North Carolina

[skitzkle]

Does anyone grow fodder? I am having a hard time locating barley seed around the asheboro area... any ideas where to look.

I want to get my system set up for winter when I do not have much to feed the chickens besides their layer ration. Any help would be great!

Hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend!

I spent a week scouring the Internet and making phone calls looking for someone who sold sprout-able barley. No luck. I tried fodder with a bird seed mix and it went OK, but I was having trouble keeping it from molding. When the temperatures drop a little I am going to try some wheat, clover and what ever else I can find at the feed stores. I found some barley in Virginia I think, but with gas prices so high I wasn't driving that far to get it.

 

[DSTchickencraze]

You guys have gotten me all interested in Ayam Cemani and of course now I want to break my budget to try and breed them and become very rich off these birds.

Why must they be so inaccessible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I'm just curious. What other types of breeds, that you can legally get, that people would pay a decent amount for?

I know I have been up and down, seeming schizophreni, about starting a little business. Thanks to everyone's advice I've decided I do not want to sell meat (I will at least have some for our family) but I think I might breed like a specific breed and sell eggs. So therefor I might want to use a breed (for the selling part, maybe not eggs) that is really desirable and people would pay well for.

Currently we have:

• Cuckoo Marans
• Buff Orpingtons
• Road Island Reds
• Black Australorps

I think we would use these types of breeds for egg production and maybe find a better, more desirable breed for actual like breeding and selling.

So what kind of birds would people pay an arm and a leg for, or maybe a few fingers, or something at least?

 

[ramirezframing]

DST, you won't be able to unless you have a few thousand dollars to sink into a new breed every few years. Than you gotta hope you picked the right breed from Green Fire. Because there was a few breeders of the Ayam before Green Fire had them, and they won't selling for as much as they are now. Green Fire also has gotten breeds that haven't sold so well at all.

 

[Fireantz iceman]

Chicken breeds are like the nursery business. What is hot this year will take me 2-7 years to grow my stock, by then the fad is over or the market is flooded and the big bucks are gone! What you make big the first couple of years is eaten up the next couple and by the time you have decent inventory the price is down and your total project profit balances out and you rarely profit over your standard percentage....

Experience is worth a lot of $$$. Hard to get rich but easy to lose money...

Come send a day at the nursery for a free education! !!

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

yep........RF and Fireantz are right............too many
fad breeds and by the time you get some to sell the
fad is past or the market is flooded. It's best to just
get into a few always popular breeds and be happy
with making enough to cover costs.....most of us don't
even make back costs but are happy to make some
of the cost. Good luck

 

[dutchbunny83]

well I knew I'd never recover any money from them (especially because I won't even keep a rooster), but I do really want one.
Hopefully the fad is over soon and prices drop because I don't want it as a fad chicken I just want it haha!
Someone else was saying on an Ayam Cemani thread theres some other similar breed from Switzerland & people are trying to pass it off as Ayam Cemani so beware of prices in the couple hundred versus couple thousand.
Right now pre-ordering for a 5 week old pair in us is $5000! I'll give it a few years...

 

[dutchbunny83]

Hey, anyone have any tips on sexing frizzles, or are they the same as any other chick?
I am obsessed with this little one and I'm REALLY hoping it turns out to be a girl, I love the color.
She's an olive egger, though not sure exactly what she is other than she came from a brown egg so guess an Ameraucana rooster was the dad?
She's my favorite little chick so hoping I can keep her

 

[Southpawtech]

We finally got an incubator and now I have the hatching itch. We are looking for Orphingtons and Ameraucanas. Birds and eggs, it does not matter. Color preference is Lavender.

 

[dutchbunny83]

Hi Southpaw!

Lavender is my favorite color too!!!
I bought my lavender orpington eggs from a NC ebay seller, but I just checked and they don't have any listed right now. Beautiful birds! I bought 12, I was sent 18 and 16 hatched if I remember correctly. I was really happy with them.

I REALLY want a lavender ameraucana as well! I have an olive egger chick right now that I hatched that looks lavender in color.

I will have some lavender orpington chickens available soon, but I'm sure you can find them much closer to you.

Post pics when you start hatching!!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Good morning all, If anyone lives close to Burnsville NC and would be interested in a Naked Neck[Turkin] Rooster ? someone dropped one off at our church about 3 weeks ago, some of the members have been feeding him but major road work is going to take out the trees he is hanging under, I have 2 roos already so I can't take him and am having a hard time finding this guy a home. If interested let me know. thanks