Weighing eggs

Egg scale

Egg production has been moving along smooth as anything. The girls are great, easy going, seem to be having a good time, and they’re pumping out 23-25 eggs a day. Besides giving them out to everyone around here, there’s been enough to take to market every other week as a CSA bonus, usually, half a dozen per share. Bob unearthed an old egg scale from somewhere in the barn, and I’ve been playing with it lately (for actual distribution, there’s no sizing, everyone gets a mix). Egg size has definitely increased. Where they were mainly medium with a few small at the start, they’re now maybe half medium, half large. The scale is the kind of old school tech that I love, with everything simple, open, obvious, and FIXABLE. It may be a little hard to read in the pic: there’s a little pointer, with a fleck of red paint on it, at the bottom of the open triangle of the indicator—this egg’s Large, just on the border of XL…

10 thoughts on “Weighing eggs”

  1. Hey Mike, I asked Lynn to pass a thank you on to you for us (From Shelter Valley Folk Fest) but thought I should write to you too. We gobbled up the beans, onions and potatoes right away. Our hungry volunteers munched happily!
    Thanks for being part of our Festival Experience :) maybe see you there next year?

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  2. Had to unlurk to say I LOVE that egg scale. Don’t even eat eggs, vegan but it has such a lovely look to it.

    Great blog, nice looking business. We might eventually try to emulate you, until then the pleasure is all vicarious.

    Good luck.

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  3. I too love the egg scale – now I wonder if I’ll find something like that here in France, time for a trip out to the car boot sales :-D

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  4. That is one awesome little tool. I’ll have to keep my eyes peeled for one when I’m trolling the auctions!

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  5. Love that tool! Our ex-battery hens produce large or extra large eggs – my mother scoffs at her shop bought free range eggs if mine haven’t ‘produced the goods’ in time for her. Maureen, our star layer, is a slip of a thing but produces whoppers. Needless to say she eats like an elephant…

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  6. Fantastic scale!  What character – I bet your farmers market sales would be through the roof if you had that puppy on display.  Although I suspect they already are anyway… fresh eggs are delicious. 

    My neighbor has 12 free-range hens in her “Backyard Farm” right in central Victoria and nothing beats hearing her call my name from her door: “Andrea, I’ve got a dozen eggs here for you!”  Heaven.

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