my chickens are trying to kill me

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

Think food bank.

I have 12 little girls coming over this week to learn about hens and wash and prep eggs to load into cartons to deliver to the food closet.

Or crack them into a ziplock baggie and freeze for when the flow is not so good. (add veggies, spices, mmmm)

Or give them to neighbors for tolerating the noise.

Or donate to school's silent auction one dozen per week delivered to highest bidder.

Or...

 

[KristyHall]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

Think food bank.

I have 12 little girls coming over this week to learn about hens and wash and prep eggs to load into cartons to deliver to the food closet.

Or crack them into a ziplock baggie and freeze for when the flow is not so good. (add veggies, spices, mmmm)

Or give them to neighbors for tolerating the noise.

Or donate to school's silent auction one dozen per week delivered to highest bidder.

Or...

I am freezing, and giving away to elderly neighbors on fixed budgets ( retirement checks are rarely enough for those poor people to live on) but giving to food banks is a good idea. I'll have to see if any will take fresh eggs around here.​

 

[KristyHall]

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i'll keep that in mind, though I warn you, i have a mixed flock. I don't have a particular breed. I've been breeding mine for over six years and selecting them to fit my criteria which is health, ability to thrive on a largely free range diet, size (they are dual purpose meat and egg birds), temperament/intelligence (smarter birds last longer), and egg production and size. My chickens lay rather large eggs, and lay a lot of them.

So I have fat, fast, pushy, smart, large egg laying birds that sweep through the yard like a flock of feathered locusts that will beat the stuffing out of you if you bug them on the nest.

They are rainbow colored feathers, mixes of reds and blacks whites, stripes, speckled, and iridescent green/blues/purples/blacks.

 

[crossgirl]

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I am freezing, and giving away to elderly neighbors on fixed budgets ( retirement checks are rarely enough for those poor people to live on) but giving to food banks is a good idea. I'll have to see if any will take fresh eggs around here.

I don't know anything about freezing eggs. You crack them and put them in freezer baggies??

 

[bgelber]

If the food banks take government money chances are they can't accept them. Church food banks will hope all over them.

And as far as them being a mixed bird, that's one thing I have never cared about. I just want happy, healthy birds that I can stand and enjoy. Besides the mixed one's are usually the prettiest.