TattooQ27
Songster
Would you be more likely to buy from someone selling:
1) purebred ducks/eggs from hatchery quality purebred parents
2) purebred ducks/eggs from show quality parents
3) mixed breed ducks/eggs from hatchery quality purebred parents
4) mixed breed ducks/eggs from show quality parents
5) ducks are ducks, doesn't matter as long as they are healthy
6) Other (explain please?)
Also....
What do you use your ducks for:
1) Showing
2) Breeding
3) Pets/meat/eggs
4) Other (explain please?)
Please assume for the purposes of this post that the person selling the eggs is not a big time breeder, just a small local farm wanting to sell hatching eggs for a little extra cash.
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Why I ask....
I have 4 ducks right now and I am looking to add to the flock. I am having a hard time deciding between having breeding pairs for purebred offspring or if I want to keep things fun and have an assortment of sizes, shapes and colors like what we have now. We really want to try to sell the fertilized eggs (only for maybe $5 or $10 per dozen) but we want to know if people would be willing to spend that on mixed eggs from purebred (unrelated) hatchery quality stock or if people only really want purebred eggs from purebred show quality stock. I WILL NOT rehome the ducks we already have so if people would be happy to buy mutt eggs we will buy 4 more assorted purebred ducks to complete our flock. If people only want purebred eggs then we can buy the opposite genders of what we have now and then pen them off as breeding pairs. If people only want eggs from show quality stock well then we can toss our idea of selling the eggs out the window because we only want 8 ducks and I am not giving up my current duckies for any amount of money, lol.
1) purebred ducks/eggs from hatchery quality purebred parents
2) purebred ducks/eggs from show quality parents
3) mixed breed ducks/eggs from hatchery quality purebred parents
4) mixed breed ducks/eggs from show quality parents
5) ducks are ducks, doesn't matter as long as they are healthy
6) Other (explain please?)
Also....
What do you use your ducks for:
1) Showing
2) Breeding
3) Pets/meat/eggs
4) Other (explain please?)
Please assume for the purposes of this post that the person selling the eggs is not a big time breeder, just a small local farm wanting to sell hatching eggs for a little extra cash.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Why I ask....
I have 4 ducks right now and I am looking to add to the flock. I am having a hard time deciding between having breeding pairs for purebred offspring or if I want to keep things fun and have an assortment of sizes, shapes and colors like what we have now. We really want to try to sell the fertilized eggs (only for maybe $5 or $10 per dozen) but we want to know if people would be willing to spend that on mixed eggs from purebred (unrelated) hatchery quality stock or if people only really want purebred eggs from purebred show quality stock. I WILL NOT rehome the ducks we already have so if people would be happy to buy mutt eggs we will buy 4 more assorted purebred ducks to complete our flock. If people only want purebred eggs then we can buy the opposite genders of what we have now and then pen them off as breeding pairs. If people only want eggs from show quality stock well then we can toss our idea of selling the eggs out the window because we only want 8 ducks and I am not giving up my current duckies for any amount of money, lol.
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