Australorps breed Thread

[Birdrain92]

That's expensive! I sell eggs here at $2.00 a dozen and the people who buy from me say it's better eggs and better price for eggs than the store. Haven't seen there prices yet though. I should see how the stores price compare to mine.

 

[Gramma Chick]

I have not found another whitish egg....Maybe it was just the first egg she laid....And has just gotten darker...I'm just a bit worried about leaving them for a few weeks. We live in the mountains and don't really have anyone close enough to check on them...I'm also worried about all the eggs that will be stacking up..One of our neighbors, down the road about 8 miles is going to watch our horses while we're gone. We have to walk them up their long drive way because it's all icy....They have 2 girls so I'm going to talk to them and see if they might check on my hens. They have chickens also and they have had a fox trying to get their chickens. I know our hens are safe from anything like that. I'm rambling on because I'm worried. Sorry..

offer them the eggs to watch out / check on the chickens ...they would need fresh water too.
Chickens tend to mess that up

 

[bruceha2000]

That's expensive! I sell eggs here at $2.00 a dozen and the people who buy from me say it's better eggs and better price for eggs than the store. Haven't seen there prices yet though. I should see how the stores price compare to mine.

People here put out signs on the road anywhere from $3 to $5/doz. I sell my excess (which sadly isn't often) to 2 friends I used to work with. When I started the girls were pullets laying medium and I charged $2.50. Figured to raise it to $3 when they made it to large but decided not to raise the price on my first customers - grandfathered

so they get everything from medium to jumbo; white, brown, blue or green depending on which girls are laying. They were paying a premium over generic battery cage eggs, got a deal compared to other real free range eggs and now are making out price wise (since the June pullets are finally laying) with the supply and demand pricing of battery eggs due to the AI problem in the midwest. My smaller BA is my best layer along with an EE.

These eggs are from the happiest chickens around. Kitchen scraps and BOSS in the mornings, scratch at roost time, local feed mill chicken food in the coop, all the bugs, plants, etc they want to find for themselves on a couple of acres of land around the house and barns all spring, summer and fall. Grocery store bought "range fed" eggs from a large local cage free producer pale in comparison and cost twice as much. There is a local "hobby farm" that sells eggs at the family run market I frequent for $4.50/dozen. I get these when I have had to buy eggs, they look pretty much like the eggs from my girls.

 

[appps]

Good grief these new ones are daft! I was crouched over holding a lettuce leaf and Tonio kept trying to eat my thumb instead. Then the big girls came over which scared her off and next thing I know I've got a blasted chicken on my back! I think I'm actually glad it wasn't a rooster now, would be a handful if it was!

 

[getaclue]

Yeah, they get very close, and personal for treats.

 

[bruceha2000]

On of my BAs will jump in a lap for food. The birds that occasionally like to get on a shoulder or back if bent over are the Anconas.

 

[Clinton 78]

My BA's are eating there eggs. What can I do about this?
I feed them oyster shells, seven way scratch feed, and I gave them the best laying mash I can find. I try to gather the eggs three or four times a day on the days I'm off from work I don't want to have to get rid of them but I don't know what else to do? Please help

 

[tony30536]

My BA's are eating there eggs. What can I do about this?
I feed them oyster shells, seven way scratch feed, and I gave them the best laying mash I can find. I try to gather the eggs three or four times a day on the days I'm off from work I don't want to have to get rid of them but I don't know what else to do? Please help

...I seen somewhere they cracked a egg open a little and filled with hot pepper they said it may take 2 or 3 times but will break them...sounds easy worth a try

 

[Birdrain92]

My BA's are eating there eggs. What can I do about this?
I feed them oyster shells, seven way scratch feed, and I gave them the best laying mash I can find. I try to gather the eggs three or four times a day on the days I'm off from work I don't want to have to get rid of them but I don't know what else to do? Please help

You can try putting golf balls in the nest. I've heard some people use that.

 

[ronott1]

My BA's are eating there eggs. What can I do about this?
I feed them oyster shells, seven way scratch feed, and I gave them the best laying mash I can find. I try to gather the eggs three or four times a day on the days I'm off from work I don't want to have to get rid of them but I don't know what else to do? Please help

Make sure they do not have parasites--Worms, lice or mites.

Give them a vitamin supplement that has vit. D3 in it or D3
Supplement with calf mana. Calf mana and oyster shell calcium will make the eggs shells hard fast.

Sometimes hens go through a phase of this and it will stop. For those times and if the above does not help, consider roll out nest boxes.