How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[akroberts1085]

Got 5 today and I need to post a picture of them because I got my first ouch egg of the year

 

[BigBlueHen53]

15.

Akroberts, what is an ouch egg?

 

[SourRoses]

8
Blue, blue, who laid who. I am so confused...

 

[gtaus]

Can you elaborate on your bedding? What paper do you use and how do you shred it?

@gtaus has a whole thread on the subject and it is fascinating.

Thanks for the shout out @BigBlueHen53.

@MargieG, if you are interested in using paper shreds for your coop bedding, you might enjoy looking at the thread Using Shredded Paper for Coop Litter - As Good As Wood Chips? where we discuss using paper shreds as coop litter.

I kind of evolved into using paper shreds as my preferred litter material, but I will advocate using any resources that a person can get for free. I have used free wood chips, leaves, dried grass, etc... They work too.

However, I now just mainly make my own paper and cardboard shreds for coop bedding and then send it out into the chicken run to compost. Paper shreds work great for me, plus I get some satisfaction when I "recycle" all our paper products right at home instead of hauling them off to the recycle center/landfill.

 

[MargieG]

@MARGIE, my DH works in a bank. He brings home big trash bags of shredded paper. It's wonderful! Unlike hay, it is clean and easy to transport in the car - and it is completely free! It does not harbor bugs of any kind. It wicks moisture from the chickens' droppings, and it stays clean and dry so there is no odor. Under the paper on the floor there remains just a dry, fine dust that can be swept up easily. Most any large office would be happy to give you their shredded paper waste if you asked for it, making it virtually labor-free as well. @gtaus has a whole thread on the subject and it is fascinating.

Thank you so much... I'm still new to the site and I'm learning how to navigate it properly.. I found a way to save the post about the paper... now I only have to find my bookmarks bahahahah

 

[MargieG]

Thanks for the shout out @BigBlueHen53.

@MargieG, if you are interested in using paper shreds for your coop bedding, you might enjoy looking at the thread Using Shredded Paper for Coop Litter - As Good As Wood Chips? where we discuss using paper shreds as coop litter.

I kind of evolved into using paper shreds as my preferred litter material, but I will advocate using any resources that a person can get for free. I have used free wood chips, leaves, dried grass, etc... They work too.

However, I now just mainly make my own paper and cardboard shreds for coop bedding and then send it out into the chicken run to compost. Paper shreds work great for me, plus I get some satisfaction when I "recycle" all our paper products right at home instead of hauling them off to the recycle center/landfill.

fantastic... I was telling BBH53 that I have saved your post.. will read it and research. I would love to recycle all the amazon and chewy cardboard boxes... I just need to find a suitable shredder.... but I'm sold!

 

[akroberts1085]

15.

Akroberts, what is an ouch egg?

An ouch egg is a really big egg. I am almost home and I will get a picture posted

 

[gtaus]

I would love to recycle all the amazon and chewy cardboard boxes... I just need to find a suitable shredder.... but I'm sold!

I just have a couple of used home paper shredders I picked up at our local church charity Thrift Shop. Nothing fancy, maybe 10 sheet max capacity. The trick to shredding cardboard boxes is cutting the cardboard into strips about 2-3 inches wide and feeding them down the center of the shredder which is usually the area marked for "credit cards". My shredders have no problem shredding those 2-3-inch-wide strips of cardboard.

 

[gtaus]

An ouch egg is a really big egg.

OK. I was wondering what an ouch egg was, but I guess that makes sense. That is a huge egg at 97.1 grams! I don't know if I ever got an egg that big, but maybe. I have had a few eggs that were so large that we could not put the top of the extra-large size egg carton down! I'm sure that they would have been in your "ouch" category!

 

[akroberts1085]

OK. I was wondering what an ouch egg was, but I guess that makes sense. That is a huge egg at 97.1 grams! I don't know if I ever got an egg that big, but maybe. I have had a few eggs that were so large that we could not put the top of the extra-large size egg carton down! I'm sure that they would have been in your "ouch" category!

Yes it is. I have had a good amount of ouch eggs. At 70 grams a chicken egg is said to be a jumbo egg so anything after that is definitely an ouch egg although at 70 grams it's a safe bet to say it's an ouch egg.