Pastured Eggs - How To Keep Your Farm Fresh Eggs Clean
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- Pastured Eggs - How To Keep Your Farm Fresh Eggs Clean. Today we talk about strategies we use to keep our farm fresh pastured eggs clean.
Our chickens are out on pasture where they are moved frequently onto a new paddock of fresh grass. We make sure to keep the nesting boxes clean as well as close up the roosts at night so they chickens can't sleep in the nest boxes. This makes for super clean eggs that are safe to keep out on your counter for weeks at a time.
Follow along and see how we manage our pastured egg layers.
We practice sustainable agriculture on our farm by using multi-species to build soil and fertilize the ground. We have pastured chickens, grass fed lamb, pastured turkey, farm fresh duck eggs and chicken eggs.
Sheraton Park Farms practices holistic, sustainable farming and soil building using a rotational grazing model as we try to grow more grass on our farm.
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Hello just started raising chickens and I love it. I’m also handicapped with a TBI that is a traumatic brain injury. I crashed my car in 2017 with no seatbelt I was in a coma for seven weeks I know garden raised chickens because I lost my three jobs.
Hello - We are a small family farm in North Colchester, Nova Scotia. We raise heritage Pork (Berkshire), Dorset Sheep, Muskovy Ducks and chickens; both laying hens and meat birds as well as hatch some of our own eggs. The information that you provide is an excellent resource for anyone interested in starting with a few chickens or are already in the business of raising chickens and selling eggs. We appreciate very much the time and effort put into these videos and the wealth of information you provide. Thank you.
I recently bought those nesting pads and my chickens just shred them to pieces in 1 day!
Thanks for your videos,I’m watching you from Puerto Rico, I’m originally a New Jersey boy, so I’m at the entry level with my chicken s.
Kentucky here thanks for the video , very helpful
Cool. Thanks for joining us.
My children and I enjoyed watching your video! From western NY here
Thank you from S.C.
Chuck thank you for the videos. Last spring I bought raised and processed 35 meat birds. I also bought 9 pullets at the same time I've raised them and added adult birds to my flock. I now have 25 hens and some other various size and ages. I'm starting to get eggs more regularly now and am so excited. I've housed them in my 35x65 greenhouse this winter this has been an ideal situation the poo in there scratch the ground. I'm excited to see the garden grow this summer.
I'm going to build a coop with nesting box's in it with perches to roost on. Then I'm going to use the same poultry netting you use to creat pen.
I've loved them. My purpose at first was to have eggs for my family,but with what has been going on over the last year I decided I wanted eggs to to share with friends and people in need.
Thank you for your encouragement and your knowledge.
That’s awesome!! Glad things are going well. I bet you’ll have great garden. Those chickens keep producing food in addition to their eggs. Keep up the good work! Thanks for watching.
@@SheratonParkFarms I want to build a coop that is stationary. Right now I have about 25 hens I could see myself going as big as 30 what do I need to figure for square footage. I was thinking 10x10 8x12 the just fence a large portion of my back yard with poultry netting and area around 40x60
Thomas from Brandywine, Maryland. I really enjoy your channel and have learned quite a bit from you on such a short time ( I started farming 6 months ago).
Nice visit video
Awesome, Chuck. Thank you!
Look so spacious and clean. Thank you 🙇
Very nice video and info. Thanks for sharing.
Dang Chuck! You just keep teaching me stuff. I really really appreciate you and Sandra.
I watched a video from I think it was a channel called 'chickens in my garden', from New Zealand. She did some experiments about how long it was safe to keep eggs out of the fridge. She tested them for freshness mainly. She was testing eggs at various ages up to a year. The one's that were up to 6 months old were perfectly fine, after that they started to deteriorate. They dried out, got lighter in weight and didn't look as good... but none of them went bad, not even at a year old. I keep my store bought eggs in the fridge, but I just got my own chickens, will be keeping my nesting boxes clean and keeping my own eggs out of the fridge. I can't wait for my girls to start laying, should be another 4 - 6 weeks.
Hello from Virginia. I love chickens too...and love clean eggs. I wasn't locking up the nest boxes at night so great information that I will start doing tonight. I use pine shavings and hay in the boxes, but like the pads so I'm going to give them a try. Thanks for the education.
Thanks for watching. Yeah, close up those boxes at night and replace your bedding. I bet you're eggs will be much cleaner! Where y'all at in VA?
