Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
ALMOST BEEKEEPING - RELATED TOPICS => FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE => Topic started by: Jerrymac on December 30, 2008, 03:07:45 pm
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Who else has guinea eggs and would you sell them as a specialty item, separate from chicken eggs, and for how much do you think?
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I only have 1 so if she is spotty I just put em in with the chix eggs, labeling the carton. If she is on a roll they go for $5dz or $3 1/2dz. J
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I got four guineas and they are just starting to lay.... I think. I am getting two eggs a day right now, that is if they are not hiding them somewhere around out side.
$5 a dozen huh. :)
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YUP! :-D They are smaller & slightly different than chix, the shells are sooo hard! They are very good @ hiding them too & the way they "throw" their voices it's sometimes hard to track em down! J
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They are very good @ hiding them too
Ain't that the truth. And sometimes by the time you find the nest it is overflowing.... Here is one that had over 75 eggs in it.
(http://www.bushkillfarms.com/photos/d/1220-2/IMG_1795.JPG)
(http://www.bushkillfarms.com/photos/d/1223-2/IMG_1796.JPG)
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If you have an asian population of any note they like guinea and duck eggs. $5.00 a dozen for Guinea eggs and $6.00 for duck eggs isn't unheard of for thos markets. Asian = Indonesian, Philipino, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, and Japanese.
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Oh Robo, that's so funny! Then you wonder why you couldn't see them before! I've found 25 before from my 1 Miss Ginny..I always think of the waste...woulda been $10!! I hardboil all the "finders" both chix & guinea, smunch em in the vitamix & feed back, shells & all. Now that I think of it, it would be easier to clean if I smunched FIRST, then cook..hmmm :roll: A real DUH moment!! See how helpful this forum is?? ;) J