Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[reesepoultry]

Oh, hey guys. I am suppose to be leaving to go get the quad of Egyptian Fayomi's is $60 too much for them? I can get them at my local hatchery as chicks for $3.38 ea and they are very early to mature. They aren't a yr old until June. I tried to talk them down but, they are firm on the price. They said with the cost of feed and everything. Which I believe we all have that same issue but sometimes to sell birds you have to budge a little.

Also would anyone be interested in there eggs if I swapped them?

 

[puglady]

Around her $15 per young adult laying bird is a steal, especially with spring coming up.

 

[madamwlf]

Oh, hey guys. I am suppose to be leaving to go get the quad of Egyptian Fayomi's is $60 too much for them? I can get them at my local hatchery as chicks for $3.38 ea and they are very early to mature. They aren't a yr old until June. I tried to talk them down but, they are firm on the price. They said with the cost of feed and everything. Which I believe we all have that same issue but sometimes to sell birds you have to budge a little.

Also would anyone be interested in there eggs if I swapped them?

Are they hatchery birds or birds they got from a breeder?

 

[GableBabble]

I am a cheapo, I would try to talk him down a bit. 60 is not really alot though. They are really neat birds. :O) Pics when you return!


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[reesepoultry]

Pics of them they put up. I am guessing hatchery since our local hatchery sells them. I don't know anyone local who sells them.





Rooster got into a fight with another roo and has a bloody comb

Not sure if this one just had it's eyes shut for the pics or what.

 

[krazykat0373]

g'mornin y'all

 

[wife2abirdman]

I have a question for those who sell adult birds. If you sell your birds then find out you have mites or lice do you contact the people you sold to and let them know? If you already know you have lice or mites would you tell the buyers? I ask because last year I got in a bird with lice from a breeder. Now even though it is entirely possible that I already had them here, I just got some birds in almost 2 weeks ago, which it was only shortly after that I started to see issues. I didn't even know I had mites until my poor little chick died. Then it started to click when two of my previously healthhy birds started to act cold and hunched over-we had just went through a warm spell and then it dropped back down again in temps, so thought they just were feeling crappy. I was checking often for lice after last year but after checking over the winter so much I just got lazy and stopped checking. But if they came in on the birds it would explain why one died in transit and why one of the new ones has been so "scared" of everybody when she is a 2 yr old in a pen full of much smaller pullets.

 

[GableBabble]

Pics of them they put up. I am guessing hatchery since our local hatchery sells them. I don't know anyone local who sells them.





Rooster got into a fight with another roo and has a bloody comb

Not sure if this one just had it's eyes shut for the pics or what.

Very pretty. I wonder how they lay.


On the topic of Mites:
I would tell someone if they or I had mites. I have holding pens separate from where my flock is just for this reason. Most people, I have found, do not pay enough attention to their birds to even know they have them. I might still buy a bird even if I knew they had or have had mites. It would depend on how they looked, etc. My sister works for a chemical company and they make a product to sanitize large scale poultry farms. It clears out anything and everything.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

I have a question for those who sell adult birds. If you sell your birds then find out you have mites or lice do you contact the people you sold to and let them know? If you already know you have lice or mites would you tell the buyers? I ask because last year I got in a bird with lice from a breeder. Now even though it is entirely possible that I already had them here, I just got some birds in almost 2 weeks ago, which it was only shortly after that I started to see issues. I didn't even know I had mites until my poor little chick died. Then it started to click when two of my previously healthhy birds started to act cold and hunched over-we had just went through a warm spell and then it dropped back down again in temps, so thought they just were feeling crappy. I was checking often for lice after last year but after checking over the winter so much I just got lazy and stopped checking. But if they came in on the birds it would explain why one died in transit and why one of the new ones has been so "scared" of everybody when she is a 2 yr old in a pen full of much smaller pullets.

Are you not using a 30 day strict quarentine for all new birds?

 

[pysankigirl]

Any good links on what to look for with lice and/or mites? I have 5 birds in quarantine that have been there over a month and they look healthy to me but I don't want to release them until I am sure.