Smiles Jr.
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As some of you know I have full responsibility of our chicken population here at PlayStation nowadays. This is kind of new to me as my wife and daughter always took care of the poultry here.
About 10 days ago my neighbor came by with a whole bag of 5 month old roosters. I think there were 6 in there. As a joke he tossed one out in my yard (because I said I didn't want a rooster) and a little later we could not catch it. After we chased it for 15 or 20 minutes it ran off into the woods. As we sat down on my neighbor's tailgate gasping for air and laughing we decided to let it go for a few days to see if it would return. Sure enough he's back and he has sort of adopted my flock of 10 or 12 hens. He is quite handsome with bright white feathers and black tips. He seems to be healthy and somewhat friendly. I'm sure by now that he has "serviced" just about every hen in my flock.
My question is . . . do we candle eggs to see if the eggs are fertilized to keep them out of the refrigerator and off the dinner table? Or do we candle eggs to set them aside for the incubator? Maybe a better way to ask my question would be, do we eat/sell fertilized eggs as long as they're fresh? Or do we have to toss out the fertilized ones? I just can't remember this stuff. If we have to toss them out I'll chop ole Mr. Roo's head off and eat him. Otherwise I'll build a small coop just for him and fence him in away from the girls.
About 10 days ago my neighbor came by with a whole bag of 5 month old roosters. I think there were 6 in there. As a joke he tossed one out in my yard (because I said I didn't want a rooster) and a little later we could not catch it. After we chased it for 15 or 20 minutes it ran off into the woods. As we sat down on my neighbor's tailgate gasping for air and laughing we decided to let it go for a few days to see if it would return. Sure enough he's back and he has sort of adopted my flock of 10 or 12 hens. He is quite handsome with bright white feathers and black tips. He seems to be healthy and somewhat friendly. I'm sure by now that he has "serviced" just about every hen in my flock.
My question is . . . do we candle eggs to see if the eggs are fertilized to keep them out of the refrigerator and off the dinner table? Or do we candle eggs to set them aside for the incubator? Maybe a better way to ask my question would be, do we eat/sell fertilized eggs as long as they're fresh? Or do we have to toss out the fertilized ones? I just can't remember this stuff. If we have to toss them out I'll chop ole Mr. Roo's head off and eat him. Otherwise I'll build a small coop just for him and fence him in away from the girls.