Egg shortage

[Chuckie]

Use them for packaging stuff for shipment.

Halloween's coming up. Open eggs with small nail on each end, blow out egg, wash shell in 'n out, let dry, then fill with colored confetti, tape holes shut, then decorate outside of shell.
Put 'confetti eggs' back into cartons and sell for x-$'s per carton to kids. They love to throw them at each other and you love the extra cash

 

[Fade2blue]

We live in town. We bought a metal coop from Tractor Supply and put it on the side of our house (inside our privacy fence), then built a PVC enclosure with garden netting for a roof to keep hawks out. We have a 10-15’ pvc run coming off of that, but they’ve already decimated the grass in the run. Lately I’ve been letting them just free range our backyard.

I made drawings to build a 6' x 24' coop like the Carolina coops on YouTube. That should be large enough for 4 hens and a rooster to stay in. My back yard is sloped so i decided to build a cinder block base to level things but it's been kicking my ass because i didn't pour the footer perfectly level. I should be able to start on the coop next week but the hens already dropped a few eggs in their temporary pen.
I've seen some people use sand in their run like a big litter box. I know they like to dig though. I plan on using a tall hemp layer for the hen house.

 

[RickN]

Use them for packaging stuff for shipment.

Better to give them to someone that raises chickens. dlbleak is picking them up tomorrow.

 

[CoronaBorealis]

Anyone know what might be causing the issue on top of my chickens beak? We use a nipple waterer. Also, she has a metal coop and I thought it might be from her sticking her beak through it repeatedly, but I don’t know why she would be doing that.

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

Wife said there was a sign at WalMart today saying the 18 count eggs price had increased to $4.28. At checkout, though, they rang up as $3.02.

She also said they were completely out of stick butter. I have never seen a store out of butter.

 

[L.C.]

I buy my eggs from a boy that lives up the road from me, that's how he makes his pocket money. No shortage of eggs from my supplier
I give him $4 a dozen for his eggs(My choice). He sells them for $3.50 but I figure with the cost of everything going up it's well worth it. Besides you can have those sickly looking eggs in the store.
I have been buying eggs from the people for 20 years now, and they deliver.

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

We're about to populate our chicken coop now that we have the goat situation taken care of.

 

[Chuckie]

Anyone know what might be causing the issue on top of my chickens beak? We use a nipple waterer. Also, she has a metal coop and I thought it might be from her sticking her beak through it repeatedly, but I don’t know why she would be doing that.View attachment 307496

Looks like it could be beak fungus.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=chicken+beak+fungus

 

[Timmy59]

Individual at work said they paid 4 bucks for eggs, I didn't ask the count . I did say I just paid $17.27 for a bag of feed and that our fresh eggs if sold would be $8 a dozen. We don't sell eggs though, consumed by something or someone here and I'll give away when I deem fit.

 

[CanadianRiverRat]

Looks like it could be beak fungus.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=chicken+beak+fungus

AKA "pecker rot"!