Progressive Pied Quail, Genetics, and Black Friday Deals

Join Carey, Jennifer, and guest breeder Aaron Guidroz of Guidroz Family Farm as they dive into the genetics behind the Progressive Pied coturnix quail, how to breed for color and size, tips for brooding success, and upcoming Black Friday farm deals from ShowPro, Brian’s Roost, and Guidroz Family Farm. Perfect for poultry and quail enthusiasts!

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Transcript

Carey: 0:39

Hello, and welcome to another exciting edition of the Poultry Nerds podcast. Today we have for the third time Aaron Guidroz from Guidroz Family Farm down in la. How are you?

Aaron: 0:59

I'm doing well. It's nice. Beautiful August weather we're having here in November. It was 80 degrees here today. Yeah. It was 85 here. And you're further

Carey: 1:09

south than

Aaron: 1:09

I am. Yeah, it's Is your humidity like really

Carey: 1:13

high?

Aaron: 1:14

I don't have to worry about dehydration with the humidity because it's so high. You could just drink the air. Yeah.

Jennifer: 1:20

You butchered that Cajun name, didn't you?

Aaron: 1:24

No, he did. He did great.

Jennifer: 1:26

He did great.

Aaron: 1:27

Yeah. Isn't not

Jennifer: 1:28

Gure.

Aaron: 1:29

It's whatever you want it to be. I've heard it many different ways. Some ways I would like to like just change it,

Carey: 1:36

With a name like that, whether people say Giros, gures, however they say it, it's the fact that they remember it. Yeah. Call it what it is, but. I think the name of the game in business is having a name that people remember.

Aaron: 1:55

Yeah. Yeah. That's they remember it. They, it's not pronounced correctly most of the time, but they remember it. So that's, I guess that is a good thing.

Carey: 2:04

Do they, if they remember it enough to find your website, which is keros family form.com, then hey, that's what matters.

Jennifer: 2:15

Yeah, I'm gonna have to change my name. Have you ever been in a Walmart and Yale, Jennifer? There's 400 people that'll turn around.

Aaron: 2:22

Yeah, there's a bunch of Jennifer's, so you know, I need to

Carey: 2:25

try that.

Aaron: 2:27

Fun fact, I am the most but dialed name in everybody's contact list because you're at the top. I'm at the top,

Carey: 2:35

far back.

Aaron: 2:36

Yeah. Not the funnest thing to be,

Carey: 2:41

Yeah. It gets things going.

Jennifer: 2:44

Yeah.

Carey: 2:45

Oh, absolutely.

Jennifer: 2:46

Aaron, you're down there, Louisiana. It's hot. So tell us what you've got cooking on the farm this time of year.

Carey: 2:53

I've been seeing some Facebook posts. There's some stuff cooking.

Aaron: 2:57

Oh yeah. Of course I don't really kiss and tail too much. So I do have some top secret projects I have going on play around with. We specialize like a turning quail. Have since moved on from the Bob Whites and their variations finally.

Jennifer: 3:14

Oh, you don't have'em at all anymore?

Aaron: 3:15

None at all. Oh, wow. Had them make room for Keter. We just did a big barn expansion for my newest release, which is gonna be my largest one, and it is Progressive Pod. Wow. I'm sure everyone's seen or heard of Progressive Pod before. But never actually had a bird, a progressive high bird.

Jennifer: 3:41

So tell us what makes it special.

Aaron: 3:44

What makes it special? For me as a breeder with it is there are no two birds identical. So it's every time you hatch out a bird, it'll have a different white and a different place. Over generations you will see some birds that look similar, but never identical. So it's like some of'em look like cookies and cream, I'd say. Or like for the chicken listeners, like a Millie slur, but just white and the base pattern. So it's, it has been an amazing adventure at almost two years of working on it. It has, I finally, I think I have it where it is ready to go. I didn't, I finally found patience, guys. I have been patient with something. Wow. Because I never planned on selling it because I like to hoard birds more than cell birds. I'm like, they have jumbo browns. I could sell jumbo browns. But I am several generations deep into this and. I tell you, I am extremely in love with some of the birds. I don't like a tuxedo. I'm sure I've said that several times before. People are tired of hearing that. I don't like tuxedos, but I do like progressive PO just because of the challenges as it presented to source it and also to selectively breed it for what I want.

