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

[BantyChooks]

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.

 

[Conan]

@CSAchook @honanbm She was being a turd, so these are the best photos I got. (Yes, I need to iron. Will I? Nah.)
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She's perfect.

 

[R2elk]

I don't compete with professionals.

I am an amateur.

 

[R2elk]

I don't compete with professionals.

The professionals have not even started yet. They are still laying eggs.

If I was a professional, I would be setting the 6 doz. turkey eggs that are being stored in my basement. I hope to remove temptation by giving them away as eating eggs tomorrow or the next day.

Rumor has it that a couple of beautiful young ladies from the dentist's office will be here to rescue Johnny Jump Ups from the garden before the monster that lives here destroys them in favor of vegetables.

 

[CindyinSD]

I have dandelions blooming does that count as pretty

At this moment? Absofrigginlutely. Anything not brown or white counts as a sight for weary eyes.

 

[CindyinSD]

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.

That makes sense, though. You've gone to the trouble and expense of brooding, housing, feeding them all this time so it stands to reason they're gonna be more expensive.

 

[R2elk]

I await with baited breath! As you can see, I'm confined to suburbia and the HOA is not pleased with my gardening choices. I stand out a little bit.

I assume that you now understand the gesture that I made.

 

[FortCluck]

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.

Hmmm I may do this. I need birds to sell first.

 

[R2elk]

Hmmm I may do this. I need birds to sell first.

Yeah, it doesn't work if you don't actually have anything to sell.

 

[FortCluck]

Yeah, it doesn't work if you don't actually have anything to sell.

I sold out. I have more hatching though tomorrow.

My 13 week old pullets are all gone so now I can add more. We have a new coop coming on Saturday. It'll fit about 15+ chickens. I sold the ones I wanted to keep, but the person was in love when I showed them to him.