Ah those feed stores are wonderful. I wish my local feed store sold chicks and poults and such. I have been on facebook and craigslist. I am getting more interest in my chickens and geese than my turkeys though. I have orders waiting to fill on those. Just waiting for the geese to start laying and i'll be rolling.
My turkeys aren't laying yet, I really hope they start soon. I want to fill up may bators.
Good luck with all your orders this spring! I know what you mean about the geese. My Pomeranians have just started to lay (5 of the 7 so far), but they are all first year layers so far and fertility is still sketchy. I can't wait to the fertility gets on line with them because I have a lot of orders this year.
The manager of the local
Tractor Supply asked me for some business cards yesterday. He says that he gets a ton of people looking for turkeys and geese, but they don't carry them, so he looks for local breeders to refer. I am printing some cards later today and dropping them off with him tomorrow.
Now, the area I live in has a huge local food and farmers market movement going on. I sell chicken eggs and never have enough eggs (for eating not hatching) for those who want them. One man with a very large family buys practically all I have, around 70 dozen a month. We are left eating duck eggs at my house since the chicken eggs are always sold out. I have another man who will buy all the duck eggs I have, but wants chicken eggs too. So, I try to throw some his way every couple weeks if I can.
You know, all our feed stores and even
Tractor supply have bulletin boards where people can hang fliers. It may be worth a shot and you won't lose anything more than a piece of paper and a few minutes of time.
Also, their are a few websites out there like LocalHarvest that allow farmers and small growers to advertise their goods...including heritage poultry and eggs. Registration is free.
Then their is good old
eBay. As long as you have an NPIP certificate, you can sell hatching eggs on there. Depending on the breed, their rarity, and demand that year, you can do okay (better than eating the eggs or selling them for cheap locally). The hatching eggs for the breed I raise go for between 24-39 a dozen on there. Last week a lot of 6 Narragansett eggs brought $60.00, so it just depends on what you have matching what somebody is looking for. They offer free listing quite often and you only pay when the item sells. Just make sure that you make the starting bid the lowest amount you are comfortable getting for the eggs. The worst that can happen is you get no bids and either re-list or don't.
