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[livhatcher]

Thanks @katsdar and @brucifer ! My son is trying to convince me to keep one of the girls. I have a hard time selling babies as it is. I always say I'm going to sell them, then like 2 months later I finally do. I love the baby stage. Lol. This is my first time trying to sell some of the cream legbars though.

Tell me where you are again? Close to me I think. If you let one of the girls go, I'd take her.

 

[Flowerbh]

Crested Cream Legbars sell for $32.50 per chick from the hatchery catalogs! Please don't sell yourself short! On Craigslist, you should ask for $15 for the girls and $8 for the boys. To friends, I would ask $8 for the girls and $5 for the boys. These are nice high priced chickens that people are willing to pay for. They carry the blue egg genes (BB) and so if mixed with any other chicken will produce babies that will lay a colored egg. The eggs are usually a nice size, too! If mixed with Marans or Welsummers, you will get the best Olive Eggers out there, and the Welsummer mixed OEs would be auto sexing, too!

 

[brucifer]

Thanks @katsdar and @brucifer ! My son is trying to convince me to keep one of the girls. I have a hard time selling babies as it is. I always say I'm going to sell them, then like 2 months later I finally do. I love the baby stage. Lol. This is my first time trying to sell some of the cream legbars though.

You're like Lisa. She loves the babies as well. We have too many, so we probably will be giving away a bunch of them soon. We have way too many FBCM chicks right now. Our original plan was to just have FBCM and a variety of Orpingtons. Personally, I would sell and/or give away everything else we have, but Lisa wants to grow out the CCL, breda, langshan, welsummer, and spitzhauben chicks that don't really fit with the plan. She also has lots of Silkies, but that's entirely her thing. Anyway, I shut down the breeding pens last month until the too-many-chicks situation gets manageable.

 

[Mylied]

Tell me where you are again? Close to me I think. If you let one of the girls go, I'd take her.

I'm in Fort Valley, near Macon and Warner Robins. I think I am keeping the girl my son wants, so here's a pic of the other girl. It looks light in the image, but she's got the darker stripes like the other girl. She's the smaller of the girls in the group pic.

Crested Cream Legbars sell for $32.50 per chick from the hatchery catalogs! Please don't sell yourself short! On Craigslist, you should ask for $15 for the girls and $8 for the boys. To friends, I would ask $8 for the girls and $5 for the boys. These are nice high priced chickens that people are willing to pay for. They carry the blue egg genes (BB) and so if mixed with any other chicken will produce babies that will lay a colored egg. The eggs are usually a nice size, too! If mixed with Marans or Welsummers, you will get the best Olive Eggers out there, and the Welsummer mixed OEs would be auto sexing, too!

The only reason I'm not comfortable charging that much is that I'm not an established breeder and I only have a couple of hens right now. Maybe when I know more of what I'm doing. ;-) They are great chickens though. Easy to sex, pretty to look at, and I love the blue eggs.

 

[Mylied]

You're like Lisa. She loves the babies as well. We have too many, so we probably will be giving away a bunch of them soon. We have way too many FBCM chicks right now. Our original plan was to just have FBCM and a variety of Orpingtons. Personally, I would sell and/or give away everything else we have, but Lisa wants to grow out the CCL, breda, langshan, welsummer, and spitzhauben chicks that don't really fit with the plan. She also has lots of Silkies, but that's entirely her thing. Anyway, I shut down the breeding pens last month until the too-many-chicks situation gets manageable.

Yeah, I'm only supposed to have the cream legbars and the silkie/showgirls. Then I couldn't find any turkeys to be a companion to my lone hatched turkey and got 2 random chicks. Of course, someone messaged me the very next day saying they had poults. And now I have the eggs from the swap. I sold my whole flock so I could get the cream legbars. My older ladies were donated to a retired man who just likes watching them and eating the random eggs they lay. But I have no problem selling the chickens. It's only when they are babies that it's hard for me. Especially after waiting the 3 weeks to hatch. I'm the same way with all my babies though, goats & pigs. I'm like, I waited all the time for them to get here and now I have to rehome them. :-( But I do like the little bit of money I get for it.

