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[Joe Flacco]

I am going to try raising chickens for eggs next year.

 

[Dublin ohio]

I am going to try raising chickens for eggs next year.

My daughter in law tried for a few years. Got tired of fighting off predators. Hawks, owls, foxes, coyotes

 

[Joe Flacco]

My daughter in law tried for a few years. Got tired of fighting off predators. Hawks, owls, foxes, coyotes

There are a lot of foxes in my area. There is also at least one bear.

 

[Joe Flacco]

I don't know if crows eat chickens but I have seen crows picking up bunnies from the yard.

 

[Joe Flacco]

There is a farm that will drop off a chicken coop with hens for a monthly fee. Maybe I will try that first.

 

[Sandra Koutsopoulos]

There is a farm that will drop off a chicken coop with hens for a monthly fee. Maybe I will try that first.

I grew up on a chicken farm. We had about 2000 laying hens. My aunt sold the candled eggs in town to the hospital, several cases at a time (30 doz in a case), and to restaurants and a few private customers. I remember getting the chicks, putting them in the fairly small building with heat lamps, til they were a bit older; then the pullets finally became laying hens and became profitable. Feed, oyster shells (for sturdy eggshells), automatic waterers, vet care, gathering the eggs twice a day, candling each egg for imperfections in the yolk and grading, weighing, sorting. Full time job. Then taking the eggs to her customers in town every Friday. Eventually the old laying hens were sold off when the pullets matured to be laying hens. It never occurred to me as a little kid what happened to those poor laying hens. {gulp, I'm an animal lover} There were always some mis-sexed chicks who turned out to be Sunday chicken dinner roosters. We had a large henhouse building which would be closed up at night, and a big grassy yard area for them during the day. The hens always came in to roost in the evening, away from predators. Also, cleanliness was an on-going job for everybody's good health including the chickens.

 

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[Joe Flacco]

I grew up on a chicken farm. We had about 2000 laying hens. My aunt sold the candled eggs in town to the hospital, several cases at a time (30 doz in a case), and to restaurants and a few private customers. I remember getting the chicks, putting them in the fairly small building with heat lamps, til they were a bit older; then the pullets finally became laying hens and became profitable. Feed, oyster shells (for sturdy eggshells), automatic waterers, vet care, gathering the eggs twice a day, candling each egg for imperfections in the yolk and grading, weighing, sorting. Full time job. Then taking the eggs to her customers in town every Friday. Eventually the old laying hens were sold off when the pullets matured to be laying hens. It never occurred to me as a little kid what happened to those poor laying hens. {gulp, I'm an animal lover} There were always some mis-sexed chicks who turned out to be Sunday chicken dinner roosters. We had a large henhouse building which would be closed up at night, and a big grassy yard area for them during the day. The hens always came in to roost in the evening, away from predators. Also, cleanliness was an on-going job for everybody's good health including the chickens.

2000 is a lot. I am thinking 4-5 hens.

 

[Sandra Koutsopoulos]

So, just for your household use. Chickens usually lay about 5 eggs a week, nearly one a day during their prime.

 

[Sandra Koutsopoulos]

To make it a profitable business, we had about 2000 chickens. Took me a long time to want to eat another egg or chicken leg.
On the other hand, we made lots of angel-food cakes (takes 12 eggwhites), and we could have had lots of custard, but my grandma didn't like custard, so she made other stuff. But the angle food cakes were out of this world.