Chicken egg question to all farmers out there OT

We have a yard full of roosters now though, and I haven't been able to get anyone interested in cleaning and cooking any of them though.

We have a pen full of some good sized rabbits, but still haven't got anyone in on eating any yet.

I may have to do it while they run off to town, and have supper ready when they git home and not tell them what we had till later.

Tame rabbit and dumplings, Ell yeah, that sounds good!!

I can tell someone has never been chased out of the hen house by a bad a**ed rooster.

Many small flock hens will "share" the same nest iff'n you leave a "fake-egg" in it to keep them coming back. My hens would "kick-out" the lite-weight plastic fake eggs, I finally found a real "glass-egg" and that kept them laying in the same nest. Pick-up yer eggs daily. Real layers will lay 1-egg/day in their prime. Pullets start about 1-week, and work up to 1-day. Make certain you have plenty of oyster-shell for egg-shell strength. While "commercial layer feed" is supposed to have adequate calcium for egg-shell strength, my hens always enjoyed peckin' at the oyster-shell.

Its hard to beat the taste of fresh eggs (they don't run all over the frying pan), its equally hard to beat the "price" of grocery-store eggs.

There lots of "self-help" chicken raisin' books and search the internet full of chicken raising sites. Dang, gotta go fry me some store-eggs for breakfast..... .....Dell

Obviously, we Roosters have nothing to do with breakfast!!

Ken

Well if u don't like Baluts (& I don't, having only tried one many years ago!) I would respectfully suggest either candling the eggs or doing what most country folks do...opening the egg and dropping it into a separate bowl. Then if it looks OK, u can then add it to the ingredients. We usta get FRESH EGGS from our neighbors (who raised chickens..all gone now) I still chuckle over one of my ex-girlfriends that was cooking a cake or something else that required eggs & was surprised to see a bloody mess! Ruint all the ingredients she had already added. We were used to opening the eggs in a seperate container as the Sanfords did NOT candle their eggs, at least the ones they gave us! Real Fresh eggs are one of the benefits of country living! Of course now I am forced to utilize the EVIL FOOD LION 4 all my groceries and pay exorbitant $$ for eggs! (& everything else, but that is a seperate rant, hehehe!) The other posters gave u some good info. Enjoy! CC

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Thus most of the eggs i get are fertalized.

I like to collect eggs they we will eat, every day. Eggs i want to leave, for instance if i have a hen that is broody.. I will make a pencil mark on the egg so I know to skip it.

If you would like, leave the egg as a test.. see if your hen is broody.. IE.. if she will set.

Some hens are just egg layers.. not egg setters.

I have some big sexlink and rhode isle red hens that lay fine.. but won't set.. thus I collect their eggs to eat, or to incubate.. I've even slipped one under another setting hen.. etc.

On the other hand.. if i have a hen that is broody.. I let her set when she has a clutch of eggs. I have about 7 newly hatched chix inthe pens right now, and then another 7 or so that are a few weeks old, and previous to that I had about another 7 that were a month old that I just introduced back into the main population. ( I xfer the hen and newly hatched chicks to a 'holding' area so they can get some hands on training without being bothered by other chickens.. etc..

int he end.. all you are loosing is 1 egg by doing this 'test'

don't be concerned if she doesn't set on this first egg.. or if it doesn't hatch..... sometimes it takes som practice to get it right.. just like with us humans!

Soundguy