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Magpie Sale - Complete
Dec. 29th, 2009 12:23 pmOur buyer came today and picked up the two Magpies. We'd gone out earlier and filled all the bins so the flock could bathe and have a bit of fun. The two Magpies were very calm and ready to go, they even allowed a bit of snoggling before being tucked away in the dog crate for the ride to their new home. The boys were very excited, they'd lost their pet Pekin to an Opposum a few months back and the Khaki Campbells aren't' much on snoggling.
I managed to get the same price I paid for them, so while in the long run it all balances out, more importantly in the short run I managed to cover feed for another two weeks. Which is akways wonderful, though not completely necessary. As of this morning, we've about three dozen duck eggs and a dozen chicken eggs ready for sale, another ad will be placed on Craigslist and a few taken down to the bookstore for customers in town. If they all sell, that's $16 bucks which translates to another bag of feed for a week. Selling one female shouldn't affect our egg production much, especially not a Magpie which aren't known for being good layers.
We're down to 15 ducks, which is marvelous. A half dozen are likely heading out to MarkliAnn's farm in Oregon in the Spring, as we want to make sure she has some laying ducks to start her out with. I may be raising her ducklings along with ours, chicks, too. I'm really looking forward to our trip down to Oregon this Spring to pick out our own, I'm hoping to add a bit more diversity to our flock - some Appleyards and Welsh Harlequins. I'd love to breed the Chocolate Anconas, as they are endangered, which will mean penning the breeding pair together at night and building an incubator.
More feathered adventures. :)
I managed to get the same price I paid for them, so while in the long run it all balances out, more importantly in the short run I managed to cover feed for another two weeks. Which is akways wonderful, though not completely necessary. As of this morning, we've about three dozen duck eggs and a dozen chicken eggs ready for sale, another ad will be placed on Craigslist and a few taken down to the bookstore for customers in town. If they all sell, that's $16 bucks which translates to another bag of feed for a week. Selling one female shouldn't affect our egg production much, especially not a Magpie which aren't known for being good layers.
We're down to 15 ducks, which is marvelous. A half dozen are likely heading out to MarkliAnn's farm in Oregon in the Spring, as we want to make sure she has some laying ducks to start her out with. I may be raising her ducklings along with ours, chicks, too. I'm really looking forward to our trip down to Oregon this Spring to pick out our own, I'm hoping to add a bit more diversity to our flock - some Appleyards and Welsh Harlequins. I'd love to breed the Chocolate Anconas, as they are endangered, which will mean penning the breeding pair together at night and building an incubator.
More feathered adventures. :)