Jennifer: 5:19

Is it, is it its own color or is it like a I don't do you put it over other colors?

Aaron: 5:27

Yeah. You put it over other colors. It is a modified there. Okay. It is also on, suspected to be on the same locust as like our dotted white and all of that stuff. It is on the s locust. For OU Genetics nerds out there. It's a beautiful bird. It could be on any base pattern. It is also incomplete, dominant, so it will show up in heterozygous or homozygous form. At a first generation crossing you you'll still see po It won't be. As dance as, generations four or five, but it'll definitely be present. You'll see it on first generation cross. And when I started playing around with it, I was working with Tibetan because that was my original base and I was interested in seeing if I could make it a jumbo because the birds I got were not. Large, the birds. The birds I originally started with were seven to nine ounces, which I mean, Celadons is okay, but I really, I'm a chunky fella, so I like chunky birds, and so I crossed it with my jumbo Tibetan, and the weight actually shot up a lot faster than what I thought. I'm averaging 12 to 14 ounces at eight weeks old. And a fancy color. So I feel like this kind of,'cause I love colors, but I also love jumbo. So I feel like for this project, for me was both ends of it satisfied my needs. I got the color and I have the size. And the size was actually easier to obtain than I throw it because I'm also doing like jumbo Celadons and whatnot. And it, it seems like it takes forever to get Celadons up the jumbos. And these guys were like. Two generations in. I'm like, Hey, look at these big guys.

Jennifer: 7:32

So the progressive part of it is, it gets wider as the bird ages?

Aaron: 7:37

Yes. So as the bird ages and as the bird molts, it'll progressively get more white on it and it'll start off as just like a few white feathers when they're in like the brooder once they're. Once they start coming in with their failures and then as they mold, usually when they're coming out the brooder you they look pretty magnificent at that point because they got a lot of pod on them and usually around the four month mark. They are really good to look at. And I've been selectively breeding for a good equal amount of pattern and white, because if you try to go for too much white. From what I've learned with it is you'll end up breeding the pattern out of it where it'll just, it'll actually progress into a white bird or it'll look like a splash. I guess if you want splash, just get splash. If you want whites, just get whites. So I like what I've been breeding on, is to keep more pattern with the whites. So like I try to stay around 50 50. And it has been working well, too bad this is not a video podcast'cause I could show pictures, but I do have'em on my Facebook page.

Jennifer: 8:56

So would it be easy for somebody to be taken advantage of buy-in birds and eggs and they get English whites or tuxedos even?

Aaron: 9:06

Could you, I would definitely recommend. Especially early on with the progress progressive PO coming out.'cause there's several people releasing it early, early spring. I would definitely source it from a reputable breed as always. But you on eBay, you could find a bunch of stuff that says PO on it because PO is a big key word right now and Progressive Pod is completely different than a pod bird. Pipe bird will not progress any, it'll just be powered in his entire life. So getting scammed or misled is the cha the chances there For sure. And you'll know at six weeks. Yes. It's in New

Jennifer: 9:54

Eugene. This is a new gene to the United States, right?

Aaron: 9:56

Yes, it's president of the United States and Germany and Europe. It is been in the United States officially probably about five years. There's a few big breeders out there that have it and are studying it. And my big breeders, I'm talking about breeders that make what I do seem like a hobby. And like I always, when I'm in my barn, I think, man, I have a ton of birds. And then I talked to some real big commercial breeders that have, 500,000 birds or a million birds. I'm like, yeah, I'm a hobbyist. Like those guys, they don't do public sales and they don't really, they're not, you're not gonna buy hatching gags from these large places. You won't see'em on social media. That's the kind of thing you get a lot of social media, big breeders. And I get, I could group myself into that category as well because that's where I do a lot of my customer interactions. But they'll put in perspective, the larger forms are not gonna be on social media and they're not gonna sell you eggs on eBay or a website even. Because I've tried, I'm like, Hey man, would you sell some eggs? And they're like, no,

Carey: 11:11

I can picture you with that meme of the guy like scratching his cheek. I got the white stuff all over it. Hey man, lemme get some new eggs.

