Hi there! I'm new to BYC. I'm from SW Pennsylvania. I've had chickens before but this is my first time raising them all alone. I've got a year under my belt now, and at the ripe old age of 17 I made my first sale today! Need to keep up with feed cost some how. This site is great for advice. Glad...
What do you think? White eggs or brown. Seems like people around here associate brown eggs with being farm fresh, but I have hens that lay white eggs and there as fresh as can be. Why do people prefer brown?
I scrambled up a few of my eggs today. Aside from the skin like membrane under the shell, the egg has a consistency i don't see in store bought eggs. The whites are pretty thick and don't really mix in with the yolk. Is this typical?
Yesterday, I wasn't home to collect my eggs. It was about 80*F outside. They were shaded in the nesting box, and I have NEVER seen my hens sit on their eggs (they always sleep on their roost as well.) I collected them today along with today's batch. There's no way to tell yesterdays eggs from...