November 13, 2015 – Egg picking is a thankless, repetitive, tedious job. But the benefits in reducing losses from fungus are worth the effort. In any batch of eggs, some will not survive and they can become a surface for fungus to grow and proliferate in the incubator. Where large batches of eggs are being incubated, automated picking machines can clean the lot up well, but a final hand picking helps get any that were missed out of the batch and helps to protect the rest.
I normally enjoy coming up Island, but today all I was hoping for was that weather would ground my float plane so I wouldn’t get out of Vancouver. If I couldn’t get out of town, then I could go see a dentist and try to get some relief from the pain in my jaw. But the weather didn’t work in my favour and the plane was able to take off in the harbour. So I got myself through the day with a peppering of pain killers spread throughout the hours.
And as much as wanted to curl into a ball with the pain, it was also nice to have the distraction and see what was going on in a few facilities along the way.
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Some days egg picking is mind numbingly wonderful.