Aaron: 11:21

I'm I'm trying, I'm like I don't need both kidneys. Would you take a kidney for a dozen hatching eggs?

Carey: 11:28

I only have one, so I can't offer that.

Aaron: 11:33

I'll share hatching gates with y'all. Give up a kidney. So the progressive high, like for me, and I'm looking at some of my notes through throughout my program what I've read for is for like cleaner edges to where it's not like the pattern melts into the white. Like I want a good crisp edge on the feathering to where you can see good definition. And I know you guys do a lot more like chicken stuff. With, I know the shows and all, Carrie, I know you, you big into that stuff and I'm really, I'm not a fan of chickens, but I respect the length of time it takes to do projects with chickens. So I know a lot of that kind of Yeah. Yeah. Alone time.

Carey: 12:19

I mean that that's actually what got me into quail was because when I want to try something with chickens, I can try it a lot faster with, yeah. Quail.

Aaron: 12:30

Yeah,

Jennifer: 12:31

so you can control the edges color.

Aaron: 12:34

You could select for it to where the edges, or instead of like color bleeding through to the white, it'll be more of a crisp line of feathering. And it takes a little bit of experience.'cause like when I was reading the literature on. Some of the stuff that I had to use Google Translate to read a lot of this stuff because I didn't have anyone's, yeah, I didn't have anyone to like, Hey man, what about this? Or, I didn't get to work side by side with anyone on it, so I had to do a lot of my own research late at night, Google Translate and so then I didn't have anything to go off of. I didn't have a picture to go off of. I had an older picture that. It wasn't too many years out from black and white to look at, to compare. So everything was done off of reading. And then I finally did make a contact overseas to compare pictures with. And kinda, they said I was basically, I was going down the right road. So after several generations of it, I developed an eye to where I could, I was actually seeing what I wanted to see.

Carey: 13:48

One of the things that I learned is you wanna talk chicken and really find like the quiet the things that nobody else is talking about. Then you're not gonna talk to somebody in America about it.

Aaron: 14:03

No.

Carey: 14:04

You're gonna have to go find somebody, find you a contact overseas.

Jennifer: 14:11

When are you planning on releasing these bad boys?

Aaron: 14:14

These are getting released on Good Friday,

Jennifer: 14:19

black Friday.

Aaron: 14:20

Black Friday. Where was I this year? You're all the way

Jennifer: 14:24

in the spring,

Carey: 14:26

Like tomorrow. Black Friday?

Aaron: 14:29

Yeah, tomorrow, black Friday. Good. On my website. That is my biggest release. I've, I'm also. Going to release sparkly Pearl Whitewing po, which I do have whitewing PO in my homestead meat baker line'cause Whitewing PO is one of my largest birds I have here right now. The white wing pies are averaging 16 ounces and laying a 20 to 22 gram eggs. Yeah, everything in that collection is exceptionally large and that collection really doesn't, it's not necessarily gonna breed true. Like you're gonna have on some pharaohs, you can have some white, like you're gonna have a heterozygous tuxedo.'cause it's not bred for a color standard. It is bred for size. So that's, I'm excited to release that one on its own. The white wing pod, just Pharaoh. I am releasing Jumble white, Sellon standard White Celadons, some splash celadons and fellow sensible celadons and feed tuxedo saladon. I've been putting in a lot of sell down work lately.

Jennifer: 15:49

Sounds like it. Apparently.

Aaron: 15:52

Oh man, it, it has been a project. I think Christina probably wants to kill me. With the brooding,

Carey: 15:59

like with the celadons, I gotta say, you can't really use LED lights. Like you can't fully see the richness of the blue under a LED light. You gotta have a regular, like real light or outside,

Aaron: 16:20

outside line is the best. It's I do have LED lining in the bourne. But if you really wanna see a good sellon color you have to go out on sunlight. I do LED lining because I'm tired of change of bulbs.

