Eggs

[Amish Heart]

Straight run chick's are cheaper, and the farm store prices might be a little less too. We have only bought chick's from Murray McMurray or Strombergs. This way we can get only the chick's with the traits that we want.
We just placed an order for stright run meat chickens last night, to be delivered in late June.

How much? And what kind? I'm almost afraid to ask. Last time I ordered, I can't remember what I paid, but I got cornish roosters for their weight. 50 of them. If they're too expensive this year, I'm happy enough with my barnyard mix of heritage breed roosters for meat, they're all heavy weight birds.

 

[SLADE]

I like the taste of a good mixed breed farmyard chicken. Not much meat and kind of tough but stewed I find them tasty. I've raised the cornsh cross and find them as tasteless as commercial chickens.

 

[Mountain trapper]

How much? And what kind? I'm almost afraid to ask. Last time I ordered, I can't remember what I paid, but I got cornish roosters for their weight. 50 of them. If they're too expensive this year, I'm happy enough with my barnyard mix of heritage breed roosters for meat, they're all heavy weight birds.

We bought Cornish Cross this time. I think they were $3.43 each. Last year we went with Buff Orpington. They were good eating but took a long time to get to butcher weight. We also really liked the Ginger Broilers but they haven't been available for a couple of years. The Cornish Cross is a fast growing bird so we save a lot of feed cost.

 

[Tim Horton]

In the ..far frozen north.. we had a motley flock of mostly Isa Brown chickens because they were easily available and cheap.. One year we left a travel cage by the barn at the crazy chicken lady place with a deal to buy 10-12 Isa Brown chickens.. When we picked up the cage there were about another 10-12 extra culls she stuffed in there.. We brought them home, fed them and they laid up a storm of eggs.. We ate, froze, powdered, sold, gave away eggs like crazy.. We had a rooster like on the Kellogg Corn Flakes box, named Cornelius, who just about died trying to ...do his duty... with the flock..

Our biggest and best seller was fertilized eggs.. We got reports of people hatching all kinds of mixed nests of chicks..

 

[Amish Heart]

We bought Cornish Cross this time. I think they were $3.43 each. Last year we went with Buff Orpington. They were good eating but took a long time to get to butcher weight. We also really liked the Ginger Broilers but they haven't been available for a couple of years. The Cornish Cross is a fast growing bird so we save a lot of feed cost.

The last cornish we got down to $1.85 each
Bummer now.

 

[poltiregist]

Alert - The second largest egg producing farm in the United States " Rose Acre farms " has now been proclaimed to have bird flue within their massive flock . The chicken killing we can expect soon , if not already occurred . This is pre - main stream media information . --- There is " now " semi- fake eggs being put on the market in liquid form . These concoctions are mostly filler with less than half the volume being actually egg . We can expect desperate restaurant owners using this mess in order to stay in business as they have to compete with the business down the street that quickly started feeding this stuff to the public . -- Chicken flock owners can go to bed tonight knowing they had the correct instinct to prepare for what is now going down .

 

[Amish Heart]

That egg filler has been used in restaurants for a long time. Only way I'd know if I was getting a real egg in a restaurant was if it was hard boiled or sunny side up, otherwise it's the cooked muck in a bag.
Get chickens, people! I have eggs for days, really!
And then I just listened to an American Homestead youtube where Zach was talking about Indiana and Penn were places were being "rezoned" WEF style, so no chickens.

 

[Tim Horton]

It seems a good idea to research and have on hand recipes with no or other substitutes for eggs.. Recipes from WW1, WW2, rationing type options seems a good source.. (?)

I know from working in church and other organization fund raiser kitchens eggs came in a plastic bag or 5 gallon bucket already scrambled.. I never read the label of ingredients, but never minded the taste of that type scrambled eggs..

 

[SLADE]

Makes me wonder if it's spread by the feed as these are locked down facilities.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I hope that everyone who doesn't already have chickens gets their order in soon. The closer we get to spring many hatcheries will be running out of chick's, both egg layers and meat breeds. Our hens have been laying all through the winter so we haven't had to preserve any eggs. We should be selling eggs but instead we've been giving them away. We like to donate eggs to the senior center in town.

 

[Amish Heart]

I've still got a bunch of meat chickens in the freezer that'll do us. Meanwhile, I don't mind the breast of the roosters I butcher, and I have plenty of those to do. Don't know if I want to pay double for cornish cross because I'm not really needing the meat right now. I bet laying hens will come up in price. We'll see what fowl sale locally goes for.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I've still got a bunch of meat chickens in the freezer that'll do us. Meanwhile, I don't mind the breast of the roosters I butcher, and I have plenty of those to do. Don't know if I want to pay double for cornish cross because I'm not really needing the meat right now. I bet laying hens will come up in price. We'll see what fowl sale locally goes for.

We still have a freezer full of chickens too. We scheduled our meat chick's to arrive in July, so we'll be out of chicken by the time these birds are ready for butcher.

 

[Amish Heart]

Just looked up the fowl sale calendar, and the sale is tonight at 4pm, don't know if I'll make it though, but curious about the auction prices. A youtuber named Jordan's Harvest usually films it and puts up the prices about a week later if I miss it. I took out three cornish split breasts I butchered last year that we had last night, and they were so big and good, we have half left still. I basted them in some organic vinegar and oil mix and some greek spices.

 

[Tim Horton]

Makes me wonder if it's spread by the feed as these are locked down facilities.
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Coincidental, trivia....
Going on close to 10 years ago now there was a bird flu that wiped out turkey barns one right after another in northern Wisconsin.. When they finely figured it out the garbage truck that emptied there commercial size containers spread the flu.. So they moved there garbage collection areas away from the barns and installed wheel washers for all vehicles coming and going from the barns..

A side note to go along with all this, at that time they also had imported a whole bunch of Somali people to the area.. The men went to work in the turkey processing plants but would not work with or work for a woman supervisor... So most ended up on state welfare.. The Somali women went to work in several local turkey parts processing plants, but would not lift there skirts enough to use the walk through boot wash and ended up contaminating plants and product.. Several processors ended up going out of business over all this..

 

[Amish Heart]

Wow!

 

[UserNameTaken]

I am considering reopening our armored transport company. Special pricing for egg delivery, armored truck with point and chase cars, and drone overwatch. Also available, armed chicken guards at your henhouse.

Yeah, go ahead and laugh.