I want some mandarins that arent overpriced!!

[KansasKid]

I have been looking for some mandarin ducks for about a month now and every time i find some there either overpriced or out of stock. Does anyone know where i can find some?

 

[BellLisamo]

First of all

2ND, what is overpriced to you? What price range are you looking for?

 

[1lpoock]

Yeah about how much do you want a pair for? Also, many people are sold out from last year. Many wont have pairs for sale until 2010 Fall.

 

[pringle]

Well ive never ordered from them but they seem a good hatchery.Its called Efowl.com they sell juvenile mandarins and wood ducks for $20 but there all sold out at the moment.

 

[chickenlittle32]

Most ppl will only sell a pair...average price for them are $50.

 

[Chosen Chickens]

I just bought a pair from this place: http://fp1.centurytel.net/orchardview/

He sells yearlings for $70.00 plus another $40 for shipping. I paid 110$ for these and he IS still in stock so you could order them today... but before you think that is too expensive, here is the kicker..... they are bonded and should breed this spring, which means that in april or may I could have up to 15 baby mandarins that I could then turn around and sell and make back easy what I paid in

 

[KansasKid]

Well i've tried efowl.com but for some reason i think there is a typo because now if you look at the prices they claim to be $199.99 when it used to be $19.99. and overpriced for me is anything over $50 but id like to keep it cheaper than that if i can.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

$70??
That's still too much, and usually they dont produce well til their second year, yearlings that do lay their first year are often infertile or very weak.
Subscribe to the Game Bird Breeders Gazette. It has 15 or so pages of just classified ads for waterfowl and pheasant breeders. Avoid all the internet stuff (it's way overpriced) and just get them straight from the breeders. $40-$60 I'll never pay more than $45 for normals, they are just too common and readily available and for 30 some odd years, that's all they sold for til the ol eggbid.com came about...Prices went crazy then, I think in large because the internet opened them up to a lot of people that didnt know they existed, and thus, people shot the price up to make a quick buck??
Anyway, that's just my opinion on these over prices waterfowl deals going around. oh and by the way, wood ducks are supposed to be $25-$35 per pair too!!

 

[goosedragon]

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So how many birds do YOU have to sell? You can say the price should be such and such but if there are none available at that price is going to go up! Well known as the Law of Supply and Demand. when the demand is larger than the supply the seller can demand more money. And good luck with the Game Bird Breeders Gazette He is so slow to get the magazine out that the people that put ads in are usually sold out before the magazine is printed. But don't let me stop anyone, you have to learn for yourself. Good Luck!

 

[spectrumranch]

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I don't think $70 is to much at all! Anybody that has raised wild waterfowl for any lenght of time will know that Orchard View has excellent birds too!

When I get back to the Wisconsin farm- I will have to look at some of my old Gazette issues, when I was in high school (20 some years ago) and bought my first Mandarins if I remeber right, they were more than $45

The internet is not an evil price raising monster. There is nothing wrong with prices going up because of more demand, feed prices keep going up too. But remember the same internet is the one that supplies people with info on care, breeding, housing, etc.

How's does one make a quick buck by raising birds? I have been raising birds for alot of years and never seen a quick buck.