The Heritage Rhode Island Red Site

[desertmarcy]

Now here is a person who buyers all wish they ran into when buying poultry and this I can attest to as I have personally purchased a had full of adult chickens and still have several of them to this day and use them in my breeding program yes @desertmarcy I can say you are what we buyers are looking for in a sell and as sellers we aspire to emulate ..

Please keep up the good work .

Thank you @gander007 , I have had ads on local CL for some time trying to sell my Rhode Island Reds, no luck at all. Even have a show guy who also has RIRs both bantam and large fowl asking around for me, and having no luck selling these. One of his referrals was supposed to come down on Friday, but he was a no show and has not called even after I left 2 messages on his phone---that is so extremely frustrating. Unless he got in an accident and is in the hospital, there really is no excuse for such rude behavior.
I sold 1 trio but have 4 trios left. I really need to downsize my chickens and hate to put these in the freezer but I can't wait too much longer. No wonder some breeders just quit selling to the public.

 

[waddles99]

Thank you @gander007
, I have had ads on local CL for some time trying to sell my Rhode Island Reds, no luck at all. Even have a show guy who also has RIRs both bantam and large fowl asking around for me, and having no luck selling these. One of his referrals was supposed to come down on Friday, but he was a no show and has not called even after I left 2 messages on his phone---that is so extremely frustrating. Unless he got in an accident and is in the hospital, there really is no excuse for such rude behavior.
I sold 1 trio but have 4 trios left. I really need to downsize my chickens and hate to put these in the freezer but I can't wait too much longer. No wonder some breeders just quit selling to the public.

Would you ever consider shipping? Thanks.

 

[Fred's Hens]

Thank you @gander007 , I have had ads on local CL for some time trying to sell my Rhode Island Reds, no luck at all. Even have a show guy who also has RIRs both bantam and large fowl asking around for me, and having no luck selling these. One of his referrals was supposed to come down on Friday, but he was a no show and has not called even after I left 2 messages on his phone---that is so extremely frustrating. Unless he got in an accident and is in the hospital, there really is no excuse for such rude behavior.
I sold 1 trio but have 4 trios left. I really need to downsize my chickens and hate to put these in the freezer but I can't wait too much longer. No wonder some breeders just quit selling to the public.

I feel your pain, sister. Everything has proven very, very hard to sell the last few years. Yup, they eat just fine. Got a few folks who eat "cave man" diets and such and they've eaten alot of good birds from our barn. Bon Appetite. May as well. Not gonna sell them for $4 a bird.

Nope. Just as soon they got eaten for that and enjoyed with noodles or dumplings.

 

[desertmarcy]

Would you ever consider shipping? Thanks.

Yes I would but only one will fit per box and they are a year old, so by the time you pay for the birds + box + shipping, it would be very expensive. Probably around $100 per bird because the PO requires them to go Priority Express. I have offered them to be shipped before and no one wants to pay it. They ask for a firm shipping quote so I waste my time catching a bird, weighing it in a box, going to the USPS website to get a price, only to have them say no, too expensive. So now I don't even bother.

 

[desertmarcy]

I feel your pain, sister. Everything has proven very, very hard to sell the last few years. Yup, they eat just fine. Got a few folks who eat "cave man" diets and such and they've eaten alot of good birds from our barn. Bon Appetite. May as well. Not gonna sell them for $4 a bird.

Nope. Just as soon they got eaten for that and enjoyed with noodles or dumplings.

Totally agree. I've got freezers with lots of chicken from last year. Going to thaw some out today, cook up, debone and freeze the meat in baggies. Takes up less space that way and easy meals. Then will have room for more birds in the freezers....we eat a lot of chicken.

Yesterday a lady called me wanting to buy chickens that were already defeathered. So I talked with her for quite a while trying to figure out exactly what she was wanting to do. Basically she is looking for cheap (but organic, mind you!!) chickens, she will do all the work except needs someone else to defeather. Really? And you want to pay $6, $10 at most?? So she says, we will do the bleed out, all you have to do is defeather. So I'm thinking, okay...I don't know these people, and she is asking me to have a bunch of birds ready that I want to sell, she will pick out 10 or so that she wants (the biggest of course), then I will stand by and supervise, because of course I don't know these people, while they bleed out (??), meanwhile I use my propane to heat up hot water and my plucker to pluck for her....and she will take them home and do the rest. Does this sound too strange for words?

