The Poultry Keeper

Bhindi · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject:

Telster thats such a shame, could you put a notice up at your place of work or at your gate inviting people to knock on the door if they want some?

My naughy welsummer layed her egg today, and didnt eat it.. phew!..... I made it a little darker in there but its quite difficult to actually enclose the nest box directly. I've got a lot of blackout curtain which I'm going to experiment with. The battle is not lost. Laughing

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 7165 Location: isle of lewis

same here telster ,i'm having to look at my job ,and maybe work full time
the egg sales used to cover the costs of the most of the feed ,not anymore ,i charge 1.20 per half dozen and the duck eggs are 1.50
there is a box at the end of the drive and people keep saying oh we keep meaning to stop Rolling Eyes

,and then i watch them buying eggs at 20 p more in the supermarket ,the feed costs are huge here now and the way things are going with the wheat market it's going to get worse

janet ,cookie don't say anything please Wink

Auntie Noo · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 561 Location: Guildford

telster - Not wanting to teach you to suck eggs or anything (Oh I am funny!!!!) but you can freeze them if you beat them. I beat them in 2's and three's and use for cakes and omelettes etc in the winter when I don't have so many.

telster · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 240 Location: merseyside

i know you can freeze them i used to be a chef and now i hate cooking . but i am going to give them to family instead of the uneducated morons who support bat hens , (sorry for the rant). my good eggs will not go to waste . telster Laughing

NannyP · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:01 pm Post subject:

Gilly C · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2490 Location: South Cumbria

I use old towels dark coloured ones of course

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1360 Location: Leicestershire

2 things - Sparklepeeps & Chris Kurzfeld - Ignorance of the law is no defence. Having said that, please feel free to carry on calling your eggs "free range" because I'm sure they are more free range than the ones that can legally call themselves that. The words free range or farm fresh conjure up images in peoples mind of a thatched farmhouse and a milkmaid with a yolk across her back carrying 2 pails of milk and the carthorse coming back from an honest days graft ploughing an acre or two, it's all a load of tosh of course but there you go it's what people perceive, anyway you could (as the real Milkmaid suggested) legally call them something similar but different enough to never get you embroiled in a visit from Trading Standards - who are generally a very helpful bunch of people.

Bhindi - your egg eating Welsummer may have just laid a few eggs with substandard shells and then broken them getting off, they always eat them if that is the case, it doesn't mean she deliberately broke it to eat it, I had one doing it last year, it was always the only broken egg and when I found a bit of shell it was thin, I didn't find out who it was and so eventually it stopped as the shells got stronger. I know that happened because it was a distinctive shell.

Itsybitsy

sasha.p · Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 480 Location: gwent

sparklepeeps just got one thing to say it looks very proffesional im sure everyone will buy them looks like you have put a lot of effort into them i am waiting on a few more to start laying and was thinking of doing similar as dh sells our at his works and everyone we know wants eggs we vcant keep up with supply we currentley have 17 hens 9 of which are laying the rest are pol and we have just had enough to supply for ourselves and family at the moment and two of my runners are laying too i am increasing my birds and have set more in our incubator so i can keep hatching to keep things going year round.Hope your sales go as well as ours are Very Happy

ntsmama · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 246

I don't say mine are organic and free range...but I say the hens only eat organic and run around freely during the day. Which is 100% true.

CP · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject:

We've just had 3 of our neighbours wanting a regular order of 4 dozen eggs a week between them!! Shocked

I just hope our girls can keep up with them! Laughing

ntsmama · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 246

Sparklepeeps · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1950 Location: Cheshire

My brother just sent me this photo from flicker.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15762702@N02/2298806034/

...not my style, but it could be a novel selling point!

Sparklepeeps · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1950 Location: Cheshire

I took two boxes in today and got £2.60 in total, so I am happy with my takings today.

edited to say:

Just found out that my mother in law sneaked a £1 coin in my money box over the weekend for a box of eggs, therefore I made £1.60 today. That means that the mystery 60p payer has struck again!

ntsmama · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 246

Gilly C · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2490 Location: South Cumbria

I would think you should now start suggesting £1 is a reasonable price, cheeky G**s