Price of hatching eggs, aka, Update: $ 1070.25 for 12 eggs on BYC

[scbatz33]

Quote:
So far noone has bid and the starting bid is $5.00. If I didn't have so many eggs coming in first of April, I would consider bidding.

How many "Lavendors" is possible using a Black Split/Lav Project Orp roo with 2 blue,1 white,1 black and a brown orpington hens?

The problem with putting this roo on a blue hen is you won't get true lav. blue and "self-blue" as lavs are called can look very similar especially at a young age. I have not seen the ad personally, and I don't know what the birds look like, but IMO I wouldn't pay for a mix like this.

To answer you question on how many? None. You have a split lav - which mean he is black and only carries. The lav allele would have to be present in the other birds somewhere to get a lavender offspring. At best you would get some pretty colors but no true lavenders.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Not a genetic expert, but I was thinking Lav and Blue was not the best cross. They also had a "brown" Orp. Would that be a chocolate/Dun? Or a buff? There are no photos posted. After thinking on this, it sounds more like a mixed color breeding pen and you could get whatever out of them. Guess I will stick with trying to get some good quality Buff Orps for this season.

Edit note: There is one photo of what appears to be a brown bird and some blues.

 

[WalkingWolf]

Quote:
true fact:: those were 20+ live chicks

...not unhatched eggs...

yes many of folks with/working on them now, we made sure of that, hopefully some will better there stock going forward in the orpington breed, we are sure trying to..same goes for "our" large fowl lavender araucana project ..they are looking very impressive as well

My mistake it was for live chicks, but IMO it is still a considerable amount, most times you can count on losing one or two chicks in transit, and even though hatch rates are lower I find the chicks much healthier from hatched eggs than shipped live chicks. It is still close to $30 per chick, and some would consider that expensive, just as expensive as $30 per egg, and most egg sellers send plenty of extras. It boils down to what a person wants to pay for a bird or a egg, it is not on the seller but the buyer. BUT without a contract and most specifically on a auction the only responsibility the buyer has to the seller is to promptly pay for the items. After that they are their property to do with as they choose.

I will pay what I consider a item is worth, if I want it bad enough I might pay more, but then it is mine. I also applaud any business person who can run a business, make a profit, and do it without government assistance a asset to our country. While I will not pay more than $20 for a pair of jeans I do not begrudge the buyers or sellers of $10,000 jeans on Rodeo Drive. I know of a lady that sells satin sheets on a romance sight and she makes a astronomical amount of money, her business, her time, her money, a productive tax payer. I am happy to get a dollar per egg, and I usually get more than that, but nothing near $30, that is ok with me. Once the eggs leave me I do not care if the person eats the eggs or even becomes a competitor that is the way the free market is supposed to work.

I also know that many forms of combustion engines and automobiles were developed over a century ago, no one person can be attributed for the invention of the automobile. While BP medicine is often patented and one company may have come up with a certain formula they certainly are not the only ones working on it. And I have a hard time believing that a certain color of bird is the product of one person. After all it is the birds themselves that decide their color, we can only manipulate their genes, and the same stock to do this is available to everybody.

For a local Hispanic store and Hispanics I am working on meat birds that will grow fast but still maintain the qualities the type of chicken they prefer. Am I the only one doing this? I highly doubt it, just because I have a idea or try to fill a niche does not mean there are not others across the country. And if somebody else is attempting or doing I would hardly try to take credit. Heck, I don't need to, I don't have that urge for recognition, just my own satisfaction.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

As the Original Poster on this thread, I just want to remind everyone to stay friendly. Would hate for this thread to get locked up. So far this has been very friendly, interesting and educative.

As for paying $600 for eggs or chicks. If I had the money and really wanted them, I would pay $600....but would drive all the way to Alaska if need be to may certain they returned home safely. This week we had 20 Buff ducks arrive from Ideal Poultry. 11 were DOA and yesterday we had 2 live ducks. They are replacing them free but still! Would hate to spend $600 and the post office do the samea s they did with our ducks.

 

[asher]

What exactly did the post office do to your ducks?

You can PM me directly if you want to. I saw in two places that you said the P.O killed them, but not the reasons or details. (I searched your threads so as not to bring it here, but couldn't find any other details.)

 

[WalkingWolf]

Quote:
I just do not understand what is happening with the post office lately, they were very reliable for me until about a year ago. I know they are making cuts, but honestly I would be willing to pay more to get my packages in tact and on time.

 

[hinkjc]

I don't see the comparison between F2 eggs and F4 chicks. It's a moot point though since for that particular chick auction the bidder did not pay - turned out they typed their proxy bid incorrectly and it "made" them the winner by default. So the chicks never sold for that amount. This shows why it is so difficult to make assumptions on something that you don't know all the details of a transaction.

 

[Penturner]

$165 for 3 chicks, My first purchase of anything Chickenish. add the $450- $500 in additional costs and it is running about $220 per head at this point and the eggs have not even been laid yet. I like to start small and work my way up. Saw a post a couple weeks ago for eggs from a breeder of Hackle Chickens that really caught my interest. But I don't have the room to get into that just yet. You have to have a line of birds that make great dry fly feathers. then ones for wet flys, and yet another line that produce streamer feathers. You can end up with dozens of pairs just to produce one color or style of feather.

 

[Katy]

I have paid what some would consider too much for hatching eggs. Was it too much? Yes, and no. It was the only route I had to obtain the type of breeding stock that I wanted to improve my chosen breeds. No one put a gun to my head and made me do it. There are only a select few breeders that I would feel comfortable spending that much with tho.....never someone I didn't know beans about.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Quote:
As a former truck driver, I don't think it was the PO. The contract driver had to stop over for dinner and movie and a movie and another movie. A one day trip took three days! It dropped to the 20's that night.

Have some hatching eggs ordered, but requested the breeder bring them with him to the April 3, Eldorado show. Had already ordered the eggs when I noticed he was judging the show....just 45 minutes away. I trust his driving better than a contract driver.

On the bright side, have added my own packing peanuts to the replacement order: American Buff geese!

I posted the info at https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=278186&p=25