Keith, Jennifer, Christy
and Paula McLaughlin "Last summer, my family took
our trip back to my grandfather's farm in North Carolina and
brought back 14 fertile eggs to set. Having no hen, we got
an incubator and produced 9 out of those 14 eggs. They are
Bantam and Game mixed. The only thing is that we hatched 2
hens and 7 roosters!! Can't get many eggs that way, right??
So a church member donated 4 Rhode Island Red setters to our
desperate cause and we forged on.

We returned to the family farm for New Year's and brought
back more eggs to set. This time we brought back eggs crossed
between Araucana hens and a grey Bantam rooster. We also set
eggs from our home flock, Rhode Island Red hens and Bantam Game
mix roosters. Our second hatch bitties are now three weeks old
and live in a produce crate from the local Dollar General store.