Australorps breed Thread

[tony30536]

I work for a company that works for a big poultry company and they are afraid someone will bring in the bird flu so they made us all sign a paper saying we could not have any kind of poultry ....so I moved all poultry to my brothers until I find a new job

 

[Birdrain92]

I work for a company that works for a big poultry company and they are afraid someone will bring in the bird flu so they made us all sign a paper saying we could not have any kind of poultry ....so I moved all poultry to my brothers until I find a new job

Well that makes sense too.

 

[Granny368W]

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..

 

[appps]

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..

Yeah I think I would be too. It's a long time to leave them.

 

[Greg88]

I work for a company that works for a big poultry company and they are afraid someone will bring in the bird flu so they made us all sign a paper saying we could not have any kind of poultry ....so I moved all poultry to my brothers until I find a new job

not uncommon anymore. AI cost the industry many millions of $$ last fall.
suck for you though,,,

 

[bruceha2000]

And the price of generic store brand eggs at the supermarket is still way up - $3.69/large white about double what I think they charged before the AI losses.

Glad my 3 of my 7 pullets are laying (come on the rest of you, including the 2 NOT BAs. No idea how long it takes a JG to come to POL). Big surprise in the nest today though. One of my 3.5 Y/O Anconas laid a 54g this morning (her usual is ~60g). First egg since Oct 17th and her moult was July-Aug this year. But it seems common with those two to start back up after moult for a month then shut down for a couple, then work a week or two in Dec or Jan, the knock off for a few more weeks until mid-late Feb.

 

[Birdrain92]

And the price of generic store brand eggs at the supermarket is still way up - $3.69/large white about double what I think they charged before the AI losses.

Glad my 3 of my 7 pullets are laying (come on the rest of you, including the 2 NOT BAs. No idea how long it takes a JG to come to POL). Big surprise in the nest today though. One of my 3.5 Y/O Anconas laid a 54g this morning (her usual is ~60g). First egg since Oct 17th and her moult was July-Aug this year. But it seems common with those two to start back up after moult for a month then shut down for a couple, then work a week or two in Dec or Jan, the knock off for a few more weeks until mid-late Feb.

The average price for eggs in the US is $2.69 was originally $1.96 for the US average but when Avian Influenza hit the mid west; especially Iowa, they had to increase egg prices. If a flock tests positive for Avian Influenza all birds within a radius of the facility will be butchered. Reason why I add especially Iowa is because Iowa is the number one state in egg production; or was.

 

[appps]

That's still pretty cheep. Ours here are about $5au which is about $3.60us per dozen non cage eggs. and our prices haven't gone up due to anything, they've been that price for a very long time

 

[ronott1]

That's still pretty cheep. Ours here are about $5au which is about $3.60us per dozen non cage eggs. and our prices haven't gone up due to anything, they've been that price for a very long time

cage free eggs are much higher. The lower priced eggs here are from million plus hen egg factories--In cages so small that the hen cannot move much.

 

[appps]

cage free eggs are much higher. The lower priced eggs here are from million plus hen egg factories--In cages so small that the hen cannot move much.

Yeah good point. Stopped buying them so long ago. Those are more $3.80 - $4.00au. I can't remember a time they were under $3.00 though.