Egg Business

Paul has been diligently working to keep his chickens happy and laying. He has a handful of customers that buy from him regularly. Sometimes I even have to buy eggs (gasp) from the store for our own family because Paul has sold all of his eggs. Other times we have a glut of eggs and we're begging people to take another dozen--or two!

Paul's egg earnings finally dictated that he open up a little savings account. Matt took Paul to the local credit union and Paul proudly signed his name (in John Hancock letters) on the required paper work. Daddy says that Paul must tithe ten percent of his earnings, give half to his dad (to offset the cost of the chicken feed) and the rest he can keep.
Matt ordered ten more chickens which we'll pick up at the end of April. We're hoping to cull out the non-layers of our own flock and then add the new chickens to keep the egg production stable. I read that whether a hen is laying or not, she will eat fifteen pounds of chicken feed a month. The non-layers will have to go. As it is we're still not breaking even on costs, but we feel the learning experience for Paul is worth it.

And as far as the chicken culling goes, I'm positive our friendly white chicken is not laying, but when I asked Paul, "You know what that means, don't you Paul?" he responded with , "No, I don't." Well, let's just say I didn't have the heart to tell him the truth and the friendly white chicken will get a free pass once the culling takes place.

***Our source for egg cartons dried up. If you can contribute to the cause, we'd greatly appreciate it.***