Lets hear it....Why don't you sell hatching eggs???

[punk-a-doodle]

As a small scale seller, I think one needs to do what makes them comfortable. But as a buyer, I greatly, greatly prefer hatching eggs because smashed eggs do not make me sad, but dead birds do. Plus, I like the experience of incubating, though I haven't been able to try out my homemade incubator yet, but did incubation at an aviary. I get that customers can be enough to turn anyone off though. Never again will I work any job that has any sort of customer service. XD

 

[call ducks]

I don't want anyone getting birds from my line that are not worth 5cents, that would most likely be bread and then my name stamped on them because there perants came from me...

 

[gryeyes]

I didn't, until the gal at my favorite feed store asked me if she could buy some fertile eggs from me for her rooster-less broody hens. She didn't care that eggs from my flock are all mutts - she just wanted to make her girls happy. I have given some to my good friend HHandbasket now and again, but never sold any until recently.

The eggs are so fertile the feed store gal has asked for a dozen more, twice, and for a half-dozen for a friend of hers with broody hens. Her hens hatched 11/12, 10/12, and we'll see in about 2 weeks how the last dozen does. I sell 'em to her for the same price as eating eggs, because they aren't any pure breed. I added a bantam egg once, for fun, and her daughter was THRILLED it hatched out a cochin mix bantam.

Oh, and I deliver these eggs when I make a feed store run.

I don't want to get into shipping eggs, because I have incubated a couple hundred eggs shipped TO me over the past year or so, hatching about 70 or so chicks..... That's how I get the pure breeds, but then I let my flock range freely and breed freely.