons down the side of everything.

[ferreterno1 0]

I have at last found a supply of not day olds, but 8 weeks old, should be better and their free.

 

Cheers all.

 

Frank.

 

thats better, i can get wood pigeons for about 10p each, also sometimes get cockerals free a dozen at a time about 3 months old also ferral pigeons for free i have had up to 60 at a time of them then they get rabbits and whatever roadkill i can find