>>2856222Most of those head to auction right before they start laying or as they start laying (i only keep olive eggers/easter eggers that long to see egg color)- thats the most valuable age for hens (pullets). Longer i keep them, less money i make. so it's not like im getting 200 eggs a day.
But ya, theres a few times a year when I start getting 4 dozen+ eggs a day and it gets crazy. It gets to a point that I cant put beer in the shop beer fridge.
My breeding groups are around 60-80 birds each year. Of course many of those eggs get incubated so they dont make it to the fridge and I always have a couple older groups that have slowed down on laying.
I have a large family and a few friends that use up my inventory plus a couple regular customers that buy anything I have leftover so nothing ever goes to waste.
Since its winter my breeding groups have basically stopped laying. But this years batch are just starting so I went from about 2 eggs a day last month to about 2 dozen a day now. If i dont get a batch for auction soon ill be at that 4 dozen a day.
Ill be filtering new layers out to auction as I figure out who lays what color.
Main pen holding group (had to crop the shit out of it to hit file size limit)
Mostly hens for auction but a couple Cochin mix roosters I kept for experimenting. Im trying to make a "fluffier" Cochin.
