Eggs

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

5 minutes ago, tank34 said:

I keep bantams

What sort, Tank? I'm getting a couple (?) of Goldtops, one day. Watching vid's till my eyes bleed is bringing me round to the ideas of little birds

[Lloyd90 509]

My mate did the Milk for Muller, prices of everything gone through the roof. 
 

Contract came to an end, they refused to pay anymore. 
 

He worked out he would make almost nothing on the milk, they still refused to pay anymore. 
 

He told them to find someone else to work for free and sold his entire herd. 
 

200+ Cows I think. 
 

 

[tank34 2,364]

3 hours ago, Ken's Deputy said:

What sort, Tank? I'm getting a couple (?) of Goldtops, one day. Watching vid's till my eyes bleed is bringing me round to the ideas of little birds

Some Pekin bantams and black leghorns bantams both Pekin are sat on eggs , looking at some welsumer bantams next , like bantams easy to keep eat nowt an lovely eggs to eat don't mess place up like big hens do

[chartpolski 24,203]

Silky and Bovan both sitting the same duck eggs;

First duckling hatched at 26 days;

Second duckling hatched at 28 days;

Dont know how one is black and one is yellow, the eggs were from the same Khaki Campbell drake and duck ?

Cheers.

 

Edited April 27, 2022 by chartpolski

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

Cheers, lads. That gave me five minutes on google. Chicken checking

I'm quite happy, in my head, thinking about bantams now. I'm not interested in egg or meat production. Just eye appeal.

The old think box is going in overdrive now! Centre of it all, of course, is that secure flight I have out there. Considering how many would fit in, if I gave the entire thing over to a night box for them.

Once this GF thing's done, I guess I'll have to wait and see where they decide they want to go at night.

[Gypsydog94 4,607]

My mate got 6000 hens. Just started doing night work to keep his family afloat

[micky 3,325]

Do people still use LAYERS MASH , when i was a kid i was always mashing it up with boiled Potato peelings .

[chartpolski 24,203]

13 minutes ago, micky said:

Do people still use LAYERS MASH , when i was a kid i was always mashing it up with boiled Potato peelings .

I've literally just made a mash for the chicks !

Wheat, oats, bit of garlic and some vitamin d tablets, all in the blender.

Cheers.

[kanny 20,667]

Just got home from work to find these on my doorstep

[tank34 2,364]

5 hours ago, micky said:

Do people still use LAYERS MASH , when i was a kid i was always mashing it up with boiled Potato peelings .

I did in winter warm mash when had Brown hens an ducks kept them laying in winter an had a cold  some marmite in with mash soon sorted it out

[Jonjon79 13,358]

For what it's worth, I wouldn't begrudge paying more for decent local eggs. 

 

My butcher charges £2.20 for half a dozen duck eggs - I'd happily pay twice that.

[Chaseorbechased 119]

A seen in morrisons 6 eggs 1 quid 60 sell mine 6 for 50p 

[Ken's Deputy 4,460]

Quails eggs? Just been watching a woman keeps them. Anyone had their eggs? Just wondering what the fuss was about

 

[dytkos 17,818]

56 minutes ago, Ken's Deputy said:

Quails eggs? Just been watching a woman keeps them. Anyone had their eggs? Just wondering what the fuss was about

 

Yes, very good hard boiled but they are really small, about 1/4 size of a hens egg. Used to buy them off Bolton market back along.

Cheers, D.

[SheepChaser 8,089]

This stuff always makes interesting reading . . . . . . 

Supermarkets are b*stards, and screw their producers badly at every chance.

Costs have gone up a lot, and that needs to be passed down the chain, not just stuck onto the producer.

With regard to eggs - the issue is that a lot of people dont know the cost / value because there are lots of folk who basically have a job, and pay to subsidise a hobby of keeping some chickens and producing eggs, with money from their other job. They then give these away or sell them for f**k all, they are losing money on every egg. . . . . and then can't understand why a large scale farmer can't match their cost.

You see it in every area of farming, it is bizarre and a pain in the arse!