The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[lalaland]

How are eggs sized

wow that on egg is huge! is it a chicken egg?

try this: http://www.aeb.org/foodservice-professionals/egg-products#2

 

[delisha]

Quote: X2

 

[TipihlowLadies]

wow that on egg is huge! is it a chicken egg?

try this: http://www.aeb.org/foodservice-professionals/egg-products#2

Yes it is a Cornish X I get four or five a day so far and double yolkers I have 15 girls.

 

[armorfirelady]

 
Justine - I love that pinterest board!

My daughter got married in the barnyard and had her reception in the barn of an old homestead that had never had electricity or running water on the property.  My hubby (mostly) and I decorated the whole barn and even built a stairs to the upper level lofts so that we had enough seating.  We brought in a generator for electricity and they had portable pit toilets as there was only an outhouse on the land!

It was wonderful and homey.

Your things are so pretty!    I'm sure you'll LOVE the way it all turns out!  And your food sounds great

I've been instructed I am NOT ALLOWED to wear my rubber boots. No fair lol

I would have loved to have it here, but thinking of all the people and the goats.. and the possibility of any of the chickens or geese being chased by children.. yeah doesn't sound stress free to me.  
Not to mention clean up.. which I already did 

Your daughter's wedding sounds like it was amazing!

Congrats to you and Susan Justine.

I could just see it if you had at your house........your saying your vows and in walks Marvin with another bag on his head crying away........while a rooster starts crowing getting the others started.......then the hens start clucking, ducks quaking, geese a Layin'.....................would certainly make for a lot of laughs

 

[TipihlowLadies]

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[LeslieDJoyce]

How are eggs sized

By weight. Each country can have its own standards for sizes. Here in the USA I believe Jumbo starts at 72 grams, and Medium starts at 50 grams ... for two examples.

 

[AletaG]

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Never would have thought of keeping a CX hen around just for the eggs. How is her health? Consistent double yolkers would be welcomed for the extra calories for my kids. Like little voracious weeds they are!

 

[tcmstalcup]

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beautiful

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Never would have thought of keeping a CX hen around just for the eggs. How is her health? Consistent double yolkers would be welcomed for the extra calories for my kids. Like little voracious weeds they are!

I'm still trying to process the idea of "keeping" a Cornish Cross! That egg is massive!

 

[delisha]

How are eggs sized

I just picked white sage ( a kind of wormwood) to dry for the chicken nests, and also picked tansy, mint, and lemon balm to dry too for use this winter in the nests. Put some fresh tansy under the hay in the nests, and sprinkled rose petals on top. Hens aren't very fond of the rose petals, but I like it.

Pictures please!!

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Beautiful basket

Quote: They are great egg layers..however the conversion is not the same as a traditional egg layer.