Eggs 🥚

[tutshiveandspile]

Thanks can I come back sometime?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Just seen advert for day old chick's going cheep

Is this your coat?

Found it -

 

[Foggie]

We have led lights, to help out over the winter. JUST had some news that some commercial birds have come up for rehoming next month. Not quite what I had in mind but...

I've only extended the days with growers. Lights on in the morning. Does mean they have an early start, but then they all get up to the roost in the evening as it gets dark and go to bed same time as everyone else. Teenagers!

 

[MashBag]

Does work with layers.

Somewhere I have the plans for a 25liter 12v LED chicken shed light.

 

[VW911]

JUST had some news that some commercial birds have come up for rehoming next month. Not quite what I had in mind but...

We've had a few ex-commercial hens in the past. They always lay really well, but don't seem to live as long as birds bought at POL...

 

[MashBag]

Thank you. I was wondering about that.

 

[Foggie]

That is true.
Commercial hens will have laid over 300 Eggs 1st year, by the time you get it, perhaps 450 odd. Some units retained them until the 2nd molt.

So yes will be a good home layer and will eat less - being smaller - than some of the "Medium Sized" Sussex / Merans

I keep Speckled Sussex, Cream Legbar and Vorwerk breeds with some shetland cross/Isa Brown (commercials)

The shetland cross lay 6 eggs a week (ish). Eggs develop in about 26 hrs - hence the 6 eggs a week.
The pure breeds are about 4 to 5 per week.

The Speckled Sussex is my biggest bird - meat/eggs - bit lazy so eats a lot.. The Cream Legbars and Vorwerks are lite and good foragers so eat less feed as do the shetlands.

 

[MashBag]

We often have a brown Warren type. Good layers and they seem very happy girls too. I think the eggs come from France (and that's the root of the problem)

 

[pilgrimhudd]

We've got blacktails, they are ever so friendly and will come and sit with us if we go out in the paddock, great for the kids.

 

[Foggie]

Unlike Shetlands - Half of which have tufty heads, Give the evil eye if you go near them, sneak off and nest under a bush, and then don't show up for bed time!!

Spent over an hour last finding Goldie. Nest with 15 eggs under the bedroom window

 

[Barleylass]

I Keep Lohmann, Sussex and Welsummer, plus a friendly Welsummer cockerel (Eric) who doesn’t perform! He damaged a ligament in his leg which took 3 months of nursing so that he could walk again, but he is still a bit lame. He comes from show stock and I have got quite attached to him. We eat about 8 eggs a day, I sell a few £1.50per 1/2 doz and I water glass some so that I have plenty for winter.

 

[MashBag]

We tried liming and oiling, and settled on led lights. It seems better for the girls too.. For the last 2 years avian flu has kept them cosy inside and they love it... And continue laying.

We also ran out of jars & space

 

[MashBag]

What a fiasco. Rehomed birds are like cage fighters. Jeez

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I water glass some s

I had never heard of water glassing eggs what a brilliant solution -


What is Water glassing Eggs?

Water glassing eggs involves submerging clean, unwashed, eggs in a pickling lime and water solution to seal off the shell and preserve them for 12-18 months. The result is perfectly fresh, unspoiled eggs, just like they were the day the hen laid them. Sometimes properly water glassed eggs are still fresh even after two years. Homestead folks have been using this preservation method since the 1800s to capitalize on the springtime egg abundance year round.

There are a few different solutions that work for water glassing, such as sodium silicate and water, but today I am going to share a method for using hydrated lime, which is also known as pickling lime.

Full article - https://www.farmhouseonboone.com/water-glassing-eggs

 

[ruskythegreat]

@MashBag what are your thoughts on the mandatory registration coming in October?

 

[MashBag]

No issues really. I think there are a lot of people won't or just don't know.
Has given me an idea for another thread.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

@MashBag what are your thoughts on the mandatory registration coming in October?

No issues really. I think there are a lot of people won't or just don't know.
Has given me an idea for another thread.

Please use this thread to carry that discussion on, thanks - Admin -
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/the-chicken-rules-.104611/