Good evening peeps!!
Have to share, bought this last night!! (Thanks for the help Mike!!) Kinda excited now after getting over how much the darn thing cost!!
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ETA- forgot my manners this mornin': How do there La-yers and BYCersThanks Terri!!
Look at that Jeff!! You might be able to get rid of some!!
193 eggs????????? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
193 eggs????????? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah I'm only running around 55 to 60 % production rate here right now, that's why I need to get shed of about 50 to 75 more hens before they all start laying daily. It won't be long till most any chicken should be at 100% unless they are just a poor laying breed or old as the hills (which I don't have any of) so in a few weeks 130 eggs a day will be too overwhelming for me to handle for sure, so some's gotta go.
So If ya'll know of anybody wanting layers I got 'em for sale(not on sale) they'll have to come get them as I'm not shipping any or delivering to far from here, just not worth the money that way. I could sell these now(I've had lots of cheapos call me) for 5 dollars each but I'm not going to do that either. The way I see it, those people can buy them some biddies and raise them up till they lay and then they'll see what's invested and still don't get no eggs for 6 to 8 months, and see then if they can get them to laying before the weather gets bad or have to wait till next year to get fresh eggs 'cause they don't know how to get them to produce all year round. Oh well I shall get of the soap box and go FEED the chickens again LOL
GOT EGGS?
Jeff
WOW!!! That's a lot of work!
I hear ya about the cheapos. I get them all the time as well. IF I have any extra layers and I doubt I will, I will probably sell a few but I won't have that many. I'm needing my layers for eggs. My list of customers have grown and I have expanded to providing eggs to bakers and local restaurants. In our area, a lot of the restaurants are going "local". They are only buying products from local farmers, etc. I was lucky enough to get 3 restaurants who have been buying my duck and chicken eggs. And they are willing to pay extra. It really helps out the local people in my area. So, I need all the layers I can get, which is why I bought 40 RIRs.
If you lived closer you could make a killing. I have people that stop by my place every weekend wanting chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys and I just don't have any to sell right now. EVERYBODY is wanting laying hens right now and hens for gumbo. I have a waiting list for my turkeys, so as soon as they are old enough, they will be sold.
I can't imagine your feed bill.
I must say that changing the feed from layer pellets to Flockraiser has shown a tremendous increase in egg production. I still can't figure that one out.
Sounds like everyone will be busy busy busy.
Should be fun for us all.
WOW!!! That's a lot of work!
I hear ya about the cheapos. I get them all the time as well. IF I have any extra layers and I doubt I will, I will probably sell a few but I won't have that many. I'm needing my layers for eggs. My list of customers have grown and I have expanded to providing eggs to bakers and local restaurants. In our area, a lot of the restaurants are going "local". They are only buying products from local farmers, etc. I was lucky enough to get 3 restaurants who have been buying my duck and chicken eggs. And they are willing to pay extra. It really helps out the local people in my area. So, I need all the layers I can get, which is why I bought 40 RIRs.
If you lived closer you could make a killing. I have people that stop by my place every weekend wanting chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys and I just don't have any to sell right now. EVERYBODY is wanting laying hens right now and hens for gumbo. I have a waiting list for my turkeys, so as soon as they are old enough, they will be sold.
I can't imagine your feed bill.
I must say that changing the feed from layer pellets to Flockraiser has shown a tremendous increase in egg production. I still can't figure that one out.
Sounds like everyone will be busy busy busy.
Should be fun for us all.
Yeah I hear ya on the paying extra my sister takes my eggs to Leesville with her once a week or so and those people pay her 2.50 a dozen for fresh eggs, around here I try to raise my price from 1.50 to 2bucks they act as if the world has come to a halt even though the dammed feed has gone up 3 bucks in less than 2 years these old so an so's around here are stuck back in 1983 when I was selling them for a 1 a dozen and feed was 5.50 to 6 bucks a sack then too IT JUST Don't add up too me. :/
Ok see ya'll onthe flip side I been plowing and now Im gonna plant my seed potatoes if it don't fall a flood before the day is done which is very darn likely the way its looking so far. go Away rain come some other day, well for here anyway. I just got the waders off the chickens they want to scratch in the dirt for a bit tooo.
