Just spent $80 for 24 eggs

[Rare Feathers Farm]

I paid $75 for 6 bantam Houdan eggs last spring. I ended up with two roosters and two hens. Sold the extra rooster and the nicest of the two new hens managed to get outside after dark and froze to death in the run. They are the dumbest chickens I have but so funny and sweet....sighs. LOL

I have kind of given up on hatching eggs. I have decided it's better and cheaper (in the long run) to just save up and buy a pair or whatever you need/want....otherwise, they might not hatch at all, you might end up with one VERY expensive rooster OR if you do get a decent hatch, you still have to brood them, feather them out, sex them and then decide who/what you're keeping. So if you spend $150 - $200 on a nice pair, you're still saving money rather than buying $100/dozen eggs only to have to wait 6 months or longer to feed/water/care for them before sexing them and making your culls...that's just my experience. Of course, in some instances (like these bantam Houdan), you can't find anyone breeding & willing to ship adults. So that's a risk I had to take.

 

[Sumatra503]

I see all these hatching eggs selling for $100-200 a dozen and makes me wish i had those breeds and eggs to sell.

some day I will have my Bantam Marans, but that day will set me back a lot of money, i'm thinking. Plus it will be a long ways off due to the availability.

 

[sonew123]

I have about 200$ worth going in my bator on Feb 3rd

Im praying my SLB's will lay some before I start that batch too

 

[GAGE]

I had $31.00 dollars in my first incubator hatching experience (18 FBCM, 11 BO and 3 EE) in which I got 2 BO, 1 FBCM, in the brooder, and another FBCM that hatched but did not live and another that died while trying to get out.
For round two, I have 20 serama egg's that I paid $30.00 for, which are due on the 28th, and hoping for much better hatching results.

I did order a new Genesis 1588 last night and prepaid $50.00 (35.00 plus 15.00 shipping) for a batch of eggs coming next month. These will be my first ordered eggs, and I am looking forward to having lots of little babies in early March.

 

[Pidgey104]

okay I ahve those two doz coming and I just bought $35 12+ Buff Std Cochins. Some one shoot me LOL
I already have these eggs in the bator
12 Blue Turken from Nava $12
18 Seramas I picked up at sunshine classics $20
15 other assortment of eggs while I was helping clean out the cages at the show Free (Which when I checked 10 of those were veining)
5 Bantam RIR
18 from my BLRW/Std Cochin pen
8 Delaware
6 from my STD Cochin pen
and 2 green emu eggs

My inubators is going to get full soon LOL

 

[tazcat70]

I am just too cheap for my own good. LOL!

The most I spent was about $50 for some Bamachicken's eggs 2 years ago. I had about a 40% hatch and then my cat knocked my brooder off and all but 2 silkies died. Then a possum got one of the silkies, and so I had one silkie left. A roo.

Lately the only eggs I have hatched came from Katy, and she lives close and so I just go and pick them up.

 

[mothergoose]

Yep, this is the only form of gambling I do...and I spend too much too often, but I go in willing to lose it all, so I am happy with anything I end up with. Truthfully, I have rarely ever hatched less than 50% on shipped eggs and I have gotten alot of shipped eggs over the last 10 years. If I did'nt spend it on eggs, I would blow it somewhere else and still have nothing to show for it...
Happy hatching,
Christie

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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SLBS = Silver Laced Brahmas?? I saw last night that Greenfire Farms is now promoting & selling the SLB & BLB birds.

it will only be a matter of time before all of those breeds are a dime a dozen...just like what's happened to the Light Sussex and now the Coronation. Two years ago, those were selling for $200/dozen and now you can get them for $19.99/dozen on eBay.

 

[welasharon]

Well chick....you can sell me some of your excess Seramas!! and maybe the Turkens too! I just don't want to deal with the hatching and such! I want to go see Grady Taylor (I think it is...) in Marianna. He has Seramas.
sharon


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[Illia]

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SLBS = Silver Laced Brahmas?? I saw last night that Greenfire Farms is now promoting & selling the SLB & BLB birds.

it will only be a matter of time before all of those breeds are a dime a dozen...just like what's happened to the Light Sussex and now the Coronation. Two years ago, those were selling for $200/dozen and now you can get them for $19.99/dozen on eBay.

You're on the same train as me. When I first saw the Brahma thing on GFF, I was, umm, let's just say upset.