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[cherylcohen]

I did want to share that I have officially sold my first carton of eggs! My son's off-site Spanish teacher told me a while back she'd be interested in buying from us. She spent one class teaching the kids Spanish words and songs about chickens on account of my son having chickens........It was very nice of her. So last week I took her 3 pretty eggs which she absolutely loved (and she said she hoarded all to herself-hehe). It's nice to have a customer that appreciates your eggs as much as she does.
Here is a photo of the dozen I sold her :

SO PRETTY congrats

 

[Miss Molly]

SO PRETTY congrats

Beautiful Variety! It is awesome when your customer understand the Difference between store and home grown.
I have some customers that open the carton when picking them up, just to see the color Variety. They get almost as excited as I do.
It makes me feel so proud!

 

[SilkieRose]

Click the link in my signature. All of your questions and more are there:

hygrometer measures humididt
pipping is the breaking of the inner membrane and then the shell.
zipping is the chick using the beak tooth to open up the shell to hatch

Day 7, 14 and 18 is for checking the size of the air cell at the big end of the egg. first you see veining. Then you see movement and the at the end you see darkness. All are good to see.

Good hatching!

Thanks, Ron! I know what the questions mean, but I just want to lay out a format for her science project Thank you so much. I will check out your link so she can get started! I just know there are other questions that are out their in all of our chicken-loving brains that would encourage her to critically think about. Any other random questions that pop into anybody's mind would be great to add to the report Thanks for the help.!! Shelly

 

[cherylcohen]

Beautiful Variety! It is awesome when your customer understand the Difference between store and home grown.
I have some customers that open the carton when picking them up, just to see the color Variety. They get almost as excited as I do.
It makes me feel so proud!

I don't sell my eggs but rather just gift them to neighbors but I love presenting them in clear eco containers, just for that reason!

 

[zooweemama]

Hello everyone! We're without Internet for a not so its hard to catch up on my little phone. Hopefully by beginning next week all should be normal again.

I did want to see if anyone wanted 2 pet drakes? Despite my numbers we still have some overmating going on. Bald necks and today an eye injury. They are sweet boys. One is a crested runner and the other a buff duck. I can't enough ladies fast enough to help out. They are free to a good home and I am willing to drive a bit to get them there or halfway there. If I CL someone will just eat them and selling boy ducks... Hard to do. Anyway if anyone is interested let me know! I can provide pics upon request. I had to go get them with my phone since I can't access the Internet with my pc.

I'm going back a little to see if I missed anything. Hopefully no predator happenings. Anyone take home ribbons from the show?!

 

[ronott1]

Quote: The link has pictures and lots of hatching information that could be used in a report.

Sally Sunshine did a great job!

 

[SilkieRose]

Click the link in my signature. All of your questions and more are there:

hygrometer measures humididt
pipping is the breaking of the inner membrane and then the shell.
zipping is the chick using the beak tooth to open up the shell to hatch

Day 7, 14 and 18 is for checking the size of the air cell at the big end of the egg. first you see veining. Then you see movement and the at the end you see darkness. All are good to see.

Good hatching!

Ron! That link is amazing!!! You were right! All the questions I need are there!! --- question: should I be candling pointy side up to see the air sacs better?

 

[ronott1]

Quote: No, you can see the air cell from the big end. With dark eggs, you can put a light on both the top and the bottom.

On day 5 to 7 you usually see development.

Have fun!

 

[ronott1]

I did want to share that I have officially sold my first carton of eggs! My son's off-site Spanish teacher told me a while back she'd be interested in buying from us. She spent one class teaching the kids Spanish words and songs about chickens on account of my son having chickens........It was very nice of her. So last week I took her 3 pretty eggs which she absolutely loved (and she said she hoarded all to herself-hehe). It's nice to have a customer that appreciates your eggs as much as she does.
Here is a photo of the dozen I sold her :

I sell eggs mostly to co workers. One of them was getting eggs from her husbands work. She got tired of the little cracked and dirty eggs he was selling her. He only feeds his scratch so you can also guess which eggs taste better too.

This morning she told be that her husband was eating eggs from my flock last weekend and looked up and said "These taste amazing!" She is getting 3 dozen from me this Friday.

Cheers!

 

[juststruttin]

I don't sell my eggs but rather just gift them to neighbors but I love presenting them in clear eco containers, just for that reason!

Beautiful eggs, great presentation