Jennifer: 16:36

What color is your feather Sensable cell it on.

Aaron: 16:39

It'll be Pharaoh's and Italians.

Jennifer: 17:35

Nice.

Aaron: 17:36

I'm not ready for the Egyptians just yet. Close, but not just yet.

Jennifer: 17:42

You don't like Egyptians, right?

Aaron: 17:47

I've grown to like them.

Carey: 17:50

They've grown on you. So what I'm curious is if you take a progressive PO bird and you put it over, say a range, you could potentially get a crimson and white offspring

Aaron: 18:08

roll time. Yeah. So progressive pod, I do have the red range. I do have Tibetan Rosetta's and I do have Pharaohs. And I'm gonna stop there because I have more, but that's, that is what's gonna be for sale.

Carey: 18:27

I have more, but you'll have

Aaron: 18:29

to wait. Yes.

Jennifer: 18:30

Can you pick the color or you just gonna, do you get what you get? I'm gonna.

Aaron: 18:34

I like to do collections to where it's easier for me to package the eggs and it's also a lower price than an individual color. And I'm gonna approach this one with the collection where it'll be a mixture of all of them or each individual color. Each individual color will be more expensive than the collection.

Carey: 18:58

Yeah, because as a collection, when you're collecting, you can collect and you don't have to really look at the cage specifically.

Aaron: 19:09

Yeah. But

Carey: 19:10

when you're getting a specific one, you're, you gotta, people can't see, but you gotta kinda look in there and be like yeah, I can't read my own handwriting on the cage card. What is that in there? You wanna make it sure you get it right when you're filling the orders.

Aaron: 19:24

So I do a lot of things backwards. So like I, I have my cage card, I print'em out, I laminated it, and I cut'em up. And then I write on the cage card what cage it is. Now you'd think we are in 2025, about to be 2026. That I would just type it and print it. Nope. I hand write it.

Carey: 19:46

You can't change that.

Aaron: 19:48

And then sometimes it, when I disinfect things and it wipes it off and it's, I do everything the horrible,

Jennifer: 19:57

so I found these nifty little tags on Amazon, of course, and they close with a zipper clothes and they're plastic, they're washable, they're reusable. And I actually sent them out on an a email campaign today to all of my, my email subscribers and I just said, you know what, if you've got pens or coops or cages or whatever, you need to see if these things are on sale for Black Friday, because you can, I still put my painter tape on'em just because I'm accustomed to walking around with painter tape on my arm, and I just write on there and then stick it right on there. But they just they're, I'm in love with those things. I've, I think I'm gonna order about two or three more hundred,

Carey: 20:38

Aaron it's a. A zip tie that you can undo with a spot to write on it. That's about an inch and a half by an inch. So when you move birds from one place to another, you can just twist the zip tie, pull it out, and take it with,

Jennifer: 20:58

are often, they're pretty nifty. They're awesome.

Carey: 21:01

Yeah.

Jennifer: 21:02

So I guess we can link that to, in the show notes. Because, Sure. Hopefully everybody need, everybody needs some kind of IDing factor.

Carey: 21:11

You would like to hope they do. Yeah.

Jennifer: 21:13

Yeah. Yeah. I discovered that the painter's tape, which I love so much, doesn't stick to anything with dust on it, like feed troughs and stuff. So I was looking for something else to stick it to and I found those. And 16 cents, you can't beat that with a anything.

Aaron: 21:31

No. That is a good price. What I do so like I have five tier cages and every whole five tier is like jumbo browns, which I have multiple of jumbo browns, but leg band each group. And I hang at leg band on the egg rollout, and each color signifies like a weight class and always go from like best down to worse at the bottom. And when I'm collecting eggs, I it's all of'em, which I never keep anything sounds bad, but I never keep anything that doesn't make weight. It's just like my top one would be like my homestead meat maker line of the pharaohs, but that's a red band. Just red band means if you see anything red labeled red. Am I born? Do not touch it. It is mine.

Jennifer: 22:21

That's yours.

Aaron: 22:22

It's mine.

