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Crowing
Last year I gave away dozens of dozens of eggs to friends and neighbors, and felt them out about selling them eggs in the coming spring. I told them $3 bucks a dozen next year, and most said they would probably not want to buy eggs from me in the future.
Why would they, when they got them for free ?
In August of last year, I got 10 more pullets, 3 Starlight Green eggers, 3 Prairie Bluebell blue eggers, 2 Barred Rock, and 2 Black Sex Links, to add to my flock of 5 Silver Laced Wyandotte hens, 1 Barred Rock hen, and an Easter Egger cockerel, bringing my flock up to 17. Well I lost one blue egger, but the rest of the new pullets are now laying like gang busters, and I'm getting 7 to 9 eggs daily !
I sold 4 dozen beautiful, multi colored, stamped (more on that later) eggs to 3 different people in the last week, and apparently, word spread like peanut butter, (creamy) because I have been overwhelmed with requests for fresh, stamped, free range eggs !!! E-mails, phone calls, people coming down the driveway ..... One guy wants all them all to resell ..... Not !
I don't have near enough eggs to satisfy a fraction of my (potential) customers !!! I think part of the demand is the novelty of these stamps ..... That, and I bought a mess of clear cartons, to show off the eggs. I got the stamps here. Sniggle Sloth Scroll down the page for egg stamps. I bought 13 of them, and food grade black ink as well.
The most popular seem to be the skull and crossbones, and the biohazard, followed by "butt nugget". I need a bit of work on my stamping technique !
Also, I'm the only one selling fresh eggs for miles, as my community has a no chicken rule. Cornering the market, I am !!! I have an exemption, kinda grandfathered in, you might say ..... Or something like that .....
Anyway, here's my presentation that they are blowing up my phone for .....
Thanks for lookin.
Why would they, when they got them for free ?
In August of last year, I got 10 more pullets, 3 Starlight Green eggers, 3 Prairie Bluebell blue eggers, 2 Barred Rock, and 2 Black Sex Links, to add to my flock of 5 Silver Laced Wyandotte hens, 1 Barred Rock hen, and an Easter Egger cockerel, bringing my flock up to 17. Well I lost one blue egger, but the rest of the new pullets are now laying like gang busters, and I'm getting 7 to 9 eggs daily !
I sold 4 dozen beautiful, multi colored, stamped (more on that later) eggs to 3 different people in the last week, and apparently, word spread like peanut butter, (creamy) because I have been overwhelmed with requests for fresh, stamped, free range eggs !!! E-mails, phone calls, people coming down the driveway ..... One guy wants all them all to resell ..... Not !
I don't have near enough eggs to satisfy a fraction of my (potential) customers !!! I think part of the demand is the novelty of these stamps ..... That, and I bought a mess of clear cartons, to show off the eggs. I got the stamps here. Sniggle Sloth Scroll down the page for egg stamps. I bought 13 of them, and food grade black ink as well.
The most popular seem to be the skull and crossbones, and the biohazard, followed by "butt nugget". I need a bit of work on my stamping technique !
Also, I'm the only one selling fresh eggs for miles, as my community has a no chicken rule. Cornering the market, I am !!! I have an exemption, kinda grandfathered in, you might say ..... Or something like that .....
Anyway, here's my presentation that they are blowing up my phone for .....
Thanks for lookin.