A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[feistychick]

Chaos - they are so sweet My morning dose of cute!

 

[Chaos18]

Thanks. Glad I could help.

 

[duluthralphie]

Chaos, nice birds!!


I did not know Doms were self sexing? Is this something the guy you got them from or have they always been?

 

[Chaos18]

Chaos, nice birds!!


I did not know Doms were self sexing? Is this something the guy you got them from or have they always been?

I think they've always been.........but I actually have no clue. The website I provided is where I will be getting some eggs for the Easter HAL.

 

[duluthralphie]

OOps pushed the submit button too early again.

I think I have 5 of my 9 eggs hatched so far this round. Looks like 3 roosters and 2 hens. Because one can never have too many roosters, that nobody wants......

I have not lifted the lid on the incubator so no pictures yet. I am holding out hope a couple more hatch.



Aurora I think I am close to catching you, I think I have 109 eggs in the incubators! Of course no turkey eggs.


I raised the price on the Creamettes a little. I think I was getting some people that want to re-sell them. I have looked online and they seem to be going for around 30 a bird so I went up to 15 for the hens and 5 for the guys.


One guy wanted to buy hatching eggs, I decided in the spur of the moment I wanted 30 a dozen for them. He no longer wanted them, which is fine for me. I like hatching anyway, a good addicted never sells his next fix!

 

[dheltzel]

Aurora I think I am close to catching you, I think I have 109 eggs in the incubators! Of course no turkey eggs.


I raised the price on the Creamettes a little. I think I was getting some people that want to re-sell them. I have looked online and they seem to be going for around 30 a bird so I went up to 15 for the hens and 5 for the guys.


One guy wanted to buy hatching eggs, I decided in the spur of the moment I wanted 30 a dozen for them. He no longer wanted them, which is fine for me. I like hatching anyway, a good addicted never sells his next fix!

Good for you! I sell Reese line chicks (which I think I recall that yours are) for the same price. Regular, non-Reese chicks are $10 for pullets, and I had a guy call last night who wanted them to resell and wants all I have left from last weekend's hatch (at least 20). Since he's buying them for 10, I can only guess what he is selling them for. As long as we both make money, it's good business for everyone, even the customer because they get high quality chicks that will grow into excellent and valuable pullets.

It baffles me when people are wanting cheap chicks. I guess they don't realize that the initial purchase price is a very small percentage of the final cost of raising a pullet to POL. When I consider how much goes into each bird for food, housing, labor, etc. I feel very justified in charging 10 - 15 for a chick. I make more selling Ameraucana or Marans chicks for $8 because I don't cull the males, making the average cost per pullet more than a Reese pullet chick, yet I still sell lots of them. Of course the Legbars lay much, much better than the Marans (and even the Ams), so in the end, it's probably more money per breeding pullet.

I have not been selling many of the Reese chicks, but that's ok because I hatch far fewer of those and I am planning to raise quite a few and sell them later or keep them for next year's breeders. It takes the same resources to raise a Reese Legbar as a regular Legbar or Welsummer, so I might as well expend that on the rarest and most valuable chicks I hatch.

I sell CCL eggs for $3 each and have had several buyers already this year. I figure I lose money at that price vs hatching chicks, but I like to help people who are into incubating their own.

The turkeys have been hatching great! 16 last week and 22 this week. Most are now from the pen with the Mottled Blacks, Royal Palms and Mottled Silver Dappled. Only 4 Midget White eggs made it to lockdown this past weekend, but they all hatched, so I'm not unhappy with those numbers. I'm going to sell them all as "heritage turkey poults" and only pick out colors if people ask, I suspect most people just want some to raise and eat or as pets, not as future breeders.

 

[duluthralphie]

Morning Cuteness Alert!!


I was socializing these guys, for their own good, I would never do this for myself..





Here is my craigslist ad. What do you think? Anything I should ad or take out?

http://stcloud.craigslist.org/grd/5402715443.html

 

[dheltzel]

Chaos, nice birds!!

I did not know Doms were self sexing? Is this something the guy you got them from or have they always been?

Any true breeding, black barred breed is sexable at a young age (often by 10 days or earlier) because the barring is on the sex chromosome and is only partially dominant. So, with 2 copies you get twice the amount of barring, hence the males look much lighter when compared to the females. This is classic with Barred Rocks, but Doms and California Grays are the same.

I say "true breeding" because if you compare a make black sexlink to a female dom or barred rock, they have the same amount of barring, If you put that single barred male over barred hens, you will get a mix of types that are not easy to sex by the amount of white.

 

[duluthralphie]

Any true breeding, black barred breed is sexable at a young age (often by 10 days or earlier) because the barring is on the sex chromosome and is only partially dominant. So, with 2 copies you get twice the amount of barring, hence the males look much lighter when compared to the females. This is classic with Barred Rocks, but Doms and California Grays are the same.

I say "true breeding" because if you compare a make black sexlink to a female dom or barred rock, they have the same amount of barring, If you put that single barred male over barred hens, you will get a mix of types that are not easy to sex by the amount of white.

Ok.. You just went by me at about 90mph.. but I think I understand.

 

[dheltzel]

Morning Cuteness Alert!!


I was socializing these guys, for their own good, I would never do this for myself..





Here is my craigslist ad. What do you think? Anything I should ad or take out?

http://stcloud.craigslist.org/grd/5402715443.html

My only comment is that the prices are listed twice, maybe that could be confusing. Or course about 30% of the responses I get from CL are to ask for the price, even if it is listed clearing in the ad, so I doubt any wording will make it clear for some people.