Posts Tagged With: eggs
Why Chickens?
As I enter this annual spring dilemma about baby chicks, the question “why chickens?” is a question that begs to be asked again. For me it is very simple I like to know where my food came from. I am not extreme, in that I know living in a high cold desert I can’t do [...]
Safe Eggs = Clean Coops
The TV has been reporting that a major egg produce has been kicked to the curb by McDonald’s. It has been reported that this egg producer was inhumane and unsanitary. It really drives home how wonderful the backyard flock is. It also serves as a reminder that backyard flocks are work to keep. Keeping sanitary [...]
Egg Production Drops Again
I went out to the coop this afternoon to gather eggs and it looked like a pillow had burst in the shed. There were feathers all over the place, looking like the fox had at a chicken dinner and left nothing but feathers. There were dark feathers everywhere. I could not find any blood and [...]
Egg Recipes and Cookbooks
Everyone who has chickens will eventually seek out egg recipes and investing in a cook book or two. When you have an endless stream of fresh eggs, you tend to be a little less stingy with your eggs. You seek out recipes that use 3 or 4 eggs. You don’t care if it only [...]
Off With Their Heads!
Ok that is a little dramatic, but right now my laying hens are driving me nuts. All week my chickens have been in jail, their 64 x 24 foot fenced in run, trying to get the the bottom of the missing eggs. I am still not getting the number of eggs these girls should produce. [...]
Chickens Go to Jail
My chickens are going to be confined to the chicken run for awhile, which to free range chickens is like jail. Their run is huge but it is fenced. Every morning they greet me at the gate anxious to get out and forage for food. It is good for them, and the eggs they [...]
Eggs – All Shapes, Sizes and Colors
Yesterday I gave eggs to friends and they remarked on what a lovely dozen of eggs they were. All the various colors, sizes and even shapes. That comment made me take a closer look. I have ten laying hens right now and though some of the eggs are too similar for me to tell apart, [...]
A Sign of Spring
There are many signs of spring; the first robin, tulips, yellow forsythia, pussy willows, melting snow, and soft roads. Today I discovered another you can add to the list, an egg from my backyard flock after a winter hiatus. For those of you not familiar with chickens, they need a certain number of hours of [...]
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