Guest Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 (edited) my clever DH has made us some lovely labels for our egg boxes, which we give away to friends/relatives. We went round our immediate neighbours with boxes of eggs, to wish them all Happy New Year today. One of our neighbours had no idea we had chooks and brought her little boy round to see them, which gave us the opportunity to make some more converts! Edited January 2, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Those are lovely . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessa the Duchess Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 They are lovely Poet. I am ordering some eggboxes from Flytes of Fancy and was thinking myself about making some labels. Well done your DH Tessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Dh says thanks I wonder if there is such a thing as an egg box mould, so we could make our own out of old newspapers etc? We bought our egg boxes from where we buy our other chicken stuff, they're only 10p each but I'd love to make my own out of recycled paper. Must do a google Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 They are really cute. Ask your buyers to return the boxes for re use if they can,or some of mine bring any others they have collected too,& I just peel the Waitrose label off & apply my own Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 they are lovely You OH is very good with his hands (and i dont mean that in a rude way! ) he built you that lovely run aswell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 They are really cute.Ask your buyers to return the boxes for re use if they can,or some of mine bring any others they have collected too,& I just peel the Waitrose label off & apply my own we did, the neighbour with the little boy said she is going to tell some of the other neighbours to keep their egg boxes too, so hopefully we'll be overun, with egg boxes that is not requests for eggs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 they are lovely You OH is very good with his hands (and i dont mean that in a rude way! ) he built you that lovely run aswell. he is very good at stuff like that, he's just built a fence round his veg patch with some old pallet boards. He's very handy and resourceful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missuscluck Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Justine, they are ACE!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessa the Duchess Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I put each neighbour's name on the boxes and when they need more eggs they put their empty boxes on our porch windowledge, I then fill up with eggs and deliver full boxes back to their windowledges, easy peasy. Problem is that the Omlet boxes I got for free are all falling apart now. Tessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 They are lovely Poet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Justine, they are ACE!! they are rather cute aren't they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I put each neighbour's name on the boxes and when they need more eggs they put their empty boxes on our porch windowledge, I then fill up with eggs and deliver full boxes back to their windowledges, easy peasy. Problem is that the Omlet boxes I got for free are all falling apart now. Tessa what a good idea. Just been having a look at that flytes of fancy site, think we might get some coloured boxes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I love them karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Lovely labels Poet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 They are lovely Poet thanks Debs, it's so nice to be able to give the eggs away in their own little personalised boxes, I'm tickled pink! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 thanks Karen and Lesley xxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 These are great labels. Just a word of warning, which you may well already know; I spent some time ferreting around in the regs and found myself getting in quite a taffle! So, for what its worth, I think that if you are going to sell the eggs you need to be careful about the words 'free range' as they mean something specific in terms of access to greenery. You also may have to have a sell by and eat by date I believe (don't take this as gospel, but if you keep them in a fridge I think the sell by is 21 days after lay and eat by 28 days - but you should check it out for yourself). But your labels are lovely, and I'm off to see if we have some blank Avery labels in the cellar, sorry stock cupboard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 thanks Richard but we're not selling them, they're just to give away. Our girls are still giving us 4 eggs a day and we often get a build up of eggs but not enough to sell. We just occasionally give them away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Really lovely labels Poet (and OH - credit where its due)! Have forwarded a link to this thread to give my OH ideas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Really lovely labels Poet (and OH - credit where its due)! Have forwarded a link to this thread to give my OH ideas! is he quite good at that sort of thing too C? I am rubbish at anything like that, I just play the piano and write poems but since we got the chooks, there hasn't been much of either going on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 but since we got the chooks, there hasn't been much of either going on I'm surprised any of us actually get anything done at all . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 is he quite good at that sort of thing too C? Yep, bit of a techno whizz kid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 post some pics of yours when OH gets them printed up then C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 They look lovely Poet. Funnily enough, I spent yesterday evening designing mine! I do sell them, so I call them extra fresh eggs (because they are less than 9 days old) from garden hens. I then put a very short paragraph about them being in a large run with freeranging time, plus fed organic feed supplemented by kitchen s"Ooops, word censored!"s, grass and bugs. Oh, and that they need to be kept in a cool, dark place and eaten before 28 days old. Hopefully I've covered all angles there! And there was just enough room after all that to add a small pic of the girls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
