How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[21hens-incharge]

One. One glorious egg!







Muttering something about a stew pot!

 

[bruceha2000]

Ours was only €13.50! You pay a bit more in towns (but generally can get something around the €15 mark) for your lunch menu but yes astounding value, in Oz you'd probably get just a simple cafe meal for that, 1 course no drinks! I understand eating is pretty cheap in the US though isnt' it?

Depends on where you eat! Cheap if you eat off the dollar menu at McDonalds. And yes you DO get what you pay for. That lunch you had WITHOUT the wine would cost at least US $30 IF you could get it. A glass of cheap wine is at least $5 alone.

Duck? not around here. Maybe in fancy big city restaurants then figure it would cost at least US $40 without dessert or wine. Oh and then there is the tip (usually 15-20%) and tax (9% here). When do I move to southern France????

Your house sounds like quite the adventure!

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Depends on where you eat! Cheap if you eat off the dollar menu at McDonalds. And yes you DO get what you pay for. That lunch you had WITHOUT the wine would cost at least US $30 IF you could get it. A glass of cheap wine is at least $5 alone.

Duck? not around here. Maybe in fancy big city restaurants then figure it would cost at least US $40 without dessert or wine. Oh and then there is the tip (usually 15-20%) and tax (9% here). When do I move to southern France????

Your house sounds like quite the adventure!

Yeah, I’d we eat out we stop by an Amish place called Gasthof in Montgomery Indiana. Not cheap but delicious buffet.

 

[pennyJo1960]

our Tavern here in town is great food but go up the road 10 miles it is Great Wall of China and yes we can get lots of food 30 for the 3 of us allot to take home too

 

[bruceha2000]

Yep, Chinese food is still a pretty good deal.

 

[mixedbreeds]

Hey Penny I have eaten there a few times every time I go threw that way. I got 27, 27, 32 and 32 eggs the last 4 days. Old Man Tom was right it was 14 degrees here this morning with a 30+ mph wind what a cool down wind is still whipping out there. We are not supposed to get above 29 or30 degrees for the next two weeks it got up to 22 today but not with the wind chill. I was going to put some heat on in the coops but it doesn’t seem to bad although I thawed there water twice today. I drove across our dam on banks lake today and the water was blowing out of the lake and freezing on my windshield that doesn’t normally happen.

 

[bruceha2000]

You shouldn't need to heat your coop. 14°F is nothing for a chicken. I have a Golden Campine which the catalog says isn't cold hearty and she's fine, it has been down to about -10°F already this year. I had 2 Cubalayas that saw even colder temperatures, no problem. Their problem was the !@#$%^&* raccoon.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Only have 5 so far but our snow is already gone lots of wreck this morning up around Seattle

 

[pennyJo1960]

So ended at 9 main coop 1 silky coop they had three egg sitting on one was broke left other side of the coop noting egg was dry inside but half buried in shavings

 

[Spartan22]

I know - the people who started the renovations did some really odd things in this old barn! We have plans for an indoor bathroom (or 2!) but it is no hassle in the warmer months and then other things like insulation / double glazing / new woodburners have seemed to have got in the way every time we've gone to do it in prewinter preps. Doesn't help that it isn't a simple 'add bathroom' we need to do quite a lot of work in what is currently one huge room to split it, treat it for woodworm, add insulation and plasterboard, and render in order to move the little one out of our room and into the other side with his brother in the other room. Then we need to split our room (it is a weird 2 level room, one level where R sleeps which will be the family bathroom!) as well as make a hole in a huge thick stone wall to run the pipes, move electricity and the washing machine (probably live without for a week or so) etc etc etc! On top we urgently need to get our holiday cottage sorted so we have some income so when we were about to launch into doing it around Christmas I was like 'wait we have lived 3 winters with it lets just get the gite (holiday cottage) done'! With all the rain I'm really regretting it but it is only a few steps out the back door and it is actually an OK bathroom (not my taste but OK!). i think foot will be firmly planted before next winter however!My poor boy is 4 and still having his bath in our (thankfully large!) kitchen sink - he doesn't care but I do! And hubby with his new diagnosed fibromyalgia also could really do with a bath - apparently hot baths with epsom salts are very helpful on those bad days! Sorry that was such a long reply!!!

We love hearing how other lives, food, cultures, it sound very exciting. I’ve never been in Europe maybe when I’m 30 and my kids bigger we can travel. Though my wife used to live in Sydney when she was a teenager. Here we take for granted so much what we have.