I need a way to make some money! Any ideas???

[awesomefowl]

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I would LOVE to do that!!! Only my incub. fits ten eggs max, and my hatches have stunk. First hatch I got 2 chicks out of nine eggs, second hatch got none out of seven eggs. Maybe I can sell chicks after i learn to actually HATCH them!!

 

[Cowgirl71]

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What kind of incubator do you have? That's probably your problem.

 

[awesomefowl]

I think it was the PO. Both times they were shipped eggs. I have a Brinsea mini eco.

 

[Cowgirl71]

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I've heard shipped eggs can be really hard to hatch (I've never bought any shipped eggs for that reason). I looked up your bator and it looks like a decent bator. It is manual turn, how many times a day did you turn the eggs? If it were me, I'd experiment with some cheap $2/dozen mixed breed fertile eggs from someone who sells eating eggs (and knows how to handle hatching eggs), or eggs from your own flock if they're fertile. With my feed store I've actually found that most of the customers prefer mix breed colorful chicks of good laying breeds, especially if there's some Easter Egger/Ameraucana mixed in. You could also put up an ad at your feed store for purebred - insert breed(s) you want - eggs. I bet you could find some, and without the cost of shipping.

 

[awesomefowl]

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I've heard shipped eggs can be really hard to hatch (I've never bought any shipped eggs for that reason). I looked up your bator and it looks like a decent bator. It is manual turn, how many times a day did you turn the eggs? If it were me, I'd experiment with some cheap $2/dozen mixed breed fertile eggs from someone who sells eating eggs (and knows how to handle hatching eggs), or eggs from your own flock if they're fertile. With my feed store I've actually found that most of the customers prefer mix breed colorful chicks of good laying breeds, especially if there's some Easter Egger/Ameraucana mixed in. You could also put up an ad at your feed store for purebred - insert breed(s) you want - eggs. I bet you could find some, and without the cost of shipping.

Great idea! Thanks!

 

[suzettex5]

How about placing a flyer up at your local feedstore and offer to hatch eggs for other people from their own flocks? You could start small with what you have incubator-wise, sell the chicks that hatch back to the people, that way if you get a good hatch, you make $, if its bad, you make whatever you get to hatch. If you get a decent response, you can save for a bigger bator, and build your business. You could start now for those who want to get an early start on their spring replacement flocks.

 

[debilorrah]

Shipped eggs ARE hard to get a really hatch with. And people that really want layers don't really care if they are mutts are or not.

 

[Cowgirl71]

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Great idea! Thanks!

Just make sure the people you buy the eggs from know how to treat hatching eggs! I hatched eggs for a friend of mine this summer who's kept chickens all her life (and she's 52). She always used broody hens, but none of her hens were going broody so she wanted me to artificially hatch some chicks for her. A few weeks later she gave me three dozen eggs to incubate. Some of them were a full three weeks old, all of them were pointy end up in the egg carton, almost all of them had large scribbles with a marker, highlighter, or pencil to mark the date they were laid and/or which hen they came from, and she'd stored them all that time in her 80F house.

I didn't mention anything about how to properly store hatching eggs to her, and three weeks later I had 13 healthy chicks for her (two others hatched but were weak and died), but she was real disappointed that I didn't get a higher hatch rate. I was thrilled, given the circumstances and the fact I used a LG 9200!

 

[MSDeb]

I know Christmas has passed but you can start now for next year. At the church I attend we have a fund raising auction every year and I found some crocheted circular pot scrubbers one year that I just love. The material is a see through scratchy type thing, like what wedding veils are made of. A lady sells them for about $1 a piece. They make wonderful stocking stuffers and they work great. You can also try marketing them to a local pet store as I have found they are wonderful for scrubbing algae off aquarium glass. At the auction I load up on scrubbies, local honey, and canned goodies I don't have the time to do myself.

Have you thought about home made soap, salt or sugar body scrubs etc? You could probably even get a science project credit for doing one of those.

Good luck.

 

[Junkmanme]

Since you like to bake, I'm assuming that you are good at it.

Put together a LARGE PAMPHLET of "Baking Recipes"...Print it out on your computer.
(use the LAST page for an add for "Farm Fresh Eggs" if you have them available.)
(also try to get some other small ads...for a price...such as a local feed store, etc.)

THEN go sell your Recipe Book (Baking Recipes)...Door-to-Door for $ 1.00 each.

It will be good Sales Experience and you will get the money from the Sales AND the ads..
.....and maybe some "fresh egg" business.

just a thought,
-Junkmanme-