great story @Spike188, thank you! I'm really laughing out loud here! You made my day!Spike188 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 10:57 am In the mid 80's my wife and I owned a feed and seed store. We would run a promotion in the spring for baby chicks. For every bag of chicken feed you purchased, we supplied 25 baby chicks at no charge. The chicks cost us 17 cents each and were shipped to us through the US mail in lots of 100. A glass front jewelry counter/display case was turned into a perfect "aren't they cute, we will take 50" motivator. If you took 100 chicks we were out $17.00.
The customer was out $17.00 to purchase 4 -50lb bags of feed. We cleared $1.00 per bag and 4 bags would last about 1 week. At the end of 6 to 7 weeks the chicks were processing size and would have consumed approximately 20 bags or 1000lbs of feed. We clear about $63.00 dollars in 7 weeks.
By now the customer has become attached to the chickens and can't bring themselves to eating their pets. A few customers purchased feed for those birds years after taking them home. The checkbook is full of good intentions.
We also sold turkeys and ducks. One customer bought 25 turkeys that became free range, yard dwellers. Once again the processing for Thanksgiving never happened and critters had thinned the flock down to 6. One morning Daddy found a fully grown turkey doing an eye level stand off and stare down with his stick waving 4 year old son. Dad decided it was time to deal with the turkey's. Being very rural, a common practice when finding stray animals, dogs in particular, was to load them up and haul them to a city park and dump them. Some city dweller dropped them in the country so returning them to town was the logical thing to do. Before sunup the offending turkey's were loaded up and given a new home in the city park. Mid afternoon Daddy passed through the park which was now swarming with cops and city staff trying to catch the wild birds. Problem solved.
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@Spike188 great story, and some pretty smart marketing too! What you said about mail ordering chicks reminded me of stories of my grandparents. They would mail order a couple hundred chicks each spring then sell meat birds and eggs through the year. That would have been in the 1940’s and 50’s. If chicks cost .17 a piece in the 80’s I wonder how much they we’re back then!
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Finished the kick plates last week and brought in my last load of sand tonight! Did a quick harrow to level it out. Almost complete
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You might have enough room for a couple of Case tractors in there. Looks great!FreddyFont wrote: ↑Thu Nov 17, 2022 10:39 pm Finished the kick plates last week and brought in my last load of sand tonight! Did a quick harrow to level it out. Almost complete
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Its slowly getting there. Had some delays with getting some of the materials, then took a while for the electrician to come and wire it all up.
I had the great idea to put in some sweat equity to save some $$... so its still not finished to the point horses can be ridden in it.
I'm prohibited to use it as a storage lol!
I had the great idea to put in some sweat equity to save some $$... so its still not finished to the point horses can be ridden in it.
I'm prohibited to use it as a storage lol!
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Someone is getting ready for a little horsing around .FreddyFont wrote: ↑Thu Nov 17, 2022 10:39 pm Finished the kick plates last week and brought in my last load of sand tonight! Did a quick harrow to level it out. Almost complete
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My role with the horses is to feed them and complain about how much it cost lol! Its mainly my wife and daughter's thing. I'm more about all the other power toys you need around to maintain the place
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Sounds like a lot of fun however you put it!FreddyFont wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:37 am My role with the horses is to feed them and complain about how much it cost lol! Its mainly my wife and daughter's thing. I'm more about all the other power toys you need around to maintain the place
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We have a number of neighbours with hay burners as one calls them and the other calls them money burners , and he is the one that rides / jumps .FreddyFont wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:37 am My role with the horses is to feed them and complain about how much it cost lol! Its mainly my wife and daughter's thing. I'm more about all the other power toys you need around to maintain the place
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