 

[Fred's Hens]

Totally agree. I've got freezers with lots of chicken from last year. Going to thaw some out today, cook up, debone and freeze the meat in baggies. Takes up less space that way and easy meals. Then will have room for more birds in the freezers....we eat a lot of chicken.

Yesterday a lady called me wanting to buy chickens that were already defeathered. So I talked with her for quite a while trying to figure out exactly what she was wanting to do. Basically she is looking for cheap (but organic, mind you!!) chickens, she will do all the work except needs someone else to defeather. Really? And you want to pay $6, $10 at most?? So she says, we will do the bleed out, all you have to do is defeather. So I'm thinking, okay...I don't know these people, and she is asking me to have a bunch of birds ready that I want to sell, she will pick out 10 or so that she wants (the biggest of course), then I will stand by and supervise, because of course I don't know these people, while they bleed out (??), meanwhile I use my propane to heat up hot water and my plucker to pluck for her....and she will take them home and do the rest. Does this sound too strange for words?

Nuts. But all too familiar. Most of us could go on and on for hours about dealing with the public concerning birds. Just wacko. It is indeed easy to see why some folks have just quit, quit dealing with the public whatsoever. Just eat them or give them to folks who will.

 

[desertmarcy]

Yes I would but only one will fit per box and they are a year old, so by the time you pay for the birds + box + shipping, it would be very expensive. Probably around $100 per bird because the PO requires them to go Priority Express. I have offered them to be shipped before and no one wants to pay it. They ask for a firm shipping quote so I waste my time catching a bird, weighing it in a box, going to the USPS website to get a price, only to have them say no, too expensive. So now I don't even bother.

I might add, I had someone pestering me from a CL ad to do exactly that and give him/her a shipping quote for a RIR trio. Emailed several times asking, asking....all this time, never any signature to the email, and CL makes email anonymous, so don't even have real contact info. And never a name. That just got to me. So I stopped replying.

 

[gander007]

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I had and still do have some Russian Orloff chicks for sale but after the buyer found out the shipping would be more then the 4 chick I never even got back a no can do just all communications went blank, so yes there are all kinds out there .

 

[Ur-ur-ur-urrr]

Totally agree. I've got freezers with lots of chicken from last year. Going to thaw some out today, cook up, debone and freeze the meat in baggies. Takes up less space that way and easy meals. Then will have room for more birds in the freezers....we eat a lot of chicken.

Yesterday a lady called me wanting to buy chickens that were already defeathered. So I talked with her for quite a while trying to figure out exactly what she was wanting to do. Basically she is looking for cheap (but organic, mind you!!) chickens, she will do all the work except needs someone else to defeather. Really? And you want to pay $6, $10 at most?? So she says, we will do the bleed out, all you have to do is defeather. So I'm thinking, okay...I don't know these people, and she is asking me to have a bunch of birds ready that I want to sell, she will pick out 10 or so that she wants (the biggest of course), then I will stand by and supervise, because of course I don't know these people, while they bleed out (??), meanwhile I use my propane to heat up hot water and my plucker to pluck for her....and she will take them home and do the rest. Does this sound too strange for words?

Nuts. But all too familiar. Most of us could go on and on for hours about dealing with the public concerning birds. Just wacko. It is indeed easy to see why some folks have just quit, quit dealing with the public whatsoever. Just eat them or give them to folks who will.

I had and still do have some Russian Orloff chicks for sale but after the buyer found out the shipping would be more then the 4 chick I never even got back a no can do just all communications went blank, so yes there are all kinds out there .

Humans are very peculiar creatures. It's like I've always said... People are like slinkies. They're not really good for anything, but they're fun to push down a flight of stairs.

 

[gander007]

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Never thought of it that way