Any one want to join me in waiting for eggs, posting and comparing notes?

[CatSol]

I know that small pet carrier were OK on a air plane. Normally that is for dogs or cats. I would have love to see the flight attendants expression when they see that it is chickens

Wow... how many carriers I would need? ... probably have to buy another seat...
Would love a egg waiting conference. I think most of my friends and people at work are tired of hearing me talk about my chickens...

Ohhhh , theotherfoot... if we could only just get all the chicken to poop in one spot.... that would be a magical...

 

[nakstk]

I was reading on another thread someone was complaining about the amount of poop and asked if chickens will always be messy like this. Someone else posted that a chicken lay on average 45 lbs of poop in year. I guess I never really thought of the weight of the poop before.

 

[KnobbyOaks]

Someone else posted that a chicken lay on average 45 lbs of poop in year.

Excellent, that's 2 large bags of manure, minus the composting time. Saves my back.

 

[nakstk]

lol I guess they don't really lay the poop.

 

[KnobbyOaks]

Before I even got chickens, people told me you can't make any money at it. Well, that wasn't my goal at all, it was more of, grow it myself, know what's in it and enjoy the fun of chickening. But I thought it would be fun to count up how much an egg costs. Of course, you wouldn't know up front, so I have kept track so far. I didn't count the coop, pens, equipment for feeding, etc., calling that the initial investment. On my excel program, I have kept the costs of feed, pine shaving, wound note, grit, and most recently a bail of hay, just maintenance.

So I figure before I have to replace anything I will have my first egg. That first egg will be worth $169.00. The second egg will make each egg cost $84.50. Third egg will make them worth $56.33 apiece. And so forth. Just thought it would be fun to actually track what an egg would cost me and how long before my price of eggs is less than a store charges.

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

OMGoodness
Announcing the First Annual Egg Waiting Group Party at

USVIyardbirds house!

Chickens welcome!
(no mean roosters)



please contact Melabella for flight arrangements(open ended return) and
limosine rides to your favorite airport at

[email protected]


USVIyardbird, I know this may all be new information for you,email me and I can fill you in on all the details.

​

YES! MB, I should probably tell you that I live 3 hours from the nearest airport. Does that forfeit my limo ride??

Going back to the room temp egg discussion. I used to bake in a bakery, and I can tell you that fresh eggs kept at room temp are so much better for baking. I have always kept mine unwashed on the counter. They'll last a really long time. If it ever gets to the point where I'm uncertain about an egg, I just float test it. In the UK and lots of other countries, they don't wash the eggs at all, and sell them on the regular grocery aisle, unrefridgerated. It is important to keep them relatively clean though. I brush off any poo or dirt with a dry towel.

5 more eggs today! I'm only 4 eggs away from full incubator capacity!

 

[Spikes Chooks]

YES! MB, I should probably tell you that I live 3 hours from the nearest airport. Does that forfeit my limo ride??

Going back to the room temp egg discussion. I used to bake in a bakery, and I can tell you that fresh eggs kept at room temp are so much better for baking. I have always kept mine unwashed on the counter. They'll last a really long time. If it ever gets to the point where I'm uncertain about an egg, I just float test it. In the UK and lots of other countries, they don't wash the eggs at all, and sell them on the regular grocery aisle, unrefridgerated. It is important to keep them relatively clean though. I brush off any poo or dirt with a dry towel.

5 more eggs today! I'm only 4 eggs away from full incubator capacity!

I agree this is a good approach to eggs keeping well. Just a dry brush off if necessary, no washing to keep the bloom on them, then left at room temperature. I lived in London for nearly 20 years - it doesn't ever get that hot there. (No one would ever move there for the weather

).

Here in Sydney, I still keep them out the fridge but not on the counter during the summer. I use the pantry cupboard which stays cooler even on blistering heat wave days. My Mum in New Zealand has been baking for 70+ years and swears that room temperature is best - and also that the eggs should be at least a couple of weeks old. Very fresh eggs don't do so well in baking, something to do with the changes going on within the egg. Especially important if you are baking meringue, including the famous Pavlova - invented in NZ not Australia (I can hear the Aussies getting ready to disagree....)
I had a perfect 4 from 4 yesterday.

I haven't had a shell less one for several days now. Maybe the trace minerals are working.

MB - I couldn't get a papaya yet, to try your tip. There have been floods in Queensland, where they mainly grow them here, and supply has been disrupted for a bit. I suspect they will love papaya. We have had a bumper crop of watermelons this year - and they LOOOOOOOVE watermelon!

Maybe after the inaugural conference in USVI, the next one should be in Sydney. Bring all your girls over for a winter break in the sun!!!! Now that would be the way to get them laying again!!!

Happy egg and Spring waiting everyone
Katrina

 

[Melabella]

I know that small pet carrier were OK on a air plane. Normally that is for dogs or cats. I would have love to see the flight attendants expression when they see that it is chickens

Wow... how many carriers I would need? ... probably have to buy another seat...
Would love a egg waiting conference. I think most of my friends and people at work are tired of hearing me talk about my chickens...

