We are getting a lot more hatching eggs than we need. We hadn\'t planned on offering day old chicks this spring \'07 hatching season due to building a new house and the time the chicks require.
I got home from the hospital just in time to tend to a hatch. The black, blue, splash hatched very well. The wheaten, blue wheaten and splash wheaten hatched fair and the buff didn\'t hatch any. The closer it gets to spring the better they will hatch. We are going to set another incubator soon so we can have some birds to show this fall. The BV buff large fowl at the 2007 national wins the Arne Schmidtzs memorial traveling award.
The by-pass surgery went well. I had four totally blocked arteries that had attempted to grow their own by-passes. I had one of the best heart surgeons in the area. He did a very good job, and the Lord is doing the healing. I\'m doing better each day, anxious to get back to normal. It\'s planting time, chick hatching time and time to get the house going full speed again.
We have several orders but can supply many more. Presently we have black only; blue, black and splash; wheaten; blue wheaten; and splash wheaten; and soon blue only as we are changing places with two males. The buffs are going to have to start hatching before we let anymore of them out. We ship all our hatching eggs in customized hatching boxes which have a reversable top with labels and stamps on it for it\'s return trip. Each egg is disinfected wrapped in newspaper and packed in a cell inside the box. We have boxes which hold 1, 2, 3 1/2, 4 and 6 dozen. They are shipped by priority mail which goes by both distance and weight-so we MUST HAVE YOUR ZIP CODE when requiring about egg prices as the postage plays a large part in what they cost. Anyone can e-mail us at: sw_psmith@swmail.net
