Me to Bee and pray God keeps my chicks safe. I had someone saying they wanted all the ones I wanted to sell and I was so excited because I wanted to get me a large roll of hardware cloth with the money from it for making my grazing frames with. Well guess what, they ONLY want to give me 5 bucks a piece of them. I KNOW for a fact they intend on re- selling them and I told my hubby that was just NOT right since I was the one that has spent the majority of the money getting them to this point and then THEY want me to sell them for 5 each so they can make a PROFIT off them! Makes me so mad because I can't stand injustice.I have 6 RIR cockerels and then I also have about 14 BA cockerels. That's a lot of money to be made if they got them for only 5 each when they sell for 9-12 bucks around here they say. Just not right. Now I'm trying to decide where I need to go with them so I can make the most from them to get some of my money back at least.
Thank you for your time answering all our questions Bee.
Went looking for that video and am not seeing it now. I know it was before the 666 but not finding it. I'll keep looking. Sure WISH they would do sticky threads on the good info in this thread so people can refer back to it.
Around here grade cockerels for processing will go at $5 ea. but if you keep them a little longer and sell them one or two at a time, asking $10-$15 for them, you might get that if someone is looking for one adult rooster to add to their flock. You see...some people get a rooster as a chick, raise it like a baby, it turns on them at sexual maturity and they then either kill it or rehome it..and then they look for a "nice" rooster. Market to THOSE folks and you'll get your money on those roosters..but if you sell them by the batch or flock, you will probably only sell them at the bulk rate someone expects if they are just going to kill them for eating.
I have had a couple of really healthy hatches this year from FF hensThe chicks have not been larger than those hatched from dry fed hens, but they're strong, healthy, and I have not had one with abnormalities or leg issues ( I did before with shipped eggs, dry fed hens' offspring). Cream Legbars have thick shells, but all the chicks hatched fine! The best thing, and this could be coincidence...I've had higher female to male hatches both times (3/2, and 6/3)!
Some of our new babies
It's not a coincidence and you can get the same results with using ACV steadily in the water, so I'm thinking the acidity of the FF is producing the same results. I used to get mostly pullets on the hatches when using ACV in the water and mostly does on my meat rabbits when I used the ACV in their water as well. It also works on sheep..at least, it did for mine and I read one article where the farmer reported 85% ewe lambs after starting to add ACV to the water and also reported longer, stronger and finer grade wool as well.
Since the FF also has that acidity from the acetobacter bacilli that is drawn in from the air~ even when one does not use ACV to charge the batch, they are going to have that in there anyway. I stopped using ACV in the water after starting the FF as I noticed that the eggs had the same good taste they had when I used the ACV but it was from feeding the FF that also has it's own type of vinegar.