Ohhhh , theotherfoot... if we could only just get all the chicken to poop in one spot.... that would be a magical...

You just reminded me of a movie, and I can't remember which one, where a man was traveling with a chicken on a train. Oh,now I have to find that. Cat, I bet they like getting eggs though! I actually had a few of my college graduate friends refuse my eggs, saying they were "freaked out" by them. I told them I was going to send them that video about battery farms, so they can see where their snow white eggs come from! Can't you just see us all meeting up at the airport on our way to USVI's party house! We want those pictures so we can all salivate woman!

I was reading on another thread someone was complaining about the amount of poop and asked if chickens will always be messy like this. Someone else posted that a chicken lay on average 45 lbs of poop in year. I guess I never really thought of the weight of the poop before.

nakstk, I shovel 200 lbs of horse manure a day, chicken poo is a piece of cake... figuratively that is!

Before I even got chickens, people told me you can't make any money at it. Well, that wasn't my goal at all, it was more of, grow it myself, know what's in it and enjoy the fun of chickening. But I thought it would be fun to count up how much an egg costs. Of course, you wouldn't know up front, so I have kept track so far. I didn't count the coop, pens, equipment for feeding, etc., calling that the initial investment. On my excel program, I have kept the costs of feed, pine shaving, wound note, grit, and most recently a bail of hay, just maintenance.

So I figure before I have to replace anything I will have my first egg. That first egg will be worth $169.00. The second egg will make each egg cost $84.50. Third egg will make them worth $56.33 apiece. And so forth. Just thought it would be fun to actually track what an egg would cost me and how long before my price of eggs is less than a store charges.

Please don't make me figure it out.. please don't make me figure it out! Thank goodness DH likes the chickens, and the eggs, otherwise he might just be shaking his head if he knew!

 

[Melabella]

YES! MB, I should probably tell you that I live 3 hours from the nearest airport. Does that forfeit my limo ride??

Going back to the room temp egg discussion. I used to bake in a bakery, and I can tell you that fresh eggs kept at room temp are so much better for baking. I have always kept mine unwashed on the counter. They'll last a really long time. If it ever gets to the point where I'm uncertain about an egg, I just float test it. In the UK and lots of other countries, they don't wash the eggs at all, and sell them on the regular grocery aisle, unrefridgerated. It is important to keep them relatively clean though. I brush off any poo or dirt with a dry towel.

5 more eggs today! I'm only 4 eggs away from full incubator capacity!

Heck no woman, you still qualify for free limosine service! No worries there!

So may I ask then, if an egg does have a dirt smear, or a poo smudge, I don't mean covered in poo (of which I had one time), I just mean smudges and smears, you just brush it off? Would you use that very same egg to go into the incubator, or do you have to clean those? Forgive my ingnorance, I just love to learn and hoping one day to give that a try.

Great going with the 5 eggs! I thought I only had 6 today, but DH found one on the floor outside the nest boxes. That hasn't happened in a while.

Chickens were slipping and sliding on the ice today when a wind gust came and knocked them all over like bowling pins.

MB

 

[Melabella]

I agree this is a good approach to eggs keeping well. Just a dry brush off if necessary, no washing to keep the bloom on them, then left at room temperature. I lived in London for nearly 20 years - it doesn't ever get that hot there. (No one would ever move there for the weather

).

Here in Sydney, I still keep them out the fridge but not on the counter during the summer. I use the pantry cupboard which stays cooler even on blistering heat wave days. My Mum in New Zealand has been baking for 70+ years and swears that room temperature is best - and also that the eggs should be at least a couple of weeks old. Very fresh eggs don't do so well in baking, something to do with the changes going on within the egg. Especially important if you are baking meringue, including the famous Pavlova - invented in NZ not Australia (I can hear the Aussies getting ready to disagree....)
I had a perfect 4 from 4 yesterday.

I haven't had a shell less one for several days now. Maybe the trace minerals are working.

MB - I couldn't get a papaya yet, to try your tip. There have been floods in Queensland, where they mainly grow them here, and supply has been disrupted for a bit. I suspect they will love papaya. We have had a bumper crop of watermelons this year - and they LOOOOOOOVE watermelon!

Maybe after the inaugural conference in USVI, the next one should be in Sydney. Bring all your girls over for a winter break in the sun!!!! Now that would be the way to get them laying again!!!

Happy egg and Spring waiting everyone
Katrina

Thank you for all the information Katrina,

I have read that as well about eggs keeping. Very interesting that in England they sell them in the regular isles. I always assumed that grocery stores here refrigerated as that they had all ready been a few weeks old from transit. What always worries me is the refrigeration, and then not when they are waiting to be put on theshelves, then being cooled again. Now that has to mess with a good egg! Does anyone date their eggs? I try to do that, but as I said before, we have been going through them at a pretty fast pace.

Ok, I fully agree that the 2nd annual Egg Waiting confrence should be in the southern Hemisphere in Sydney Australia!! Grand idea!!! Oh we are going to have some fun!

MB