Okies in the BYC The Original

[Buckguy20]

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Wow, that auction sounds depressing

unless you're going there to buy.

I'm stuck at work trying to stay awake til 2 am, but Gerald took some eggs and chicks to the Blanchard auction. He called earlier and said our cuckoo marans eggs sold for over $10 a dozen, but he hasn't called back. I'm waiting!!! Anyway, he said the Blanchard auction was packed with buyers, eggs, chicks, chickens etc. I sure hope that auction did better.

Carla, I sold a dozen Welsummer eggs, 2 doz. Cuckoo Maran eggs and six EE eggs and they brought a total of $8.50. Hatching eggs and chicks were very low.
Troy sold a ton of eggs there tonight and I don't think anything went very high.
I sold a pair of Gold Campines for $34 and a pair of standard game crosses for $26. I was pleased they brought that much since they are not heavy breeds. Big chickens went $15 and some more and a few less.
Marybeth and I teamed up to buy two Gold Salman Marans roosters. Now we need some hens.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I was curious about the reason for paying a premium price for a RIR rooster, but since you are much more knowlegable than myself regarding genetics, I just figured he carried a gene for laying golden eggs or something. Besides, you told us it was your wife that bid on the rooster.

 

[okcarla]

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It sounds like Jones buyers did great but Sellers not so good. Darn ... I sure wish I could have been there to visit and even bid on some of the hatching eggs that Monty and Troy brought!!!

 

[poultryand bees]

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It sounds like Jones buyers did great but Sellers not so good. Darn ... I sure wish I could have been there to visit and even bid on some of the hatching eggs that Monty and Troy brought!!!

Carla,
Aren't your incubators full of your own eggs? Didn't I read that you needed to sell some chicks? Oh! I get it! It is the auction addiction that we have, isn't it?

 

[nnbreeder]

Well I was off just a tad in my figures at the auction but not by much. A brown egg layer will consume about 4oz of feed daily as a full grown layer according to the commercial guys.

Since most breeds lay at about 20 weeks that is 140 days or 35lbs of feed which figured out at what I paid per bag today is 7 dollars.

Now this won't be exact because there is spillage of feed and the little ones don't eat nearly as much at the start. Plus it could be supplimented with Wheat pasture through the winter or Millet pasture through the summer plus the insects that they find to eat. I have free range birds that do some clean-up around the pens but mostly stay in the goat and horse pastures foraging. I keep fresh water for them but have never actively fed them. they are in very good condition too.

 

[okcarla]

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It sounds like Jones buyers did great but Sellers not so good. Darn ... I sure wish I could have been there to visit and even bid on some of the hatching eggs that Monty and Troy brought!!!

Carla,
Aren't your incubators full of your own eggs? Didn't I read that you needed to sell some chicks? Oh! I get it! It is the auction addiction that we have, isn't it?

I know, I know ..... Yep, it's an addiction. I wonder if I can be cured? Oh, but I'll have to hit rock bottom first and want to be cured. Really, I do

Thanks nnbreeder for the food calculation for a hen. That is really interesting. I had no idea!

 

[poultryand bees]

nnbreeder - 35 lbs of feed is good information to have - and less than I would have guessed if I had been looking at the quantity of feed I have put out in the past 7 years.

I suspect that I have had more spillage than necessary, since there are always a few mice in my chicken houses. I am trying to use less pine shavings and clean out the sheds more often, so the mice won't have any easy time finding a nesting place within the chicken sheds.

 

[ourhouse51]

Thanks Graceful......

As for the show, it will depend on what time it is...my DIL will be here that day. I don't think she 9 pure city girl that she is) would understand if I missed the baby shower for her first child to go to a poultry show.

Some people just don't understand how serious this business is!

 

[luvzmybabz]

Yep Blanchard was crazy last night. I work there and I am so sore this morning let me tell you. A turkey went for 40 or 45. Hens were doing OK and even some roosters brought 8 to 9 dollars then some brought 2 dollars you just never know. I understand the Mary's Flea market guys, there are a number of them and when they bring anything to auction you should see the POs, try tellling them they are at an auction and they say well I can get $$$ at the flea market well take them to the flea market then. We had bunches and bunches of eggs and tons of chicks last night.

 

[poultryand bees]

Thank you to whomever (Graceful?) suggested I put a dozen eggs under the wandering buff orphington hen, so she would stay in the same nest box to brood the eggs. She has been in the same nest box for a week now. Sure do wish I had trusted her with the Welsummer eggs I got from Carla - she will probably have a better hatch rate than I do in the incubator.

TJ's NaNa - how is your OEG hen doing? Did she recover fully from the difficulty of laying her first egg and all the "assistance" she received in getting it laid?