Recent content by Rcornerranch

I have not shipped eggs yet. If there was any rough handling, it was by the customer. I am realizing based on this forum people can do a lot of things wrong with their eggs. One person sent me a pic of a chick struggling to hatch, and she was trying to hatch that egg under a brooder light...So...

I'm glad my prices don't sound unreasonable. I always second guess myself. I keep trying to remind myself this is a business, and these people are not your friends...They really make me second guess myself! Lol.

Well, a person who bought 6 Ameraucanas is reselling them for higher today, so that answers my gut feeling that raising my prices from $8 to $12 is the right call. I had someone do this with eggs for eating as well. She was selling them as hatching eggs, reselling them for higher as eating eggs...

Same. I have a bad feeling about it, though.

That is weird to me, too. I am waiting for her to sue me, since she is either 1) willing to blame me for some unfortunate damage that happened to occur to her car, or 2) willing to damage her own car just to be "right" and intimidate me. If she is telling the truth, it was odd for her to wait 2...

I absolutely agree!

I am asking $18 for Lavender Ameraucana pullets. $12 straight run. $8 for cockerels. Barnevelders are $12 pullets. $8 straight run. Cockerels are $4. Silver Spangled Appenzeller Spitzhaubens are $8 straight run. The Welsh Harlequin female ducks are $18. Drakes are $9. Saxony ducks are $25...

Oh, I wanted to, but she scratched her car up and is threatening to sue, saying it happened while she was getting her chicks from me. She claims it was from a dog, but I know the damage is from a human. She thought about how to retaliate for 24 hours after I asked her if she would pay me back...

That's fine lol! I guess I feel a lot more validated. This is my first year really trying to run it like a business, and it is very difficult dealing with the people aspect of it. It seems like a no fertility guarantee agreement of some kind is a great idea. Also, an agreement that I am not...

I know many people try to talk down businesses on everything. I am reminding myself of that! But I would NEVER be so bold and disrespectful to disagree with a business on their prices (to their face anyway lol), and it is weird to me so many people just will do that without thinking about the...

I have been told multiple times my prices should be less than hatchery prices to be more economical for local buyers who can't afford hatchery prices, but I think purebreds should not be sold for barn mix prices. If they have their budget, they should get birds for that budget and not get upset...

The Welsh Harlequin in particular are the birds I recently had a customer scold me about. I tried to explain that they are sexable at hatch, so the females will be priced more. Plus, mine appear correct. I see the cheapest ones in my area have orange legs and bills and look like mixes. I don't...

What are many of your hatching egg policies? Do you ever give free eggs if someone claims none were fertile? What if you knew the eggs had a great fertility rate? I am having issues with people claiming no eggs were fertile/no eggs hatched. I am trying to ask people which it was. Not hatching...

Yesterday was my Dad’s birthday. He went with me to feed the animals before bed, and the girls had a couple surprises. First, I found a tiny egg. It’s maybe an inch and a half long (I have tiny hands!). I believe it’s from one of my Barred Rocks who’s been laying an egg every other day but made...

Because they look like someone filled a mold with black colored plastic and cast a spell to make them animated.😂