I feel like nobody wants my eggs!
And I have more than my family can reasonably eat. I have had a few people buying eggs off of me, but they are very sporadic (and one I'm sure will not be back because his wife grew up on a farm and says she hates farm eggs...((crazy woman)).
I have 3 light brahmas, 5 ee's and 5 black australorps (had more but the neighbor's dog killed a few). I am just not getting good quality eggs for selling. I have to pick through them to find the best looking ones to sell and that is so annoying because most of them don't make the cut (we end up eating the ugly ones
).
The brahmas' eggs are poor quality, almost always have blood/meat spots and blood spots on the outer shell. The australorps I got because I heard they were good layers and would lay almost an egg a day, but their eggs are terrible quality...often having blood spot (not as bad as the brahmas), but the worst problem is the shell quality. Even though I have them on a complete feed and free-choice oyster shell, their eggs are often misshapen (bulges, wrinkles, weak tips, rough spots, unusually long and pointy) and a few spotty on the outer shell. My EE's lay beautiful blue eggs that are perfectly shaped, strong shelled and rarely have blood spot, but their eggs are Medium sized, which isn't preferable to my buyers. I love them though. All my chickens are together in the same flock under the same conditions.
What I am wanting are nice quality large/jumbo brown eggs. I love having chickens, and more is more!
I like having a good sized flock, but I just can't eat all these eggs and giving them away is even getting hard to do.
I am thinking I will just have to try another breed, looking at maybe Golden Comets, but not decided yet. I admit that I am drawn to the fancier looking breeds, but that's not always practical. I will live.
If you sell eggs and are pleased with the quality you are getting, I would love to hear which breeds you have had good luck with and would recommend for this purpose. I am partial to heavy breeds and brown egg layers though. Did you start with a lot of chickens then have to cull a lot for quality, or did they just tend to be good layers in the first place? I can cull if I have to, although I hate doing it. I wonder if that would be a pain in the butt to try to figure out who lays nice eggs and who lays duds and sort them all out?
I want eggs I can be proud to sell and not have to worry that customers won't be back.
I have 3 light brahmas, 5 ee's and 5 black australorps (had more but the neighbor's dog killed a few). I am just not getting good quality eggs for selling. I have to pick through them to find the best looking ones to sell and that is so annoying because most of them don't make the cut (we end up eating the ugly ones
The brahmas' eggs are poor quality, almost always have blood/meat spots and blood spots on the outer shell. The australorps I got because I heard they were good layers and would lay almost an egg a day, but their eggs are terrible quality...often having blood spot (not as bad as the brahmas), but the worst problem is the shell quality. Even though I have them on a complete feed and free-choice oyster shell, their eggs are often misshapen (bulges, wrinkles, weak tips, rough spots, unusually long and pointy) and a few spotty on the outer shell. My EE's lay beautiful blue eggs that are perfectly shaped, strong shelled and rarely have blood spot, but their eggs are Medium sized, which isn't preferable to my buyers. I love them though. All my chickens are together in the same flock under the same conditions.
What I am wanting are nice quality large/jumbo brown eggs. I love having chickens, and more is more!
I am thinking I will just have to try another breed, looking at maybe Golden Comets, but not decided yet. I admit that I am drawn to the fancier looking breeds, but that's not always practical. I will live.
If you sell eggs and are pleased with the quality you are getting, I would love to hear which breeds you have had good luck with and would recommend for this purpose. I am partial to heavy breeds and brown egg layers though. Did you start with a lot of chickens then have to cull a lot for quality, or did they just tend to be good layers in the first place? I can cull if I have to, although I hate doing it. I wonder if that would be a pain in the butt to try to figure out who lays nice eggs and who lays duds and sort them all out?
I want eggs I can be proud to sell and not have to worry that customers won't be back.
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