A customer at the place where I work came in yesterday and we were chatting. She said she had around 200 hens and instead of washing the eggs, she soaks them for at least 24 hours so the dirt and manure falls right off them without any scrubbing or effort on her part. I don't wash my eggs unless...
My SIL gave me 5 of her young buff rocks, who have just started laying. One of the eggs I got tonight was still very warm, but has a chip out of it. She apparently perched low and just "dropped" it from her low perch which caused the small chip. The thing is, the membrane is still intact. I put...
I bought 8 barred rocks in March and they're all doing wonderfully. My sister-in-law's daughter had various chickens for fair this year and after fair they offered some of the extras to me. I took 5 buff rock hens. SIL pointed out that a few of the buffs had odd shaped eye openings. I think at...