North Carolina

[atmaclean]

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Thanks Matt! What kind of chickens will you be showing? Will you have any chicks for sale???? I can't wait to see all the pretty birds. Angela

 

[CricketR4]

You may not be allgeric to the egg its self, you may be allgeric to something in the feed.
NH on here, her DD is allgeric to soy, so she must fee the chickens soy free feed, so that the eggs won't contain any soy.
Your best bet is to go to a doctor and have them perform an allergy skin test on food by products that might be in you eggs that you could be allgeric to.
I hope its not the eggs

Wild, ive been allergy tested recently and not allergic to anthying in chicken feed. I do have a sensetivity to corn but all that does is increase my fibromyalgia pain. I can eat corn without getting sick like I am experiencing with eggs.

 

[Matt A NC]

Thanks Matt! What kind of chickens will you be showing? Will you have any chicks for sale???? I can't wait to see all the pretty birds. Angela

I don't show. I quit showing 3 years ago. The paranoia of bringing a sickness home to my birds just got too much for me to deal with. When I leave a show I stop on the way home and spray my truck down at a car wash. I don't sell at shows either. I stopped hatching to sell 2 years ago. I just look, walk, and talk.

Matt

 

[busymadre]

$3/doz seems high. People don't mind spending that much? I am in Hickory, NC and do not have eggs yet - hopefully by mid June and with 7 girls, I think I will need to sell some. Hoping I have "7" by then. I have that one runt with the scissor beak so every day she is around is a blessing.
Gonna see if my paramedic friend who works part-time for a vet will cut her bottom beak and see if that helps. We have a large feeder that you fill and it filters down to an open ring around the bottom with dividers. She was loosing her neck feathers from poking her head inside the "chick" tray type feeder. Now she hops up on the rim of the regular feeder and goes round and round eating and eating. If she makes it to laying age, her eggs will probably be small. She doesn't mind me holding her like she use to. Glad that the other girls don't try to irritate her.

 

[missnu01]

Hi everyone! We brought home our ladies (12 weeks old) home this past weekend and they love their new home (I think). We are so new to this so I have a few questions. First, we bought some eggs from the farm that we purchased the pullets from. They said they will keep at room temperature for 3 weeks. My MIL then warned me about the dangers of salmonella, young children and no way would she not refrigerate her eggs. So what do you do? How do you weigh the risks and benefits of farm fresh eggs? Second, the ladies do not seem to be roosting properly at night, they are jumping all over each other, some sleep on the bottom of the coop. Will this behavior change as they get more comfortable? My husband put in the roosting bars in a criss cross fashion, should they be more like a ladder? How far is too high up? Third, its been kinda chilly here, we have four windows in the coop and the first night they were all sitting by the coop door because they were too hot? so we opened the windows. I know that they create a lot of moisture and that will trap heat but I don't want them to be too cold. I am sure I will have many more questions and I have extensively read other threads, just wanted to get some feedback.

Thanks

If you are worried about it then refrigerate the eggs...There is no reason to not refrigerate them unless you are wanting to incubate them...and if you are wanting to incubate them there is no reason to worry about salmonella. I refrigerate all my chickens eggs unless I am planning on hatching them...but you can also safely keep the eggs on the counter for quite a while and then be good...and salmonella has nothing to do with the eggs being refrigerated or left out...it is just inside some eggs, but is killed when you cook the eggs...so as long as you cook all your eggs you don't have to worry about salmonella in the eggs...That and statistically one in 10,000 eggs has salmonella...so either way it isn't really a big worry for eggs at all.

 

[greenchickenman]

Hey for all you fellow chicken lovers in NC. I have posted on this thread but it was toward the top of it. Im just jumping back in with this... I have some baby pullets/chicks if anyone is interested. I posted an ad under the Buy, Sell, Trade Forum in the Day 1 to 8 week column. Pure Breed Chicks in Fayetteville, NC was the name of it. Check it out if your interested. Talk with everyone later, Peace, Love and Hair Grease...

 

[melodie_a]

Wild, ive been allergy tested recently and not allergic to anthying in chicken feed. I do have a sensetivity to corn but all that does is increase my fibromyalgia pain. I can eat corn without getting sick like I am experiencing with eggs.

I know it isn't a person but our German shepherd can't eat our eggs but store bought never bothered him. He has a really sensitive stomach, can only have grain free food.. Never have been able to figure out what it is about the eggs that affects him.

 

[greenchickenman]

Hi everyone! We brought home our ladies (12 weeks old) home this past weekend and they love their new home (I think). We are so new to this so I have a few questions. First, we bought some eggs from the farm that we purchased the pullets from. They said they will keep at room temperature for 3 weeks. My MIL then warned me about the dangers of salmonella, young children and no way would she not refrigerate her eggs. So what do you do? How do you weigh the risks and benefits of farm fresh eggs? Second, the ladies do not seem to be roosting properly at night, they are jumping all over each other, some sleep on the bottom of the coop. Will this behavior change as they get more comfortable? My husband put in the roosting bars in a criss cross fashion, should they be more like a ladder? How far is too high up? Third, its been kinda chilly here, we have four windows in the coop and the first night they were all sitting by the coop door because they were too hot? so we opened the windows. I know that they create a lot of moisture and that will trap heat but I don't want them to be too cold. I am sure I will have many more questions and I have extensively read other threads, just wanted to get some feedback.

Thanks

 

[CricketR4]

I know it isn't a person but our German shepherd can't eat our eggs but store bought never bothered him. He has a really sensitive stomach, can only have grain free food.. Never have been able to figure out what it is about the eggs that affects him.

Well for me, it's definitely an egg allergy. http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/egg-allergy/DS01021/DSECTION=symptoms The anaphylaxis symptoms (with exception to breathing) are what happen to me whenever I eat egg products.

 

[greenchickenman]

New to quoting and replying, anyway... I agree with the last statement; I sell my eggs and keep them out of the fridge so the person I'm selling them too doesn't have to worry about refridgerating them until they get home. Never had an issue with that. I have never tried three weeks though, only about one.
Second, if the girls don't seem to settle into the roost; something might be off. My top roost sits about 4 foot high but I have one about 2 foot high that's a stepping stone to the big roost.
Third, I have one window on the back of the coop and the door cut out is on the front of the coop. I keep the window open about 6 inches which is enough to create a draft. Just enough to keep the air moving is all you need.