Kayla’s Chat Thread

What’s your favorite Egg color?

  • Brown

    Votes: 10 12.3%

  • Dark Brown

    Votes: 20 24.7%

  • Blue

    Votes: 41 50.6%

  • Green

    Votes: 27 33.3%

  • Olive

    Votes: 15 18.5%

  • White

    Votes: 12 14.8%

  • Off-white

    Votes: 7 8.6%

  • Cream

    Votes: 10 12.3%

  • Other - please specify

    Votes: 7 8.6%

  • WE ARE STUCK WITH THIS POLL

    Votes: 16 19.8%
  • Total voters
    81
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MagpieDucks said:
Would it be weird to charge more for “Fertile Hatching Eggs” than for “Eating Eggs” when they are the same eggs?
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Only if more time is not invested in them.
For example, putting them under a light would be plenty reason for me to charge more, even though I still charge 3 bucks. Maybe I raise the price a dollar. (When I do sell hatching eggs.)
The diet of breeder birds is different, too, so the embryos have optimal nutrition.
Also, they are often bred for qualities you wouldn't find in your backyard flock, which is an investment in itself.
I think lighting breeder pens is a good practice, just like out of the article I read from Backyard Poultry discussing how to get eggs for hatching out of your birds. Author was from Minnesota. :plbb Although, not all articles in there are very good. Like the one about 4-H that said Silkies were hardy and heat tolerant and didn't mention d'Anvers @ all.
 
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MagpieDucks said:
My “eating” customers are just private, and i kind of want to sell eggs or chicks publicly...would you do both eggs/chicks or just one or the other?
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If you are doing this first time, personally, I would just do chicks.
You make more money and more buyers.
I sold some eggs for hatching to a family. 3 dollars for the eggs or per chick. 11 chicks (maybe more) out of 16 or so hatched. (They did use our incubator though, friends of the family, so they knew it would work if done right.)
They had gone for the advancing cost of the eggs, first time hatchers, so got the better end of the deal. Chicks run a better profit. Also, they get you a good reputation to start off. You may not know, to start, how your eggs will hatch in other incubators and your reputation may be affected by that before you even get into this whole selling thing. My eggs have always had better success at home than with other people.
 
I want to test a theory. When my bantams start laying, I want to ship eggs to someone that are up to 12 days old (with their knowledge and consent for this experiment) marked w/ lay date and see what/how many hatch.
So many people say shipped eggs should be no older than 3days when shipped. I want to test this.
 

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