I love fresh chicken eggs. There is a guy where I work and he raises chickens. He will bring the eggs to work to sell but fails to wash all the pooh off. Therefore I don't buy them just because it's so yucky.
Raising Chickens!
by jgnat 27 Replies latest jw friends
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jgnat
Good to see you all again, too. Great to see you, Scully!
It looks like urban farming is doing well.
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B-Rock
Anybody tried ducks? They are supposed to be hardier, less disease prone. Some breeds are supposed to be good layers.
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leavingwt
Anybody tried ducks? They are supposed to be hardier, less disease prone. Some breeds are supposed to be good layers.
DO NOT GET DUCKS.
I cannot give a more strong warning.
A duck will cross the "back forty" just to come on your porch and take a crap.
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snowbird
A duck will cross the "back forty" just to come on your porch and take a crap.
Amen.
Well coverings and kitchen tables are other favorite places for leaving their calling cards.
Sylvia
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BluesBrother
When we moved up from a big town into the country we toyed with the idea of chickens. It seemed a lot of fun and fresh eggs too. But life was too busy with work and dubdom too.
Now , we could do it, if I still lived out there. But we soon high tailed it to somewhere more urban with a supermarket in walking distance....
P S Good to see you Janet...
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Emma
I'd like to try keeping chickens for the eggs. I couldn't kill them myself and it's illegal to "slaughter" in our area. Have you seen the Eglu?
http://www.omlet.us/products_services/products_services.php?view=Chickens
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whyizit
We used to have some chickens (Aracuanas and Americaunas) that laid colored eggs. Mostly green, but there were some pink, lavender, blue, and yellow also. It was like Eater every morning. The eggs were big too, and some were even double yolkers. If you don't bother with a rooster, you by-pass a lot of the noise factor. And it is true, there is nothing better than farm fresh eggs!
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parakeet
I thought about keeping a few egg-layers a while back. I did some reading about their care (I strongly recommend this) and concluded that --
1--They tie you down. You can't go anywhere for more than a day without getting someone to come care for your birds.
2--They're a lot of work. They need special feed, hot mashes, constantly fresh drinking water, shelter for roosting and laying, heat in the winter, cooling in the summer, protection from dogs, cats, hawks, and any juvenile deliquents in the neighborhood.
3--If you keep them for eggs, they lay for only 3-4 years, depending on the breed, and if you're unwilling to slaughter them then, you will have eggless pet chickens for the next 6-7 years of their natural lifespan.
4--If you just keep hens, you have to watch over them closely because they tend to wander and get into trouble without a rooster around. If you get a rooster, make sure you have no neighbors and that you don't mind constant crowing throughout the day AND night.
For me, the disadvantages of keeping chickens outweighed the advantages of fresh, good-tasting eggs.
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kurtbethel
We had some free range chickens when our son was going to elementary school. He had a project at school where the students had to design a method to drop an egg from the second story window to the ground without breaking. Some tried parachutes, gliders etc. and did not succeed. I told my son to make a box out of styrofoam with a niche for an egg inside. I knew that our free range eggs had a very tough shell, very hard to crack open. He won the contest, the egg didn't break.
I had a project like that in school. I used a duck egg. Worked like a charm.