Coffee anyone ?

[Cecilia's-herd]

Ha ha! You are going to need to hit the garage sales for a stroller!

Maybe you can find a deal like I got. A real nice Chico stroller that wasn’t priced, so I asked how much and the guy was like “I don’t know, my wife isn’t here. How about $10?” So of course I said OK. His wife was probably very mad at him when she got back!

For sure I would be pissed!

 

[Baymule]

Never thought about the ones you were selling to.... If it is USDA can you just buy fat? Our USDA guy also has a shop and sells meat and stuff there.... they raise cattle for the shop, but once it goes in a USDA plant, anything should be able to be sold shouldn't it???? I don't know....

I don’t really get it. They sell meat there. They sell meat packs. Hamburger is $4 per pound, cheaper than anywhere else. They won’t keep the pigs feet for me, not allowed in the process room.

 

[Baymule]

@Baymule Maybe you need to keep the biggest hog for you and family.....sell the smaller????

Already done and delivered! $$$$$$$$$$$

 

[Baymule]

Had no choice... he cried if he was put down. So he was always held... truly 24/7!

My daughter was like that, but nobody else could hold her without her screaming bloody murder. Even her father couldn’t hold her until she was 4 months old. I taught the baby class at church because I couldn’t walk out of the room. As she moved up in age group, I moved up too. When she started kindergarten, sometimes the teacher had to get my son out of class to hug her and tell her that momma was coming back to get them. LOL

 

[Baymule]

That’s sounds like exactly what I want. Attachment parenting. Hmm I will look into it. I definitely had a big rebellious stage I don’t want for baby

The most important thing you can do is love your child unconditionally. Lots of hugs, lots of I love you’ots of positive reinforcement and discipline when and where needed.

My Mom didn’t like kids. She didn’t like her kids. She shipped my older sister to the Aunts in Louisiana the day after school was out and didn’t let her come home until the day before school started. Mom even told her it was so much nicer without her around. She made my sister do household chores because she worked. Mom tolerated my brother. All he ever wanted his whole life was a mom to bake cookies and give him lots of hugs. He died 7 years ago, he never got those hugs. By the time I came along, Mom was pretty much done. I was ignored. But I was Daddy’s girl, really didn’t know any better, thought all Moms were like that.

August 12, 1972, my momma told me that when I had kids, don’t bring them to her, she was not a babysitter. Bring them over to visit, leave and take them with me. I’ll never forget it. I knew I was on my own and didn’t have my son until 1982, my daughter in 1986. And you can bet your sweet you-know-what, I did visit and took them with me when I left.

If I did nothing else right, my kids always knew they were loved, no matter what and Momma had their back. Both are responsible productive members of society.

Love your child.

 

[Bruce]

But she turned out OK, right Bay?

Once you become a parent, .....

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Hahaha I was thinking more like 3.00 instead of 2.50 nothing crazy

Well then you are definitely charging too little. But $0.50/dozen more is a LOT of eggs to sell to get one of those expensive strollers. And, of course, you have to subtract the cost of the chicks, raising them, feeding the hens.

Over the years (since spring 2013) I've sold an amazing (to me) 9,900 eggs gross sales at mostly $4/dozen ( I was charging my first customers at work $2.50 until they 'made' me take more) - $2,600. Net cost for everything excluding converting the barn stall to a coop - $3,300. Nope, not going to buy a stroller on those "profits"!

 

[Cecilia's-herd]

@Bruce we used to sell for 5$ a dozen but then we started to dwindle in chickens that were laying, so we sold in half dozens at 2$… and then 2.50$ because of demand… now probably 3$

 

[Cecilia's-herd]

Love your child.

I love them so much already. I know there is never a “safe” time during pregnancy but I think this little one is here to stay. All I need is a happy baby, I don’t even need a healthy one.

 

[Bruce]

$2.50/6? OK you aren't charging too little. My customers know the egg drought is coming, I've told them one has already started moulting. I don't light the coop in the winter, figuring they need to rest their egg factories, so I get no winter eggs other than from the pullets if I got some chicks in June. I got 6 this year so there should be eggs coming mid to late November then the flood of eggs starts back up late February.

On kids, yep, YOU change. Remember when people used to go out to dinner? When our first was born we ended up taking turns walking around with her while the other parent ate and conversed. Eat fast because parent 2 wants dinner too!

 

[Cecilia's-herd]

Eat fast because parent 2 wants dinner too!

And of course, breast feeding while you eat!