EGGS IN A BUCKET

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 75, Issue 6441, 3 November 1947, Page 5

EGGS IN A BUCKET

ENGLISH INCIDENT COSTLY METHOD A few weeks ago I saw a farmer collecting eggs from the nests of his poultry houses in buckets, states a writer in the Farmer and StockBreeder. These were then placed in a barrow as a means of transport. I saw this man’s returns from the packing station, and noted that the deductions for cracks was 25%. This amounted to a deduction of over 4s a hundred. 'lt was difficult to convince this man that the use of buckets for egg collection was costing approximately £2 per week. I had to explain that a bucket containing a hundred eggs exposed the dozen eggs at the bottom of the bucket to a 131 b. pressure and the next dozen to a 121 b. pressure and so on. A slight jar when wheeling the barrow meant even extra pressure. It was almost certairi that many of the eggs would be cracked, even if the crack was not noticed when unpacking. Eggs, whether required for the packing station or for hatching, should be handled as little as possible. It requires a lot of practice to be able to handle eggs, to and from boxes in bulk, without cracking.