Re: washing eggs (was hatching round eggs)

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Woah ! - before you lay anything you need to create some drainage - dig
out trenches and fill with coarse gravel or with drainage pipe. That will
be the most worthwhile time and effort you will ever spend
THEN - lay down ground cover membrane. This has to be the permeable
landscaping kind. This will prevent whatever you lay on top mixing with
the soil below
If you miss out the preparatory steps you will simply have the same result
and the equally wasted time, energy and money
This way you will have a much improved surface for next winter and spring
If you can create a canopy of any description for as far as practical from
the house outwards you will gain even more benefit -- the girls will be
more sheltered and drier and so will your bedding so saving you mucking
out time, bedding costs, egg cleaning time, and potential diseases

Ah, now that's a good idea! I had never thought of that - landscape fabric
between the soil and the new footing. And gravel trenches. Looks like we
have some work ahead of us! I actually prefer the winter, both temperature
wise and cleanliness wise - we get a lot of snow, and that keeps things
cleaner. Ice can be a challenge, but I prefer ice and snow to mud and muck.

I am mildly surprised but maybe US food safety standards are different

Interesting indeed. We also have refrigerated eggs here - all supermarkets,
delis, restaurants, anyplace that has eggs either for sale or to use for
food always refrigerates them, no eggs on the counter. After washing I
refrigerate my eggs before selling or donating to the Food Bank; my eggs I
keep in a flat (5x6 - 30 eggs to a tray) so I just grab eggs from the flat,
no carton moving.

It does not seem to - you can still see the bloom

I'll have to try that.

bless

Rocky is truly a wonderful rooster, it's so sad about his eye. He has been
great about being picked up to have medications done or when I had to clean
his eye socket out and prevent infection - that was pretty awful. But he
was calm through the whole thing, he knew I was trying to help him. He was
top banana but #2 decided he wanted to be #1 and caught Rocky off guard, we
didn't know until that evening. #2 wasn't #1 for very long.

I hope your weather clears up soon into a great summer

Thanks! We'll probably go into drought now, feast or famine, the weather is
so weird! Luckily we have our own well, so we don't have to pay attention
to water restrictions (we have them here too).

- Andrea


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