Hello, I usually try to wash eggs with paper towel and wather... but there are something just can't get off. If I want to display and sell those eggs, I'll like to make sure all of them are perfectly clean.... What do you use to wash eggs? Powder or liquid solution? Where do you order from...
I am thinking about placing a 'Fresh Egg' for sale sign (with my phone number) at the front of our yard. We have a lot of people walking their dogs, etc. But I am not home during the day and in the evenings or weekends, etc. Will people try to knock on the door during the day and assuming we are...
Thought I had it ready for my chicks this friday.. brooder, feeder, and waterer, poultry light, temperture, etc. Then I dug up the grower's feed that I bought a few months ago.... ops! It's broken and eaten by mice! So I throw the whole bag away.
My chicks comes on Friday ... I can't get grower...
She gives me all changes. So it looks like a lot! I have 12 hens and get average about 9-10 eggs a day. I have been giving them away (usually half dozen each time). She insist paying a dozen instead.
$2 return on many hundred dollars / hours...
Joy of having chickens and give/sell eggs...
I want to be able to tell which chicken is which and give them names. I have 4 Barred Rock and 8 RIR. How should I mark them? Any easy homemade stuff I can use to label them?
Jean
Wow! What a great deal! Check this out:
http://www.eggcartons.com/images/special/ProductSpecials.html
I just placed an order and it works! What a deal! Go for it.
Jean
I am thinking about getting some egg cartoons. Where are the best web sites (best deals) that you shop at? Thank you. Or any local store that sells it?
Hello,
I have two issues with my layers. Both I feed 16% layer feed.
1. Barred Rock laying hard-shell eggs every day, but I have been seeing some breeding (blood drops) on the ground where she hang out . Is she sick? What can I do?
2. RIR laying soft shell eggs, or some times no shell...
I plan to order 13 meat birds from ideal poultry this spring.
However, should I order all male, all female, or mixed?
I like to have good meat-n-feed conversion ratio (which male are better). But I am concerned if male birds will be too loud? How about the taste? What would you do? Pleaset...
What else do you do with your eggs? Facial? Glue? Can you post your ideas?
Here are some I have found online:
Make a facial
Who has time or money to spend at the local day spa, paying someone to tell you how awful your skin looks? For a little pampering, head to the refrigerator and grab an...
Thank you guys so much! This is the most friendly forum I have ever been! I guess you can be a bad person and love raising chickens at the same time.
Jean
My girls would be laying in min Jan. I was counting days down. Yesterday when I went to feed them, 2 eggs! Yes! My two quiet-don't-like-to-be-messed-with barred Rock girls!
I ran upstairs to and called my husband and our 3 year old daughter. He's getting her ready to the bed. The way I 'called'...