Kirkwooder
Songster
Hello All,
My wife and I live in a very small, rural, Western new York town. We have raised chickens for both meat and eggs for over 20 years and have developed a fairly good following from the locals for the limited amount of eggs and meat birds that we can comfortably produce. Selling our excess pays for most of our feed needs as long as we are very resourceful with or our feed sourcing. We also raise turkeys every year to hand out to our staff at our auto parts store, as well as a few to market. We have raised almost every type of poultry imaginable as well, Ducks, pheasants, partridge, pigeons, guineas, Coturnix quail, all have been in one or another coupe around the homestead over the years.
I am also an avid upland game hunter and have recently adopted an English Pointer pup. Raising a pup and training it to hunt birds takes lots of practice and lots of birds to practice on, so I have ordered a batch of bobwhite eggs to hatch to start my own flock of training birds. I also would like to raise some Coturnix to train with because of their incredible growth rates and laying ability. When I raised them in the past I was over run with eggs. I would like to keep over 100 live and flying birds for training and can only imagine how many eggs I will be having to find homes for every week if I do so. I will surely need to hatch out and raise plenty of replacements as I use them for training, but no where near what I will be producing.
I would like to develop a market for my excess fairly quickly to help offset the cost of keeping such a large flock. Any suggestions on how to develop a market for these quickly would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
My wife and I live in a very small, rural, Western new York town. We have raised chickens for both meat and eggs for over 20 years and have developed a fairly good following from the locals for the limited amount of eggs and meat birds that we can comfortably produce. Selling our excess pays for most of our feed needs as long as we are very resourceful with or our feed sourcing. We also raise turkeys every year to hand out to our staff at our auto parts store, as well as a few to market. We have raised almost every type of poultry imaginable as well, Ducks, pheasants, partridge, pigeons, guineas, Coturnix quail, all have been in one or another coupe around the homestead over the years.
I am also an avid upland game hunter and have recently adopted an English Pointer pup. Raising a pup and training it to hunt birds takes lots of practice and lots of birds to practice on, so I have ordered a batch of bobwhite eggs to hatch to start my own flock of training birds. I also would like to raise some Coturnix to train with because of their incredible growth rates and laying ability. When I raised them in the past I was over run with eggs. I would like to keep over 100 live and flying birds for training and can only imagine how many eggs I will be having to find homes for every week if I do so. I will surely need to hatch out and raise plenty of replacements as I use them for training, but no where near what I will be producing.
I would like to develop a market for my excess fairly quickly to help offset the cost of keeping such a large flock. Any suggestions on how to develop a market for these quickly would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave