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Compost King
Free Ranging
Often when I am using craigslist I include hatch date with every hen listed, and include details of her brooder experience and what she was fed etc, helps people to believe they are getting a legit bird. I never try to profit or make up for what I put into them because that's not why I raised them, I just try to get what I can and take a loss. Even taking a loss I save money because I am no longer feeding that chicken and I have a surplus of eggs as it is and need to cut back on beaks to feed. I do make money off of some of the higher quality birds I have like Ayam Cemani and Serama (not yet, still building up breeding Stock). Meat birds or large Dual Purpose birds eat way too much to be worth dabbling in if profit is the goal. I just find meat bird production so much more fun than SOP breeding. Egg Production breeding is turning out to be much harder than I thought, every generation seems to be worse egg layers than the parents. Eggs also get smaller. I have had some luck with my Productions reds selectively bred for a dark brown egg but that was dumb luck. My Production Reds are laying darker eggs than my Cuckoo Maran. When I sold my Cuckoo Marans I kept the one that laid the darkest egg and also went broody.