The Middle Tennessee Thread

[mtadkins5]

If you want to try your hand at hatching eggs, you can get some in this fall maybe.
The reason I have to keep the colored babies is so I have some myself. I have mostly blacks now myself, and I really want more blue and some silver.
If you really want them now- I would suggest Worth it Farms in Atlanta. I think they ship. They have all colors and

Geese pricing depends on the bird and its age. I might have a couple to sell/ swap this fall- have to see what we end up with.

Sorry, Angelak!

No, I am wanting both from you That will just give me more time to prepare.I would rather wait and get bot at about the same age.

 

[Goose and Fig]

You can get eggs from both at one time. I can separate them for a bit in the fall.
I am horrible at hatching ducks. They do best for me under a broody, which doesn't usually happen until late spring.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Here's the babies. There is also a potential SQ chocolate runner in there. I will sell one chocolate ancona but all the rest I can sell are B&W. I only have one choc and two blue adults for myself, so I need the colors to get more variety here next season.

They are so stinking CUTE! Love the big ones too. So pretty!

 

[mtadkins5]

You can get eggs from both at one time. I can separate them for a bit in the fall.
I am horrible at hatching ducks. They do best for me under a broody, which doesn't usually happen until late spring.

I will wait till spring. I have no way to do eggs.

 

[amenfarm]

Good Day Middle Tn from West Tn ! A quick set of questions on selling eggs to a retail/coffee shop location, hopefully someone can answer. I don't sell many here but they have asked, majority are sold to individuals.

1. Eggs need to be sanitized ?
2. Cartons need to be labeled?
3. Can repurposed cartons be used as long as labeled and sanitized?
4. Or if the retail locations ask for customer to bring there own carton does that change having to use a new carton?
5. Keep refigerated?

Thanks

Here's the info from UT extension with your answers,https://ag.tennessee.edu/cpa/Information Sheets/cpa188.pdf. Egg sales just if the flock is yours and under 3,000 birds. 1. yes, and bleached dilution to the specifics. 2. Yes 3. No, not to my understanding--unless the customer brings their own. 4. covered under 3. 4. yes ,and they have a gathering guidelines and refrigeration temps to be kept. and they reference http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/2902/2902-1091/2902-1091_pdf.pdf

 

[DaddyBird]

I was thinking the wellie because one was speckled. They eere both on the light and small side.

Congrats! I would guess the wellie hasn't started, unless you get a much darker egg. Sometimes it takes a few eggs to get their "sprayers" working properly though.  

 

[DaddyBird]

Actually, my wife saw our Blue Cukoo Marans lay one today and it was almost exactly the same- very light brown with a speckled look to it. So, I think you are right Goose. I think the sprayers are still priming.

 

[DMRippy]

cuckoo Marans don't lay really dark eggs. something that is a work in progress

 

[Cinny]

We knew we had a hawks nest in the tree in the backyard......so this morning about 6:30 when it was still cool and kind of hazy outside we saw 3 large ones flying all around, joked about how the one bedroom next must have become a condo complex. They had gotten kind of bold about flying down to the bottom of the yard and landing on our glider but this morning one of them flew down and landed on the run that the "babies" use. (the run for the babies is actually a plastic child's gate that we can place on each side of the door and let them out for a bit but not too large, they are 8 weeks old) They were still locked up so we just decided to watch a bit. After awhile it flew into the screen on the babies' coop! Kind of shook him up so he flew back up ontop of the run, then flew into the small run itself. On closer inspection, we think he was after a mole because he scrambled around like he was fighting with something but apparently didn't get it. He then flew off. I'm afraid to let the little ones out and actually think I won't since I'll be gone.......but would it go after my full grown hens? They're a year old and pretty big, and they do run under cover or back into the coop when they hear anything. I was comfortable with it until my husband started sending me emails from the office about hawks going after chickens.

 

[debid]

Cinny, I lost a huge Welsummer hen to a hawk -- it hit hard and broke her neck. She was in the forest underbrush and I was there before the hawk left so I know it was the culprit. Some folks think their birds are safe after they reach a certain size or because they have cover or because they are a good color to blend with their environment... It's a false sense of security. A hungry raptor will still give it a go. I've had at least three attempts made in spite of supervision, dog, rooster, etc. You just have to decide how comfortable you are with losses. Unlike some predators, a hawk will only take one at a time.