Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

Well, I wasn't really watching it so have no idea what the character's name was.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01bw3d2
And now it's finished.

zagubov

Wheezy wrote: »

Mrs Wheezy likes a movie with a straightforward storyline, well defined characters, etc...
Nothing with flashbacks, dreams or anything like that. We wachted 'Inception' a while ago and 3 days later I was still explaining.

Re: Inception; someone put a youtube video showing all four levels in real time in a splitscreen, which only helps when you've seen the whole movie.

When I got to the end I thought there were two possible outcomes and later someone revealed a clue that lets you make up your mind.

Unfortunately someone who's better at lateral thinking than me came up with a third outcome I'd not thought of and I don't know how to check it.

re: accents. I can't tell Lancashire from Yorkshire, or strangely enough East Anglia from west Country. I can identify most Scottish accents except the ones on TV like Scotty from Star Trek, which must be like a Londoner listenig to !!!!!! Van Dyke's Bert in "Mary Poppins"

lostinrates

Its been good having a day off lighting the woodburner today. . I keep going out and looking at my new chickens.

lostinrates

Business minded nice people, i need your input!

I was apporached today by a london retailer...nice ut not a wow moment like fc's, who want to sell my eggs. Purebreds and lir own hybrids.

Now, this avtually would cost me a bit. For a star, depressingly enough, i would have to buy in some stock. I am not getting good eggs rates since the bad weather and the ferals started pinching them, and i bred no females last year!

Secondly, there would be additional outlay, of vaccinating my eggs (gate sale eggs don't need salmonella vaccines, but quite fairly any other sale or usuage do) and buying stanps, and of course i would have to sort out egg delivery.....

It seems silly to not snatch an opportunity to retail, and start a small brand, though have to say mass egg farming is not in my long term plan the old try anything once spirit is already cross for not optimising a simialr but different op when offered eighteen months ago.

It would cost me atm to buy stock to lay eggs......i can't decide what to do....

misskool

lir: how much extra cost and how long before you can recoup the outlay? Is it a big or small detour from long-term plans? Would it be sustainable to do that part of the business?

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

lir: how much extra cost and how long before you can recoup the outlay? Is it a big or small detour from long-term plans? Would it be sustainable to do that part of the business?

I'm trying to do the maths now.

The difficulty is with purebred chickens.....they want purebred eggs and my own not brilliantly productive but beautiful hybrids, its hard to work out production rate. You can get quite massive swings....there is a reason commercial bredsrs use the breeds they use.


I think with the back of envelop calcs i'm doing its a no brainier: i should not do it. . If i were going to launch a foodie brand then it would be a good way to tryand get toe in cult following, but....i just don't have it in me i don't think, and the chooks themselves would be not worth it i think. Not when i can gate sale them with less stress and more profit.

I hate saying no to opportunity thats the problem!

silvercar

lir: how much time would it take? Would delivery commitments be a problem?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

...want to sell my eggs. Purebreds and lir own hybrids.

....cost me a bit. .... have to buy in some stock. I am not getting good eggs rates since the bad weather and the ferals started pinching them, and i bred no females last year!

Secondly, there would be additional outlay, of vaccinating my eggs (gate sale eggs don't need salmonella vaccines, but quite fairly any other sale or usuage do) and buying stanps, and of course i would have to sort out egg delivery.....

It seems silly to not snatch an opportunity to retail, and start a small brand, though have to say mass egg farming is not in my long term plan the old try anything once spirit is already cross for not optimising a simialr but different op when offered eighteen months ago.

It would cost me atm to buy stock to lay eggs......i can't decide what to do....

Well, I am not a risk taker .... and my feeling/response would be to get them all excited that the offer's good, but that you're not yet in a position to work with them. Do you think it's a contact you could keep warm for a year?

Have you done the figures?

How much is in eggs? I know they're quite cheap, say £1 for 6 organic/hand reared style ... seen on hand-written bits of wood along the roads here. So is there money in it starting from the size you are?

silvercar

Shame I was going to suggest branding them Nice People's Eggs!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

If i were going to launch a foodie brand then it would be a good way to tryand get toe in cult following, ...

Well ... it's better to say "no" and keep the door open, than to say "yes" and let people down.

Maybe you could start by investigating adding your own value to your own eggs, building up an egg-based business in other ways, until you would be ready to take that opportunity forward.

e.g. LIR Pure Bred Pickled Eggs.

There's a LOT more money when you add value.