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Originally Posted by
GableBabble 
Welcome to the dark side. Patty has the cookies :P If all those hatch.... wow lol
I just came in from stealing eggs from my ducks. I am a bit scared she is going to go broody before may swaps start. I am getting eggs every day from my big girls. I only get one every other day from my little girls. If the duck goes broody I wonder if I can use her to incubate my chicken eggs? Has anyone done this before?
I hope a good number of them hatch! I plan to take all of the chicks that hatch back to the auction and sell them off! I figure I can do this every few weeks... Buy cheap eggs, incubate (and "store" some in the fridge) and take back for sale. There were a lot more eggs that went for $0.50/dozen, but I tried to stick with only certain ones. Only the first few batches went for $0.25, then my big mouth made the mistake of saying to someone that hell, if worst came to worse, you could open an egg of each, check for fertility, and if they weren't fertile, they were a hell of a lot cheaper than even farm fresh eggs at the cheapest place selling them. Good breakfast! But after I said that, people around started buying them up for $0.50/dozen.
It was funny though, if they didn't get a bid at a dollar, they started dropping it immediately to $0.25 and checked me first. I ended up leaving a little early because the kids were getting a little cranky (showed up about an hour and a half before starting time), and someone beside me laughed and said I might have forgotten some eggs. All the eggs were sold though, only a few birds left, then on to the rabbits.
Edited by Bettacreek - 5/9/12 at 4:56pm