We had a good egg month considering it's January. Our girls have supplied us with slightly over 400 eggs through January which is amazing considering it's one of the quieter months normally. I don't have the exact number as I started recording on 7th January.
Of course, they're all stuck inside so not free ranging due to the avian flu restrictions so this may be affecting the numbers in the sense of them producing more than normal. They have nothing else to do except lay eggs and eat the greens we put in to supplement their food. Bitter sweet!
We sold pretty much all of these eggs this month. The money from these sales goes straight to their feed along with the money from the horse muck. We stocked up on corn from the farmer and bought 4 bags of layers pellets on 22nd January. We started using them both the same day as we were out of corn and only had half a barrel of layers left.
The geese are laying more now, so we're taking her eggs away and using them. I'll see if there's an interest in people buying them, though folk sometimes have strange ideas and think a goose egg isn't a real egg you can eat 😎.
We are Tracy & Steven and along with our 2 children we moved to the countryside in the North East of England in 2016. On our smallholding we strive for a more self reliant life by growing our own food, raising our own meat, cooking, preserving & foraging all whilst working full time.
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Tuesday, 31 January 2017
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