Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[sonew123]

Morning!!

Skunks!!! We kill every one! My BIL who lives right next door is a nuisance and wildlife person...He has a constant stank about him...bleahhhhhhhhh....clothes vehicles you name it...bleahhhhhh Anyway he usually takes care of them

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Morning! Everyone is fed and watered and ready for the day! Now I have to get Me ready for the day.

On Saturday, I got new cages and a bag of pine pellets, since I'm having to brood indoors. I have two cages; one with a pair of older birds, and one with young ones. I had hubby come sniff yesterday (I have no sense of smell) and he said he couldn't smell chicken at all! The pine pellets are working. The older chicks do scratch some into the waterer, so I'm going to take another suggestion and start training them to a water bottle to reduce that. So far, so good. In fact, hubby pointed out to me that I have room for two more cages! Yes, I'm keeping him!

Have a great day!

 

[cjwaldon]

It's 67 degrees right now and we're under a winter weather advisory, supposted to start snowing tonight.

 

[Herducks]

I'm sorry you haven't had good luck hatching the OEs. I wonder if perhaps they got just cold enough during shipment to make them not develop correctly. I'll send you more when I send you the other eggs (When it gets warmer). I have hatched out only a few of the OE, but they haven't had any problems.

Did any of the SFH hatch? I know mine are hatching a day or 2 behind my other breeds.

I had 1 SFH hatch, but his feet are all curled up. I taped his feet the way they should be so hopefully it will correct itself. I have 3 healthy OE chicks, they are super cute. Hoping a couple are hens! I do wish they would have just not hatched rather then hatch and die within a couple hours. So much harder I think.

 

[NotAFarm]

Good Morning!



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Hi

I miss everyone. I take the night shift well so far I've been up mostly since she has come home.

I feel bad still thinking about chickens. Yesterday I actually got chicks out to 1 lucky person that was supposed to get chicks after x-mas when the storm messed my plans up. I'll see what else I can get out this week.

Thinking about chickens is a GOOD thing! It's like thinking about puppies -- automatic de-stresser

Hi Rachael........ditto what cluckitall said.....thinking about chickens is good for you.

Praying for you and your whole family.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Quote: Set up an ebay, bid bird, and other online accounts to sell the hatching eggs and then juveniles (bid bird and others)

Okay, it's business time. The multiple big recent losses we've had....MG, then foxes, and now dogs, has made hubby determined to turn this place into a proper business rather than a hobby farm. Those of you who already are running businesses instead of hobbies, I'd like a bit of guidance if you can. Starting with record keeping...what itemized things do you keep track of? Expenses, yes, but how detailed do you itemize? How do you categorize your birds? Breed, age, sex, all of the above? It's the perfect time of year to start the paperwork organization, but I'd like to get it set up as close as possible to what we will maintain. I expect to have to do some tweaking, but the better the beginning, the better the ending.

Those willing to offer advice, you can certainly pm, but I'm willing to bet you'd have others besides me interested in your organization if you'd care to post publicly.

Thanks in advance,
Meg

Meg ............ some of the basics is utilities (partial since you live where you "work"). Then the obvious...... feed, shipping supplies (if you ship), medications. Birds are broken down by egg layer, meat bird, chicken, duck, goose. If you run auctions you have fees. Milage for runs to the PO and for feed.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

I do great with my day olds and started ones on craigslist. I don't ship day old serama as they are too small to ship and don't ship well.

There are certain breeds that don't sell good on craigslist by me like: OEGB, Bantam Cochins & Runner Ducks

what do you charge for day old chicks? curious still fine tuning my prices.

Good morning everyone

 

[tdhenson86]

Good morning everyone! I hope today is a great day for everyone. Just got done feeding my geese some corn that I sprouted. This was my first go at sprouting and they LOVE it. I guess I'll be doing this more often. The corn was the left over field corn from our field that the machine didn't get. So, we picked up the cobs and now I'm sprouting it. It's free. So, hey.

 

[chicken fever]

locked down 19 beautiful eggs! sexlinks, arkansas blue, Sicillian bantam buttercup, buff faverolle, OE, oeg! saw movement in all but one...looked fully developed so I left it in! come on chickies!

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Mine sell like hotcakes around here. People love the chicks and the muscovy ducklings. I can't keep enough in stock.  I guess it just depends on the area.

Do you think I could sell day old chicks online somewhere? I have no idea where to start to advertise them.....

Set up an ebay, bid bird, and other online accounts to sell the hatching eggs and then juveniles (bid bird and others)

Okay, it's business time. The multiple big recent losses we've had....MG, then foxes, and now dogs, has made hubby determined to turn this place into a proper business rather than a hobby farm. Those of you who already are running businesses instead of hobbies, I'd like a bit of guidance if you can. Starting with record keeping...what itemized things do you keep track of? Expenses, yes, but how detailed do you itemize? How do you categorize your birds? Breed, age, sex, all of the above? It's the perfect time of year to start the paperwork organization, but I'd like to get it set up as close as possible to what we will maintain. I expect to have to do some tweaking, but the better the beginning, the better the ending.


Those willing to offer advice, you can certainly pm, but I'm willing to bet you'd have others besides me interested in your organization if you'd care to post publicly.


Thanks in advance,

Meg

Meg ............ some of the basics is utilities (partial since you live where you "work"). Then the obvious...... feed, shipping supplies (if you ship), medications. Birds are broken down by egg layer, meat bird, chicken, duck, goose. If you run auctions you have fees. Milage for runs to the PO and for feed.

Hmmmmm....have to figure a way to calculate electric usage. That might be difficult. Milage I hadn't thought of; thank you. I'd only be keeping LF chickens and some few turkeys. Concentration on the chickens. Layers, dual purpose, show, several breeds, but haven't narrowed down which yet. That's part of this years work, and why I'm in the swap forum. (Plus, BHep enabled me into here.). Thanks COF!