Hello all - Merry Christmas and hope everyone had a good year!
Construction season is finally done up here in NW WI and getting into figuring out where I screwed up and trying to find work for the next crazy year. Didn't get a chance to raise any birds this year but have the pens and incubators ready to go for next year. Feed prices knocked me out of business this year. Couldn't afford to have that much invested in feed prior to any sales. Also, I got promoted so not as much time at home. Hopefully next year we can get back on track with the business, possibly at a smaller degree than what we tried last year. I have too much invested in the pens to pull the plug on it and our daughter is old enough now to actually enjoy seeing the birds.
How did everyone do this year? Sounds like prices on birds were up about $0.50 a bird this year around here. The local clubs are still having pretty good sales even with having to bump their prices up. Did you guys see about the same increase and did sales stay about the same?
Seems the forum has slowed down a bit but I hope you all are doing well and maybe she'll pick up in the off season 
Hi Bear!
I just happened to be passing through and noticed your post. Congratulations!! you are the first new post since Dec 5th.
It has been slow here like this most of the year. People change and so do the hobbies.
Feed prices around here have doubled. What I pay now for a ton, I was getting two ton last year.
Slow wet season here since the beginning of the year. Cost cutting is getting harder and harder. I don't see to much on the up swing in things here until Obama and his liberal progressive administration is out of office.
His EPA has put a hurting on the coal/Oil and natural gas industry in WV for the most part, and there isn't much of anything else here for employment. I'd say that WV is at least 55% military, 25% mining and 8% State and Fed workers with the remaining balance of 12% being within the local hotel/food/medical/chemical/forestry and construction industries which are one way or the other affected by the Obama administrations regulations.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and the family!
Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm
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