North Carolina

[rainbowchick]

Just got back from the WS poultry show with my newest flock members! I got an olive egger and Easter egger from one lady, a cream legbar roo and a frizzled tolbunt polish from one gentleman, and 2 lavender/grey silkies and a smooth partridge sizzle from another lady. Quite the mix!

Ooh, that sounds like a great assortment! Wish I could've gone, but with hubby out of town and my four kids having an Easter activity at church, it just didn't work out....
Still hoping I can squeeze in the Greensboro show, either before or after the 5k my son and I are doing at 10:00 that morning....:/

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Congratulations Hollowoakfarm! Music to our ears huh?!

I do love the music!

Good morning all! I have a question for general consideration. I'm wanting to know what you think. Is hatching eggs and chick selling a year round thing or does it usually dry up after spring? I'm hoping my chickens will pay their own way as far as feed and then also supplement at least the light bill year round. Is that expecting too much? I know it depends on how many you have but do people buy hatching eggs and buy chicks year round? Thanks for any and all advice.

If you have developed the right lines of show birds you can command a year round presence, limited only by weather for shipping eggs and chicks. But for "normal" birds...making feed costs would make you one of the successful ones. Chicks are usually a spring thing, although "spring" is not defined by the calendar. I know many who start spring hatching in January. Eggs depend on demand...and weather...but could potentially be a year-round thing.

Most of us have a goal of the birds paying for themselves. Some who have the right birds or the right mix of birds have managed it.

 

[fanniefarmer]

Now that's what I wanted to hear. Encouragement. A positive response. Thank you so much Hollowoakfarm!

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Now that's what I wanted to hear. Encouragement. A positive response. Thank you so much Hollowoakfarm!

Sorry. I've always been a realist.

 

[fanniefarmer]

I took it as positive! I know there's work and also homework but i always heard "do something you enjoy and you'll be good at it". I liked what you said about the specifics, basically knowing the market and not being static. Thanks again.

 

[dutchlion]

Just got back from the WS poultry show with my newest flock members! I got an olive egger and Easter egger from one lady, a cream legbar roo and a frizzled tolbunt polish from one gentleman, and 2 lavender/grey silkies and a smooth partridge sizzle from another lady. Quite the mix!

Oh very nice! I'm so sorry I missed it!

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

A little eye candy for this morning. The one with the pink band and the one where you can't see the band are F1 Olive Eggers out of blue and black Ameraucanas by Golden cuckoo Marans. The light one with the purple band is out of an F1 Olive Egg, by either a GCM or an F1 Olive Egger. We shall see if SHE is carrying blue! (Note my confidence. Of the ten Wellies I hatched a week ago, all ten seem to be pullets, so I'm hopeful!)

 

[bantambury]

anyone know of anyone here in NC with porcelain d'uccles?

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

The English Orpingtons are leaving the farm. Six left. But this week, I'll be picking up Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Ameraucana chicks. That pen will get a new population.

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Good morning folks

Hope everyone had a good weekend. I managed to get up to
the show in Winston Salem and got some new stock from Matt.
It was great seeing him again and looking over the birds in the
show. This show seemed to have mostly bantams. Cute little birds.

hope everyone has a good day