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Since it was raining today the wife and I decided to cull some birds and pull out some extra ones, and carry them to the small animal and poultry auction tomorrow. They have one of these auctions every Saturday all year round (except if a major holiday falls on that saturday) rain snow sleet or shine, they have the auction. The general merchandise starts at 8am, poultry at 10 and small animals at 1pm, so its an all day affair and its been known to last well into the evening. Gonna have to leave really early so I can incheck my stuff so it gets put up for auction sooner rather than later, so maybe I won;'t have to make it an all day affair.
The truck is loaded and parked under the shed and ready to go.
Contents so far:
40 Black Australorp hens (2 to 3 years old)
29 Aracauna Hens (3 years old)
73 Assorted roosters (black australorps and Aracauna and Silver Pheonix)
2 pairs of Silver Pheonix (2 years old)
60 silver pheonix chicks 4 weeks old
10 Brown Chinese geese (6 gooses and 4 ganders about 4 years old)
6 white peachicks 2 weeks old
40 Assorted colors of Guinea fowl.........
8 White Pekin ducks 4 years old
2 small Nigerian Pygmy goat kids just weaned (wethers)
Approximately 90 doz hatching eggs / fresh fertile yard eggs from Black Australorps and Aracauna chickens
60 goose eggs
12 dozen guinea eggs
16 peafowl eggs
Hope to bring back 10 or more young buck goats, maybe some pheasants, and a pocket full of money!
It don't take long to go through a 50 foot roll of 2 x 4 welded wire fencing or use up a heap of old field fence making all those cages. All critters must be in a cage except for animal types unless they are like a rabbit etc. My truck looks like Fred Sanford and sons truck loaded with critters. Also have the livestock trailer loaded with them as well.
That might be a heap of birds etc but I still have a heap more that I am keeping. I just needed to whittle my inventory down. Old and non producers go to sale, productive ones get to hang around a little longer, and if the feed keeps going up even some of those productive types may find themselves under the auctions spot lights. Goats etc are not a problem as I have lots of browse and pasture but the birds are another story when it comes to buying feed.
The truck is loaded and parked under the shed and ready to go.
Contents so far:
40 Black Australorp hens (2 to 3 years old)
29 Aracauna Hens (3 years old)
73 Assorted roosters (black australorps and Aracauna and Silver Pheonix)
2 pairs of Silver Pheonix (2 years old)
60 silver pheonix chicks 4 weeks old
10 Brown Chinese geese (6 gooses and 4 ganders about 4 years old)
6 white peachicks 2 weeks old
40 Assorted colors of Guinea fowl.........
8 White Pekin ducks 4 years old
2 small Nigerian Pygmy goat kids just weaned (wethers)
Approximately 90 doz hatching eggs / fresh fertile yard eggs from Black Australorps and Aracauna chickens
60 goose eggs
12 dozen guinea eggs
16 peafowl eggs
Hope to bring back 10 or more young buck goats, maybe some pheasants, and a pocket full of money!
It don't take long to go through a 50 foot roll of 2 x 4 welded wire fencing or use up a heap of old field fence making all those cages. All critters must be in a cage except for animal types unless they are like a rabbit etc. My truck looks like Fred Sanford and sons truck loaded with critters. Also have the livestock trailer loaded with them as well.
That might be a heap of birds etc but I still have a heap more that I am keeping. I just needed to whittle my inventory down. Old and non producers go to sale, productive ones get to hang around a little longer, and if the feed keeps going up even some of those productive types may find themselves under the auctions spot lights. Goats etc are not a problem as I have lots of browse and pasture but the birds are another story when it comes to buying feed.