Got chickens now have eggs
By savypat
@savypat (20216)
United States
February 20, 2010 1:30pm CST
We rescued about 30 chickens, we built them a house and a pen, gave them good food and let them out each day to eat outside. Yesterday we got 9 eggs, do you know how fast 9 eggs a day can overwhelm three people. At the very most we can eat 6 a day and that is usually to much. So we found someone to buy the eggs, this means they have to be boxed in new boxes, specially cleaned and sorted, in other words more work. Now the buyer wants us to get more chickens, special ones that lay chocolate colored eggs, yes believe it or not there are such chickens. Now if they only tasted like chocolate we'd be really on to something. Anyway more chickens are ordered, I told the family to get rid of those darn chickens. Now look where we are not Llama ranchers, no market there, but chicken farmers.
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@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
20 Feb 10
Lol! Have you ever seen The Egg and I with Claudette Colbert and Fred McMurray? Hilarious! I sympathize with you but you never know, this might be a blessing in disguise. Chicken dropping are wonderful fertilizer if you have any kind of a garden. And why not sell them to locals so you don't have to mess with cartons, they can bring their own?
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@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
21 Feb 10
As I remember, my grandmothers chickens not only ate bugs, but also mice and snakes. You may have a whole pest control program going on. They ran free, but at night they would go to roost in the hen house and she would board it up to keep the other critters out. Sometimes she had to go shoot a big snake, though.
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@Beautyfactor (1510)
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2 Mar 10
How great, I would love to do something like this. So long as you are getting an incmoe from it I wouldn't snub the opportunity at all. I would love to keep chickens here at home but I don't know how practical that would be for us right now. I beleive that they can attract rodents and we have cats too. Anyway, if we lived near esch other I would say that I would be more than happy to take a small brood off your hands :)
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
20 Feb 10
It means if I have 2 chickens, it would be enough eggs for me, right? I wish I can have chickens here but I am in the city.
I ave to say that you are in the business, that is very good. I am not sure what you mean by chocolate colored eggs, but everyone wants to have brown eggs.
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@danrunsfast614 (1396)
• United States
21 Feb 10
Sounds great. Fresh eggs are so good. We used to have 5 chickens which provided enough for us. 30 chickens is a ton though. Sounds like selling them might be a bit of work, but at least you make a little cash out of it. Enjoy the fresh eggs while they last.
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
22 Feb 10
I’ve always wanted chickens but we live in suburbia and in our backyard there is not enough space for our very active dog and chickens; she would kill them all probably while attempting to ‘play’ with them! I’ve never seen chocolate coloured eggs, that’s interesting! I guess the money that you are making is not worth the extra work! I suppose you could expand and get more chickens but it sounds like that is not what you want to do...
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
21 Feb 10
I have been wanting to get some chicken for a while now. I just don't know for sure if I am allowed to have them in my area. Brown eggs are very common where I live. They even have them as an option in the grocery store. Chocolate ones would be nice..lol.
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@chrystaltears (3392)
• United States
21 Feb 10
My brother has chickens, and just recently the weather permitted for them to start laying again. He doesn't have the problem with worrying about new boxes and stuff. He reuses egg boxes and just gives the eggs to family and friends.
@louisefrank (356)
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21 Feb 10
I love chickens! How kind of you to rescue so many. Unfortunately, the deeds of my house specifically forbid keeping livestock but my sister has lots of unusual breeds including favarolle, silkie bantam, buff orpington, vorwerk and welsummer. She also has araucanas which lay the most beautiful blue eggs. I am the recipient of lots of "free" eggs. In return, I occasionally bake her a cake or a pie. Perhaps you could set up some kind of similar swapping system with your neighbours!
@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
20 Feb 10
I missed the story of how you rescued the chickens, so I am curious. You would order MORE chickens to sell a special kind of egg? That sounds like more than I would want to do. The fresh eggs are wonderful, I bet. I do not care what color the shells are, I like the dark yellow yolks. I had not had any that good for ages, and then a couple of cartons we had had wonderful richly colored yolks. I always feel like there is better nutrition there. I guess you are giving new meaning to "Work from Home."
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@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
20 Feb 10
It is a way to have an extra small income coming. Even though you have to pay for the chickens food etc but I dont think that their maintenance is high cost. Even if you dont manage to sell a single egg you have fresh eggs for yourself. HOw did you rescue your chickens?
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@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
20 Feb 10
Hi, Pat!
I hope it turns out to be less work and more fun than it sounds as if it will be!
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@jugsjugs (12967)
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20 Feb 10
I also have chickens,the only problems with chickens is all the mess,i have also found with all the cold they have gone off lay slightly so that means less eggs.We have a cockeral aswell and we are now going to breed our own chickens as there arre alot of people out there that want the chicks for their children so they can see the chicks grow into full sized chickens and see them lay eggs.I think that it is great that you have found a new way of making money aswell.Good luck.
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