We've been selling eggs since we first had chickens (some years ago now) but I'm always fed up of asking for egg boxes or people forgetting to bring them back.
So I decided to bite the bullet and buy some, and since the invention of eBay I don't buy anything unless it's in bulk.
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| If you were wondering what 300 egg boxes looks like |
I ordered 300 egg boxes, 100 3ft bamboo canes and 50 8ft bamboo canes (always struggling for canes). It's going to be nice not to have to hunt around for egg boxes or try to use improvised boxes.
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| Clean eggs every time with their new nest box |
And since the ex caged birds are in their new coop the eggs have been lovely and clean every time. I need to alter my other coop so this happens in that pen as well, as we're selling more and more eggs and no one wants to buy dirty ones!
That's given me food for thought. Love your furtive dismantle in the previous post by the way but the new house looks way too good to be used yet. A bit like brand new school shoes that I tried not to crease on the tops!LOL
ReplyDeleteThey were in there as soon as it was dry! I was so desperate to get them out of the veg garden!
Deletewhat is it about dirt these days, people have been indoctrinated into thinking dirt is bad. I remember buying my spuds from the greengrocer covered in dirt, now they're all washed and clean.
ReplyDeleteWhen we were kids we used to play marbles in the gutter. God, they'd go mad now if you did that.
Sorry, going back a bit here, you can tell I'm not a youngster can't you? lol
Briony
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A bit of dirt never heart anyone. Our daughter isn't going up in what I'd call sanitary conditions!
Deletehow much did you pay for your egg boxes?
ReplyDeleteThey were from ebay and cost £11.30 plus £7for postage (but the bamboo canes were from the same place so the postage worked out cheaper.)
DeleteI see all your eggs are the same colour now...
ReplyDeleteI have more that lay brown than blue. All nine of the ex caged birds lay nice brown eggs - now with no added poo.
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ReplyDeleteIt feels as though I get 1000s of egg boxes from the entire village weekly
I have enough to make a few hundred cardboard dinosaurs
We either get given loads or none. It was through a dry spell and they had started to take up the bottom step on the stairs that I decided enough was enough and it was time to buy some!
DeleteI could use all those bamboo canes. I never thought of Ebay for those.
ReplyDeleteOh by the way, Neosporin triple antibiotic ointment seems to have fixed our roosters comb right up!
If I had a market for selling eggs I would love to have a 100 chickens! Would be great! Maybe I should work on that :O)
I need to increase my market for the eggs as the blokes at work might get fed up of me "pushing" them to buy eggs! The bamboo cane was cheap but some of the longer poles are pretty thin (the short stuff is great though).
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