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04/02/11, 06:37 PM
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Went to the sale today
Heck, Turkeys was going for (I heard, but didnt actually see) $75. I was in my pk when ik heard the auctioneer say, HEY whaddia we got here? A turkey, and it ended up at $75 on the bidding. I am ashamed to say it, but I paid $26 for a NZD in a birdcage. Next to it was a cage with 2 turkeys in it and I saw them bring $62 ea. Chickens were bringing tween $10 to $22 ea. Someone had built a cheap chicken tractor. I was made out of 1 X 3s used, A frame around 4ftsq, and round 10ft long. Had sawmill cut ceder for a shelter. It brought $100 with rabbit.
They say the countrys hurting for money. Bah Humbug. Peoples got money they dont know what to do with if there spending it like that.
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04/02/11, 07:21 PM
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WOW!!!! I could have sold my turkeys, but put them in the freezer instead.
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04/02/11, 07:58 PM
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Farm Boy Bill,
the first time I met another HT'er was at a livestock auction, when I bid on some blueberries. I didnt understand it was for one small box, I thought it was for the flat. he chuckled pretty hard when I was told him it was me 
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04/02/11, 09:20 PM
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Happens here also. Happened to me, and I knew better. They had a stack of 10 tubs that they put mioneral in. The cows had got all the mineral and so the rancher stacked them up and brought them out to the sale. I bought them. I thought I was buying all 10. I did, but I had to pay 10 times the price I bid them in on. Luckly I had the money.
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04/02/11, 09:23 PM
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Hello, I attended the Mid -Ohio Alternative animal& Bird Sale. Selling high here too! One year old Bourbon Red went for $150. The seller has to pay to have the bird tested,along with higher grain and feed prices.Chickens were high too. A pair of Buff frizzle Cochins went for $30. each. Lots of fancy Bantams in the same range $10 to $30 each. Peacocks were going for up to $150. ! on Thursday, $75. on Friday. Goats, bottle baby Nigerian,and Pygmy-$75- $300. There is a Summer and Fall sale same place-I expect things to come down a bit,but still high. This is a very large 3 day exotic sale. There sure seems to be quite a large interest in small stock here.
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04/02/11, 09:23 PM
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I went to a sale today and I was the one being told we must have "a lot of money" by other people at the sale. This one wasn't an auction, but was a yard sale. They didn't hear the deals the guy was making. They must have thought I was paying the prices on the items on the table, LMAO. Not a chance...he was making lot deals with me. DIRT CHEAP. I got two table tops full of tools for $25, for example. Uh, yeah, I'll take that price. Got 2 circle saws, a saber saw, a jigsaw, and a brand new in the box electric miter saw in that deal. That was just ONE of the lot deals I did with him. Another was 2 shop vac's for $15 total. Yeah! A new shop vac was on my shopping list for later this year...
Yep, I did okay. Now, hopefully we can make my $30 surround sound system work out...
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04/02/11, 09:24 PM
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I went to a sale today and I was the one being told we must have "a lot of money" by other people at the sale. This one wasn't an auction, but was a yard sale. They didn't hear the deals the guy was making. They must have thought I was paying the prices on the items on the table, LMAO. Not a chance...he was making lot deals with me. DIRT CHEAP. I got two table tops full of tools for $25, for example. Uh, yeah, I'll take that price. Got 2 circle saws, a saber saw, a jigsaw, and a brand new in the box electric miter saw in that deal. That was just ONE of the lot deals I did with him. Another was 2 shop vac's for $15 total. Yeah! A new shop vac was on my shopping list for later this year...
Yep, I did okay. Now, hopefully we can make my $30 surround sound system work out...
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04/02/11, 09:40 PM
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I went to a farm auction here today and old nest box's went for $85. old bent up rusted 4 hole rabbit cage for $25, 5 cattle pannels for $70 and the 5 ft king kutter tiller we wanted (used) for $960!!!
