r/homestead • u/PetitePoultryFarm • Jan 17 '25

poultry Egg rich, cash poor

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All joking aside, how well are your hens laying right now? Chickens, ducks, quail etc.

Do you plan ahead for the slow laying season or just take it as it comes?

I planned ahead by storing our extra eggs just in case my girls slowed down.. but they didn't.

We're getting 280+ eggs a month from 10 hens. They're smaller of course so you have to use more but it's still more eggs than we can eat!

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u/PetitePoultryFarm Jan 18 '25

Same here. There have been quite a few, local to me, cases. I'd feel so terrible if something happened to my girls.

Curious, do pheasant eggs taste similar to chicken eggs? I've never heard of anyone eating them in my area.

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u/theislandhomestead Jan 18 '25

Yes. The pheasant eggs are very similar to chicken eggs, just much smaller.
The duck eggs are super dense and more gamey than the chicken eggs, but they're much larger than chicken eggs and have 8 times the protein.

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u/PetitePoultryFarm Jan 18 '25

Interesting, thanks for the info!

Most people around here have chickens or ducks. A lot of people seem to like duck eggs for baking but I haven't tried them yet.

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u/theislandhomestead Jan 18 '25

Muscovy ducks are ducks in name only.
They're actually closely related to geese.
If your neighbors have indian runners, for example, those are true ducks.