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[Greg Richardson]

If you are trying to cover feed & bedding cost I don't see how one can not sell at mininum $4.00 a dozen.

If you don't mind subsidizing your operation and have the funds to do it great I wish I could do the same as you as I hate selling at $4.00 but REALITY is this barely covers cost if it even does that anymore with price increases.
I don't have the extra funds to do that.

Any animal on my property pays their way either thru eggs or security like my dog.

Comparing store prices............................

Those are huge operations that supply stores that under their calculated cost management they are able to sell at that price.
What they are selling is not the same product.

Place your egg next to theirs in a pan and you know you are selling a different product., thus a different price.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Jeanine is doing an AWESOME job on the web site. www.ironimagery.webs.com Thank you so much.
PLEASE feel free to take a look. It may stay a bit buried until it gets enough hits. (Is there a hidden clue here?)

 

[justbugged]

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Hey JB!!! I miss ya Mama!!! Do you want any of the dark Cornish hens in my garage? I can testify that they do lay pink eggs! Let me know ASAP! I can save ya a couple cuz the rest are hitting the road tomorrow!

How are you doing girl? I would love to hear the rest of the story, about how you came by chickens in your garage. At this point I don't need any more chickens in or out of the house. I need to get rid of some of my birds. I am very slowly beginning to admit that I don't have room for LF. I need to re-home the pair of Light Sussex and the black Silkie pair. I can't seem to keep up with the mess the bigger birds make, that and I finally figured out that I can have more little birds than I can big birds. It just doesn't help that I like really big birds and dogs and cats and friends and....... wait that didn't come out right.

A really big friend would be a good thing right?

Any way I am thinking that I need to have little birds, that lay big eggs. We need to get together a South Sound meet up group soon. I miss hanging out with my peeps and quacks.

 

[hallerlake]

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Mine didn't drop off so much as they stopped laying until a few days before Xmas. Now I'm up to a dozen a day, and more on the way!

My sales haven't dropped off much. But I have one guy at work that wants to buy EVERY egg my girls lay. he shares them with his two sisters. so when I get too many I just take them to work.


How much does EVERYONE sell their eggs for???????????????? I only charge $2.00 a doz. but I only sell to friends. I don't need to make money off my eggs. its my hobby and it covers my feed and bedding. I like to give my friends a good deal if I can. I will be raising my price to $2.50 this July.

I charge $4, but I'm in the city.

 

[justbugged]

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After all that cooking? Holy cow!

Well it is amazing how fast the smell of a live indoor chicken will overwhelm the smell of good cooking.

If I really had things together the indoor Silkies would be living in the garage. I need to figure out what to do with Horace's cured hide, then move the picnic table. I may also need to move the 90 gallon fish tank, and I know that I can't do that by myself. I am hoping that my DS will help me move things around tomorrow. It is going to take a bit of thinking to get everything into the garage. I keep getting rid of things, but it seems that more follows me home than seems to leave.

 

[RonB]

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I got 288 eggs for December that is exactly 24 dozen. 24 X $2.00 a doz. = $48.00 I only spend about $30.00 a month on food and bedding. a 50# bag of pellets last me a month(sometimes 25-29 days) cost $18.50 . a bale of shavings lasts me three months ! I do give them black sunflower seeds and cracked corn everyday. But I do get a good discount on them through my DD

Greg
how many chickens do you have???? I have 27. I got 2,830 eggs for the year

but whos counting right

 

[justbugged]

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OMG about now you must be so sick of cooking!!!!!
I got my new freezer @ Home Depot, had a better (way better ) price than Sears!

I must admit that I am sick of cooking, and I still have some more to do.

I bought a used Amana 17cf upright freezer for 100 bucks last night. I paid for it, and am planning to pick it up tomorrow. I wish I could buy a new one, but it isn't going to happen anytime soon. I am hoping that later this spring that we will be able to get a new bottom of the line frig for the garage. I would love to have a new one for the kitchen, but the one I want would be over 2000, and that makes any energy savings rather null and void. On the other hand a new garage frig would be more than enough savings to justify the cost. I think the one in the garage is like 1991 model, and I know that there has been a lot of improvement to refrigeration technology in the past 2 decades. lol I also don't need an ice maker, let alone water and ice through the door in a garage frig. I will probably look for a used frig that is only a year or so old when it's time to get one.

 

[Rainwolf]

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Depends a lot on terroir.

By the way, I have a freezer full of the good stuff which I am willing to trade for poultry (preferably live).

we need to chat

 

[pettec63]

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sound good to me, Oh I sent you a pm

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Anyone else want to exchange seeds? or share seeds? or?

Have you guys had any experience with green zebra tomatoes?? I just saw it on The Victory Garden?? They say they are sweet like red ones, they are just green?? Just curious, I wouldn't even know where to get something like that??

 

[ultasol]

Hey guys- I have a really unique situation and need help finding a good home for a pair of VERY FRIENDLY geese...

The story: about 3 or 4 weeks ago, before Christmas, my husband said there was a goose wandering around near the main road so he pulled over to see if it was mine, it was not, but he told me that after I got off of school I might want to see if it was still around. When I got home the goose was on our street, in a neighbor's yard. It was scared, honking it's fool head off, and was trying to follow the car but would run when I tried to catch it. After calling in backup (my husband) we caught her- a white chinese female.

About two hours later a guy pulls into our driveway asking if we lost a goose, since he had been going door to door and someone said we had geese. I said no, but he lives in a subdivision and asked if we could take it as he pulled it out of the main road.
I follow him around the side of the car...
... and buckled into his child's carseat is a white chinese gander who seemed happy as a clam about the carride.

So, I have a pair of chinese geese, very friendly (my husband, who for some reason tries to treat every animal like a dog, picks up the gander and scratches his stomach which he appreciates), they follow you around, and call for you if you pass them by.

I've called the shelters, I've placed ads on craigslist, but I haven't had any luck finding out where they came from,... although lots of people volunteered to make them into Christmas dinner.
I think someone tried to dump them int he drainage pond across the main road where a development is, but the geese were lost and confused and got separated when trying to cross the road.

They are too friendly for me to butcher. Someone obviously put a lot of time and love into these geese- and I'd like to find them a home that will do the same.

I would like to get $25 or two bags of flockraiser in exchange for them, but priority being non-eating home to a person who isn't trying to quietly keep geese in an area that doesn't allow large poultry... as I suspect that might be why they were dumped.

I will follow this up with pictures soon.