The Quack Shack

[Trimurtisan]

The Phork chicks. Not sure what to do with these. I'm considering listing them for sale. There's 9 chicks and I'm thinking $5 each or $36 for all. Does that sounds like a decent price for crossbred chicks? It's not like I know what they'll become.

2 Phorks and a Dink.

 

[Duck_life]

The Phork chicks. Not sure what to do with these. I'm considering listing them for sale. There's 9 chicks and I'm thinking $5 each or $36 for all. Does that sounds like a decent price for crossbred chicks? It's not like I know what they'll become.

2 Phorks and a Dink.
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Sounds fair, I bought my cross chicks for $6 each so it's sounds fair.

 

[Trimurtisan]

The d'Uccle lovelies. I'm exited for these little things. No listing them! Each one is a bit different, and just as enjoyable.

Frizzle, little tiny thing, smallest of the bunch.

Smooth feathered with heavier feathering on the feet.

This is the one who didn't fit the Mille Fleur color pattern. I'm pretty sure it's a cockerel.

This one is the largest and has the most diverse color pattern.

 

[Trimurtisan]

Sounds fair, I bought my cross chicks for $6 each so it's sounds fair.

Awesome, thank you. Now if we can just people to show up.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Did your Pekins go yet?

 

[Trimurtisan]

Did your Pekins go yet?

No. Silly people are wasting my time.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Maybe set up a designated place to meet with a time that kind off holds them to it.

 

[Duck_life]

Maybe set up a designated place to meet with a time that kind off holds them to it.

People do this all the time. I had a lot of people interested, only one is still in contact about him. I've even set up dates, address and time with like 4 of them.View attachment 2032014Katie is the one picking Lucky up, if that is, she shows up.

 

[Duck_life]

Dang.. phone number is in that.

 

[duluthralphie]

I think you guys are over pricing your birds..

While 6 bucks is not much money, most people see chicks for a buck or less at tractor supply and feed/farm stores. They will go to the cheapest place to buy.

I have owned a licensed hatchery albeit a small one for years. I raised only birds that were SOP and did well at shows and fairs. I followed NPIP rules religiously.

My chicks would win year after year at these shows. I was lucky to get $6 for a quality bird.

I have cream legbars and white legbars I would fight to get $6 for them for years. Whites are rare Myers hatchery sells them at 54 bucks each.

I stopped hatching them because I couldn’t turn a profit on them, people refuse to pay $10 for them.

I was lucky and my cream legbars we’re carrying the white gene.. actually failure to express color gene.. I was one of the first in the country to have white legbars.

I sit on the legbar club board and know the SOP in and out. This year I am eating white legbar eggs.

The only birds I can sell a lot of are those mutts I use to hatch and sell for a buck each..

Maybe your areas are different, but I doubt it as I sold birds in most states.