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32 lbs in 4 weeks

Hell Im skeert to eat anything because of the damn potassium. Wicked chit.

Eggs are $2. dozen at the closest neighbor. Free range eggs are a completely different taste than store bought as mentioned here repeatedly. I just can't stand store bought after eating free range eggs for twenty years.

It is tough to keep chickens alive here with all the predators around. I have watched coordinated attacks by fox in mid-day at the neighbor's farm, really something to see the smarts of these fox.

We have thought about raising our own, but it is just not worth the effort at $2 a doz. I don't know what all our dogs would do with chickens running around. The dogs get a wild turkey once in a while so probably would not be good.

I don't eat eggs but my wife eats the hell out of them. She buys from a lady that lives off of her golf course, $2/doz. She's heading out on Thursday.

I’ve raised chickens 2 times in 20 years.

Usually we had so many eggs we couldnt eat or give enough away. Mrs slumlord bitches about 20+ dozen eggs in the fridge and chickens crapping on the sidewalk scratching out potting soil in our patio plants.

Try give away those nice big country eggs. People at church and work be like “Ewwwwwewwwwwwww, the eggs...they’re brown...why are they brown....ewwwwwww, never mind I’ll pass”



Had to send em down the road.

We get $4.00/doz for our eggs.

You got too many.

Prices here haven't changed.

USDA put out a press release yesterday (?) about that avian flu outbreak. Seem like it's really virulent. It has shown up in a few wild populations in the upper Midwest, too.

Ed

I like seeing those tan eggs. We had Rhode Island Reds and Plymouth Rock years ago.

I love eggs. I love farm fresh eggs. Fresh eggs make better cakes. They make much better omelets. When Boiled, they do not peel smoothly, like the computer eggs in Wal Mart. Overall, I much prefer farm fresh eggs.

The USDA calls it “depopulating”, but it’s just little napoleons running around getting off on telling farmers they have to kill all the animals. I’d rather deal with the USEPA than the USDA..... They are miserable, incompetent, nasty people.

Maybe one day I’ll tell y’all how I really feel....

I eat 6 eggs when I eat breakfast, generally only two days a week. Love them scrambled, omelettes, hard fried, pickled, just about any way you can think of. But I’ll be danged if I can taste one bit of difference between store eggs and “farm” eggs.

Oh and ours have went up $1 per dozen in the last month.

Out of stock about 3 times out of 4.

With backyard chicken ranching being the rage in these parts, there are more eggs to give away than people to eat them.

People at my wife’s work are paying her $5+ per dozen before the craziness but now they’ll still pay the same. 😁. She doesn’t want to take the money from most of them so she gives them away often. Last week she said one guy left a $50 bill and told her just bring him a dozen until he owes more.

Yup,

Turn a few into chicken dinners.

Huge difference. Not even close. The difference is in the diet and lifestyle of the hens. A wild diet (bugs, grubs, wild greens, wild berries and seeds, etc.) produces delicious eggs. You can even tell by looking at them cracked into a bowl. Store bought have pitiful pale yellow yolks, while real free range (not store bought "free range") eggs have deeply rich, vibrant yellow, yolks, almost a little orange in tone.

We had about 9 or 10

But I agree

Probably ideal (for us) would be 2 hens

There is a farm where we used to get country smoked pork sausage.
Pull into the man’s gates and I swear there was no less than 200-300 chickens running buck wild all different directions.

Nothing seemed organized either. Bizarre breeds, feral, banties, leghorns, cross breeds, hens that looked gang-banged, 1/3 of roosters ready to whoop your ass when ya got out of the truck.

Sheesh

He had to recycle that hog shìt somehow.

Yeah I get it. The yolks are orange when they eat grasshoppers and junebugs. But to me they taste like eggs. I can tell a bigger difference in taste between cooking them in bacon grease or Snowcap lard than from “farm” raised or not.