The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: nutterly_uts on December 28, 2015, 01:57:29 pm
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Just had a dippy egg and soldiers from commerically bought eggs. (We usually get ours from a local farm but even then they are a commerical flock)
What a disappointment. The shells just crumbled so near impossible to scoop out the white properly >:(
Times like this I wish I had my own chickens
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Only getting. an egg a day from mine. I just cannot face eating any shop bought egg, and do without when mine stop laying
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I'm not getting any eggs from mine so have resorted to the supermarket but I can't say i like these anaemic looking eggs :(
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Also bear in mind that by the time they've been collected by the supplier, washed, graded, packed, sent to a central distribution centre and then out again to the supermarket your eggs could be pretty old by the time they get on the shelf.
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we are still getting 20 a day, now the leg bars have started laying too, so we now have green shelled eggs…the locals seem to like the odd colours :thumbsup:
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Also bear in mind that by the time they've been collected by the supplier, washed, graded, packed, sent to a central distribution centre and then out again to the supermarket your eggs could be pretty old by the time they get on the shelf.
Thats exactly why we avoid supermarket eggs. Thankfully being a small island, even using the commerical flocks does mean they don't take long to get from farm to us even if they aren't quite backyard grown and loved ;)
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I'm getting 4-7 from my 16 girls, primarily from the ones that just started laying a couple months back. The rest have moulted more or less but still pale combed and I'm in no hurry to get a dozen a day til my customers are back to normal buying habits.
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My 2015 hatch birds are laying OK but the 2014 ones are awful. Thinking about lighting the second year birds next year.
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Only getting. an egg a day from mine. I just cannot face eating any shop bought egg, and do without when mine stop laying
Us too!!
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I buy mine from local producers, which are sold in my local wholefood shop, the shells are usually pretty good. I did buy some from the supermarket a while back, but one of them i cracked open and it was off, not a good sign! >:(
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When my son was wee, he called fried eggs flat eggs and scrambled eggs were yellow eggs. In winter when our hens weren't laying and I had had to resort to supermarket eggs, he asked for 'yellow eggs' for lunch. as I put the scrambled eggs in front of him, he looked aghast and said, "They're not yellow eggs, they're white."
Out of the mouth of babes.
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Also bear in mind that by the time they've been collected by the supplier, washed, graded, packed, sent to a central distribution centre and then out again to the supermarket your eggs could be pretty old by the time they get on the shelf.
About 6 to 10 weeks old I was told. I'll just make do with my one every other day, and my good little Shetland ducks, 3 a day from 5 girls
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Mine have stopped laying now for the time being, it is quite annoying, but it is probably due to the lack of light and heat.
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My 2014 hens moulted very late (October and November) this year so I'm not expecting eggs until next month. The 2015's have just started, although I was expecting the Legbar crosses to be first but the Wyandottes have beat them to it.
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I miss my hens and ducks so much and hate hate hate having to buy from the supermarket.. :chook: :chook:
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I would love to keep hens again. I do buy free range eggs from a local shop which I think are a little fresher that supermarket ones but I miss the really fresh ones.
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I have a small unused eglu sitting in the shed but am living at home and parents are not on board for chooks :(
That makes buying shop eggs doubly annoying since for the cost of 2 layers and a bag of food we could be good to go!!
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I have a small unused eglu sitting in the shed but am living at home and parents are not on board for chooks :(
That makes buying shop eggs doubly annoying since for the cost of 2 layers and a bag of food we could be good to go!!
Why not point out to them the benefits of keeping chickens for eggs, how better the eggs are for you being rich in vitamins and minerals. You knowing what the hens are fed, whereas commercial hens are probably fed on gm stuff with crap ingredients, containing very little health benefits and probably a higher chance of salmonella along the way too. The cost isn't very high and with eggs almost all year round it well makes up the cost. Plus you can feed them the insides of pumpkins and squashes they love best, that helps the vitamin count in their eggs and keeps them healthy too. Much cheaper than buying shop bought unhealthy looking eggs with weak shells. Not forgetting they're a joy to keep too. Point out all the positives and hope they change their minds :thumbsup:
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I told my neighbour I was getting some crooks thinking she would go off her head, but to my surprise she loved the idea. She may be going deaf but I'm sure she would still hear them, if my last lot are anything to go by lol. Shame my other very very nosey neighbours wouldn't be on board :rant: :rant: So still no crooks for me at the mo..
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You could always bribe them with eggs quirkygirl :thinking:
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Definitely won't buy eggs from the supermarkets here. Recently a new brand was launched claiming to be 'antibiotic free'. Does that mean all the others use antibiotics in the feed routinely??
We have hatched this year and intend to do so every year to ensure we get at least a few eggs over Winter from the pullets. We have 4 of 5 Leghorn Bantams laying- the other has decided to moult?!? Baking at this time is done with eggs frozen in Summer.
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Why not point out to them the benefits of keeping chickens for eggs
Been there. Its because we've had chooks before they won't bend! Last time we had neighbours who didn't like the noise so although we have new neighbours we can't get more chooks :(