 

[brucifer]

Yeah, I'm only supposed to have the cream legbars and the silkie/showgirls. Then I couldn't find any turkeys to be a companion to my lone hatched turkey and got 2 random chicks. Of course, someone messaged me the very next day saying they had poults. And now I have the eggs from the swap. I sold my whole flock so I could get the cream legbars. My older ladies were donated to a retired man who just likes watching them and eating the random eggs they lay. But I have no problem selling the chickens. It's only when they are babies that it's hard for me. Especially after waiting the 3 weeks to hatch. I'm the same way with all my babies though, goats & pigs. I'm like, I waited all the time for them to get here and now I have to rehome them. :-( But I do like the little bit of money I get for it.

It's like, "Plans?? What plans?" Sometimes that chicken math does take some interesting twists and turns...lol

 

[missy1971]

Looks a little slow around here today! Of course my day is very abnormal today, I slept until 11am, and moved to the couch. Not sick, but just tired. it's a very rainy day and I just decided to veg out and rest! Hope everyone is having a great day, Im about to take advantage of the break in the rain to take my girls something to snack on since I know they are bored and restless~

 

[Tabasco Jack]

There is a cabinet incubator on the NW GA Craigslsit for sale. Looks homemade but is very similar to my Leahy. $250.
https://nwga.craigslist.org/grd/6130333691.html

 

[livhatcher]

I'm in Fort Valley, near Macon and Warner Robins. I think I am keeping the girl my son wants, so here's a pic of the other girl. It looks light in the image, but she's got the darker stripes like the other girl. She's the smaller of the girls in the group pic.

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The only reason I'm not comfortable charging that much is that I'm not an established breeder and I only have a couple of hens right now. Maybe when I know more of what I'm doing. ;-) They are great chickens though. Easy to sex, pretty to look at, and I love the blue eggs.

Are they the Jill Rees or production CL? I was so sad when I only got one cream leg bar from my mix that I got from Orchard Hill recently. If you will hold her for a week or so, I will make plans to come have lunch with my husband in Ft. Valley and meet you.

But, in general, I do agree with @Flowerbh about chick pricing. If you have good parent stock, keep your birds well & take care in breeding you can justify the price. Personally, I find that people place value on that which comes at a premium. I'm happy to give away or do good deals with friends, but for randoms the price goes up. Just my .02

 

[brucifer]

But, in general, I do agree with @Flowerbh about chick pricing. If you have good parent stock, keep your birds well & take care in breeding you can justify the price. Personally, I find that people place value on that which comes at a premium. I'm happy to give away or do good deals with friends, but for randoms the price goes up. Just my .02

The breeder where I acquire FBCM raises show-quality birds, and I have FBCM from three of his old lines and last month acquired chicks from his new line as well. (Your chick is from his new line.) Skip and his wife Jennifer probably could cash in on their success if they wanted to do so, but they're not into breeding chickens for the money. They're chicken fanciers and just love breeding birds and the competition of showing chickens, and Jennifer loves to show dogs as well. Skip's selling FBCM pullets right now for $10 each and giving away a cockerel along with a pullet if you want one. Some of the $10 FBCM are four weeks old, so that is quite a deal. (I bought day-olds from his new line for less that $2 apiece last month.) Anyway, Skip will give you chicken fever if you give him half a chance and just a few minutes (if you don't have it already!). lol I have a beautiful FBCM pullet (Cathy) that I acquired from hatching eggs from his earlier lines and hope to show her later this year. She seems to fit the SOP for the breed.

This is an article that was posted in February in the Newnan Times-Herald about the Newnan show, and Skip and Jennifer are featured in the article: http://times-herald.com/news/2017/02/annual-poultry-show-held-at-fairgrounds

Lisa and I have been to their farm a few times, and Skip has an outstanding breeding program in place. He knows what he's doing. If you ever get the chance to go there and see how his pens and brooders are set up and listen to him explain what he does, it's worth the trip and the time. I appreciate that he's generously been willing to help me set up my breeding program as well.

Here's a craigslist ad that Skip is running for FBCM right now: