OK... I have decided to sell my Marans...
Now, last spring I sold my chicks for $10 each and they sold like hotcakes.
Some guy up in the big city sold shipped up Marans (from fancy people, equivalent to Bev Davis or Little Peddler) for I think $25 or $30 a chick.
So.....
My Marans lay nice dark eggs, have very good form, but are way too black, and vary greatly as the feathers on legs. (But I had some chick buyers that wanted only those with no feathers on the legs, and other that did want some feathers on legs, so not to SOP, but good for marketing).
By males also have tails that are too high.
I had two chicks last year, of the about 100 I hatched that had fused toes. Freaked me out... Nasty.
Ok... I have 4 cockerels,
-1 from a different line, hatched from a light egg, and no copper, but he is blue.
-1 from mine that has the craziest amount of copper, WAY overboard.
-2 from mine that are too dark
I have females-
2 pullets from 2015
2 hens from 2014
3 hens from 2013
One olive egger, with a single blue egg gene, and she looses her egg color too fast for my liking, from 2014.
How much should I charge?
Winter is here/arriving so a horrid time to sell....
Now, last spring I sold my chicks for $10 each and they sold like hotcakes.
Some guy up in the big city sold shipped up Marans (from fancy people, equivalent to Bev Davis or Little Peddler) for I think $25 or $30 a chick.
So.....
My Marans lay nice dark eggs, have very good form, but are way too black, and vary greatly as the feathers on legs. (But I had some chick buyers that wanted only those with no feathers on the legs, and other that did want some feathers on legs, so not to SOP, but good for marketing).
By males also have tails that are too high.
I had two chicks last year, of the about 100 I hatched that had fused toes. Freaked me out... Nasty.
Ok... I have 4 cockerels,
-1 from a different line, hatched from a light egg, and no copper, but he is blue.
-1 from mine that has the craziest amount of copper, WAY overboard.
-2 from mine that are too dark
I have females-
2 pullets from 2015
2 hens from 2014
3 hens from 2013
One olive egger, with a single blue egg gene, and she looses her egg color too fast for my liking, from 2014.
How much should I charge?
Winter is here/arriving so a horrid time to sell....
