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I don't know the exact number; about half of those 100 birds are new this spring and haven't started laying en mass yet. My wife tells me we're currently gettin
by msisk6 9y ago
I don't know the exact number; about half of those 100 birds are new this spring and haven't started laying en mass yet. My wife tells me we're currently getting about 3 dozen per day. I sell quite a few at work and my daughter, a vet tech, also sells at her work. If we get too many we hand them out as gifts for the FedEx guy, our Doctor, etc. The gifts usually guarantee repeat business after folks get a taste of fresh eggs.
We recently just got a few puppies from a local animal shelter that we're acclimating to the chickens. We hope that'll cut down on predator loss.
- cr0sh 9y ago3 dozen per day sound about right for the number of birds laying. My parents had upward of 60 birds; I don't know how many actually laid eggs (this was 25+ years ago when I was a kid). What my parents did was gather the eggs for the day, wash them, then put them in empty 3 lb coffee cans, put a label on the cans with the date, then refrigerate them. My mom would then sell the eggs (80 cents a dozen) for spending money (she was a stay-at-home mom, dad worked for the county doing road maintenance/construction). She would also separate out the browns from the whites (I think she sold the browns at $1.20 per dozen). Occasionally we'd get a blue or green shell egg, but those weren't sold. Any not sold after 30 days (IIRC) were thrown out (or maybe put into the slop for our occasional pig, or fed to the dogs - depending on if they were still "ok" enough for that of course). We'd eat some as well, but we had so many chickens that we couldn't eat anywhere near enough to keep the excess from forming, so selling them was the best thing to do with them.