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

[Egg_newton]

I've only bought hatching eggs once. $32 incl. s&h for 12+ silkie eggs. and she had really nice looking birds. Over half seem to be developing well too.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

UPDATE ON LAVENDER ORPINGTONS

The Breeder has relisted the Lavender Orpington eggs. Still 10+ eggs. The bid is up to $77.50 with 4 bidders. 6 days left on the auction. This one may go past the last auction. stoneunhenged is the breeder. Have seen stoneunhenged on BYC. Please understand, I am not trying to trash him or his project. Am most interesting and supportive of his Lavender project. Just can not believe the bidders want these this much. He has imported the Coronation Sussex at a great expensive. With any new variety/breed there is a lot of culls. Guess I may be a bit jealous. Sort of wished I could sell less than a dozen eggs for $300!

Hey! I have a limited amount of extreemly rare Arkansas Barnie Banties hatching eggs available. They have multiple colors with sort of feathered feet. Current roo is a sort of birchen looking cochin. To save you fellows all the trouble we will start the bidding at $200.00. These are truly one of a kind! No others like them on the whole.....farm. Oh, well. Can't judge a fellow for trying. They ain't laying anyway. Just bug eaters.

 

[bargain]

I have a lovely flock of Lavendar Orpingtons, from eggs from a wonderful BYC member...... I'm just beginning to hatch some of them, but I will not be charging those kind of prices.....BYC has been really good to our farm and I will forward that on to everyone......So in about 2 months, keep your eyes on some postings over in BSA. I will say that a project takes a lot of time.....I've benefitted from this person's work and will continue to carry it forward here as well. Auctions are exciting, but I'm self-banned from Ebay....Lol
I prefer to bid our board where I can see real evaluations and real comments.

Y'all have a blessed evening......It's dinner time!

 

[WalkingWolf]

I say they must be well worth it to the winning bidder. If I had the money and I wanted something bad enough, I might go that far. But I would have to have that kind of money to blow.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

My intention when starting this thread was to keep this friendly. Thankfully, it has stayed friendly.

Each of the bidders continued to bid when the price started upwards. It took more than one bidder. The winning bidder WANTED these eggs! If I had placed a bid, I would have stopped at $20. I first saw thea uction when it was at $0.99 and the next time i checked it was over $100.00. Am now watching the relisting. Last time I checked it was at $170.00. Curious what it will go past thsi time!

 

[PeepsInc]

Wanna buy eggs from a true SQ flock, in the rarest color on the chart. I've only offered them on BYC & They wont cost ya $30 an egg.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=300670

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

yep, it's hard to believe what people will pay for eggs. But, I get very high prices off my rare bantams all the time. Price is based of, rarity of breed and color, supply available, and just how bad you want them in auction form. I say you go boy!
I just created lavender cuckoo d'anvers myself, well just finished them, been working on them for 3 years. I guarantee you they'll go high too, no one has them.
Most I have ever paid personally was $300 a dozen for some extremely rare wild turkey eggs.
Guess what, shipping or receiving, the P.O. has never lost a box for me, UNTIL they shipped them, they arrived 3 weeks later, just my luck.... Oh an I've bought Java peafowl eggs for $50 EACH, thank God, they all hatched. So in that case $50 got me a $500 bird when matured. It's just a gamble, as long as people realise that, go for it!

 

[hinkjc]

It is a shame that these are being offered as basically pure lav orps, when they are indeed still F2 project birds and should be advertised as such. As the developer of this line, we are only working on F4s and F5s ourselves at this time and had really hoped folks who purchased stock from us would continue to help develop them. I know some are doing so (thank you!), but it is disheartening to see the lack of effort being put into these birds. I feel I must speak up and apologize for the mistake I made in offering these out to others, mistakenly thinking they would help us with this opportunity to develop something wonderful here.

 

[WalkingWolf]

My problem is not so much the price of eggs, if I want them bad enough I'll cough up the dough. But the problem is the post office is becoming more and more unreliable. And I have defended them in the past, but the goof ups are becoming constant. We are aware of them cutting help and sub contracting, but sheeeesh raise the prices, and hire them back. What good is cheap postal fare if they can't get the package delivered in a timely fashion?

 

[FortWorthChicks]

Quote:
1. That was an eye opening post there.

2. They are very pretty!!

3. I would drive to pick the eggs up at that price.