WHAT YA GOT SWAP Chat Thread

[corancher]

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Originally Posted by GableBabble

I got my eggs from Farmerchef today. Goodness at all the extras! Thank you so much!

I stopped in to see a friend of mine this morning, on my way to buy wood. He is getting out of the chicken business and I got 10 birds.... NICE BIRDS.... for..... 20.00! I almost wet my panties (we have been good friends for years, and he has moved to a subburb with the houses close together. people next door are not happy about his birds.)! I have to get in touch with his son to pick up another 6 later. Most all of them are OEGB's. Dear lord I am so tickled! I have been dancing all day! One of the OEGB splash hens laid me an egg as soon as she got here.
Feb 8th I pick up my 6 SFH's, 4 PBR's, and 3 Lav Orp's.

Sorry to babble on, but I am feeling so spiffy at the moment.

What a great find. Congratulations.

I keep seeing all the post about crappy, cold weather and most of you will not believe that we have been having 60' and 70's now for several days. Beautiful weather. Certainly not the kind of weather that we normally have during January and everyone is very concerned with our lack of snow.

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

Snow is a lot of your tourism there, isn't it?

 

[corancher]

Snow is a lot of your tourism there, isn't it?

Yes. This time of the year the ski slopes are normally full. They have some snow since the mountain usually get more than the foothills. Of course the resorts make snow but they still have to have cold temps to keep it from melting.

My husband is fretting something awful over the lack of moisture. We sold off cattle last year due to drought and now he is worried that we will have to sell more. We have gone down from nearly 100 head to less than 20 and are still worried if we will have pasture during the summer. We always have to hay them through the winter and the price of hay is out of this world. Guess the price of beef will be out of the world shortly when there are a shortage of cattle.

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

I think with the economy the way it is (I blame gas for this, a snowball effect) farmers are some of the hardest hit. My feed for my chickens has tripled, but the price of chickens hasn't. The chickens definitely aren't helping to pay for themselves.

 

[corancher]

Gosh, I hear you there. I keep trying to make the birds pay some of the cost. My husband is not happy with the cost of the bird's feed. I have some I am taking to market on Monday. Just can't afford to keep the ones that don't fit into one of the breeding pens.

Getting rid of several ducks and only keeping a few of the fancy crested mixed ones, the pure Golden Cascades, and pure Saxonys.

 

[reesepoultry]

I think with the economy the way it is (I blame gas for this, a snowball effect) farmers are some of the hardest hit. My feed for my chickens has tripled, but the price of chickens hasn't. The chickens definitely aren't helping to pay for themselves.

I hear ya on that one. That's why I get new breeds and if they don't sell in my area I get rid of them. I can't keep anything that can't help pay for themselves. But my chicken layer mesh is $15 a bag now and my med. chick starter is almost $20 a bag now.

 

[reesepoultry]

My scovie eggs I claimed off here out of 4 of them 3 are growing. It was questionable for a little bit there with the way the darn post office handled the box. But The packing was so good they got through it.

 

[corancher]

I hear ya on that one. That's why I get new breeds and if they don't sell in my area I get rid of them. I can't keep anything that can't help pay for themselves. But my chicken layer mesh is $15 a bag now and my med. chick starter is almost $20 a bag now.

I try with the new breeds also but it seems that every time I get a new breed by the time they start laying everyone else has them also and I can never get back the money that I paid to get them. Has it stopped me from getting them? The answer is a big fat NO.

 

[GableBabble]

I try with the new breeds also but it seems that every time I get a new breed by the time they start laying everyone else has them also and I can never get back the money that I paid to get them. Has it stopped me from getting them? The answer is a big fat NO.

I was going to buy Rhodebars, some Orp's, and a couple of other things from Greenfire Farms. DH has talked me out of it each time I have tried to hit the order button. He says I will never make my investment back on them, wait until people calm down and then buy what I want. The problem for me is waiting....
The LC Orp's I am glad he did, b/c I just got a really good deal on an adult trio. I just have to go and pick them up. Now I just have to hunt out people with the other ones I want who do not have orders a mile long or do not want 15.00 an egg for them.

 

[farmerChef]

I hear ya on that one. That's why I get new breeds and if they don't sell in my area I get rid of them. I can't keep anything that can't help pay for themselves. But my chicken layer mesh is $15 a bag now and my med. chick starter is almost $20 a bag now. 

Thats why I have 4 dozen production red and barred rock eggs in the bator. Half the people at th swaps/sales I go to are looking for reds, domineckers, or black sexlinks. I took a couple of young olive egger roos to the auction yesterday, $3 each :/ , there where some red hens there, $14 each, and there where about 20-25 of them and one person bought them all.
So Ive got a red rooster to put with red and barred hens to make reds and sexlinks, I dont care for these because they are the "everyday" ones, but thats what everybody wants, so I'm going to have a pen for them. Half of the order tractor supply gets every week when they have chicks are "red pullets", usually the first ones gone, besides the ducks.