{"id":2495,"date":"2017-02-09T23:21:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T23:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2018-07-10T14:36:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:36:01","slug":"here-today-and-gone-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=2495","title":{"rendered":"Livestock Management &#8211; Downsizing Egg Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently decided to downsize the egg layer flock. The Red Stars are over two years old now and they are starting to burn out. Red Stars typically lay all year round, but are only able to maintain that pace for a couple of years. We kept the 6 Isa Browns and the 3 newest Red Stars. We are getting 7 or 8 eggs a day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Am-qlk0roE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We also decided to just produce enough eggs for the family here at Bent Pine and next door at Blue Hen. The feed was costing too much to keep selling eggs at the market. Rather than go up on our price we decided to stop selling our eggs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2994\" src=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/chicken2-1024x768.png\" alt=\"red star egg layers\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/chicken2-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/chicken2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/chicken2-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/chicken2-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/chicken2.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy Homesteading,<\/p>\n<p>T.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2889\" src=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/feather_wEgg.png\" alt=\"feather pen with egg\" width=\"114\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/feather_wEgg.png 649w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/feather_wEgg-300x321.png 300w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/feather_wEgg-140x150.png 140w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/feather_wEgg-281x300.png 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 114px) 100vw, 114px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently decided to downsize the egg layer flock. The Red Stars are over two years old now and they are starting to burn out. Red Stars typically lay all year round, but are only able to maintain that pace for a couple of years. We kept the 6 Isa Browns and the 3 newest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=2495\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Livestock Management &#8211; Downsizing Egg Production<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48],"tags":[52,41],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barnyard","tag-chickens","tag-soil-building"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7igqH-Ef","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}