Jennifer: 22:23

You sound very organized.

Aaron: 22:25

I am organized chaos.

Jennifer: 22:28

That sounds about right.

Aaron: 22:30

Christina and I cannot package eggs in, in the barn at the same time. She cannot be in the barn when I'm packaging eggs because I have a system. It's very chaotic. And she's if she has a list of things to do one through 10, she's gonna do one through 10. I'm gonna do two to nine, and then I'll jump back up to one. And

Carey: 22:49

Yeah I'm hitting like. 1, 3, 7, 8, 4, and then I'll hit the rest.

Aaron: 22:58

Yeah, I then I'll throw in like a 12 in there. Yeah.

Jennifer: 23:02

Yeah. I'm organized chaos.

Aaron: 23:04

I love it. I love it.

Carey: 23:06

I'm probably more chaos than organized.

Jennifer: 23:09

You are.

Carey: 23:12

Hey, look, you let 10 people live in your house and see how that works out.

Jennifer: 23:17

So I'm so organized chaos now that on my, I have a MacBook, right? And it has all the, I don't know what they're called, where you can do like the seven different desktops across the front. One of them is all digital sticky notes of all the crap I've got to be doing and, yeah. Yep.

Aaron: 23:36

That sounds about right. I have sticky notes. I use like the micro sticky notes. Can't see you. And oh yeah, sticky note everything. And then the writing, the rain notepads at the pages of waterproof. Okay.

Carey: 23:49

I

Aaron: 23:49

keep on like that way I can always write notes.'cause then of course I live in the south, so we have three days of winter and the rest is summertime. Always sweating and I've ruined so many notebooks and it's always like right at the end when you have a lot of information in there that you ruin it.

Jennifer: 24:05

Yes.

Aaron: 24:07

Yep.

Jennifer: 24:07

I use voice memos on my phone. That's how I record notes. Yep. Then I have to remember to transcribe'em. I think I've got 60 that need to be transcribed right about now. Good lord. Yeah, I know, right? It's a winter project. Those three days I'll transcribe notes. We have five days of winter, I don't know what I

Aaron: 24:31

do. The last time I went up there and visited you, it was pretty cold up there.

Jennifer: 24:35

You brought it with you. I think it stood at your place, didn't it?

Carey: 24:40

It's compared to Louisiana, it being cold doesn't really say a whole lot.

Jennifer: 24:47

No. Nope. The northern people are laughing at us right now. Okay, so Ken, yeah. They're

Carey: 24:53

getting snow already.

Jennifer: 24:54

So everybody listening has to order from you on Black Friday or this weekend in general, or just the day?

Aaron: 25:03

The entire weekend up until Monday. And then, and when are they

Jennifer: 25:07

gonna ship?

Aaron: 25:09

I'll start shipping in January unless a specific date after is requested.

Jennifer: 25:15

Yeah, because like Buffalo, New York people don't have spring till like April, right?

Aaron: 25:20

Yeah. Or May. Yeah. And I have a few a few early birds that already have some March and April shift dates on some items. I honor all of those requests. If you ordering that far out and you wanna, like April 12th and I'm just throwing April 12th out there, it might be a Saturday, but if you want to ship then that, that is when it's shipping. Especially that far out I'll get there. And my goal this year is to be no more than seven to 10 days from order to shipping. Of course that would be orders made after, December when I actually consider spring shipping.'cause spring shipping for me starts January.

Jennifer: 25:57

So let's meet back here in April and you let me know if you're seven to 10 days because I don't know how you can do that. I.

Aaron: 26:05

The furthest I got out this spring, I think was six weeks.

Jennifer: 26:09

Yep. I think I hit eight weeks on some colors and that was stressing me out a little bit.

Aaron: 26:17

Now that I did cheat. I, when I would get four out, I would just remove stuff off the website and not say anything. It's what, so I did cheat,

Carey: 26:25

That's not cheating. That's just Makes sense.

