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Back when I had a much bigger operation (fourteen hens), I used to sell my hen's eggs to a local health food store for $5.00 per dozen, and they'd sell them to their customers for $6.00 per dozen. They considered it a service to their regular customers.

$2 a dozen at Aldi’s just now, and I didn’t have to step in chicken chit.

Henrietta is the greatest chicken name I ever heard!

Two completely different products, mass produced eggs vs backyard, free range.

I'm still amazed that you don't have to refrigerate them, lady up the road told me the same thing....never knew that.

Only need to refridgerate, if washed !

We'll probably add five hens to the current flock of nine. Don't really need more but the older birds can always get the soup treatment or canned.

There's no way we can eat the daily 6-9 eggs that the girls are popping out now. All the extras are given to family and neighbors.

"... extras are given to family and neighbors." That takes me back to a time and place long ago.

Jumbos $2.99 yesterday. That’s down from the peak during the last shortage.

Back yard chicken eggs are WWAAAY better. However, I am done raising chickens.. I buy them from the old lady down the road for 3 bucks /doz. and they are huge.

Yep.

Nice.

Other than seasonally cleaning out the hen house and replacing the wood shavings on the floor, I think keeping a flock of free range backyard chickens is a load of fun. Been doing it constantly for fourteen years now.

Honestly that is what it comes down to.

If a guy found a way to grow crickets at scale enough to feed the third world shîteaters that would eat them .gov would find a way to fûck him.

I bought 24 for 4.48 aat Sams yesterday. Same price last month.

Anybody ever use that Alaskan fish fertilizer? Basically a slurry of salmon that you mix with water to fertilize the garden.

Mixed some up and sprayed it on some foliage. Chickens were often out and proceeded to eat the freshly fertilized greens.

Hoo Lee schit…….Those were some bad eggs. Tasted like the bottom of a hot chum bag. 🤮

Would love to have some chickens too. Not any longer.

Store bought "aigs" are runny and the yolk is, well, yellow.
A fried store bought aig is flat.
Yard "aigs" have more body and the yolk is golden and stands up when fried.

Wash your eggs. When they dry, dip them in paraffin. They will last a LONG time unrefridgerated.

$3/18 pack today on my walmark pick up order

Yea......$6 for 36 eggs

That egg shortage a couple years ago spurred all the rural housewives in my area to start raising chickens and selling eggs.

There's a bunch of them. Some went overboard and sell like 6-10 dozen a day.

I have a sweet lady that I do work on their ranch that has been keeping me in free range chicken eggs lately. She won't take any money either. She has like 40-50 chickens.

Otherwise, the free range chicken eggs here are $3 a dozen. Having had chickens in the past, I'd rather buy eggs than fugg around raising chickens. LOL

I agree, but the convenience outweighs the difference to me. I was getting from a neighbor, but she got rid of her chickens.

The chickens are better too. We raise a large vegetable garden, but do not raise anything that eats.