Chick's her are going for around 5 to 9 dollars each so I thought I'd hatch a few to sell when we're selling ramps.

I've had o e hen hatch 8 and I bought 24 markdowns t rural king. I was surprised they had any left to markdown..









And the future generation..lol



Jerry thinks I'm nuts but I 6old him what doesn't sell I can just add into the flock.

I'm gonna do an incubator of duck eggs ne t and when I find my guineas nest I'm gonna do a setting of thise to. Thw cost 9.00 at our area stores.

Every little bit helps!!!! Great thinking !!!

I bet they sell no problem

I used to love hatching and selling chicks, my favorite were Rhode Island Red Roosters x Barred Rock hens for a chick that could be sexed at hatching. It was always easy to sell the hens for 2.50 or $3 each and I would usually try and get $1 for Roosters but I probably averaged closer to half that on the Roosters.

I can tell the difference in them too. Might sell them straight run. I'm not sure.

I just had a lady from Facebook message me about some prairie bluebell pullets I have for sale for 20 each. She said she's extremely interested.
Thatd buy alot of chick starter

I'm also gonna try to sell some sassafras bark for tea that were gonna dig this weekend, hopefully and pf course eggs.

I'm planing on getting a new incubator and hatching a bunch of crossed up mixed chickens this year.

My "purebred" chicks always were easier to sell, if you have some pure breeds it may be worth separating. I always had to break my crossbreds into lots and sell them much cheaper. Your market or atleast the current market may not make that matter as much.

I'm getting Chicken envy. I have a commercial barn now so I cannot have any other birds here.

Cathryn, are the ramps up good yet?? I checked about a week and a half ago at the Williams River and they were not up yet. Neither are the ones on my property in Clay County.

With the cost of eggs, you might want to get into that too.

I'm ordering mine from Hoovers ,chick day sale at Hinckley Ag store

Just cool to see what you get hatching your own eggs you never know what combo bird you will end up with.

Wife bought 20 this morning
She wanted RR but ended up they only had 3 so got black australorps, araucanas and whatever else they had mix

Bomgaars in northern Nebraska had chicks priced at 3.69 and 3.89.

I went into the chicken business (against my dad's strong recommendation not to) at age 8. Had an egg route with my bicycle. Spent the next 58 years trying to recoup my losses....(dad made me pay for my own feed).

I may sell a few but will mainly be replacing my older girls. Everything is 2 or older now. I always enjoy the few really odd ball crosses we got.

At some point I will likely order some more pure breeds and keep them separate but right now I don't have a place to do so. But it's on my wife's "list".

They're up at my house and the farm. Hers what they were on Tuesday
They're up between 3 and 4 Inches

Exactly. If the don't sell I'll add em to my flock. It's a win either way.

Jerey said I'm a chicken hoarder and I Told him he was a trap and antler hoarder.lol

I don't care for arauncanas.
I sold 6.. 4 months prairie bluebell pullets..4 20.00 each today.
I gave .50 for them.in Nov

Until they get bird flu under control I’m out of the chicken business lost a flock in the spring then the new flock last fall. Living on a migratory lake they come through sick then the cats drag them up to the house and the chickens get into them.


Might get some once the geese pass through in the spring then lock them in come fall until the geese pass or use another route to get North.