Who on here is the chicken farmer?

[11pounder]

Something to do with your old egg cartons.

[Hoot]

There might be a few on here with some extensive "Chicken Ranch" experience but it didn't include any dayum egg cartons

[WVBullet]

Pretty creative

[rb]

I'm one. It would take me less than an hour to fill those up

[Roosterman]

Yep. About 15 minutes and I’d be needing more cartons. Glad we don’t use cartons.

[rb]

Yep. About 15 minutes and I’d be needing more cartons. Glad we don’t use cartons.

And have to pack them in them dang boxes. Took longer to make boxes than pick up eggs

[Bassman Ia.]

Shopping at the “Chicken Ranch” would have consequences on the home front for me.

[Roosterman]

And have to pack them in them dang boxes. Took longer to make boxes than pick up eggs

Yes! About twice a year Tyson will bring us boxes for the eggs to sell to other complexes. Putting those boxes together was the worst part. Glad we use racks most the time.

[bassin_man]

Neat. Almost became a chicken farmer when Costco came in and built a chicken processing plant. In the end we decided against it.

[basscla]

[BASSBUZZ]

That's pretty neat. Grew up on a chicken farm. We raised pullets. I don't miss it at all but I think it taught me a good work ethic at a young age. When you raise chickens you are pretty strapped down. It is a 7 day a week job.

[mjlambert23]

Some of us lay a lot of "Eggs" on tournament days. Does that count?

[Hoot]

Some of us lay a lot of "Eggs" on tournament days. Does that count?

Well if it doesn't it should and maybe one should approach someone in the egg business about a possible sponsorship?

A friend of mine called himself the Bagel King based on his tournament record but in spite of all the encouragement never tried to capitalize on it even to get a free breakfast at the local Bagel Shop for his friends........I have "Self Destructed" maybe I should have contacted a Demolition Company back then.

Creative Ideas can sure "Hatch" from even the most innocent looking BBC Threads guess it can pay to scratch around and see what you can turn up it could change your Cluck!!

[Ben Danbleume]

I'm not now, used to raise Chickens and Turkeys, but my neighbor has three automated laying houses, right next to my back field.

[Charles Prestridge]

Yep. About 15 minutes and I’d be needing more cartons. Glad we don’t use cartons.

How do you package the eggs now?

[rb]

How do you package the eggs now?

We have rolling carts. The ones I pick up in now hold 90 plastic flats. Each flat holds 43 eggs or 3780 a rack. They make several different sizes of flats, depends on which hatchery your eggs are going to at that time

[skeeterbug20i]

I grow broilers & also lay some eggs in tournaments lol.

[rb]

This will give you an idea

[btlsranger]

Thanks for posting that rb. Quite interesting how technology has evolved.

[Charles Prestridge]

We have rolling carts. The ones I pick up in now hold 90 plastic flats. Each flat holds 43 eggs or 3780 a rack. They make several different sizes of flats, depends on which hatchery your eggs are going to at that time

Does a truck come to your farm and pick-up the eggs every few days? Or, do you deliver the eggs to the hatchery?