NY chicken lover!!!!

[Cydney83]

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Go girls!! To the other thread folks, the favorelle was one I gave IHS when it looked to be a boy.. everyone on the fav thread said it was a boy because it was feathering in so dark. it's a girl!!!

So watch those hatchery favorelles - the color sexing is all messed up.

My 'mixed age' coop gave me ZERO eggs today. Grr. My leghorns kicked in the usual 3. 12 eggs from the pullet coop. Pretty 'eh' day. I hope I can keep up the eggs for my growing work customers, all of whom want BIG eggs, not even medium sized eggs.

(at the saratoga farmers market, one seller was selling pullet eggs for $3/dozen, $4.75 for regular eggs.. wow!).

I've been selling a dozen of "farm fresh variable sized eggs" (Pullet to giant Leghorn) for $2.50/doz. I guess I'm cheap.

Crap! I sell a doz...variable size but adds up to 30oz for 2 bucks! Maybe I am too cheap...

We are now getting 18 eggs...don't ask how many could be laying...

Congrats on getting eggs everyone! Finally...right

 

[Cydney83]

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I've been selling a dozen of "farm fresh variable sized eggs" (Pullet to giant Leghorn) for $2.50/doz. I guess I'm cheap.

I get $3 a dz for mixed sized farm fresh.Eggs from 7 month pullets. RIR's, White Leghorns, barred rocks, and EE's. People tell me I'm too cheap who buy them. Today was typical. A customer came by, bought 3 dozen, and gave me a $10, said " I don't want change, your eggs are the best".

Large eggs happen when they happen, summer time for me. I get $4 a dz for them, or $3 wholesale to a guy in NYC who has a farmers market. I always have more demand than eggs to sell. Guess I need more hens

I have five Salmon Favorelle from Natureberry and two are light tan and three are tan and blk...I love them tho...they are always talking...

 

[Cass]

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IF I get eggs you can have all the eggs to hatch. They are getting red in the face and one of the roos is mounting one of them...sooooo....maybe I'll have eggs soon.

If I don't get a broody this spring maybe you can do me a favor and hatch a few for me.....But first they have to start laying.

 

[featherz]

I tried selling 'mixed' eggs and at least one of the docs at work started complaining about the 'robin' eggs. /sigh.

Wait till all my hens shut down and they have to buy em at the store again.

I would love BA eggs when we have an egg swap- I had to sell my australorp with her babies. She was the broody from heck. She went broody three times in 7 months and I couldn't take it anymore. She was a lousy sitter but a great mama. Would also like any sort of blue/green/olive eggs. I've only got one olive egger and two EE green egg layers at the moment. Right now I just have barnyard mix to trade, but they are very pretty and I've got quite a few turkens, which I love.

 

[Henicillin]

Naturally, as today was the coldest day we've had yet, I was at work all day long and thus couldn't collect eggs throughout the day - I left at 7:15 AM, and just got home at 7 PM. DH collects them if he remembers to do so, but today wasn't one of those days.

It's a ten-egg day (go, my pullets, go!), but two of those were frozen and cracked, so those became dog treats (one of my dogs adores them - the other can take them or leave them). The other eight were pretty frigid, but none of them were cracked open. I fried up three of them a few moments after I brought them in, just to see what the insides looked like, and they were fine, although the whites were really gelatinous. It was rather like cooking mini-Blobs. Still, I'll keep those for our use.

The chooks are all jammed together up on their roosts, and seem none the worse for wear. I closed the door to the "playroom" side of the coop, which is as yet uninsulated, so that they're confined to the draft-free, well-insulated side to conserve what heat there is.

 

[Cass]

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At the August picnice didn't we all discuss having a Spring event? Someone even suggested that a spring event would help us get rid of chicks, obtain eggs and get us out of the house after a long winter.

I wish I had the space to park cars here. I would gladly host, but it's tight with our three cars in the driveway....and the septic tank is in the only lawn space available by the driveway. (Poor planning on someone's part, for sure) And my barn is FULL, so I have no place if it rains.

 

[vmdanielsen]

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yup! sure is going to be a cold one tonight!! Everyone stay warm!!

 

[vmdanielsen]

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At the August picnice didn't we all discuss having a Spring event? Someone even suggested that a spring event would help us get rid of chicks, obtain eggs and get us out of the house after a long winter.

I wish I had the space to park cars here. I would gladly host, but it's tight with our three cars in the driveway....and the septic tank is in the only lawn space available by the driveway. (Poor planning on someone's part, for sure) And my barn is FULL, so I have no place if it rains.

BA?

 

[happyhensny]

Cass - I would love to hatch for you. We bought 2 Brinsea Eco 20's and love them - set it and forget it. So if you have no broody I have bators.

Featherz - I have BA = Black Australorp (vmdanielsen

) and they are starting to lay again - 3 - 4 a day.

Now, this spring swap. I suppose we could have it at my house. Pot luck and hanging out on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon with NO HURRICANES OR TROPICAL STORMS. Super low-key and fun. What do you think?

 

[Henicillin]

We just signed up for a beginning beekeeping class at Betterbee in Greenwich on January 28th.

DH kept bees very successfully 30 years ago, but wants a refresher course to see what new techniques are used nowadays. As for me, I'm a complete newbie. I think it'll be fun, and it'll definitely be great for the garden!