Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

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.

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

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

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

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