We keep a tally of the daily egg laying now, on a calendar in the outhouse. It’s a good way to check how the chooks are fairing with the shorter, darker days through winter (fortunately now getting a bit longer and lighter) and how much the eggs are costing us.
In January they did 74 in total, which is impressive. It works out at about 25 eggs apiece, or almost one each per day.
February was just slightly slower, with 72 laid for a total of 146 so far this year. That would cost about £36.50 in the shops or, to put it another way, when you consider that in all that time they’ve eaten about two thirds of a £7.05 bag of food (£4.65-worth) we’ve saved £31.85 on buying those eggs in the shops.
That’s not entirely accurate, of course: we would never have bought that many eggs because we couldn’t eat them all, and we’ve given away plenty to friends and family, either as plain old eggs, or in quiches, which together used up about half of this month’s eggs, leaving the other half to be eaten for breakfast or boiled for sandwiches.
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That’s a pretty good tally. It will only get better as well. You will just have to start eating more cake!
Where do you sell your eggs? When I get back down south I may have to sample some…
At the moment we only sell to one person and that’s a case of carrying a box into London and handing them over in a box. The idea longer-term, when we have more chickens – which will probably happen sooner than later – is mainly to sell them to people living around us as we’ve already had a lot of expressions of interest. When you’re back down south, though, we’d gladly let you have some.
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