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Posted by Dave Allen (Member # 3102) on February 17, 2018, 06:59 PM:
Anybody eat farm eggs or organic from the store ?
I noticed @ Wallymart the other day organic eggs were $3.28 a dozen I believe ? Albertsons was in the $4.00 area ?
We bought nine chicks last spring eight survived now they are all up & running. I'm getting 5-6 eggs daily. My cost is around 20 cents an egg. It was more before of course. I feed them laying feed not the cheap scratch stuff.
I now see why eggs cost more than the generic four dozen for $5.00 bucks on sale eggs.
I can tell the difference they taste better, shells are thicker, harder to crack. They stay together better in the pan when frying them up.
Might be worth the extra money for some ? I have a whole new perspective on eggs now.
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Posted by Bryan J (Member # 106) on February 17, 2018, 09:36 PM:
We have had our birds for around 12 years. We rotate the old hens out after a few years or when production becomes unacceptable. I mix my own feed if I pay myself for my corn I'm at around $16 CTW. Haven't got it figured down to the per egg costs. It is something my boys can take care of. I can sure tell when they are not keeping up in the winter. Everything is better fresh off the farm.
Posted by NVWalt (Member # 375) on February 18, 2018, 02:27 AM:
Fresh eggs really are the best .In fact vegies are also.Taste the differance in tomatoes for an easy example. No comparison to China-mart or chain store grocery maters. and that's just a start. I like duck eggs for baking.And on and on and on!
Posted by JP (Member # 4095) on February 18, 2018, 07:23 AM:
Grandson raises chickens (free range) and goats as a 4H project. Gets $5 a dozen and has more customers than he can handle. Has upwards of seventy-five hens and about five very happy roosters.
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Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on February 18, 2018, 07:43 AM:
I get fresh eggs from a neighbor free range organic and all that crap yolks are damned near orange the flavor is incredible no comparison to store bought.
Going to do a green house this year miss the garden I could grow down south ! Maybe get a few hens.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on February 18, 2018, 08:52 AM:
Who knew?
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on February 19, 2018, 06:53 PM:
From before I was born until I was about 30 years old, my grandmother had a chicken coop full of laying hens. Never had to buy eggs and never wanted to. Learned early on that the sign of a good quality egg is a tiny piece of bedding straw stuck to the outside of the shell by a small smear of chicken shit. Miss those chickens. And, Grandma.
Posted by Dave Allen (Member # 3102) on February 19, 2018, 06:59 PM:
Just gathered several of those eggs. 18 degrees with 30-40 MPH winds.
Can you say. Brrrrr
Posted by Kokopelli (Member # 633) on February 19, 2018, 09:34 PM:
I don't know squat about raising chickens but just watched a segment on one of the home renovation shows where a guy built a chicken run from the coop, around his garden, and back to the coop again.
He said that the grasshoppers didn't stand a chance & it kept other critters out.
Seemed like a kinda cool idea.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on February 20, 2018, 08:53 AM:
So, 'splain a ceramic or marble egg in the nest box?
Top quality means looking for a chickenshit smear? I guess I can buy that? I do wonder if the commercial operations clean their eggs somehow and how sanitary the shells are, so I don't suck my fingers when frying eggs. These days, probably mothers get reported unless they are wearing, not latex, what's that blue glove? Coming to your town; thanks, Liberals!
In high school, I used to help my buddy after school. He had 600 chickens, (oh, the horror) in cages! We would take them to the dairy on Saturdays. One thing, he candled all his eggs and graded them, sold the jumbos at the house, but also took a 5 gal. bucket with cracked eggs and they gave us a few bucks. But I always wondered what they did with a bucket full of cracked eggs? Disclosure, not anywhere near full.
We had a guy come in and haul off stacks of chickenshit built up under the cages, nothing wasted. And, don't forget to turn the dial on the front of the cage! I think his birds needed to produce 3 eggs a week, or else!
When I just got out of the hospital, my daughter had bought some extra large eggs, I never do. I always meant to ask her if it was by mistake? But, just about every one of those eggs had a double yolk. I wonder why people buy those extra large eggs? Is it for double yolks, or is it because one ain't enough and two is too much?
Did you know that there are acres of marigolds grown up around Santa Barbara and the purpose is seeds for chicken feed which makes the yolks an orangish color rather than a pale yellow? Yum!
Good hunting. El Bee
Posted by booger (Member # 3602) on February 20, 2018, 12:57 PM:
Everyone talks about cage free eggs, and free range eggs...hell, that was how I grew up! My job was gathering the eggs daily and cleaning the chicken house once a week. Hated them chickens with a passion!
We used straw as bedding, and I toted the crap and straw out to a pile with a wheelbarrow. Dad then used the tractor to spread said crap and straw on the garden to use for fertilizer.
Chickens have to be the dumbest animal on the face of the earth..you have heard of 'herding cats'? Well, chickens are about as bad.
The one thing I do miss is fresh fried chicken. One has not lived until you have a chicken that was alive in the morning, and then on your plate in the evening with mashed potatoes, corn and gravy!
Even when we butchered chickens nothing went to waste. My dad got the innards for his catfish bait, and my grandma made the best pillows out of the feathers!
Kinda funny...our backyard resembled something out of Braveheart battlefield on butchering day...the buffalo grass as stained with chicken blood and chicken carcasses after we cut their heads off and let them 'flop out'!
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Posted by Paul Melching (Member # 885) on February 21, 2018, 04:28 AM:
As a younger man I had a couple of truck farms organic veggies for the hippie stores dairy goats for my family and chickens for eggs and meat Yessir bogger nuthin better than a fresh chicken !
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