Zimbabwebound

In my last post I was a little down because my chickens at Willow Park were not meeting the quota of eggs required.  We tried the method given by Gordon (he commented on the previous blog) and it only seemed to make them a little nervous seeing the chopping board and knife on the wall.  So we resorted to plan “B”; this was installing the light timer.  OH MY GOODNESS … it only took them three days and they began spitting out eggs like it is going out of fashion.  We have now hit the 90% lay rate (210 eggs in 1 week) and things are looking at improving; from the sales alone this week “project chicken layers” can finally support itself by purchasing its own layers mash (I have had to purchase the layers mash in the past because we there was not enough eggs being produced to sell to make the revenue to buy even one bag of mash).  We can now look at starting to save for our next bunch of day old layers in 6 months as well as ALL the feed and muthi (medicine) for them until the new chicks reach point of lay … hooray!!!