The chickens are supplying us with at least three dozen eggs a day sometimes more. One dozen a day goes to the pigs and the others are sold. Last week I sold fifteen dozen eggs. The pigs had a few less though. This week Jake wants to send up thirty dozen(between us) – we are after a specific weekly order from a specific restaurant so I am going to try. This means I need to collect seventeen dozen this week! So the pigs will get even less this week.
Jake is my middleman so I sell the eggs to him for $2.50 a dozen. He supplies all the trays and transport and sells them on. So the chickens are paying for their own feed and hay and some left over.
I think they like this cool weather and they are loving the extra light.
Good chickens.
Last night before I got out to shut the chicken’s door on my evening stroll, there was a cufuffle, the dogs almost threw themselves through the door trying to get out. They raced to the chook house and interrupted a Bastard Mink – it had already killed one of the old brown chickens who liked to sleep in a nesting box. Boo chased the mink off. He was gone a while so who knows. I locked the chook house down hard. No more going into the field for a while, they are back to their little run until I feel it is safe again. I will look for mink tracks to the creek this morning (the animals run low to the ground and leave a very obvious trail through the long grass) – putting Boo along their tracks a couple of times a day moved them on last year. They are pretty smelly and easy to track for him.
But I do not want those Bastard Minks moving in again -they can move on off down river. They are terrible killers.
The coyotes are around on their fortnightly rotation so they may clean a few minks up too. They mainly feed on small mammals. Which is useful.
Now to work for me.
Oh, I almost forgot to tell you – I felt Poppy’s babies kicking yesterday. So, I am going to have to shift her over here today. She is not dropping down or anything but maybe soon. John is almost finished patching out the rust on the new trailer. So he will bring it back from his workshop this afternoon and we will give it a trial run swapping these big sows around.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Love celi
WEATHER: Not too bad but I am looking forward to the wind swinging back to the South and warming up. Not today though. Still a bit cold today.
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Cloudy skies early, then partly cloudy this afternoon. High 41F. Winds NE at 10 to 15 mph.
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Some passing clouds. Low 26F. NNE winds shifting to WNW at 10 to 15 mph.
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7:11 am 6:55 pm
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54 responses to “EGGS GALORE”
Lovely eggs and Boo is such a good dog! Have a wonderful day!
Boo has certain jobs that he is very good at. Running off the BM is one of them!
I eat 3-4 a day more or less. I would be your first and most steady customer.
Eggs are so good – i hope you have a good source for yours!
Bastard minks. xx
Kind of rolls off the tongue now doesn’t it – especially after all this time.. c
Beautiful eggs! I wish you could be my supplier! 🙂
So do I!!
Those are beautiful eggs! I remember gathering eggs at my aunt and uncle’s hatchery. Some went for the household the rest were put in the incubators. They had a lot of chickens and there were mink and feral cats they had to deal with that killed the chickens. There were baited traps around the fence and inside the chicken yard. The predators finally all left as more houses were built around the area. There is nothing quite like a freshly laid egg from free range chickens. I sure would love to have a couple chickens if I could. The spouse has never had farm fresh eggs like that, only the poor things from the grocery stores. I hope Boo didn’t really mess up his leg.
Oh how much I lived next door!
Oh such gorgeous eggs! And such nutrients and taste from happy chickens!
How we miss our Spanish Chickies and their wonderful eggs!
All the fresh eggs always feel like treasures! After all this time, do you still feel the magic of a fresh egg?
Congrats on finding another source of income, best of luck your girls giving your the eggs you need for these sales and baby kicks are such sweet things.. So sorry to hear about the mink.. They are not only killers but such wasteful ones at that.. hope you move it one right quick!
I can’t wait to start our chicken journey. We are currently building a new house on 12 acres that should be done by the end of this year. If all goes according to plan we will have our baby chicks by March 2019. I spent a lot of time on my grandparent’s farm growing up and can’t wait to start a little farm of my own.
Damned Minks! Good chooks though .. keep up the good work girls 😀