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Parront said:
I am just trying to avoid extra expense, the tub doesn't have any drain right now, just a big View attachment 2317348hole where the drain pipe was attached. If I put it up on blocks I could reach the drain from the outside and pull the plug without putting my hands in ducky water. Running it to water a garden would mean I would have to put it near the garden. Close to where it is is a creek that would be fine to have some duck water. Maybe I can get some inexpensive PVC to fit this hole, then I could use a valve. Then I have to buy more stuff. I have time to look around the RE-store and see what I can fix up.
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Plumb it with a standard drain, then up size it to 2" and put in a ball valve. After the ball valve use pex to take it where you want it. 2" is highly unlikely to get clogged by anything from the ducks.
 
rjohns39 said:
Plumb it with a standard drain, then up size it to 2" and put in a ball valve. After the ball valve use pex to take it where you want it. 2" is highly unlikely to get clogged by anything from the ducks.
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Sounds like you have done that before. Here I was just going to get a tree branch plug!
 
Fishychix said:
I thought to pipe it away from the tub. Didn't think about how to pull the plug. Very true you probably don't want to stick your arm in it. A chain could be dangerous to diving duckies. I'd wonder about a ball valve in winter. Maybe it wouldn't be for winter use.


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Yeah, I saw I would have to get an inspection if I want to sell at a farmers market, but there are also rules/laws(?) for selling off your property too. I also took a screenshot of what is causing my confusion. It appears to contradict itself. I’ll attach the link: https://agri.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/oda/divisions/food-safety/resources/small-egg-production

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This is what I found...
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They want to inspect the farm and test your water if your on a well. Then make sure you clean the eggs and refrigerate them. It does say the carton needs to be dated when you put the eggs in. That doesn't mean the eggs are the same date as the carton. Thats a trick of the egg industry. "Farm fresh eggs" left the farm within 7 days of being laid. There are no rules for how long the egg is at a processing facility before being put in a carton. Lots of store eggs are a month old and bleached. So if you collected eggs you could easily have them for weeks before putting them in a carton. Then label the carton with today's date. TaDa "fresh eggs". That is why I label each egg with the date is was collected.
The part that I don't like is all the fees and licenses for each and every place you might want to sell at.
For me its just easier to sell eggs by word of mouth. Everyone is told the eggs are not washed and why. They are also stored on the counter to stop condensation from happening during travel. Once they get them home refrigerate them.
 
FlyingNunFarm said:
Anyone in the group do Mortgage work? Refinancing specifically. I got a letter from my mortgage company that sent me through the roof. So now refinancing is looking better and better.
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Might have to do some interviewing of potential refinance companies. :hugs
 
FlyingNunFarm said:
Yeah, I saw I would have to get an inspection if I want to sell at a farmers market, but there are also rules/laws(?) for selling off your property too. I also took a screenshot of what is causing my confusion. It appears to contradict itself. I’ll attach the link: https://agri.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/oda/divisions/food-safety/resources/small-egg-production

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This is what I found...
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They want to inspect the farm and test your water if your on a well. Then make sure you clean the eggs and refrigerate them. It does say the carton needs to be dated when you put the eggs in. That doesn't mean the eggs are the same date as the carton. Thats a trick of the egg industry. "Farm fresh eggs" left the farm within 7 days of being laid. There are no rules for how long the egg is at a processing facility before being put in a carton. Lots of store eggs are a month old and bleached. So if you collected eggs you could easily have them for weeks before putting them in a carton. Then label the carton with today's date. TaDa "fresh eggs". That is why I label each egg with the date is was collected.
The part that I don't like is all the fees and licenses for each and every place you might want to sell at.
For me its just easier to sell eggs by word of mouth. Everyone is told the eggs are not washed and why. They are also stored on the counter to stop condensation from happening during travel. Once they get them home refrigerate them.
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Yup, been working on stickers all week. Avery got rid of their app so I now I can only use their website. It doesn’t work well on a tablet and no one seems to know where the plugin for my laptop is. It’s not like we have four (hint: we do). One is my work laptop, one was my kids laptop for college (LOL, I have commandeered that one), and then hubs has two because ... idk (blue, lol)
Do you do the stickers? What about the whole thing with reusing old egg cartons? I definitle don’t plan on going to the market. Again, I get it, they want to assure you’re not selling bad eggs to people. But like you said, the production places sell old and “bad” eggs all the time. That’s the whole reason we all do our own eggs.
I’ll just re-read the whole thing and also see what everybody else does once I actually manage some sleep.
 
Fishychix said:
This is what I found...
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They want to inspect the farm and test your water if your on a well. Then make sure you clean the eggs and refrigerate them. It does say the carton needs to be dated when you put the eggs in. That doesn't mean the eggs are the same date as the carton. Thats a trick of the egg industry. "Farm fresh eggs" left the farm within 7 days of being laid. There are no rules for how long the egg is at a processing facility before being put in a carton. Lots of store eggs are a month old and bleached. So if you collected eggs you could easily have them for weeks before putting them in a carton. Then label the carton with today's date. TaDa "fresh eggs". That is why I label each egg with the date is was collected.
The part that I don't like is all the fees and licenses for each and every place you might want to sell at.
For me its just easier to sell eggs by word of mouth. Everyone is told the eggs are not washed and why. They are also stored on the counter to stop condensation from happening during travel. Once they get them home refrigerate them.
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Yup, been working on stickers all week. Avery got rid of their app so I now I can only use their website. It doesn’t work well on a tablet and no one seems to know where the plugin for my laptop is. It’s not like we have four (hint: we do). One is my work laptop, one was my kids laptop for college (LOL, I have commandeered that one), and then hubs has two because ... idk (blue, lol)
Do you do the stickers? What about the whole thing with reusing old egg cartons? I definitle don’t plan on going to the market. Again, I get it, they want to assure you’re not selling bad eggs to people. But like you said, the production places sell old and “bad” eggs all the time. That’s the whole reason we all do our own eggs.
I’ll just re-read the whole thing and also see what everybody else does once I actually manage some sleep.
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Sounds like in Ohio if you have less than 500 hens and sell from your own place, "farm", no inspection no problem. It is only when you sell your eggs at a farmer's market or to a retail store that you need to bother with inspection. The label is pretty straightforward and you are allowed to re-use cartons. Better than AZ, here we are not supposed to re-use cartons, but every one ignores the rule. I buy eggs from my neighbor, we do not care a fig about any of it. I take over cartons and trade the for full ones, and give her $3.00 a dozen. The farmer's market did not have any eggs at all today.
 
Too many rules for me to bother with farmers market selling eggs. Similar to yours.
I reuse cartons. I date painters tape with the coop, number of eggs of the first eggs in. During hatching season. ...After I am done hatching, all coops go in the same carton.
 

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