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[Chicken Rustler]

he wants spaghetti...so I gotta go whip up some sauce as I am all out in the freezer...I make 5 gallons every so often & freeze in single servings and I swear, someone keeps rustling my spaghetti sauce.....

Seems like it anyways~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It was probably !!!

 

[RonB]

Give it time. Eventually you will get some eggs that are all smeared with mud and cackle spackle. Egg customers don't like to buy "dirty" eggs ! ! ! !

I lightly wash most my eggs in cold water when I collect them. some don't need to be washed. but CR is right (for a change

) customers don't lke dirty eggs

 

[TheReidHomestead]

Hi Ron!!!!

How was your vacation????

How's your broody? When is hatching day?

 

[mikeyb]

Here's a routine from 1980.
Funny, yes.
Done in High Heels Ladies. Wow.

http://biggeekdad.com/2012/05/the-jovers/

 

[itsren]

First delivery was happily accepted. Two eggs from each of my pullets were in the carton. Thankfully, today was a 3-egg day, so I could fill the carton.



Robin - thanks again for the adorable cartons so my neighbors can enjoy some of our eggs and get to know and accept my girls better.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

First delivery was happily accepted. Two eggs from each of my pullets were in the carton. Thankfully, today was a 3-egg day, so I could fill the carton.



Robin - thanks again for the adorable cartons so my neighbors can enjoy some of our eggs and get to know and accept my girls better.

Very Very cute package!!!!

 

[itsren]

On another note, why not wash the eggs first ?
Alot of people are so grossed out by potentially poopy eggs.................

I'll work on getting that pic of me in my silly hat.

I don't wash them to keep the bloom on so they last longer - not that that is really needed considering they are eaten within a week. I've never seen poop on my eggs, though. They have never pooped in their nest box, and I clean the entire coop and run daily. All poop is usually removed before they've had a chance to lay an egg - unless they lay it very early in the morning.

If I were selling eggs, of course I would wash them - because I believe that is required by law. But, I don't sell them. I can't - my city won't allow small back yard eggs to be sold. Right now I'm giving them to neighbors to try to encourage a better relationship about my chickens.

 

[itsren]

In super heavy rainy months, I cover the whole row with plastic, by way of hoops made of 2 foot cuts of fence wire.
Then cover the wire with plastic & staple down (in these long boxes) or cover with soil to hold the plastic down.
Now leave it be until spring.

Why do you cover it? I've never covered garlic and it has grown very well, and I don't have to worry about watering it. Even after last year's crazy snow/ice storms, my garlic grew beautifully.

 

[itsren]

Love your design. You have VERY lucky neighbors! Maybe I should move. hehe

LOL! Being that you are on BYC, you probably wouldn't have had to adjust and come to terms with 3 chickens in someone's back yard.

Things are a LOT better now, but we had a very rough start when the neighbors began to learn we had chickens.

 

[itsren]

So...why wash eggs at all?? I have never, ever washed an egg from my chickens. If they have any smudges on them, I just wipe the smudge, but they are usually perfectly clean.

We wash them right before cooking, just in case. All that Salmonella scare stuff going around - we just don't take a chance. It's quick and easy. We quickly wash off the eggs we are going to use just before cracking or cooking them.