Hey Scott I will be in Newnan.I hope to meet you there.I'll be around the large fowl Reds.Bobby Anderson
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Anyone from this thread headed to the Newnan, Ga show this weekend? I am picking my 14 yr old up from school tomorrow and headed that way. Not showing anything this year as work and weather have really interfered with conditioning any birds to show....plus I'm not confident that my Columbian rocks can yet compete with the Barreds and the Whites, maybe one day
If anyone is going I'd love to meet a few of you
Scott
BobbyHey Scott I will be in Newnan.I hope to meet you there.I'll be around the large fowl Reds.Bobby Anderson
The Bay area market is very unique. I'm a life long Californian, so forgive me when I say, we're a bunch of idiots Not sure that would work anywhere elseMy neighbor with the large scale organic farm is making a profit with chickens. He sells chicken meat for $5. lb. and eggs for $8. dozen. The chickens are pastured in his fields where he grows certified organic veggies. They are fed organic feed. He sells at the Bay area farmers markets, in addition to CSA boxes. Hundreds of chickens & eggs every week and he sells out with people wanting more.
That's so true, most businesses go down within 2 years. It's tough!If you don't have to pay for feed and can sell for outrageous prices, you can make some money. Everyone says they make money, but unless you are the persons accountant, you don't know. The person's trying to make money don't usually know, because as I stated before, most people don't count all their expenses. The proof is usually how long the person has been making money. Can they do it over a few years.
I am not saying it is impossible, but most people can't do it with poultry. If they add it to other livestock and farming maybe they can.
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The Bay area market is very unique. I'm a life long Californian, so forgive me when I say, we're a bunch of idiots Not sure that would work anywhere else
That's so true, most businesses go down within 2 years. It's tough!
Anyone from this thread headed to the Newnan, Ga show this weekend? I am picking my 14 yr old up from school tomorrow and headed that way. Not showing anything this year as work and weather have really interfered with conditioning any birds to show....plus I'm not confident that my Columbian rocks can yet compete with the Barreds and the Whites, maybe one day
If anyone is going I'd love to meet a few of you
Scott
I am about two hours from leaving to go to the Show. I have not been to a major show in ten years and look forward to meeting so many of you we will eat free tonight at the show and maybe tomorrow night we can go out and eat some place. If things go well for all of us we can do this each year. I got to go out and wash the feet of my Buff Brahma Cockerel he is the best one I have raised in about five years fooling with these birds. I guess if I had Frizzled Seromas I would have to do this but I really dont want them in the first place.Glad we got a new lurker who joined us. There are I am sure at least five of you who read this tread but never comment. Heck I bet there are some judges, breeders ect who read this but dont comment and thats all right. I remember Ralph Knickerbocker use to say to Ken Bowl es every time I write a article for the Rhode Island Red Chronicle my sales go down. These where breeders who did make a few dollars on there birds, eggs and chicks in the 1960s. For me if I loos $400. this year I am a happy camper. This will be my best year in 20 years. Got orders for chicks about sold out on White Rock large fowl and starting to pick up with the little Mohawk bantams the past two weeks. No money only helps pay for my $18. of FRM Game Bird pellets. Have no desire to make my own feed or buy feed two dollars cheaper per bag I did that four years ago and screwed up my hatching and took a beating.
Thanks for the tips on the Partridge Rocks. That will help my friend he is reading this thread. Any other sleeper people who may have a lost strain in the wood in Tim Buck Two?
Bob, will you take pictures of the Wyandottes please? Have fun everyone! Be safe on the roads.Will take pictures and try to post them so you can see what we see. This is one of the largest shows for large fowl in the South. Bob