"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[kuntrygirl]

Another strange story........ (I hope this was no one from this thread. )

Someone emailed me and asked me how much were my turkey eggs. I replied with the price per egg (for hatching). I get another email from the same person and she is asking me what price could I give her for a dozen. I'm like, "HUH". I can give her the same price that both of our calculators will give us when we both multiply $3.00 x's 12 eggs and that is $36.00 for a dozen of eggs. Did I miss something?

 

[kuntrygirl]

I will have to look.  I haven't seen it.  I do get to Alexandria every so often...maybe I will look into the gamebird feed there, too.

Let me know if you find it.

What are you currently feeding your birds? If you are happy with your current feeding program, you shouldn't have to add anything.

 

[chickenbelle]

Another strange story........ (I hope this was no one from this thread.

)

Someone emailed me and asked me how much were my turkey eggs. I replied with the price per egg (for hatching). I get another email from the same person and she is asking me what price could I give her for a dozen. I'm like, "HUH". I can give her the same price that both of our calculators will give us when we both multiply $3.00 x's 12 eggs and that is $36.00 for a dozen of eggs. Did I miss something?

LOL...yep...we're all surrounded by those types. In her defense...maybe she was implying there would be a discount for taking a dozen.???

And we do well on the DuMor as a Starter, but once we switch them from crumbles to Pellets as a Grower they seem to really slow down in growth. Most of the birds I've grown from chicks stalled somewhere from 3 to 5 months and then finally began to pack on some weight. We are going to start a pen of meat only birds--and I'm afraid that if I go with a quick growing broiler I will end up feeding them an extra month or two.

My birds are getting daily a mixture of 3/4 Dumor pellets, and 1/4 of oyster shell and scratch. They get treats on average two to three times a week--that can vary from fresh greens and veggies to yogurt with mealworm topping (we grow our own mealworms) to tuna. They eat well and have a great appearance in their feathering...they just don't get as "meaty" as I'd like.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Another strange story........ (I hope this was no one from this thread. )


Someone emailed me and asked me how much were my turkey eggs. I replied with the price per egg (for hatching). I get another email from the same person and she is asking me what price could I give her for a dozen. I'm like, "HUH". I can give her the same price that both of our calculators will give us when we both multiply $3.00 x's 12 eggs and that is $36.00 for a dozen of eggs. Did I miss something?

LOL...yep...we're all surrounded by those types.  In her defense...maybe she was implying there would be a discount for taking a dozen.???

And we do well on the DuMor as a Starter, but once we switch them from crumbles to Pellets as a Grower they seem to really slow down in growth.  Most of the birds I've grown from chicks stalled somewhere from 3 to 5 months and then finally began to pack on some weight.  We are going to start a pen of meat only birds--and I'm afraid that if I go with a quick growing broiler I will end up feeding them an extra month or two.

My birds are getting daily a mixture of 3/4 Dumor pellets, and 1/4 of oyster shell and scratch.  They get treats on average two to three times a week--that can vary from fresh greens and veggies to yogurt with mealworm topping (we grow our own mealworms) to tuna.  They eat well and have a great appearance in their feathering...they just don't get as "meaty" as I'd like.

I can understand where she may have been a bit confused thinking that buying 12 little bitty eggs would warrant a discount but when I go to the feed store and buy (50) - 50 lb bags of feed, the feed store doesn't give me a discount. :/ I wish people would understand how much it costs to feed our animals.

 

[catdaddyfro]

Where did you buy your fish pellets?

Sandy,
Hernandez has the fish food(floating catfish pellets) and so does Red and White. I get mine from Hernandez as it a little cheaper than R&W it is made by Cargil feeds, a good feed company, the other is Lone Star if you get the ingredient labels from these two and the TSC brand there's not a dimes bit of differences between them. it is a good booster feed to use during molt or mid winter I start slacking off more and more in the spring as the hens will do fine on a 16% ration anyway(a good brand/type). I do keep my breeders on it for a spell longer it and Nutri-boost(a calf manna equiv.) but after I'm done with collecting hatching eggs I put them all just on a straight layer ration I don't push for maximum yield outta my girls if you need more eggs get more chickens you'll be better off in the long run as you can burn out a few hens pushing them for all they are worth in just a couple of years. I like to keep my good ones for 5 to 7 years instead of replacing them every 2 with new stock that is not going to do nothing but keep you busy growing and feeding replacements annually.($$$)

Jeff

 

[kuntrygirl]

This article and pics made me hungry. I can't wait to try some of the dishes.

