Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[OneMountainAcres]

thought you guys would appreciate this one

 

[Chaos18]

I'm located in SW PA, just south of the Butler County line in Beaver County. Will be looking for Buff Orpingtons or Australorps soon if anybody in the area knows of some (can't have chicks at this time so need them a little older) There's another thread about that out there somewhere.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

thought you guys would appreciate this one

Awesome!

I am so sick to death of being cold, my hands are raw and if I NEVER see another frozen chicken waterer, it will be too soon.

Stake, not sure what fell through for you in Ocean City, I keep imagining you in flip flops with a boogie board on the beach, eyebrows knit as you see the ocean frozen over.

 

[wingstone]

Just stopping in to say Hello
Time is in short supply around here lately. Hope everyone is well, not reading back all those missed pages...
Could use a little advice though..

We raised our chicken prices to $2 a pound this year and people are backing out saying they can buy it at the store cheaper. Well if they can find chemical free chicken cheaper elsewhere, I say let them.

Just curious on opinion on this matter..
Guess I need to go set up some advertising since I am now sitting on unsold chicken...

The newest set of nuggets found the water quickly. Sure don't want dry nuggets

This one seems a little mad about something

 

[sharron]

@chiques chicks
you're right they do down there too but begining to use it for humans too, and we've tried the dandelions, both the greens and the blooms, (fried them in a batter) quite good , haven't tried the other two, not sure i would know what they look like but would like to try. how do you fix them?

 

[sharron]

thought you guys would appreciate this one

amen!

 

[wingstone]

@chiques chicks
 
you're right they do down there too but begining to use it for humans too, and we've tried the dandelions, both the greens and the blooms, (fried them in a batter) quite good , haven't tried the other two, not sure i would know what they look like but would like to try. how do you fix them?

The plantain that CC mentions is in most people's yard as a weed...I pick the leaves over the summer and dry them like you would for oregano...makes a nice winter time tea and suppose to fight off colds..

Also chewing on the fresh leaves is great for an upset stomache
https://raising6kids.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/pickin-plantain-medicinal-weed/

 

[sharron]

@wingstone
stick to your guns, i check prices in the store sometimes, and most of the stores(maybe not walmarts) charge at least 2.00 a lb

 

[sharron]

The plantain that CC mentions is in most people's yard as a weed...I pick the leaves over the summer and dry them like you would for oregano...makes a nice winter time tea and suppose to fight off colds..

Also chewing on the fresh leaves is great for an upset stomache
https://raising6kids.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/pickin-plantain-medicinal-weed/

lord do i need the one for the upset stomach lately, thanks , not sure but my other half might know what the plantain is since he was raised up here and i'm sure we have it, seems we have lots of weeds on the 5 acres

 

[dheltzel]

Just stopping in to say Hello
Time is in short supply around here lately. Hope everyone is well, not reading back all those missed pages...
Could use a little advice though..

We raised our chicken prices to $2 a pound this year and people are backing out saying they can buy it at the store cheaper. Well if they can find chemical free chicken cheaper elsewhere, I say let them.

Just curious on opinion on this matter..
Guess I need to go set up some advertising since I am now sitting on unsold chicken...

Can you legally sell chickens not processed in a "government approved" facility? If you are selling on the down low, your options for advertising are more limited, but if you can advertise, be sure to include "locally grown and processed" in your ads. There is a growing movement to get closer to our food sources, to know what we eat and where is comes from. If you can tap into that, you can (and should) charge a premium. You will never get ahead competing on price, but many people factor in more than price, and good sales technique is to find those other benefits and raise them to a higher importance than the "benefit" of lowest price.

It may be harder with processed chickens than it is with chicks, since there is a rather obvious benefit to having a chick that was not bounced around the USPS facilities and (maybe) subjected to poor care in a retail store before you got it. We have an inherent understanding that live animals are better when treated with respect, the challenge it to extend that to the dead animals you sell to eat or the eggs the live animals produce, though it is equally true from a practical and ethical sense.

I like to think that people understand that if you treat your animals with respect, you are much more likely to treat your customers that way. An animal that dies under my care makes me feel terrible, as does the thought that a customer might be unhappy with chicks they buy from me. I will go to extraordinary lengths to prevent either, and I know you do too. You deserve, and perhaps even more importantly, the chickens deserve, to get a high price.

I think this pretty much sums thing up . . .