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[dheltzel]

Anyone want hatching eggs? I'm selling eating eggs for $3 a dozen and a lot of the eggs I was hatching are going in to eat now, so I will sell them for the same price.
BBS Ameraucanas
Blue Egg Sexlinks
Rhodebars

And turkey eggs are $1 each.

Must be local of course, I can't ship anything.

 

[Zgm12]

Not an expert in the last but how old? Age will help

About 3 months

 

[OneMountainAcres]

About 3 months

Though call :/ if it's a boy, you should start seeing the saddle feathers on his back really soon. They usualy start showing up right around 12 weeks old.

 

[3riverschick]

Lost another egg. Why would they get broken in the nest? That means we have 12 under Niko now. Bummed that today's break was one of the Marans. grumble grumble bad words inserted here grumble.

Hi LadyBehir,
If you want to try incubating some of the eggs, I am not hatching this year.
I have 2 Brinsea mini Advances which hold 7 eggs each. If you send me the
shipping money by mail or PayPal , I can loan them to you for the season.
I won't need them till January next year.
Best,
Karen Tewart
Ligonier, PA

 

[hippiechickX4]

I think they're the reason that nobody has had much interest in chicks around here this year :/ turkey poults were easy to sell but everyone wanted dirt cheap chicks. Except for a few people who know the difference between hatchery and breeder chicks.

Probably, I just hate to see all those chicks with no home. Some are looking bad. I don't understand why they kept getting them in. Like I said there are some that were only a couple days old, so they just got new stock.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Probably, I just hate to see all those chicks with no home. Some are looking bad. I don't understand why they kept getting them in. Like I said there are some that were only a couple days old, so they just got new stock.

Oh, I feel bad for the chicks too, don't get me wrong. They really need to cut back on how many they order. I don't know if I'm going to venture up there for the next livestock swap at tsc or not. I might to try to unload some poults but with them there, very few chicks can be sold.

 

[dheltzel]

Oh, I feel bad for the chicks too, don't get me wrong. They really need to cut back on how many they order. I don't know if I'm going to venture up there for the next livestock swap at tsc or not. I might to try to unload some poults but with them there, very few chicks can be sold.

There is a reason no one wants those chicks, they are cheap. People have an odd way of assigning value based on price. Price yours at a more reasonable price and note on the sign that they are locally hatched and you are a breeder, not a "chick broker". I sell chicks to people who's main criteria is that the chicks were not "abused" by being sent through the mail. It's a question of personal ethics I guess, but there is still a market everywhere for quality chicks from breeders who care and are willing to give a higher level of customer service.

Sure, some people will question why you sell your chicks for more than the hatcheries. Believe me when I say "you do not want them as your customers". Send them to TSC or wherever, you are doing everyone a favor, including yourself. The few "bad customers" I've had started the conversation trying to get me to lower my price. I've learned that is a sign that I should "run away". Sometimes when they come back and offer full price, I tell them I'm out and the only ones I have are twice the original price. It is well established business convention that recommends "firing" 10% of your customers every year. My goal is to ID them before their first purchase.

 

[BullChick]

Probably, I just hate to see all those chicks with no home. Some are looking bad. I don't understand why they kept getting them in. Like I said there are some that were only a couple days old, so they just got new stock.

I thought it was because they were new, they wanted to prove they are better than TSC. I mean, how many times can you go to TSC, and see no or few chicks, and not lose interest in checking?

 

[LadyBehir]

Hi LadyBehir,
If you want to try incubating some of the eggs, I am not hatching this year.
I have 2 Brinsea mini Advances which hold 7 eggs each. If you send me the
shipping money by mail or PayPal , I can loan them to you for the season.
I won't need them till January next year.
Best,
Karen Tewart
Ligonier, PA

I appreciate the offer but I am just using the broody hen. If I didn't want to test the viability of the roosters, I would probably have gone to Dennis for some of those Ameraucanas to stick under her like I did last year. I really like the blue eggs. And Mabel and Vicki (the two I already have) are fairly reliable layers. Or I would go for some of the dark brown eggs. hmmmm, next year....

 

[dheltzel]

I appreciate the offer but I am just using the broody hen. If I didn't want to test the viability of the roosters, I would probably have gone to Dennis for some of those Ameraucanas to stick under her like I did last year. I really like the blue eggs. And Mabel and Vicki (the two I already have) are fairly reliable layers. Or I would go for some of the dark brown eggs. hmmmm, next year....

LOL. You know I can hook you up with eggs - blue or dark brown.
I gonna have some really nice Ameraucanas this fall and next spring. Show quality blacks, silvers and lavenders. Also hopefully Wheatens, silkied lavenders and bantam lavenders (I think there might be a color theme here).

Those bantam lavenders are really, really nice. So tame and handleable, they remind me of doves, sitting on my hand without trying to jump off. I think they would need separate housing though, they would not be assertive enough to live with LF birds.