How is your flock today?

[Parront]

I should be sending you our duck eggs. We only ask $2.00 a Doz. for chicken and $3.00 for duck eggs. The money goes back into the girls anyway to help keep them all Healthy and Happy.

We have the tourists here in the summer, the Farmer's Market sells out of all eggs by 10 am. Chicken eggs, nice large brown and green, are $6.00/Doz. I just do not want to go there at dawn to sell my few eggs. I have a waiting list right now for chicken eggs @ $5.00/doz. They come over to my house, the & the eggs are fresh from the day before. Win/Win!

 

[Parront]

Hey, that's a good idea! Then she can can up jars of some drake to sell to me!

Drake is lots of work, you can have some if you want to come over next Tuesday when @CaroleW & I are having "harvest time". (And join in the fun)!

 

[CaroleW]

I have a 360, the light is ok for white eggs, but it was not so good on the green duck eggs. Any darker color than that I would want a bigger & brighter light. This is a white duck egg after 10 days.

I look at the light green eggs (chicken) and think - that should be easy enough to candle - BUT NO - any color other than white seems to be very difficult to candle. Even an occasional white egg seems to have thicker/thinner speckles when candled not apparent to naked eye.

 

[Parront]

I look at the light green eggs (chicken) and think - that should be easy enough to candle - BUT NO - any color other than white seems to be very difficult to candle. Even an occasional white egg seems to have thicker/thinner speckles when candled not apparent to naked eye.

That is one good reason to candle, eggs with thin spots and hairline cracks are not the best ones to incubate, and you might just want to eat them right away. They crack when you boil them, too. A dark brown egg really needs a very bright flashlight. And a dark room. And some luck would be good, some speckled eggs are very difficult for me. I just put all the green eggs in for the ducks if the shell looked ok and it seemed dark inside at 10 days. There were lighter ones that I opened and were not developed. I never could see the veins well enough to say anything on the green eggs, but they hatched pretty well!

 

[416bigbore]

We have the tourists here in the summer, the Farmer's Market sells out of all eggs by 10 am. Chicken eggs, nice large brown and green, are $6.00/Doz. I just do not want to go there at dawn to sell my few eggs. I have a waiting list right now for chicken eggs @ $5.00/doz. They come over to my house, the & the eggs are fresh from the day before. Win/Win!

That is so awesome you have an extra market to where people can have the awesome opportunity to grab some farm fresh eggs! The common person is clueless to the difference unless they have been exposed to farm living.

 

[416bigbore]

I am a fan of the big duck eggs. They eat like there is not tomorrow, though! I have a couple of egg customers who only want the duck eggs because they have allergies to chicken eggs. They are happy to give me $8.00/Doz, since at the Farmer's Market here they charge $9.00. I needed more girl ducks, so I hatched these backyard mixes. I will have 4 new layers this fall, duck eggs will be coming out my ears!

That won't be the only thing coming out your ears if people will pay $8.00 a Doz!

 

[416bigbore]

Hey, that's a good idea! Then she can can up jars of some drake to sell to me!

One of my favorite is old thyme canned Chicken, Pork and Deer meat. People now a days have no clue as to how the canned meat started. At least I know what I put into my jars before I process them!

 

[416bigbore]

I am hoping for more green duck eggs, too. That is a very sad picture!

We only have one Mallard hen who will lay a true green duck egg. It isn't very big, but it does have a cool factor to it!

Our other Mallard hen who is her sister will lay a lighter greyish egg and a bit larger for some odd reason?

They are both healthy girls and we love them and their eggs!

 

[Parront]

One of my favorite is old thyme canned Chicken, Pork and Deer meat. People now a days have no clue as to how the canned meat started. At least I know what I put into my jars before I process them!

Nothin' but duck with a pinch of pickling salt.

 

[Parront]

We only have one Mallard hen who will lay a true green duck egg. It isn't very big, but it does have a cool factor to it!

Our other Mallard hen who is her sister will lay a lighter greyish egg and a bit larger for some odd reason?

They are both healthy girls and we love them and their eggs!

The big green eggs are laid by the Buff duck. A smaller green egg from the Rouen.