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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: shetlandpaul on November 23, 2009, 05:38:30 pm

Title: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: shetlandpaul on November 23, 2009, 05:38:30 pm

i have been watching ebay and rhe price of hatching eggs is shocking. anyone fancy 6 for £270 has anyone been brave enoughto try anything so expensive. i would be very dead if i tried.

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: jameslindsay on November 23, 2009, 05:41:56 pm

and are people bidding for them at this price????

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: shetlandpaul on November 23, 2009, 06:28:42 pm

yep. i give up when they hit £10 its just not worth the risk.

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: jameslindsay on November 23, 2009, 06:40:20 pm

Wow that's amazing, or is it just mental? Big risk there.

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: daniellestocks on November 23, 2009, 06:46:21 pm

Unbelieveable isnt it!! Someone was telling me about them, that someone was selling a pair for £600 or £800!! (cant remember exact price) OMG tho!!!!

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: Rosemary on November 23, 2009, 06:56:48 pm

And they're not even REAL CHOCOLATE!

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: doganjo on November 23, 2009, 07:37:06 pm

(http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/MSN_Emoticons/MSN-Emoticon-valentine-chocolate-148.gif) :chook: :chook:

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: Sylvia on November 24, 2009, 10:53:08 am

I'm sure they're very pretty, but not at that price, thank you!!

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: Womble on November 24, 2009, 06:33:56 pm

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They have done me proud this year; fantastic results.

Aye, at more than £10 per egg, I'll bet they have!!  ;D

If prices held up like that though, they'd be a pretty good investment for a breeder, though I suspect they'd make for very expensive omlettes!  :o)

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: RUSTYME on November 24, 2009, 06:51:17 pm

well I have got this special goose ....and it lays golden eggs.....£1000 and it is yours...cheap at twice the price...any takers...?, ....Oh just looked in the fridge ...I have a dozen chocolate orpington eggs....£250 ..(well there from tescos really ..but if they don't hatch no one will know anyway !!).

cheers

Russ

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: shetlandpaul on November 24, 2009, 07:37:24 pm

it would be upsetting if the hatched a few light sussex. it would be more upsetting if they were clear no refund. its a good earner fot them.

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: Declan on November 24, 2009, 11:43:41 pm

I've just given £10 for 15 RIR and Light Sussex eggs-thought I was doing well.  OH said I was mad- she doesn't know I've given £190 for the incubator- and I dont intend owning up to it anytime soon!!!

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: doganjo on November 24, 2009, 11:45:18 pm

Hope she isn't on this forum then Declan or you are in BIG trouble - I can see a really big chrissy pressie on teh horizon(http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/MSN_Emoticons/MSN-Emoticon-015.gif)

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: chickenfeed on November 25, 2009, 06:59:50 am

 :chook:i saw these eggs on ebay early on in the summer but they were more than £270 they reached £360 up for a dozen with a cock bird fetching £750 and a hen £500 - £600 you can see why people are taking the chance, i would not have thought fertility is that high this time of year so it is a big risk. brings the saying more money than sense!!!! to mind. but it will be the same as all fads the high price drops when the market is flooded.
me i will stick to hatching my own eggs (not mine as in me but my hens ;))

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: bamford6 on December 13, 2009, 10:51:39 am

i have chocklates the eggs cost me 200 and i got 3 eggs  birds naw redey to lay no cock bird chance off a cock bird 1 in 8 so hard with six eggs .willing to pay 200 to 250 for a cock bird . the hens are worh 250 cock birds 300 to 750 mad .i paid 400 for my black silkies 5 hens 2 cocks 1200 pounds and yes they have won that back in 3 shows

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: shetlandpaul on December 13, 2009, 11:51:59 am

and along comes mr fox and has the worlds most expensive lunch.

Title: Re: chocalate orpingtons
Post by: ellisr on December 13, 2009, 12:32:50 pm

I have motted orps which are rare, but would never pay them silly prices. You do have a chance of getting a chocolate orp from black orps if they hold the choc gene.