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[Kikwi]

Is there one there again?

Yes, the price will come down quickly--the more productive the breed the faster too. One or two Generations from GFF Will do it. If GFF sells them for 1000 then people sell the second for 500. GFF lowers their price so then people with them lower their price. Eventually GFF sells them for 50 and people with them sell them for 25. Hatching eggs then go for 50 per dozen. Eventually GFF quits selling them and moves on to another Breed, like the all black one now.

It is the free market in action!

With less than 60 eggs/yr those Ayam Cemani will take awhile to come down in price, I imagine. I've got my eye on one of those when it's time for a new flock in a few years or so. Hopefully they'll be affordable then!

While I'm waiting for Wazine and float test results to arrive, the girls have been getting a buttload of garlic and cayenne powder mixed in with a hot mash. The dropping board is showing HUGE poops, and a bit firmer too. What an odd effect. I wonder what the eggs are going to taste like.

 

[ronott1]

With less than 60 eggs/yr those Ayam Cemani will take awhile to come down in price, I imagine. I've got my eye on one of those when it's time for a new flock in a few years or so. Hopefully they'll be affordable then!

While I'm waiting for Wazine and float test results to arrive, the girls have been getting a buttload of garlic and cayenne powder mixed in with a hot mash. The dropping board is showing HUGE poops, and a bit firmer too. What an odd effect. I wonder what the eggs are going to taste like.

Garlic. The red pepper will not change the egg flavor.

Yes but the Ayam Cemani are from Sweden and lay a lot more eggs than 60 per year.

 

[Kikwi]

Yes but the Ayam Cemani are from Sweden and lay a lot more eggs than 60 per year.

Even better!

 

[ronott1]

Originally Posted by ronott1


Yes but the Ayam Cemani are from Sweden and lay a lot more eggs than 60 per year.


Even better!

Yes it is! I cannot get a firm number of eggs per year from those that have them but someone on the thread found a first egg today. We should know in a year or so. My guess is closer to 120 per year.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Garlic. The red pepper will not change the egg flavor.

Yes but the Ayam Cemani are from Sweden and lay a lot more eggs than 60 per year.

Huh? I thought they were from Asia?

 

[ronott1]

Originally Posted by ronott1

Yes but the Ayam Cemani are from Sweden and lay a lot more eggs than 60 per year.

Huh? I thought they were from Asia?

There are two legally imported Lines, one from GFF and one from Toni Marie. Toni's came through Sweden in 2002. GFF says legally imported but they may have worked though Sweden too.

There is a type of Black Chicken from Sweden so we all need to be very careful with what we get. I would rather get the one from Sweden:

The researchers also studied other chicken breeds where fibromelanosis occurs, including the Bohuslän-Dals svarthöna breed from Sweden, and they found that all fibromelanotic breeds carried the exact same very unusual mutation. This finding is consistent with anecdotal evidence suggesting that this Swedish breed of chicken inherited their black skin and internal connective tissue colour from Asian chickens that were first brought to Norway by a sailor on the East Asian trade routes centuries ago.

They look like this:

 

[Kikwi]

There are two legally imported Lines, one from GFF and one from Toni Marie. Toni's came through Sweden in 2002. GFF says legally imported but they may have worked though Sweden too.

There is a type of Black Chicken from Sweden so we all need to be very careful with what we get. I would rather get the one from Sweden:

The researchers also studied other chicken breeds where fibromelanosis occurs, including the Bohuslän-Dals svarthöna breed from Sweden, and they found that all fibromelanotic breeds carried the exact same very unusual mutation. This finding is consistent with anecdotal evidence suggesting that this Swedish breed of chicken inherited their black skin and internal connective tissue colour from Asian chickens that were first brought to Norway by a sailor on the East Asian trade routes centuries ago.

Sweden is just chock-full (or should I say chook-full??) of interesting chicken breeds.

On another note, I stumbled across some alarming info that oyster shell can have a high lead content!

DH was telling me about an article he read, saying that some backyard eggs from highly urbanized areas have been found to have high lead content. I had assumed that's when they're scratching in soil that hasn't had lead remediation done, such as sheet mulching (thank god we did!). But that's when I found out about the oyster shell, and even some problems with lead content in some big name feeds, like Purina.

So I'm going to throw out the oyster shell I have since I don't have the bag anymore to check the source. I also discovered that a local company, Jerico Products in Petaluma, harvests old oyster shell deposits from well before the Gold Rush era, which they claim are "the only oyster shells that meet Prop 65 lead-content regulations."

In any case, I think I'll just crush leftover eggshells and feed it back to the birds instead.

 

[OR4-hmom]

Hello again everyone!

Took me awhile to catch up on all the happenings.

I have started to get eggs from the BLRW's and the basques started yesterday or the day before. Not sure which it was since I was rolling out the driveway at 6:30 for DD's bowling tournament, rescheduled after snow storm. The basque are laying the darkest eggs of all my layers, not like the eggs they hatched from at all! Since the lights have been on trying to keep the inside waterers from freezing we are getting more eggs than we can eat. Sure glad we are finally getting above freezing during the day. I now appreciate the ease of a garden hose when doing chores, two weeks playing ice breaker is enough!

I lost my sweet Ginger, I may try and find some more bantam partridge rocks eggs this spring. I had hopes of doing the NYD hatch but put off ordering until late and then when we got such nasty weather I didn't feel as bad for not getting eggs sent to me. We were in the single digits at night, can't imagine 6° does much to improve hatching.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Hello again everyone!

Took me awhile to catch up on all the happenings.

I have started to get eggs from the BLRW's and the basques started yesterday or the day before. Not sure which it was since I was rolling out the driveway at 6:30 for DD's bowling tournament, rescheduled after snow storm. The basque are laying the darkest eggs of all my layers, not like the eggs they hatched from at all! Since the lights have been on trying to keep the inside waterers from freezing we are getting more eggs than we can eat. Sure glad we are finally getting above freezing during the day. I now appreciate the ease of a garden hose when doing chores, two weeks playing ice breaker is enough!

I lost my sweet Ginger, I may try and find some more bantam partridge rocks eggs this spring. I had hopes of doing the NYD hatch but put off ordering until late and then when we got such nasty weather I didn't feel as bad for not getting eggs sent to me. We were in the single digits at night, can't imagine 6° does much to improve hatching.

So sorry you lost Ginger.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Is there one there again?

Yes, the price will come down quickly--the more productive the breed the faster too. One or two Generations from GFF Will do it. If GFF sells them for 1000 then people sell the second for 500. GFF lowers their price so then people with them lower their price. Eventually GFF sells them for 50 and people with them sell them for 25. Hatching eggs then go for 50 per dozen. Eventually GFF quits selling them and moves on to another Breed, like the all black one now.

It is the free market in action!

not sure but I was watching one and forgot. went for 24.00 for 6 eggs another went for a little more with 8