Great vid sir. From Florida
Thanks. Appreciate y’all watching
Beautiful flock, thanks for sharing with us.
Thank you. Appreciate y’all watching.
I appreciate all of this information. Thank you so much for everything plan on getting 4 chickens of my own soon. I can’t wait to experience this and make the best of my situation. Keep up the great content I can’t wait to go through more of your videos very informative
Great information, I’m going to get a few hens based on what I’ve learned from your videos!
Hello from Spring Branch Texas. Great video. I am just getting started. I have 8 chickens 🐔
New subscriber here from the Milwaukee Wisconsin area, great video thanks!!
Ah, Your food your medication! Really appreciate what you’re doing over there :) love from the UK
Thanks so much!
Good job. Accurate info.
Glad it was helpful!
Great videos I never knew that about eggs having a coating. Had my hens for a few months now and wish I had them years ago. I am watching from England
Great stuff! im in colorado. I got 6 hens a year ago and have 5 now (a fox got one). They are so fun and it is nice to have fresh eggs.
I love that you are talking and Mrs. Soundra I know that is probably not spelled right but she just keeps working! Live watching y’all here in Oklahoma
Doug Combs 😆. Yep, she is the gear that keeps it all going. Appreciate y’all watching In Oklahoma!!!
Hi watching from south Mississippi and I’m getting ready to start raising some chickens egg layers and eventually some meat birds thanks for the information
Glad you are helping clear up the confusion on both sides. I've heard people say there is no benefit to refrigerating the eggs and others believe they must be refrigerated. As you stated, if you keep your chickens, nesting boxes and eggs clean from the get-go and don't wash off the bloom, there is no real "need" for most people to keep them in the fridge, but if you have more than you can use over a couple of weeks, keeping them in the fridge will help them stay fresh longer.
We just ordered our first hens the other week. A bit late in the year, so a bit limited selection, but we are excited and we'll be able to order some next spring to fill out the variety we were wanting. About how many hens do you keep in that area? I've been trying to figure out about how often I might need to move our birds ( about 16 starting off in a hundred foot of netting).
Exactly! The industrialized food system has moved us so far from the source of our food, people don't know the truth about a lot of things. We try to educate our customers and they come back to us after trying things and are blown away at how simple, better and more nutritious their food can be. Really appreciate you watching!
Sorry. Didn’t see all of your message. We keep about 120 birds in that space.
Watching from Namibia....always watch ur content
Wow! Thanks for watching. You are our most distant viewer so far!!
@@SheratonParkFarms Australia here, maybe even further away!!
Hi Chuck from SC. Very informative video about chickens. Thanks for sharing your experiences and susccess. 👍
Thanks Jack. Appreciate y’all watching and commenting! Super easy to keep eggs clean with just a few steps. Hope y’all are staying cool in this hot weather.
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Interesting facts with the eggs…just got chicks layers …we are looking forward to raising them…Pgh PA
I just learned a lot from this video. Very helpful. Hubby says I should raise chickens. I am too afraid to try it. We have Coyote, Fox, Raccoon and a Hawk that live on our property. We have 13 acres (mostly open space) so plenty of room but feel it would be a train wreck. I have seen what a Raccoon can do to a chicken. NOT pretty.
Im up to 28 chickens,,i got long way to go to catch up with yall though...,bought another 6 cornish crosses today
Keep growing at a pace you are comfortable. You'll have more chickens than you can count before you know it! Thanks for watching.
Dayton, Ohio
I'm starting raising chickens. I have 4 pullets and I've raised them for 18 weeks, is it okay if 1 appears to start laying ahead of the others?
Thanks for all the info, I haven't raised chickens in 35 years.
I like your mobile chicken coop. Maybe you can tell us how you made it and what materials you used. I love the idea of moving it every few days to take advantage of insects that are not good for grass production. We have tons of grass hoppers here, too many of them. Might as well turn them in to something useful. Thanks for this great video......Subscribed.
I hear that you can tell when it’s grass hopper season around here they are all over my yard
How long do those nesting pads normally last before they need to be replaced?
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How many chickens do u have out of that coop ? How far are the slats on the floor apart ? Do the nesting pads come cut ? Or a roll ? I’m surprised u don’t need to electrify for the predators. Well glad to see ya as always . Todd
There are about 120 birds in the eggmobile. I really need a bigger one for next year because we are going to up the size of our flock. The slats are about 1 1/2" apart if memory serves. The nesting pads are already cut to size and we just drop them in the boxes. Only real predator problem we have had has been with hawks and aerial predators. I think them going inside at night and the netting as a barrier keeps the ground critters away. Appreciate y'all watching and commenting! Helps keep us visable.