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04/02/11, 10:49 PM
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Hey now, "urban homesteaders" pay the bills around here. Didn't you know - an "urban" chicken goes for $20? A homestead chicken is only $6. They are the same people who drive 30 miles to pay $5 for a dozen "pastured" eggs.
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04/02/11, 11:38 PM
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Good Grief!!!! People GIVE AWAY goats, peacocks, chickens, rabbits....HERE!!! I got my 2 papered Nigerian goats FREE a couple years ago when the people lost their jobs and couldn't keep them. I have 2 more pygmies coming tomorrow from a guy who lost his job and had to move...
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04/03/11, 09:30 AM
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I get my goats free too, so far. Thanks DKM lol. I wasnt talking bout goats. They dont allow them or cows, dogs cats, anything but birds and rabbits there at that sale I go to.
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04/03/11, 01:05 PM
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I paid $10 each for the Mini Rex/Netherland Dwarf bunnies for my granddaughters 4 years ago but that was at a pet shop. I probably could have gotten free ones if I would have advertised on Craigs list. People are always bringing them in to the Humane Society where I volunteer because they get them when they are babies and then don't want them any more when they grow up and become more work. We still have ours and they are spoiled of course.
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04/03/11, 01:06 PM
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Hey Bill, do you buy yours for eating or to raise and sell? I like rabbit meat but would have a hard time killing one unless I was REALLY hungry! LOL
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04/03/11, 02:23 PM
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Bill: No wonder you didn't call and tell me what that Doe went for!
We got home and I looked into the incubator and found chicks pipping. This morning I have a boxful of peepers. Tomorrow morning they come out, so I have to get the brooder ready today .
The Salmon Faverolle four week old chicks I got in Mo. are making themselves at home.
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04/03/11, 02:45 PM
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See Chuck u didnt need to buy those chickens yesterday afterall. Tellem on here what they brought, I forgot.
Flower. I am raiseing up my herda rabbits so as to sell them. I havnt eaten one since I been here, and have only eaten one of my own before. Not a great meat eater.
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04/03/11, 04:18 PM
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I'm not a great meat eater either. Quite a few people around here raise the angora rabbits for fiber. Lots of spinners in this area. I have a spinning wheel that I got at a yard sale but haven't had time to sit down and learn. That will be a project for summer. Gosh, with rabbits and chickens going for so much down there you should get RICH!!!! What kind of rabbits are you breeding?
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04/03/11, 04:38 PM
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Good grief! I've got barely year-old toms I'm trying to sell here in Alabama and getting no response. I guess I need to bring them there! It'd about pay for the gas! I was asking $40 for the RPs and $35 for the standard Bronzes. 5 toms and one hen is a bad ratio... Sigh. Guess mine are about to go in the freezer
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04/03/11, 05:41 PM
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NZWs
Someone at church was telling that coffee, coco, sugar, and other stuff was going to skyrocket. He mentioned a $10 figure on a can of coffee. He asked me if I ever thought id pay that for coffee. I said that, since I hadnt drank the stuff in 55yrs I wasnt too worried bout drinking it now. BUT, I said, IF, while the gas station guy was filling up my tank on 25@gal gas that id ever see a day when id be paying $3.50 for it, Ida thought he belonged in a nut house. BUTT here it is.
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04/03/11, 10:11 PM
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I was thinking the same thing Bill,this area isn't making the comeback like they say on tv we are. People are still hurting a lot. Yet at the sale yesterday people were going crzy with their bidding on poultry and small animals. Baby bunnys were going for $15-20 each,and I mean babys so small they shouldn't have been weaned!I had a hard getting the few things I wanted at a price I could afford. And the thing was,most of these people looked like they couldn't afford to buy a loaf of bread,much less feed for the things they were buying.
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04/03/11, 10:27 PM
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I looked for you but didnt see ya. Describe what you wore. I had a straw hat, blue shirt, light yellow stupenders, and jeans. I found chuck as I had his ph# and just called him and then could look for them when they came back to the chicken place.
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