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Robert Blosl
Rest in Peace 1947-2013
Quote: My feed store chickens cost about $4. each a good Standard Breed Chick will cost me about $8. if I could go to their farm and pick them up. It might cost me $50 to $75. for gas but it would be a outing. If I pay for the shipping it would cost me about $5. per chick for shipping to my house. So if I get ten chicks it will cost me a total of about $13 each or $130 for my investment.
If I get Feed Store chicks I get them for $40. per ten. The difference is about $90 first time investment. Over a five year period this will cost me $18. a year or about $1.50 per month. I spend a $1.50 per month on cokes and Potato Chips. Its like people who use to ask me how much does that stock cost. I say $75. and they say that's to much. But it gains 20% growth per year like Apple or Microsoft. They want a stock that cost $10. and they grow maybe 3% per year or loose money. If you invest $1,000. in a high price stock like apple you may not have many shares, but the yield per year per five years will be more as just a example. Some times paying more is better. They still eat the same $1,000 per year in feed so that is why many people don't get good stock in the first place. You can not be a preservationist and preserve rare breeds with Feed Store prices.
Its like me buying a cheap thermostat for my incubator I pay $35. for one and it goes all over the place. Over a five year period I think I lost $500. in chicks I could not hatch to sell to people. We people are frugal some times and it dont make sense in the long run. But thats human nature.
I am selling my Rhode Island Red H. Standard Breed bantam eggs for about $15. a doz. Thats my cost to get the eggs out to the people.The shipping then is about $13. and maybe they will hatch five chicks if they are lucky just depend if the post office is playing foot ball that day. It could be worse you could be buying a show dog to go to a dog show. I here they aren't cheap ether.