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

[mlm Mike]

Good morning! Where are you all???
Here is a smile maker or two. I love kids, and can't wait for more of this year's kids. The first is the guy born last Thursday, and the rest are brought back for smiles.

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Nice kids!

I have to wait till March for kids.

 

[mlm Mike]

That group are Hatchery stock.

Then soup or swap. I do have one hatchery barred rock, she must be about 7 years old. The last two years she has started to go broody, hatched some chicks, good mama hen. lol

 

[daxigait]

Nice kids!

I have to wait till March for kids.

Just the one is this year's. I have to wait just a couple more weeks. Mine starts February 12th 14th 15th and then a bunch of meat does between the 15th and the end of the month. Then more dairy in March to June.

 

[daxigait]

Then soup or swap. I do have one hatchery barred rock, she must be about 7 years old. The last two years she has started to go broody, hatched some chicks, good mama hen. lol

I just think most of them have stopped laying. I'm giving them till February or so to make sure they're just down with winter. I have one Green Layer that I like she's beautiful but she hasn't laid an egg since early October.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Wow and prayers.

Hi Wicked! Sorry to hear about all the health issues. I certainly hope and pray for speeding recoveries. I sliced a small portion of my thumb off once, extra careful now. lol

Thank you.
I look at it this way...at least I'm no bored. ...

 

[mlm Mike]

Thank you.
I look at it this way...at least I'm no bored. ...

Certainly not boring there.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Certainly not boring there.

That's why there's no rest for the wicked.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Good morning everyone!

 

[daxigait]

Good morning everyone!

Hi! What are you up to today?

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Hey dax!
Funny you should ask. We just had a problem pushing eggs when we raised our prices after the barley shortage and the day light hours killed our piggy bank.
Was $2/DZ.
We raised it to $3. Grandfathered our regular buyers but the phone stopped ringing with newbies.
I have a lot of chickens.. eggs started overflowing even though my regs were buying 15 Dz a week.
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Dropped the price back to $2 the other day and now the barn refrigerator is empty again.
People keep telling me here on BYC that I sell my eggs too cheap. But they don't live in Florida's economy.
Walmart has 18 packs for $1.19 right now.
Not everyone cares about freshness and all natural here as much as getting something dirt cheap.
That is why people of the North retire here. The cost of living is low.
There is another big chain store here selling eggs for 49 cents a DZ.

Same thing with our swine. We use to breed all year round. Now seasonal and mostly personal. ALMOST NO ONE WANTS TO PAY FOR QUALITY.
We have 2 Premium fed pigs ready for process. Top shelf grains/alfalfa/perennial peanut/veggies/acorn fed.
Big bucks went into raising these magnificent animals to get them large at a super young age to yield angel hair tenderness.
We are trying to sell one of them to pay for the processing of the other. Asking $1 per lb hoof weight. DH gets offers for $50 all the time. More than $300 in feed went into this livestock to feed a family for months and months.
We got a call while we were at the meat counter in the store yesterday. DH told the guy to come to that meat display and buy a couple of packages with the tiny amount he offered.
The Market is FLOODED with

• Eggs
• Chickens
• Pigs

Wow! That's a whole lot 'o eggs lady!

I agree with you guys, people don't want to pay for quality. I know the difference and I/we certainly will. I think our Walmart eggs sell for around $1.77. I'm not interested. It's different up here...but I sell my eggs for $3.75.