Do you feed them anything? Or do they just forage for food? If you feed them, anything special to make sure it’s being feed good food and not seedoils and bad stuff like that so it creates a good quality egg to eat
I noticed that the top of your chicken wagon is open what do you do in the winter I live in Northern oklahoma could I just tarp three sides
We leave it open. As long as they have a place free from drafts they are fine here in central N.C.
Hi, great video, thank you! My question is that you close up the nesting box at night and do the chickens stay outside overnight?
No. They go inside the coop. We just don’t want them sleeping in the nest box.
How long do your nesting pads last?
My nesting boxes are always clean., i use pine shavings.
How do you control the hawks and the owls?
I cleaned the eggs with hot water and cloreeen then I took them out and wiped them off and any dirt is that considered clean or dangerous
Great tips! I have been raising egg chickens for 5 years, never knew the closing up the nesting box at night… new chore. Hate cleaning chicken poo off eggs! My egg production has really decreased, hens are probably close to 3 years, is it time for new flock? Please advise.
Probably so. We do “all in”-“all out” meaning I’d start a whole new flock. Especially if you are selling eggs and trying to make a profit.
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Cost comparison to nesting pads vs plain straw? Pads Seem expensive choice? Maybe?
If you store them unwashed...do you need to wash them prior to you using them? For example wash a Couple for breakfast ? Thank you
No. They are clean on the inside.
My hens just started laying this week. Your eggs look great, do you wash eggs in water just before cooking?
No. We just crack them and cook them.
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I’ve watched so many videos on egg washing or cleaning and they are all different. I really like your setup with the premier fence and egg mobile. I want to try this but fear hawks in our area would pick these off slowly but surely. I currently have 9 white leghorns
@@shawn8163 nice. Try to make sure they have some trees or some type of concert they can go under. We elect not to wash because we keep the eggs clean. Different folks have different opinions but after 3 years we have never had an issue due to an unwashed egg.
You’re welcome.
Acworth Georgia
First time having chickens and the 3 I have are now starting to lay. The eggs are really small. Figured that is because of there age. My question is..can these first (small) eggs be eaten or should I wait a month or so till the chickens are more mature?
They are fine to eat. You may even find one without a yolk.
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I have a problem 😕why is my chickens comb pink and have sort of white things?and they don't show any weakness?🤔🤔
How early are you up opening those nest boxes?
Crack of dawn I would expect lol.
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So how do you clean the eggs without removing the bloom if possible?
I guess you clean the eggs you’re going to eat, leave the rest alone and follow the first step when you want to eat the rest. I was wondering the same thing too btw.
Can’t you put the nest boxes on outside
If you close the area to keep the chickens from sleeping where they lay eggs at night, where do they sleep at night
Chickens lay eggs during the day. Typical early morning and are finished by late afternoon.
They sleep on the floor.
@SheratonParkFarms So how early should I feed them And open their box to ensure they lay their eggs there
Best type of chicken for fryers or does it matter..thanks for all the help. I feel more confident after watching your video and saving my questions answered
@@Gladys-kv2ih Cornish cross for meat chickens are best.
@@Gladys-kv2ih we open up around daybreak and feed at the same time.
After they stop laying eggs do they become dinner? That one looks like it would be good fried after the way she was acting!
Some of them are good for stew hens but some are really slim with no meat on them much. There have been a couple I would have loved to fried! Remind me sometime to tell you the story of Saundra and Roscoe the Rooster. He's no longer with us...... God rest his soul!
My wife is from Philippines. Over there in the supermarket, eggs are not refrigerated. They're on the shelf just like bread or canned goods.
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Aren’t the chickens sad that we take their eggs?
Very. We have a therapist come in weekly so they can share their feelings.
I thought you’re not supposed to wash your 🥚 eggs 🥚
You're not, but if they get covered in poop, what you gonna do, especially if you are trying to sell them. That's why its a good idea to keep the nesting boxes clean. Factory farmed eggs are disgusting, because the whole farm is disgusting, so they have to wash the eggs in order to be able to sell them.
Good stuff man. Also, fresh eggs with the bloom on it also draws snakes. Put one or two in a minnow trap and sit it on the ground and if a snake comes around you’ll catch him so he can’t get your little babies or other eggs.