Surviving Minnesota!

[I Love Layers]

Ivie what kind of hen is she again? Is she production hen?

All the Illini are laying. The latest blue pullet, Hattie has an olive egg like her sister. I'm wondering if you'll all throw me a post about what you're charging egg customers for free range chicken eggs. I'm waivering between $3.50 or $4.00. In the grocery store a farmer has his eggs going for $3.99. I think those birds are probably well cared for but the yolks suggest he might not be getting them much for greens... Like my girls get. Shout out what you think I should charge. Vital farms (Texas/California) charge over $5 in Target stores. Their hens on pasture.

I do $3. Most of my customers buy 2 dozen at a time and they just give me $10 for 2 dozen. Most customers are just happy about getting farm fresh they don't really care much about the yolk color, at least here. Most of the time I actually trade my eggs for grain and corn. Once for some really good prime rib

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And people in Texas are weird so...

I initially priced at $3 to be below the person selling for $4.

 

[lvie]

Okay Okay. I SHOULD have said - no more brooding chicks in my basement. This hen is in the hospital and yes, it is in my basement. So I eat my words.

This is an almost two year old ISA. She is definitely prolapsed and I am surprised she I hanging in there still. I just gave her more water by dropper (about every two hours) and a couple drops of anti biotic. When I pick her up it sounds like she is croupy so I think there is more going on than just the prolapse. I massage her tummy and then back into her rump to try to move that egg out of there. It is coming out in liquid form. I just keep wiping her off. At least now her vent is pulsating as if she is trying but I don't know how she could possibly be trying as she cannot stand unless I support her which I do during her massage.

Holms - don't even think about being serious about anyone until you are 25. Your life is going to change so much between now and then. So much to do, places to go, and learning. Forming the foundation of your psych about what stand you will take on so many issues. I think when people daydream that they could start over again it is about those years. Okay - enough of the grandma thing.

 

[duluthralphie]

Okay Okay. I SHOULD have said - no more brooding chicks in my basement. This hen is in the hospital and yes, it is in my basement. So I eat my words.

This is an almost two year old ISA. She is definitely prolapsed and I am surprised she I hanging in there still. I just gave her more water by dropper (about every two hours) and a couple drops of anti biotic. When I pick her up it sounds like she is croupy so I think there is more going on than just the prolapse. I massage her tummy and then back into her rump to try to move that egg out of there. It is coming out in liquid form. I just keep wiping her off. At least now her vent is pulsating as if she is trying but I don't know how she could possibly be trying as she cannot stand unless I support her which I do during her massage.

Holms - don't even think about being serious about anyone until you are 25. Your life is going to change so much between now and then. So much to do, places to go, and learning. Forming the foundation of your psych about what stand you will take on so many issues. I think when people daydream that they could start over again it is about those years. Okay - enough of the grandma thing.

Come on.. Don't dissuade him.. Mn Nice and I are planning a great Horsey wedding for him, with Mr T as the ring bearer...

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Ivie if the egg broke you'll have to get all of the shell out. Otherwise she'll infect and for sure pass. Poor little hen. I haven't had that happen to me. Knock on wood. So you might want to research broken internal egg or vent prolapse or both. Uffda.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Ralphie what do you charge?

 

[lvie]

Well, I am sure the egg broke inside of her and she is gone. I tried. I almost feel guilty for not being upset. More the attitude that I am surprised I haven't lost more hens this winter. So what do I do with the carcass? Throw it in the garbage?

 

[holm25]

lvie I will take your "grandma" advice. Hey I need some time of "grandmother figure" to tell me this stuff!

Sorry u lost the hen Ivie...

BC I charge $2.50 a dozen... Or sell them for $12.00 a dozen as hatching eggs. And the greens and blues should make Olive Eggers.... Those would sell fast I am sure.

 

[duluthralphie]

Ralphie what do you charge?

$2.50 right now, the market here is not good, I have 4-5 dozen eggs I need to get rid of. All of a sudden my birds have started laying again. I have about 7 dozen to set tomorrow...

edited to add: I charge all over the place for hatching eggs. White legbar eggs are the most expensive.....I am thinking around $80 a dozen. BUT I know I will give in and sell them way cheaper..LOL The regular legbar eggs are $30 a dozen. The others I have no idea on.



I am making a line-up change tomorrow. I just candled at day 8. Ed is going to be benched. One of his boys is going to take his place for some good old incest...

The Cuckoo maran that hurt his knee (God only knows how he hurt it in a cage???) is being pulled and another CM will take his place, I looked today and I have 3 good possibilities to pick from.




Ivie, You can either sneak her into the garbage or bring her here and we can incinerate her. I have 2 in the incinerator to burn soon. During the winter I wait until I get a couple before I incinerate them, in the summer I do it the day they die. Just put it in a (shhhhhhh) plastic walmart} bag so not "germs" escape. I use LP to incinerate so nothing will live through that. I just don't want a "bug" to escape if that was it and not an impacted egg...

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Ivie I'm sorry you lost her. She was lucky to have you trying for her.

Ok holm and layers on the prices. Thanks. That helps me. I think the folks over a few miles did $3.00 or $3.50.

 

[jerryse]

Morning .