Help me decide on hatching eggs!

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PeckPeckChick

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Next year it want to let my silkie brood hatching eggs but I would like to sell the chicks afterword. I need help on deciding which breeds would be easiest to sell after hatching! Which breeds are high in demand and where to get the best hatching eggs. Thanks
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WalnutHill

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If you are taking this on for the pure enjoyment of the hatch experience, great! If you plan to profit on selling chicks, don't count on it...

By the time you pay for eggs, shipping, loss due to handling in shipping, losses during incubation, losses at hatch and potential problems after hatch, vaccination, and feed, you will be challenged to show any kind of profit in selling at any price the market may bear. The hatcheries and own-egg hatchers have you beat before you start.
 
PeckPeckChick

PeckPeckChick

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Feb 16, 2014
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South Bay Area
WalnutHill said:
If you are taking this on for the pure enjoyment of the hatch experience, great!  If you plan to profit on selling chicks, don't count on it...

By the time you pay for eggs, shipping, loss due to handling in shipping, losses during incubation, losses at hatch and potential problems after hatch, vaccination, and feed, you will be challenged to show any kind of profit in selling at any price the market may bear.  The hatcheries and own-egg hatchers have you beat before you start.
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If I do by some miracle get chicks that hatch what do I do then?
 
blucoondawg

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PeckPeckChick said:
If I do by some miracle get chicks that hatch what do I do then?
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you can still sell them. You just aren't likely to reap a smoking profit from it. You would be doing good breaking even. You may lose some money if you pay too much for your fertile eggs. It's one of those things you do to enjoy the hobby and recouping a little money is a plus when possible.
 
WalnutHill

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If your hen is broody and has hatched eggs successfully before, the hen should be better. If your hen is a first time "mom", sometimes they just don't get it and you need to be ready to take over with an incubator. Or sometimes a hen will sit just fine then harm the babies (I think they can get confused). Or you could try to incubate them and have an equal possibility for success or failure.

A hen with a brood of chicks is a whole lot cuter than a foam box full of chicks, though...

Try to find some cheap fertile eggs around you. Doesn't matter what kind, full size chicken, duck, whatever. Let her sit them and see how she does. If she does well and hatches them out, then try the more pricey eggs.
 
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