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April 16, 2008

eggs. are. everywhere!!

This time of year, the chickens are highly productive and lay lots of eggs. In another couple of weeks some of them will feel the urge to sit on their eggs for babies, but now they lay em and forget em, running around eating all the new grass that is popping up. As a result, I have lots of eggs in the fridge.
I recently changed my egg packaging. I had been using styrofoam but recently the prices of recycled paper cartons have come down to be the same as the foam. So I opted for the paper cartons this time. We will see how they do. I get my cartons from eggcartons.com and afix a label with our farm logo, and record the date, the size and the price.

I also have an incubator full of turkey eggs and bantam eggs. The bantam eggs will take 21 days to hatch, and the turkey eggs will take 28 days. Both of them are kept at a constant temp of 99.5 degrees. Here's hoping we have a good hatch (but I am not counting them yet!). ;)

Posted by roosterh at April 16, 2008 6:19 AM

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I can't wait for our turkey poults to arrive. We gave up hatching years ago and sadly, our incubators sit idle for now. Maybe after all that fencing is done. By the way, our perimeter and permanent lanes are high tensile six strand with four hot. We used Premier One Supplies' layout for goat fencing.

Posted by: Sandra at April 22, 2008 7:06 AM

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