➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[BantyChooks]

No, but you are that crazy. Join the club, there are still 41 viable turkey eggs in my incubator.

Now that is a tier of crazy I can only dream of reaching.

 

[RUNuts]

I have a dozen LF, five mutt bantams, five Buff Chanteclers, around twenty-two Japanese quail, two ducks, and six Chinese painted quail (though, being indoor birds, they don't really count.) Maybe a few others I have forgotten, but that's the majority.

I add everything up to 52.

I've got 50 meat birds, 17 layers, and 23 quail in the backyard and more in the freezer, but they don't count. I plan to down size severely in 7 weeks.

And 30 quail eggs going to lock down tonight.

Yep - eating well. That is the goal. Sanity is optional.

 

[RUNuts]

Now that is a tier of crazy I can only dream of reaching.

You can do it!! I know you can!

 

[BantyChooks]

I add everything up to 52.

I've got 50 meat birds, 17 layers, and 23 quail in the backyard and more in the freezer, but they don't count. I plan to down size severely in 7 weeks.

And 30 quail eggs going to lock down tonight.

Yep - eating well. That is the goal. Sanity is optional.

Ha! You're far nuttier than me.
52, sure, but only 24 if you count the non-quail birds, and 19 if you look at the main coop alone.

 

[R2elk]

I may have more birds than you by Sunday. I've got a whole flock with 7 posted for sale. I am trying to price gouge but no one is helping. I'll wait another week and drop the price to going rate.

I do the opposite. The longer birds are advertised without making a sale, the higher I raise the prices. Eventually I get the prices high enough that I get into a different class of customer. The class that turns their noses up at things that are below their price range.

The other case is like last year's customer that kept claiming they wanted the birds but never committed to buying them. The last time I raised the price, they immediately came and got them before the price went even higher.

 

[BantyChooks]

You can do it!! I know you can!

Nuh uh.

 

[R2elk]

Now that is a tier of crazy I can only dream of reaching.

I didn't even mention the 34 chicken eggs that are in there too.

 

[BantyChooks]

I didn't even mention the 34 chicken eggs that are in there too.

I have 47 eggs in my incubator, total. Like a normal person. I've probably set about a hundred so far this year... that's it.

 

[R2elk]

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I have 47 eggs in my incubator, total. Like a normal person. I've probably set about a hundred so far this year.

I set 140 chicken eggs for the first batch in March. Unfortunately or is that fortunately, 100 of them were infertile. The temperature was running a little low and the humidity was running a little high. In the end, only 7 eggs hatched. All 7 are pullets.

A couple of the roosters are going to die because of this. The reason more eggs are in the incubator is because I need replacement roosters.

 

[RUNuts]

I set 140 chicken eggs for the first batch in March. Unfortunately or is that fortunately, 100 of them were infertile. The temperature was running a little low and the humidity was running a little high. In the end, only 7 eggs hatched. All 7 are pullets.

A couple of the roosters are going to die because of this. The reason more eggs are in the incubator is because I need replacement roosters.

I don't compete with professionals.