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Lisa it is possible to do both,,,,,,yes I do this for a business, but I also have birds in my layer flock who have not laid eggs in over a year..(a couple of leghorn that are now 4 years old)...just because they are not producing does not mean they have to go,,,,,,but to look at this on a practical side....I have the space, if your space is limited you may think twice about keeping birds like this...I also have a 3 year old freedom ranger hen, so much for meat birds not being able to live long lives...
 
wingstone said:
you would think, but i know lots that will not eat a green egg, even the few maran eggs I get, I was asked if it came from an old bird since it was so dark....
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Wing darlin', you need to get to know some more open minded folks. One of my friends gets $4 a doz for a mixed color dozen, specifically because they're colorful. She sells out every week and will be raising her price in the spring..
 
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to late, some of those folks are family, it would take a baseball bat to open them minds..
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Silkie you have a beautiful assorted mix of colors, I love it. Last year when we had our Easter egger and sold eggs, I kept the green eggs lol. They were too pretty to sell, made me smile when I opened the fridge and seen the pretty huge green eggs in the bin. I miss my Easter egger and would love to get another one. I bought her when she was over 2 years old and she stopped laying so she had to go to make room for new layers. She wasn't that nice of a hen, she beat everyone up and I didn't want her to beat up my new chicks. I don't know if I will sell the green eggs if I get another Easter egger, I love their colors.
 
wish I could explain this better, but even my husbands brothers and sisters will go to the store and buy what they think are organic eggs,,,,

They grew up on the farm, but it was a production farm, animals in cages,,,,the way I do things is so foreign to them that they will not even try....I laugh when they bring me their egg cartons and I see what they are buying thinking that they are good for them,,,their point of view is that my birds can not possibly be healthy because of everything they are exposed to outside.
 
wingstone------I can understand if someone has a bunch of hens who are just costing money and not laying eggs............and that is their business ---well this is a problem


I may get to a point in a few years when I have my 8 or 9 hens and no one is laying etc..............that I might consider some changes --------

I have such limited experience.........just having started last August and having only read and learned about this since last summer.

I may even eat one of my gals...........at this time I cant imagine it..............yet I do eat chicken in my week ---from a grocery store ---chicken that was raised under awful conditions etc............
so that makes no sense...........but I have not figured out how to do this yet............I feel I may need to eat someone elses backyard chicken who I have no personal knowledge of........except for their living conditions and health etc.

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silkie-----I love the colorful dozen of eggs you showed in the picture! I think it looks cool

This looks cool to me only after having done a lot of reading over the last 6 months.............prior to last summer I also would not have had the greatest comfort with differently colored eggs----I just didn't know much about chickens, different breeds, and even egg colors. I was raised eating white eggs............and found brown eggs odd..................but BLUE or DARK BROWN or GREEN ...this was really amazing and something I only read about in a Dr Seuss book..................green eggs and ham!

so some of these customers may just not know much about chickens............yet be intelligent and nice people.........its all good.............
 
LisaYolkUm said:
wingstone------I can understand if someone has a bunch of hens who are just costing money and not laying eggs............and that is their business  ---well this is a problem


I may get to a point in a few years when I have my 8 or 9 hens and no one is laying etc..............that I might consider some changes --------

I have such limited experience.........just having started last August and having only read and learned about this since last summer.

I may even eat one of my gals...........at this time I cant imagine it..............yet I do eat chicken in my week ---from a grocery store ---chicken that was raised under awful conditions etc............
so that makes no sense...........but I have not figured out how to do this yet............I feel I may need to eat someone elses backyard chicken who I have no personal knowledge of........except for their living conditions and health etc.

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silkie-----I love the colorful dozen of eggs you showed in the picture!   I think it looks cool

This looks cool to me only after having done a lot of reading over the last 6 months.............prior to last summer I also would not have had the greatest comfort with differently colored eggs----I just didn't know much about chickens, different breeds, and even egg colors.  I was raised eating white eggs............and found brown eggs odd..................but BLUE or DARK BROWN  or GREEN ...this was really amazing and something I only read about in a Dr Seuss book..................green eggs and ham!

so some of these customers may just not know much about chickens............yet be intelligent and nice people.........its all good.............
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I look at it this way: If they don't want my pretty eggs then that just leaves more for me. Every week, anything I haven't sold or eaten goes in my bator too hatch.
 
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chippysmom327 said:
SilkieSensation said:
Who could resist such a pretty rainbow? They want to try 1 of every color. I actually have people ask for all the colors...lol
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OOOOOOhhhh.... Ahhhh. This is seriously my goal in chicken keeping. To one day collect this evry morning from the coop. :)
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If you got a bator, I got eggs...lol
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Ahhhh... but I have a limit... *tear* My annoying golden sebright in my avatar went to his new home today. He has 8 RIR hens all to himself. We introduced them to eachother when I got there, and he had never seen that many girls in his life. And they were all in one place. And there was no rooster in sight. That meant they were for him. He couldn't believe his good fortune. He immediately puffed out his chest and started dancing for them, and they were squatting up a storm. He loved that too. If he tried to pull that with my hens they quickly would put him back in his place. Another good thing is he'll have 8 hefty girls to snuggle and stay warm with on the cold nights. The coop was also bigger than ours, and all of the birds free range when there's not a lot of snow on the ground. So that means that the rooster also gets to "own" some guinea hens. But he didn't see them yet because they were in their coop. When I left he was smack dab in the middle of his new harem, just lovin it.. Won't miss him one bit. :gig
 

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