Aaron: 26:28

Yeah. I don't wanna be sitting on anyone's, anyone's order, because for me, I've always felt like when you sit down and you make an order for hatching eggs or anything in general, you get really excited. You got that Christmas morning feeling and if you are gonna wait for months without your order shipping, you loses the magic. So I never, I know how it feels. I never wanna make anyone else feel like that. It's weird. Because to me, I'm still a quail, hobbyist, even though I'm just a larger scale quail hobbyist.

Jennifer: 27:02

We still get excited about our first eggs. I don't know that I get excited about my quail first eggs, but I definitely get excited about the chicken first Eggs. Or Turkey and then the Turkey lays their first eggs. Like I'm all about being on Facebook. Yes. I got my first egg for the year.

Aaron: 27:19

I still get excited about the first eggs out of a cage in the grow out. I still get excited like that. We recently got back in the button quail, so we had a button quail hatch, and I didn't realize that lane was so young the last time we had button quail and we got out of it. I think it was 2021 when we got out of it. So that would put him. At six years old. So I guess he was disconnected from it. He insisted we brooded him in the house, which I'm against, but they're in the house.

Carey: 27:51

He has a

Aaron: 27:51

chair next to the brooder and he sits down and just watches the little button quail.

Jennifer: 27:58

They are so cute.

Aaron: 27:59

They I forgot how tiny they were. I have a jump. I hope

Jennifer: 28:03

you have a top on'em because they'll fly out in a week.

Aaron: 28:06

Yeah they're a lot, they're smaller, but they're a lot like Bob Whites that they just start flying so quick. Then you got NICs, especially jumbo urs, that, I left the brooder door open on one of my levels of my tower brooder, and no birds came out of it. They were just like, just looking at me. I'm like, okay, guys, I'll close the door.

Jennifer: 28:28

Mine fall out on the floor. And then they look at me like, now what do we do?

Carey: 28:32

And I put some in the, I put some in my brooder two days ago, and I'm taking'em outta the basket into the brooder. And like they wanted to jump back in the basket and they'd fall on the floor and they'd just lay there and they'd start kicking around and looking at me like, are you gonna get me? I am like, you're an idiot. Why? Why did you do that?

Aaron: 28:57

And so I do I learned something valuable from Jennifer on, because you remember one time we had this whole conversation, all three of us, about heat lamps, and I was like, team heat lamp, like yo, brutal place. It's the most ridiculous thing ever. I don't use any heat lamps anymore.

Jennifer: 29:16

The brooder plates are the way to go.

Aaron: 29:19

I it is. And look, I was, I'm an old school chicken person, from the south, and we are very stubborn, hard to change. And I got my first one and I was like, this is ridiculous. You can't see the heat, but the birds won't know what to do. Like everything. I was just negative Nelly. And after the first batch of birds, they weren't addicted to the heat and this is great. What have I been doing? Then next, another batch. I lost a ton of birds. I'm like, they were cold. What is going on here? It was about that time that I seen a post from Jennifer about raising the totes up off the ground.

Carey: 30:00

Oh yeah.

Aaron: 30:01

So we have'em off the ground and I won't, I don't think I'll ever go back to heat lamp.

Jennifer: 30:07

There's no reason to. I think really honestly, that lifting off the floor solves 90% of brooding problems. If I'm scanning through Facebook and people are like, I've got the heat on point, I've got this on point, I've got that on point. And if you say, send me a picture like a broad picture of your brooder set up, 90% of'em would be on a cold floor. And it just seeps up through the bottom of the box or the tote or whatever it is, and they get chilled from the bottom.

Carey: 30:39

And with quail it, it don't matter how many shavings or stall pellets, you can have three inches thick if crap, and they still get cold. They want to die.

Aaron: 30:52

Yep. Oh yeah. And you know how I do everything the hard way, so I use Tower Brooders, but the first five to seven days they are in totes. So out the incubator, five to seven days in totes with heat plates, then Tower Brooders. Yep. So like we're constantly moving and I'm pretty sure at some point, Christina. Will end up sticking me in a tower brooder and locking the door because I think it's like every two days that we're moving stuff around I say we, she is moving stuff around, but it works like I'm talking about like less than 1% of of death rate in brewers.

