what do you do with your buttons?

[shelleyd2008]

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Wow, I don't even bother selling eggs or hatching them, I can't get any buyers. I usually just feed them to the chickens, or send them as freebies with other 'real' egg orders

 

[Bettacreek]

I have to admit, my customer base opened up when I offered delivery. You would be surprised at how many people are willing to pay the $20 or so in gas, but cannot take an hour or two to drive. Then again, there are plenty of folks who are willing to drive two hours or so to come pick them up as well. I am also lucky enough to have a feed/pet store that'll take in just about anything for store credit. I took I think five of my parent stock there as a trade in for 50lbs of gamebird layer. I haven't been able to raise chicks yet to trade more in. I have one chick in the incubator, but I won't sell it because it's a single. I hatched out a few coturnix, and had three people wanting them, but I'm trying to raise them to up my number of hens (I have three hens and three roos, soon to be two roos). I only have five button hens, and my coturnix hens lay once in a blue moon, but people are scrambling for them. Ironically enough, there's another person about 45 minutes away from me who doesn't seem to be selling at all... So who knows.

 

[Sushi]

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I have trouble finding people willing to ship them to Canada.

I'd take a whole bunch of them.

 

[Barred Rocks forever]

never fought of feeding the eggs to snakes what kinds of snakes eat button eggs ?

 

[shelleyd2008]

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That's crazy, I don't have any trouble selling coturnix, the buttons are a pain. I'm sure they'd sell if I hatched them, but I'd probably be lucky to get $.25 a chick

Not even worth the bother.

 

[Bettacreek]

That's nuts! I do know that information in your advertisements will help. The last lady who bought chicks from me said that she had never heard of them before, just checked my ad out of curiosity and did further research after reading the part of my ad saying that they were the size of a bumble bee at the time. A very quick blurb about them, general information and pictures would probably sell them more quickly. I also make sure that I advertise EVERYTHING when I make an ad. If I have ducks hatching out that I'm trying to sell, I make an ad for them, but make sure that I also add whatever else I'm going to have available in the future into the ad. Interest in the ducks can draw interest to your buttons, or whatever. That's the beautiful thing about internet advertising, you can use impulse buying to your advantage, WITHOUT harming the animals. They'll see how adorable the buttons are, then they'll be so excited about them that they'll spend the next few hours researching them. It sure beats petstores, where they see, they ask four or five questions, then they come home and research later, AFTER buying the pets. I don't delete my ads either. I post "SOLD" after the title. That way everyone can still see my information, and know to get ahold of me before the next round is sold out.
Of course, I have yet to have any massive hatches. My hatches have all been smaller batches or I've kept some of them as breeding stock. So, the flames may die down once I start hatching larger batches on a regular basis. I'll let you know on that one, I have two or three batches of about 20 in the incubator (one set in the hatcher actually).

 

[Rozzie]

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[mandiedriskill]

I only get 5 eggs a day because I sold a lot of my buttons. But, 5 a day is too many when you don't know what to do with them other then sale them for crafts. I don't get enough to sale as hatching eggs, but I reciently bought breeding cages. So, I am hopeful that something good will turn out. I had cages for them before, but I made them and they were not exactly what I or the buttons wanted. Haha

 

[Rozzie]

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[Friar_Tuck]

I can tell you that 4 dozen of them will make the coolest looking pint of pickled eggs you are likely to see!
Takes a bit to peel them, but hey, time I got.