Recent content by JimWWhite

All we get. We'll use four a day on average and the other 15 or so go into cartons that I take in to work with me. Teresa has one lady at her work who buys them. But I swear when I come up to the building where I work with my Trader Joe's bag that I carry the eggs in someone lets out an...

Anyone close by to Statesville have a Polish Rooster for sale? A young cockerel would be great. Thanks! Jim

Well, I've not posted for the past couple of weeks but I'm still here and kicking. Just been too busy with the garden and all. The Gals have been great all spring long. The 22 BSL's and 4 guineas have been giving us lots of eggs. We're now getting two eggs each day from the guineas. I'm...

I sold 8 dozen today at work and Teresa took in 2 dozen to her work and sold those @ $3.00 a dozen. One guy called me from home where he was taking the day off and actually came in to the office to get his eggs. He made me promise that I'd save him a dozen. Not too hard this week because a...

I put it in my garden. Generally I'll put it in an area I'm not going to plant this season and I'll let it cool off some. I took out a load recently and put it where I'm going to plant my fall garden this year. Specifically I'm going to plant a 4'x45' box of potatoes, collards, and lettuce...

You want happy, happy, happy hens? Give 'em sand. Chickens need to have their sand baths every day. They sell a course sand here called 'Creek Sand'. I assume it's called that because they dredge it up out of the local creeks. Anyways, it's plentiful and cheap. I buy it at the local...

20 on Monday, 21 on Tuesday, 20 on Wednesday, 20 on Thursday, and 20 Today. And big brown ones too. All from our 22 BSL's. Gotta love them BSL's. They's laying machines.

20 again today from our 22 BSL's. It was a cold and windy day here in central NC. I wouldn't blame them for sitting inside the coop all day long trying to stay warm.

CountryGirl, Really nice set up you have there. Lots of room for your Gals. Is that a couple of peafowl I see in there?

LookyHere, This is pretty much what I've done. When I built the run and before I enclosed it I laid in about 2 inches of what they call Crush 'n Run which is just gravel and sand. And then I added another 2 inches of course creek sand to that and had the same results. Now the Gals have...

21 today from our 22 BSL's. We've gotten 19 to 21 eggs each day for the past week or so from the Gals. These BSL's are even better layers than the previous flock of Golden Comets we had and they were great layers. Wow!

For the past three days we've gotten 20 on Sunday, 21 on Monday, and 20 eggs today from our 22 BSL's And to top it off many, if not most of them have been in the extra large to jumbo size. We've been getting some really nice eggs lately. And something that seems a little 'strange' is that...

20 big brown ones from our 22 BSL's. There have been some really large eggs that came in the past few days. I've got at least 3 dozen eggs in the fridge that are all jumbo-sized eggs. I've gotten several that are extra jumbo but they go in my omelettes. They wouldn't fit in a carton anyways...

7 dozen today for $3.00/dz. I was one egg short of my eighth dozen. Someone must have been holding out.

I've got $55 in the jar. When I get to $105 I'll deposit it in the credit union. This is a cool way to save. Novel to say the least.