Anybody else watching this ebay auction?

[latebloomer]

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i'm tempted to write in and ask what the reserve is on these, who knows maybe they'll answer...

 

[Diamond Wire Farms]

Spending $250+ on an egg that I know is going to be kick-balled by the PO for 3-5 days, sounds incredibly stressful.

So for the 6+ Chocolate Orp auction, let's assume 8 eggs shipped.
With favorable handling and good results, I'd be expecting 4-6 chicks.
With my luck I'd get all roos or just one girl.

But I'd NEVER be able to let the chickens out of my sight.
So I would end up a slave to some fudgy chickens.

No thanks!

 

[SilverPhoenix]

Yeah, personally I'd have trouble spending a lot of money on eggs, or even chicks! If I'm going to make a more expensive poultry purchase (I've made two $100 per pair purchases but that's as high as I've gone), I go for healthy adult birds because then I know exactly what I'm getting. It just seems like a very expensive gamble! But like I said, to each their own.

 

[Sierra pachie bars]

Yup same here , would never ever pay that for eggs. Honestly I don't care to much for the color. But that's me. I don't mind spending 100 or so on a tri of live birds but no way. I am like most people and do not have that kinda money to throw around.

 

[Jackie B.]

I emailed just to see if I could come visit since they're pratically neighbors with my in-laws. No dice for bio-security purposes but she was really pleasant to speak with. Her website is under her ID name on the auction. There's a simple formula as to why she will get these prices for her chickens ( who, by the way are amazing): supply and demand. "Up with supply, down with demand". As imported chickens, the supply is extremely low and the demand is extremely high.

-Jackie

 

[Gypsy07]

Well, I suppose they spent mega tens of thousands of bucks importing the birds so the reserve price probably isn't greedy, just going some way towards recouping their initial investment. I spent some time reading through the website of the UK breeders who shipped the birds over to the US and it does seem to have been a very long and expensive process. I just can't believe folk would pay that amount of money for shipping eggs. Then again, I just saw in the newspaper yesterday about some fancy Tibetan Mastiff dog that fetched $1million in China. And I bet its poop stinks just the same as my mongrel's does...

 

[ThePamperedChick]

Personally, I'd be wary of high price auctions where the bidders have low feedback. Too many shills out there.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Some of those bidder historys do seem odd...

 

[Katy]

So are the birds even actually in the states now? Not very long ago she was selling eggs from birds that hadn't even been imported yet.

Personally I'd be very hesitant to bid on an auction like that......too many scammers around....even in the chicken world.

 

[chicmom]

If I was wealthy, sure I'd buy them.....But I'm not. So I console myself by saying "IT'S A BROWN CHICKEN FOR PETE'S SAKE!"

And, that's the end of it! Sigh....If only I was wealthy........But I gotta put food on the table and make a car payment, and try to keep making the house payment.......