EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[duluthralphie]

DH expects perfection, I pray for completion.

I am the answer to his expectations and your prayers....

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Only if you can find my place. Good luck!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I am the answer to his expectations and your prayers....View attachment 1152860

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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Send this to Banty so she has it to follow....

 

[Akrnaf2]

26%

sorry i missed you

i know why for a couple of them at least

not promising sorry

me too, i always do though

YAYYY!!!!!

26% from hatch to plate?

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Send this to Banty so she has it to follow....

You gals can keep that frozen fairy dust up there where it belongs... I am proud to be able to hold my blood up to a light and be able to see thru it.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

26% from hatch to plate?

 

[Akrnaf2]

Those are good points. I sell my sheep privately to a buyer. He's one of the buyers for sheep in the area. I like that it's private and my sheep never get sold publicly for a few reasons:
1) Price is agreed upon ahead of selling
2) No dockage because I delivery right to his scale.
3) No hinky business. Right after Katahdins were popular...Dorpers became HUGE and sold for thousands. Some breeders jumped on that bandwagon. I had a previous Katahdin breeder proposition me to sell my line of prolapsing ewes to her for breeding price and she'd cover them with Dorpers. Obviously I said no and instantly lost a lot of money (8 ewes X about $500/ewe)...BUT I kept my problems from being someone else's issue and controlled how they were sold. I couldn't believe someone could even think of doing that, let alone actually carry through with propositioning it. They were registered breeders. Unconscionable! You just don't do that.
There are ethics! How can one live with themselves?

Anyways, I covered that prolapsing line and any less than perfect ewes with a Suffolk and sold 100% of the lambs for direct slaughter...so I eventually broke even and made money with that line. I delivered sheep Saturday and they were loaded later on the truck to head east where they were slaughtered on Monday.

That lady who offered me that deal sold sheep to a neighbor. Unfortunately I didn't know until they were lambing and they approached me to give me the entire flock. 100% of the females prolapsed on them. They gave the sheep away to another guy. I couldn't risk bringing disease into my flock. So again...no hinky business.

Why don't people just learn how to castrate for wethers? It's so easy peasy. I used to castrate, but they don't dock prices or seemingly care so I stopped. But it's easy to grab a scalpel again if need be.

Here a lot of people seem to keep dwarf wethers as pets. At least if I can go from that spring/fall small animal sale. There seems to be a demand for "cute stuff" since the sale. But on a large scale boer meats were what was popular in selling 7 years ago. There is a fall sale at the auction mart...but I haven't been to one in years.

I am a big fan of lamb meat, just for my curiosity, what is the average price for 1 kg of live lamb? And for procesd one?
I pay almost 6$/ kg live weight.

 

[Akrnaf2]

Lorena Bobbit isn't scary...she was just keeping it real.

I think she was jewish, she circumcised every one around her!

 

[Akrnaf2]

go to sleep!