The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[The Moonshiner]

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What are you doing this year, keeping them all?

 

[Chookwagn]

What are you doing this year, keeping them all?

I have hatched a bunch in the last 2 months and they just aren't selling...... im running out of room and money to feed them...

I'm going to have to back off how many I hatch

Think I will start moving on some of my 1 and 2 year old birds before it's gets to the end of the season and no one wants them.
Then I'll keep a bunch of chicks for next season.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Sounds like here. No one is/was really buying. Poultry auctions and swaps drying up. Feed is twice the price as it was when I started this thread.
The backyard chicken craze has burst and our economy has screwed us all. I did the same. Unloaded lots and lots of adults so I could hatch chicks.
If things don't change here in November I don't know how I'll stay afloat much longer.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Sounds like here. No one is/was really buying. Poultry auctions and swaps drying up. Feed is twice the price as it was when I started this thread.
The backyard chicken craze has burst and our economy has screwed us all. I did the same. Unloaded lots and lots of adults so I could hatch chicks.
If things don't change here in November I don't know how I'll stay afloat much longer.

Went to a poultry auction yesterday and nearly cried at how little I made. Not enough to cover the feed costs of raising them, that's for sure.

The Spring auction was much better. Heck, I sold a GRAY Call duck drake for $85!!! The one at the Fall auction only went for $20 (for which I'm grateful as other drakes and roos were selling for $3).

 

[Chookwagn]

The chicks that are selling are BCs.... so at the moment they are taking up most of the incubator space... and I'm incubating a few mutt eggs for a friend as well.


Almost impossible to sell roosters here...

 

[The Moonshiner]

Went to a poultry auction yesterday and nearly cried at how little I made. Not enough to cover the feed costs of raising them, that's for sure.

The Spring auction was much better. Heck, I sold a GRAY Call duck drake for $85!!! The one at the Fall auction only went for $20 (for which I'm grateful as other drakes and roos were selling for $3).

That sucks. Getting rough everywhere it seems.
I guess the one thing I've got going is its always just been a money losing love affair for me.

 

[The Moonshiner]

The chicks that are selling are BCs.... so at the moment they are taking up most of the incubator space... and I'm incubating a few mutt eggs for a friend as well.


Almost impossible to sell roosters here...

I do know someone here that is still doing some peddling Silkies.
I know he got some blue egg laying Silkies a while back and those will probably keep him going too.

 

[Canadian Wind]

That sucks. Getting rough everywhere it seems.
I guess the one thing I've got going is its always just been a money losing love affair for me.

Honestly, I'm not in this to make money. Even with the 'savings' of not having to buy meat or eggs, I'm in the red. But I do love my critters (most of them anyhow!) and the joy I get from them is worth it to me. Also gets me outside and gives me a reason to not shut down completely.

They drive me crazy sometimes, but are my best grasp on sanity, lol!

 

[The Moonshiner]

Honestly, I'm not in this to make money. Even with the 'savings' of not having to buy meat or eggs, I'm in the red. But I do love my critters (most of them anyhow!) and the joy I get from them is worth it to me. Also gets me outside and gives me a reason to not shut down completely.

They drive me crazy sometimes, but are my best grasp on sanity, lol!

I do get that.
The genetics and breeding for varieties etc. entertains my brain.
If I didn't have that going on I'd hate to think what it would entertain itself with.

 

[Canadian Wind]

I do get that.
The genetics and breeding for varieties etc. entertains my brain.
If I didn't have that going on I'd hate to think what it would entertain itself with.

Exactly! I love breeding for the genetics, and learning them keeps my mind sharp-ish. That, and Sodoku. >.>