The Accidental Smallholder Forum

Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: bloomer on February 14, 2012, 10:30:26 am

Title: deep trauma, had to buy eggs!!!
Post by: bloomer on February 14, 2012, 10:30:26 am

yup for the first time in 2 years had to buy eggs yesterday.

feel all sad, am missing my chooks :-(

Title: Re: deep trauma, had to buy eggs!!!
Post by: doganjo on February 14, 2012, 10:35:37 am

Don't do that again - mine have started laying!

Title: Re: deep trauma, had to buy eggs!!!
Post by: bloomer on February 14, 2012, 10:41:23 am

cool annie, i had assumed that most small producers would only have limited supplys at this time of year...

did feel all scuzzy and wrong buying them in a shop....

Title: Re: deep trauma, had to buy eggs!!!
Post by: little blue on February 14, 2012, 10:42:43 am

aw, really feel you bloomer.
would hate to be without my girls :/

Title: Re: deep trauma, had to buy eggs!!!
Post by: Mel Rice on February 14, 2012, 11:18:05 am

I just refrained from buying....mine are totaly free range (indoors at night) and with it being so cold we are down to one egg a day. Luckily my friend overwinters his in a lit cellar so his production is still not too bad and we could have a box.

Title: Re: deep trauma, had to buy eggs!!!
Post by: ellied on February 14, 2012, 07:11:12 pm

I'm getting 4-5 most days and was down in Glasgow today so could even have come your way home if I'd known ::) 

Title: Re: deep trauma, had to buy eggs!!!
Post by: bloomer on February 14, 2012, 07:13:05 pm

ok i get the message i should of asked

it was need driven, as i have 2 dinners this week that need eggs and i want to bake some cakes for the kids one day this week...

Title: Re: deep trauma, had to buy eggs!!!
Post by: MAK on February 14, 2012, 07:37:52 pm

Could you not have had an egg free holiday  ;D
I'm fed up of eggs and even the ducks won't stop laying ( we even lift them frozen and cracked - pig food)  despite the snow and cold for nearly 3 weeks. I have not even had a stroll up the lane to give eggs away to our neighbours.
Egg Curry in dynamite sauce tonight ! I'll be blowed  ;D

Title: Re: deep trauma, had to buy eggs!!!
Post by: Sylvia on February 14, 2012, 08:01:04 pm

I don't think I've ever bought eggs :-\ Can you not keep just two or three little banties? :)

Title: Re: deep trauma, had to buy eggs!!!
Post by: bloomer on February 14, 2012, 08:26:06 pm

the last of our old eggs ran out a couple of weeks ago and we had started to get withdrawal we are working on a plan to keep some maybe...

going without is hard as on my wifes diet (slimming world) eggs are allowed food.

for now when the ones i bought run out i have a nice supply sorted (hopefully)...

Title: Re: deep trauma, had to buy eggs!!!
Post by: Lesley Silvester on February 14, 2012, 11:57:49 pm

I remember when I kept hens when my youngest was about four.  He loved eggs for lunch, especially yellow eggs (scrambled) or flat eggs (fried).

One winter, they had stopped laying (all twenty of the blighters) so I had to buy some shop eggs - battery at that as our shop didn't have free range.  David asked for yellow egg for lunch.  I dished up his scrambled egg on toast and he looked at it in disgust.  "That's not yellow egg.  That's white!"  Clearly a boy with good taste.

Title: Re: deep trauma, had to buy eggs!!!
Post by: Frieslandfilly on February 15, 2012, 12:40:00 pm

if you have room, Ducks are pretty good at keeping the egg supply going through the winter :)

Title: Re: deep trauma, had to buy eggs!!!
Post by: doganjo on February 15, 2012, 04:01:18 pm

Not always - mine stopped in December and haven't started again yet.  They have a laying season too but not so much due to the lack of light, more to do with the weather I believe.