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

[Kiki]

Yeah, I've read too many posts in the medical emergency forum that start out with "I bought a chicken at an auction last week . . ."

People sell sick birds!
I see it happen all the time. They are idiots.

 

[Kiki]

For anyone on this thread who isn't watching my thread, I have an egg that is internally pipped
There will be a livestream of the hatch if I'm around.

I can/will post a link to the live here when it happens!

 

[Toogoodoo]

@Toogoodoo do you have specific chickens and ducks you are looking for at auction or do you just go and see what strikes your fancy when you get there? I have never been to an auction, but think it could be a great experience.

Ducks we are looking for - maybe more khaki hens (we have a trio left out of our original 10 purchased at TSC earlier this year - sold the others because it seemed we ended up with 8 drakes in the bunch ... go figure!). Any Muscovy hens also. Chickens, not really anything specific, what strikes our fancy to add to the farm really. The last time we bought about 3 dozen eggs and hatched out half or so (1/3 mayyy have ended up cracking/breaking during a sudden stop when the eggs slid off the backseat of my truck, right as we were about to turn in the driveway of where they'd be incubated!). Fiance wants to add more hens of Australorp, RIR, Golden Comet, Barred Rock, or other breeds we have an ok amount of. He really wants to add some Speckled Sussex to the farm, but we will probably buy 10 hens and a roo or 2 from a hatchery on those. Also might see if there's any guineas or quail to be had, or goslings/goose eggs.

May I suggest that you stay far away from the chickens and bringing a chicken home from the auction.
That scares me!

That's a good point too. We've bought and sold there in the past and have remained lucky thus far. It's a small auction (except when they have an exotic one ... those get pretty big and people come from 3-4 hours away sometimes). They sell camels, emu, cavys, lemurs, wallabys, etc at the exotic one. The camel spit on the people next to me at the last exotic auction ...

 

[Kiki]

Ducks we are looking for - maybe more khaki hens (we have a trio left out of our original 10 purchased at TSC earlier this year - sold the others because it seemed we ended up with 8 drakes in the bunch ... go figure!). Any Muscovy hens also. Chickens, not really anything specific, what strikes our fancy to add to the farm really. The last time we bought about 3 dozen eggs and hatched out half or so (1/3 mayyy have ended up cracking/breaking during a sudden stop when the eggs slid off the backseat of my truck, right as we were about to turn in the driveway of where they'd be incubated!). Fiance wants to add more hens of Australorp, RIR, Golden Comet, Barred Rock, or other breeds we have an ok amount of. He really wants to add some Speckled Sussex to the farm, but we will probably buy 10 hens and a roo or 2 from a hatchery on those. Also might see if there's any guineas or quail to be had, or goslings/goose eggs.


That's a good point too. We've bought and sold there in the past and have remained lucky thus far. It's a small auction (except when they have an exotic one ... those get pretty big and people come from 3-4 hours away sometimes). They sell camels, emu, cavys, lemurs, wallabys, etc at the exotic one. The camel spit on the people next to me at the last exotic auction ...

When i read the threads that @Morrigan mentioned I always wonder if the buyers knew anything about chicken disease before they bought their sick birds.
And if not if they would have know how nasty chicken disease are and how easily transmittable they are if they would have bought them to begin with.

 

[PirateGirl]

@Toogoodoo I didn't even know there were exotic auctions! Now I want to go to one more than before!

 

[Kiki]

@Toogoodoo I didn't even know there were exotic auctions! Now I want to go to one more than before!

 

[PirateGirl]

@KikisGirls i have mixed feelings on all of this. I find it fascinating. I love animals and have always had lots of pets and then also feel bad that many animals are kept as pets. Who gets to decide (and how) what kinds of animals we ethically keep for pets (or food supply) and which should be wild or should not be eaten??

 

[Toogoodoo]

People sell sick birds!
I see it happen all the time. They are idiots.

Someone at that auction was selling a couple sick emus last time One couldn't even walk right, it kept curling it's neck down and rolling into a ball. Everyone thought it was "cute" and playing. No doubt it didn't last very much longer once it got home. I think someone paid $125 for it.

 

[Kiki]

@KikisGirls i have mixed feelings on all of this. I find it fascinating. I love animals and have always had lots of pets and then also feel bad that many animals are kept as pets. Who gets to decide (and how) what kinds of animals we ethically keep for pets (or food supply) and which should be wild or should not be eaten??

I think one should be allowed to make their own decision on what animals they keep as pets or raise for food.
I am not a fan of anyone making rules/laws about this.
To each their own.


The only part about auctions in general (and I can only speak for the type of auctions in my area) I don't like is people selling sick animals and down here it seems that is what gets brought to auctions...the animals people no longer want because they are sick.

 

[Toogoodoo]

@Toogoodoo I didn't even know there were exotic auctions! Now I want to go to one more than before!

The exotic one is pretty interesting. I definitely can't afford a lot of the animals they have (the baby wallaby was soooo cuteeeee - sold for $2800 I think). I like to go just to see what they have, and sometimes sell a few things. We didn't have anything ready last time, they do it every 2-3 months I think. You can make a lot more selling "simple" things, like rabbits and birds, at the exotic one because of such a large turnout. Even some eggs get up there in price at those. Other regular auctions, you can buy 18 fertile eggs for $1-2, ducks for $3-5, roosters for a couple dollars, and even pairs/trios of birds for $5-10. But like Kiki said, there is also the risk you take at them too on what you get.

I got our little bottle-fed lamb at a regular auction we sold some rabbits, & mini potbelly pigs for someone at. I saw the lady carrying her around, then they sat in front of me when the auction started lol. Bidding war between me and another girl went on for a few minutes. If she'd just bid 1 more time, little lamb would have been hers Glad she didn't though, and now we have a pair of Katahdins - bought the male from the friend who incubates for us sometimes.