YO GEORGIANS! :)

[carcar80]

even yesterday for her second egg, all the others had laid before lunch. I didn't check again until after Jill got home from work and it was there. No white egg yesterday, I found it, broken soft shell in the poop tray. At least she put it where it would be easy to clean up, I need to find a treat for her for that, 

I didn't realize the oyster shell feeder was out, so they got more oyster shell yesterday, maybe the white eggs will be back today. Yesterday was my first 5 egg day, I'm going to give a couple dozen to some of the neighbors and let the sizes get a little better before I start selling. Was looking at the murray mcmurray site yesterday at those clear plastic egg cartons. I may do an order on some of those, let me know if you're interested in any the price gets a little better per case when your order increases

Thanks. I've had family saving cartons for me for a couple years now so I'm fairly stocked up.

Speaking of.. Refresh my memory. A candling license is just for selling eggs OFF your own premises right?

 

[hannah311189]

well today, I got 4 brown eggs. I took the time to go sit in the run and try to get some pics and close ups of the 3 'leghorns'........... 1 of them I have no doubt is a leghorn, this is the first girl to give me an egg, and it was white. No doubt, with the white earlobes. She's also the smallest of all the hens I have, as far as body size the other two, even though I was told at TSC they were leghorns, obviously have something else up the family tree. note the red earlobes, which most likely explain why I'm getting brown eggs from them. Very disappointed in the chickens I bought at the Rome TSC. out of the six pullets I bought, supposed to be 3 leghorns and 3 black australorps, 1 australorp turned out to be a boy, and 2 of the leghorns are some mix that's giving me brown eggs instead of white.....this may have just sealed the deal for me ever buying any from TSC again....

Rome TSC is a bad place to get chicks in my opinion, most of them have no knowledge and the breeds are all mixed up and in the wrong bins. I got 2 clean legged silkies from there last year and they sold them to me as a standard breed of some sort.

 

[PapaChaz]

Thanks. I've had family saving cartons for me for a couple years now so I'm fairly stocked up.

Speaking of.. Refresh my memory. A candling license is just for selling eggs OFF your own premises right?

I was told I needed the candling license to sell eggs period, when I called the Dept of Agriculture. I do know at the actual class they talked about the farmers market type setups are not supposed to let anyone sell eggs if they don't have it. With the information that's required on the label of each dozen, it would make it too easy to track if

I do know I see a lot of 'fresh eggs' and chicks as well on craigslist. I'd bout bet the farm the majority of those folks don't have everything they need to be legal. I wanted the candling license to be able to go into the local 'farmers market' when they set up, but in all honesty, I intend on trying to sell what I'm going to sell with a craigslist ad, swap shop and a sign in the yard. I do know that when I worked at the local factory over here, the hispanic people would buy every egg I could bring, and we pass right through a section of town where it's mostly hispanics. I intend on just printing some cards out and going down and passing them out, hope to be able to sell about all I get.

Up until we're ready to put some in the incubator

 

[rossfam06]

I was told I needed the candling license to sell eggs period, when I called the Dept of Agriculture. I do know at the actual class they talked about the farmers market type setups are not supposed to let anyone sell eggs if they don't have it. With the information that's required on the label of each dozen, it would make it too easy to track if

I do know I see a lot of 'fresh eggs' and chicks as well on craigslist. I'd bout bet the farm the majority of those folks don't have everything they need to be legal. I wanted the candling license to be able to go into the local 'farmers market' when they set up, but in all honesty, I intend on trying to sell what I'm going to sell with a craigslist ad, swap shop and a sign in the yard. I do know that when I worked at the local factory over here, the hispanic people would buy every egg I could bring, and we pass right through a section of town where it's mostly hispanics. I intend on just printing some cards out and going down and passing them out, hope to be able to sell about all I get.

Up until we're ready to put some in the incubator  

I thought if you were selling eating type eggs you had to have the candling license but if it's hatching eggs you need the dealer license.

 

[RIR-YELLOWLEGS]

Ye

I'm beginning to think that extra light brown egg is coming from one of the leghorns. I know they're SUPPOSED to lay white eggs, but for several days I'm seeing two leghorns on the nest at a time, but only getting 1 white egg, and that small real light brown egg is always in the nest I see the one leghorn in. It's easy to tell those apart, the white egg is coming from the smallest of the 3 leghorns.

I suppose it's possible she has a brown egg gene somewhere up the family tree, right?

