04/13/2025
Breeder quality vs. hatchery quality is like night and day!
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A little frustrated today.
My females are usually 15-$20 each at a day to a week old..
" Well TSC ducks are $8.99"
I've heard this a dozen times the last few days.
If you want to take your chances on males, go for it.
If you don't care what quality they are, go for it.
If you want it right now and they have it.. go for it.
No I will not trade ducks for the drakes you got.
No, I will not take your drakes.
I'm not in competition with box stores and hatcheries. There is a world of difference in breeding for quantity vs quality. Besides that, there's a difference in buying straight run versus buying females.
By the time you take your chances on buying six ducklings, raising them up and hoping for females, you'd have probably been better off buying what you wanted to start with, even if it costed a bit more.
By the time you feed those ducklings, end up with a few females and have to give the males away, you are already in the hole on time, feed, and you still didn't get your females. Not to mention the kids got attached.
Now you either have to start over with females or TSC again... Or find ducks close to the same age as the two that you got the first go round... And then they cost more.
I do not price match. Especially when theirs are straight run and mine are s*xed..
If you want straight run, I'm pretty sure I can work with you on the price. I would love to lower my prices, get paid for every duckling like box stores do and not have to feed the males all year until they find a purpose.