6 million eggs per hour on Easter Eve!
Easter is approaching. The Lenten rush has reached its peak. Soon we will be craving eggs. During Easter week, Swedish egg consumption doubles.
On Easter Eve we eat 6 million eggs an hour! We don't know how many of them are consumed here in the parish, but we are close to the eggs because there are dozens of chicken farms in the parish. "Gatukittan" is a densely populated chicken farm area. There you can often hear the "cuckoo call" from one of the 5 chicken farms there.
We asked Jan Jorbrink in Bråmåbo what it's like to run a chicken farm:
"The basic principle is that the hen house should have light for at least 12 hours a day during the winter and that it should not be below zero. My hens have litter on the floor. The hens sit on their perches. When it is time to lay, they go to a laying nest. 5 laying nests are enough for 15-20 hens. They eat laying feed, kibble and food scraps that are not raw. There are hundreds of breeds. My hens are of the Lohman and Maran breeds. The Sussex breed is also found here on the island. The fact that the eggs have different colors on the shell depends on the feed. If they eat Lucerne grass, the shells turn green.
"It's not true that there's only room for one rooster in the chicken coop," says Jan. "It's possible to have several roosters in the chicken coop because they have their own hierarchy. I see the rooster as a supervisor who keeps order, except that he likes the hens of course."
Supervision is needed every morning and evening. Access to fresh water is also important. I make mocks once a week. And I enjoy good local eggs. Now for Easter I hope to get chickens because I have 20 eggs lying in the hatching machine.”
Solleröbladet recently read that it has now also been established that the eternal question of what came first; the chicken or the egg, has been answered. Researchers in England have concluded that the egg came first!
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