I've gotten 4 eggs the last few days, 1 white, 2 brown and the extra 'light brown' egg......

I'm thinking about isolating the 3 leghorns and see what I get......guess I'd know for sure then huh

it could be possible that she has a brown egg gene somewhere transgrown from the family tree just like I have seen a supposedly pure RIR hen lay a veryvlight brown egg so light it was almost cream a color if ya separate you them will know for sure I have a first ever to tell ya I have a hen laying eggs that makes no spund afterward not the first cackle not the first peep.never seen this before

 

[PapaChaz]

I thought if you were selling eating type eggs you had to have the candling license but if it's hatching eggs you need the dealer license.

no I think hatching eggs are still counted as eggs, it's only after they're born you have to have the poultry license. If I'm wrong, someone correct me? Flower?

 

[PapaChaz]

Ye
it could be possible that she has a brown egg gene somewhere transgrown from the family tree just like I have seen a supposedly pure RIR hen lay a veryvlight brown egg so light it was almost cream a color if ya separate you them will know for sure I have a first ever to tell ya I have a hen laying eggs that makes no spund afterward not the first cackle not the first peep.never seen this before

ok after reading through that and putting punctuation where it needed to be so I didn't run out of breath reading it....although I still haven't deciphered "hen laying eggs that makes no spund afterwards"...........

as for your RIR, the darkness of the egg shell color can and will vary through the laying season, it can lighten up as the laying season goes on because the pigment chemical, protoporphyrin, coats the shell at the end of the cycle, and can diminish through the season. a break in laying like molt or going broody, can replenish it though


no, these are not leghorns. carcar and I have pretty much come to the conclusion these are cornish X, which means I'm gonna have to do something with them soon. Either sell them off as meat chickens, or kill, clean and barbecue em myself

 

[PapaChaz]

the kids got a new shade cloth today. I went with the medium duty silver tarp from Harbor Freight. I couldn't keep the landscape cloth on it, every time the wind would blow it would tear. Hoping the grommets on the tarp hold up better than just poking holes in landscape cloth....

 

[Flowerbh]

I'm in a discussion on facebook with a FB friend over my 2 white chickens that are laying brown eggs.....I'll just go ahead and say she's not the first person who either didn't read my whole post, or has some reading comprehension issues and didn't understand my post. So in this discussion, I mentioned crossing my ameraucana rooster with the brown egg laying hens and should get olive eggers as a result.

Her response was 'LMAO at olive eggers vs easter eggers'.........she also told me if I'd wash the ameraucana eggs with soap and water within a couple of hours of being laid, I could wash the blue off of them.........anyone ever heard that? I have my doubts because they're blue inside too, or at least the last ones I had laid eggs that were blue inside and outside.......

Oh, and she worked in a commercial egg production facility when she was in high school (and she's been out of high school for a LONG time). She tried to tell me my white eggs aren't white, they're cream colored. If I'd compare them to store bought eggs that are white white, because they bleach them.......I actually did put my first few eggs from my leghorn in the carton with the store bought eggs I had left and there was literally no difference..........

anyway, I don't know why I let people get to me like this, LOL I don't have much patience for someone who comes off as a know it all with a response, when their response shows they obviously didn't even read the whole comment or didn't understand it if they did........

I know what you mean. I was talking to an old 'farmer' the other day and he said, "You know you should sell your older hens after they are about 30 weeks old because they are used up and won't lay many more eggs" And I was like, "30 weeks, huh?, That's kind of young. Mine don't even start laying until around 30 weeks" He was totally sure it was 30 weeks that they stop laying!

 

[PapaChaz]

I know what you mean. I was talking to an old 'farmer' the other day and he said, "You know you should sell your older hens after they are about 30 weeks old because they are used up and won't lay many more eggs" And I was like, "30 weeks, huh?, That's kind of young. Mine don't even start laying until around 30 weeks" He was totally sure it was 30 weeks that they stop laying!

and she's still going strong, LOL I've posted information from two different college websites refuting her 'facts' and she still won't let it go. "it's an east coast west coast thing, like pop and soda"


I told her an olive egger would only lay the darker green eggs, but an easter egger could be any mutt not a pure bred that would lay a colored egg, pink, rose, blue, bluish/green.........and it was typical for the west coast to be wrong, and I am ok with that! LMAO she hasn't responded yet

and yeah, if we should sell them at 30 weeks, carcar may NEVER get a blue egg from her AMs..........and I'd only have 1 giving me any trying to talk to some people is just like