My leukemia's back.

[donrae]

LG, I am with you but sometimes I can only get that food item no where else! And having a brother and 2 of my own working in food establishments doesn't help. LOL. The things you hear...
Here's a chicken question for you all... I have 2 gorgeous, nice roosters- a Bielfelder and a cream legbar- and 7 hens-CCL,lavender and buff orp, OE, EE, Welsummer, and a mixed one. IF I were to hatch out a few to sell, what would you label the chicks as?? EES? OEs? barnyard mix?? My Bielefelder is the #1 rooster and the CCL sneaks in while he isn't looking. Would you hatch this mix out? Why or why not?? Or would you go for buying Jubilee hatcing eggs?

I'd hatch them out, absolutely. I find my mixes here sell just as well as my pure breds.

If you can ID the cross, and know say it's the CCL rooster and the Wellie hen, you could say those chicks are Olive eggers. But mostly, it's going to be a "you pays your money and you takes your chances" kind of thing, unless you raise the pullets up to point of lay.

Last year I started using the term "Camo Eggers" for my birds. Mixes of brown, blue and green layers, and I was never sure what color which pullets would lay. So...."Any shade found in camo, from darker brown to sand, Army green to aqua, and maybe some blue for the Arctic camo". Folks seem to like the idea of being surprised by what egg shell color they're going to get.

 

[drumstick diva]

donrae you are a marketing genius!!

 

[drumstick diva]

I like going to some "sit down" restaurants - because the tables are so wobbly at the fast foods ones. Besides if I get to a restaurant it means somebody else is taking me & paying for it, and no dishes to clean.

 

[N F C]

Have a great Saturday everyone!

 

[Blooie]

donrae you are a marketing genius!!

Yep, she is! Seems like you gotta be when you're selling eggs, whether for hatching or consumption. The teeny eggs I was getting from my banties weren't so welcome at first. So I cut 12 count egg cartons in half and snagged a set of Katie's stickers. I put a kids' sticker on the little half cartons of banty eggs and called them, "Kid's Meals". Sold like hotcakes! One mom said that big eggs were too much for her toddler, and the banty eggs were too small to do anything with as far as baking, so she was a regular customer for "kids' meals".

 

[donrae]

I was kind of proud of that one

. And I hereby give you all leave to use Camo Eggers as you will

Off to work, then out to the livestock auction! It should be a nice day. Hope everyone gets some sunshine

 

[hbhoffman]

That's funny! "kids meals eggs" ! Maybe some fast food restaurants should take notice and offer that!

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Howdy howdy....hope everyone is good tonight.

 

[donrae]

Beautiful sunny day!

What I did NOT buy at the action....

Jersey bull bottle calf for $30

Huge red sow, probably pushing 400lbs, due in June, she went for like $75

Crested cream Legbar pair--they may not have been pure, hard to tell with the small time I could see them. They went for $20

Two cute little frizzled Polish roosters, I think a few dollars each.


Good thing I don't have more space, right? Came home and hauled gravel with Honey, hung out with my critters. Chili is getting big, he's so sturdy and active

. And still no baby goats! They had bottle baby Nubians there today for cheap. I was tempted to buy one, just to get Roany to kick things into gear.

So, I took a quick peak around but can't find the April Fool's Day thread.......can someone point me to it?

 

[Blooie]

Look on the home banner...the one that I can't spell but it means merry-go-round. Yeah, that one. See the robots? Yep. Right there.