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

[Conan]

I have no idea whether goslings are salable here. I s’pose I can try...

Round these parts, the buffs go for a minimum of $25 each.

 

[mixedUPturk]

I have no idea whether goslings are salable here. I s’pose I can try...

When i wasnt sure if i should hatch buttons i put up an ad for them just to see what kind of response i would get and it let me know that i should def try it. Might be kinda rude but i just said i was sold out and offered to add them to a waitlist.

 

[CSAchook]

That’s a good idea!! Although I like having sexed birds. I don’t want to deal with this whole cockerel mess all over again.

Didn’t you order straight run bantams?

My 2 cents is that, at the end of the day, all breed characteristics aside, chickens are just chickens. You don’t need whatever certain breed you currently have your heart set on. Because aside from that dopamine dose one gets from getting a new pet, having another breed is not going to significantly change your chicken keeping experience. Except that you will have more work.

 

[sdm111]

When i wasnt sure if i should hatch buttons i put up an ad for them just to see what kind of response i would get and it let me know that i should def try it. Might be kinda rude but i just said i was sold out and offered to add them to a waitlist.

I think that's fine you were smart and gauged the market before you had a billion quail you couldn't get rid of

 

[CindyinSD]

Round these parts, the buffs go for a minimum of $25 each.

Good to know. I paid $35 @ for the geese and $15 for the gander at the feed store (special order), so that actually sounds like it might be in the ball park for unsexed. I’m not sure that (as a private party) I could command that kind of cash, but then I wouldn’t need to. I’d like to hatch goslings, but I don’t know that I want more geese. Not sure about eating them. I’ve never had goose. I suppose someone online knows how to cook one...

 

[FortCluck]

Round these parts, the buffs go for a minimum of $25 each.

I can get them for $16 and sexed here so I guess that's a good deal.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Didn’t you order straight run bantams?

My 2 cents is that, at the end of the day, all breed characteristics aside, chickens are just chickens. You don’t need whatever certain breed you currently have your heart set on. Because aside from that dopamine dose one gets from getting a new pet, having another breed is not going to significantly change your chicken keeping experience. Except that you will have more work.

Yeah but only because they didn’t come sexed. The breed I really wanted I got sexed. Also I only got 5 of the straight run ones. If I hatched I would have at least 12-24 eggs.

And yeah, I guess that’s true but I do think certain breeds stand out. I have a few stand out birds in my current flock that I would get more of and ones that I definitely wouldn’t. That’s how one learns. And from what I have heard, these ones are definitely stand out birds and kind of a league apart from any other breeds so I may find I don’t want to keep other breeds. Or these ones might be super friendly which would be a positive experience. Mine are pets and I like learning their individual personalities and interacting with them all. They’re all different to me. And they all have names.

These ones are also extremely pretty.

And I honestly don’t think it would be that much more work because I already have two pens right now with the chicks and the big girls so am used to it. I wouldn’t have more than two pens total.

Plus I have big food and water containers that last a while.

Although, all of that said, you are right that I don’t really need more chickens, or any animal, right now, so I probably won’t do it. But I do think this breed would be way different than the others. But maybe not. Idk.

I’m going to cancel the order and focus on other stuff.

But I will get them eventually. Just not right now.

 

[FortCluck]

Didn’t you order straight run bantams?

My 2 cents is that, at the end of the day, all breed characteristics aside, chickens are just chickens. You don’t need whatever certain breed you currently have your heart set on. Because aside from that dopamine dose one gets from getting a new pet, having another breed is not going to significantly change your chicken keeping experience. Except that you will have more work.

I honestly agree with you on this. Chickens honestly just are chickens. Yeah there's different breeds and such but if you're not showing them there's no need to have certain breeds. Adding more chickens costs more and requires more work and responsibility.

 

[CindyinSD]

True. I think that I’d eventually like to have 2-3 breeds, but for now there are so many! It’s hard to choose. That said, if you have more than you can use it stops being fun.

 

[FortCluck]

I'm finally home!!! I'm ready to pass right out. I got panera bread... 10 vegetable soup with a bread bowl but I put it in the fridge because I just want my bed.

Nurse comes tomorrow at 9 am.