@pschiendelman there are a lot of options, none of which can gracefully handle that volume of traffic. I usually go across Fir Isl to Conway about 3 hours ago in reply to pschiendelman
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That Worked Better Than I’d Have Hoped

By Erika, on January 7th, 2011

The chicken tractor glowed in the darkness of 6AM.

Wakey wakey!

And look what I found tonight!

It’s the first egg of 2011! Which means that it cost $14.99, since I just had to buy a bag of chicken feed last weekend.

Meg McG

January 7, 2011 at 7:58 pm

What about lights and batteries
Congrats on being a successful egg farmer!
Shannon

January 7, 2011 at 8:03 pm

You’ve inspired me! On Jan. 1st, I started keeping track of the number of eggs we collect and everything we spend. So far this year our eggs have cost us $1.76 each! Ha-ha! Well, we are stocked up on chicken food now so hopefully the average cost will go down until our next trip to the feed store. : )
gayle

January 8, 2011 at 6:07 am

Our chickens have started laying again, thank goodness. Our egg cost was running about a dollar an egg for a while there…
kmkat

January 8, 2011 at 4:57 pm

I seem to remember my mother — who raised chickens during the years from my adoption until I was 8, when she went back to teaching first grade — having some fancy-schmancy lighting setup in the chicken shed that adjusted the artificial indoor day length in order to induce greater egg-laying among her hens. Is that what you are doing?
Erika

January 8, 2011 at 7:43 pm

Exactly! Except really cheap, and (of necessity) portable and battery-powered.
Carrie K

January 10, 2011 at 11:58 am

The price is coming down!