THE 20 BEST WAYS TO USE EGGS

http://www.livestrong.com/slideshow...tm_medium=email&utm_campaign=02202013#slide-1

 

[catdaddyfro]

I can understand where she may have been a bit confused thinking that buying 12 little bitty eggs would warrant a discount but when I go to the feed store and buy (50) - 50 lb bags of feed, the feed store doesn't give me a discount.

I wish people would understand how much it costs to feed our animals.

Hear Hear

now you know that eggs are only still worth a $1 a dozen even though feed has quadrupled since the 80's when a dollar a dozen was a good fair price,

I simply tell them they can go to Wal Mart and buy all they can afford for .99 cents on sale they got lots of them.

Jeff

 

[kuntrygirl]

Where did you buy your fish pellets?

Sandy,
Hernandez has the fish food(floating catfish pellets) and so does Red and White. I get mine from Hernandez as it a little cheaper than R&W it is made by Cargil feeds, a good feed company, the other is Lone Star if you get the ingredient labels from these two and the TSC brand there's not a dimes bit of differences between them. it is a good booster feed to use during molt or mid winter I start slacking off more and more in the spring as the hens will do fine on a 16% ration anyway(a good brand/type). I do keep my breeders on it for a spell longer it and Nutri-boost(a calf manna equiv.) but after I'm done with collecting hatching eggs I put them all just on a straight layer ration I don't push for maximum yield outta my girls if you need more eggs get more chickens you'll be better off in the long run as you can burn out a few hens pushing them for all they are worth in just a couple of years. I like to keep my good ones for 5 to 7 years instead of replacing them every 2 with new stock that is not going to do nothing but keep you busy growing and feeding replacements annually.($$$)

Jeff

At one point, I didn't want to get rid of my older girls (about 5 - 8 years old) because they were still laying about 3 eggs a week (each of them) but I had been having so many people stop by and wanting hens (and I needed that outside run for new stock), I was honest with them and I told them how old my hens were and that they were still laying a few eggs a week and they didn't mind because that's all they wanted was a few eggs a day so that they didn't have to buy eggs in the store. They said that they weren't going to process them (let's hope they were telling me the truth), so I sold my 20 older hens to 4 different people. They bought them for $15.00 per hen (even at that old age). I was surprised they agreed to that price. But once they saw how healthy my hens were, they didn't even question the price.

So, I agree in that I think I good feeding program can keep a person's hens around a long time and still produce eggs without being treated like a vending machine.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I can understand where she may have been a bit confused thinking that buying 12 little bitty eggs would warrant a discount but when I go to the feed store and buy (50) - 50 lb bags of feed, the feed store doesn't give me a discount. :/ I wish people would understand how much it costs to feed our animals.

Hear Hear 

now you know that eggs are only still worth a $1 a dozen even though feed has quadrupled since the 80's when a dollar a dozen was a good fair price,

I simply tell them they can go to Wal Mart and buy all they can afford for .99 cents on sale they got lots of them.

Jeff

 

[chickenbelle]

Now, now y'all...I was just trying to give the poor dumb fool the benefit of the doubt. Not that it's deserving... but I tried.

I know most people don't take into consideration feed cost when buying eggs/chicks, but geez, the price of a gallon of milk is almost $5! I can't imagine being a dariy farmer.

I put Arkansas Blues, Salmon faverolles, Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, Sicilian Buttercups, and a couple of Olive Eggers into lockdown last night. Hoping they all hatch.

I am in need of another RIR hen/pullet...anyone have one to part with? I only have the one hen who is a good, deep red color, but not Heritage that I'm mixing with my now -finally- healed- thank- goodness Heritage RIR roo.