Jennifer: 31:35

So we do the same thing. I set eggs on Fridays. They hatch on Tuesdays, I move them on Wednesdays. We, the egg, the week old chicks go out from the tubs to the wire, bottom floor cages at six days so I can clean the brooders again and restart again for Wednesday. You have to have a system when we're at the scale that we are or it domino effects. I know that you can hear that I'm still congested. You don't get a day off. You don't. It. It's a machine that keeps moving like in three week increments.

Carey: 32:11

Yeah. It cracks me up every time somebody wants to get into any kind of farming. They're like, oh yeah, this is great. I'm like, you realize if you take a day off, your animals don't eat.

Aaron: 32:23

They're there goes those Bahamas strips

Carey: 32:27

and Look, I'm gonna tell you this. It is hard to find good help. I've tried. Yeah.

Jennifer: 32:34

That's a whole nother ball game. Yeah. I also saw Christina has cos now, is she putting them on the website?

Aaron: 32:43

She has decided to list them some bar coachings. They are the large file ones. We've been having them for a couple years and she finally decides that she wants to put'em on. That and I listed her Silkies a couple weeks back. She's, so we have chicken eggs available on the website now,

Jennifer: 33:06

and it's your anniversary this weekend and you're bringing her to Bryant's roost to celebrate the anniversary. That is the plan. Yeah.

Aaron: 33:14

We're gonna, we're gonna celebrate Brian's roost. That's awesome.

Jennifer: 33:17

That's the anniversary destination now?

Aaron: 33:20

Yeah it's, she knows if I'm like, Hey, let's plan this trip. Chances are we gonna get into a little bit of trouble if something's gonna involve a bird somewhere?

Jennifer: 33:29

Wow.

Aaron: 33:31

But I gotta get my, I gotta stock up on shipping foam

Jennifer: 33:33

yep.

Aaron: 33:34

And I don't like to pay shipping.

Jennifer: 33:36

You don't? You're cheap that way.

Aaron: 33:38

Yeah. Yeah, I get it. I pay enough shipping, hatching eggs that I don't wanna pay anybody else for shipping. And right now is the worst time of the year to ship'cause shipping prices are elevated.

Jennifer: 33:48

Yes, they are. All right, tell everybody again what your website is and how to find your sale prices.

Aaron: 33:55

It is Keros Family Farm. There will be no no coupon code needed. Everything's just automatically at midnight Thanksgiving night, it's gonna flip over to 30% off.

Jennifer: 34:10

Wow. Good deal. Okay. And then you're on Facebook, you're on YouTube, you're on all the stuff.

Aaron: 34:15

All the stuff. And next next Sunday after Thanksgiving is my one year YouTube live anniversary. So I've been doing live streams for one year on YouTube. So I'll probably do a bunch of giveaways, then I usually, and when I get bored on YouTube live streams, I just start giving away hatching eggs.

Jennifer: 34:35

That's a great business model.

Aaron: 34:38

I have found that. I feel I get a lot more pleasure giving things away than I do selling. I get feedback from customers that purchased and I'm like, oh cool. Congratulations on you. Good hatch. And then someone that I gave free hatching eggs, sends me pictures and Hey, I had this great hatch, and I get all giddy,'cause it's special to them.

Jennifer: 34:56

Yeah.

Aaron: 34:57

Yeah.

Jennifer: 34:57

Yep. Brian's roost is having a big Black Friday sale too that's ongoing through Cyber Monday. And I do have some fantastic deals on egg foam if you wanna find that there. If you wanna start shipping in the spring.

Carey: 35:15

Yeah.

Jennifer: 35:16

Carrie, you got any sales going on?

Carey: 35:18

So Show Pro is going to have their breeder supplement on sale. It is gonna be probably the biggest sale it's ever been on, and it will be starting whenever I create it tonight or in the morning till Monday, not at midnight. No coupon code needed. You'll just go to a parti, a particular website and buy.

Jennifer: 35:51

There you go. A lot of it. Thank you, Erin, for coming back again. Look forward to seeing you again.

Aaron: 35:57

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Jennifer: 36:01

All right. See you guys next.