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You can??? Oh wow, that's what I've been doing wrong
Actually, I just sold 9 of my 12 feedstore hens. I'm collecting 4-5 dozen eggs per day, plus quail & turkey. I couldn't see any point in feeding those girls. I don't sell that many eating eggs, I cook 10+ dozen eggs to feed back to the birds at a time, so I saw no point in feeding them anymore. It was nice having those jumbo eggs with nothing written on them when I was cooking. Now most every egg I cook with has the breed name written on it (when you collect that many, you have to write on them).
For breakfast yesterday, I ate a Cream Legbar egg and my DH had a couple of BC marans................it was almost painful
I'm probably going to miss those feedstore girls in my egg flock this winter when I'm only getting a couple of eggs out of the 35 pens full of birds. Oh well, I had to cut back somewhere. next is about 50 roos/cockerels. I already did a purge of that many a few months ago and it certainly seemed quieter around here. I'm just afraid to put on my big girl panties and make this next round of culling decisions.