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I have some emu eggs. Due to hatch 2 days before easter. Well you can raise them for meat and they have good red meat. Or they can be awesome birds if imprinted on you. I used to have one that would come running if I whistled and would go on walks with her through the wood.
 
wish me luck, I am headed to the farm and nobody has been there since yesterday morning, pretty sure I will be stuck there in the driveway till hubby gets home to plow the driveway...I do not drive 4x4, my car barely goes in mud..
 
Chickens FINALLY decided to venture out in the snow...only took all winter LOL! Somebody needs to tell them they shouldn't eat the brown snow.... The ducks are back in their favorite spot. This is where they hang out all summer. Luckily the snow is so frozen they dont sink in.



 
dheltzel said:
I think it's fun because I like to hatch chicks, but never have room to keep them all. I bought a used cabinet incubator a little over a year ago because I got tired of juggling the eggs around in my styro hovabator, and fiddling with the temps (that's funny to me when I write it now because I'm now juggling eggs in a very full cabinet incubator that holds 288 instead of 42). As of last weekend, I had hatched 432 chicks since early Dec when I started incubating.

My niece and I are doing this together as a fun project (she loves animals) to make some money for her college. It is a lot of work on my part and if I didn't find it fun it would never be worthwhile, but we have made some money and the season is just getting started. My main goal is to fill what has become a huge gap in the local chick availability. I built a flock last year of breeds that I was expecting to be popular and so far I've been very accurate in what we decide to breed. I've been "tweaking" my breeding pens to adjust to the market. The best part is I have made lots of friends (customers) and they keep coming back for more or sending their friends. I am going to slow the advertising because I have a lot people on waiting lists already.

I've had lots of people drive over an hour each way (and one person 2.5 hours each way) just to buy a few chicks because there is no where closer they can get all the breeds that we have. I feel good about being able to sell someone the exact breeds they are looking for at a price that is fair for both of us.

For anyone attempting this, my advice is to get the best stock you possibly can and go the extra mile to make your customers happy. You still will need a lot of "luck" (aka hard work), but that should be a given.
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Thanks for sharing. I'm looking to do what I am doing to spend the quality time with my daughter. In my recent research because of getting back into chickens, it seemed to me that chickens bring a lot of people together. Be they family or strangers. Your post really cemented that thought in my mind.
 

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