Selling eggs to morons

[Chic Rustler]

So i posted an add. Fresh eggs $3 a dozen. I got this reply

Loooong sigh. Like you can turn chickens on pasture in the dead of winter without feed

 

[Mini Horses]

Don't let it get to you. Plenty out there who ask questions and Know not "why". The even complain about $3 for fresher than they get at grocery for $5.

I tell them
mine eat flies & the larva (maggots), crickets, worms, horse and goat poop, fresh grass, old veggies, food tossed from plates, scratch & laying mash. Yeah, the poop part generally makes their eyes swell.

Those who KNOW chicken diets, don't ask. They just applaud the huge yellow yolks and taste.

It's kinda funny to see their faces and hear the replies.

 

[Lazy Gardener]

Don't let it get to you. Plenty out there who ask questions and no not "why". The even complain about $3 for fresher than they get at grocery for $5.

I tell them
mine eat flies & the larva (maggots), crickets, worms, horse and goat poop, fresh grass, old veggies, food tossed from plates, scratch & laying mash. Yeah, the poop part generally makes their eyes swell.

Those who KNOW chicken diets, don't ask. They just applaud the huge yellow yolks and taste.

It's kinda funny to see their faces and hear the replies.

Funny, my birds eyes don't swell when they eat poop. Doesn't bother my dog's eyes, either!

 

[baymule]

I have a few egg customers and they are delighted to get our eggs. I think I will discontinue this for next year and cut back on my layers. It's more of a PIA than it's worth.

 

[NH Homesteader]

I don't sell eggs anymore. It's not worth it. I would sell them as an add - on if I was if I had a farmers market booth or a store, but iyad not worth the hassle or extra feed to keep extra hens just to sell eggs. I try to have enough for us and my parents, that's about it.

 

[CrealCritter]

That person has obviously never raised a chicken before. Mine will go out on the "range" here shortly but what's the sense of it during the winter?

 

[baymule]

That person has obviously never raised a chicken before. Mine will go out on the "range" here shortly but what's the sense of it during the winter?

Because snow is non GMO. Might be full of chemtrail crap, but it's otherwise pure and clean. LOL LOL LOL

 

[Hinotori]

I quit bothering with selling eggs. I had complaints about the $2.50 price for my free range blue eggs because it wasn't $1 a dozen like the mass produced white eggs are on sale.

There is one store around here that gets blue eggs in occasionally. They run $7 plus a dozen.

I just have a few ameraucana and EEs for eggs for us and occasionally giving away now. The silkie eggs get pickled mostly. Takes 3 of them to make a large egg.

 

[Mini Horses]

Funny, my birds eyes don't swell when they eat poop. Doesn't bother my dog's eyes, either!

Good one! Yeah, the people, not the animals. Don't know why as those yuppies/milleniums (whatever?) are into "recycling" Poo to eggs seems like the best way.

I would cut back on egg sales but, almost all of mine are families that WANT the fresh, free range and not "general public". They even suffer through the winter slacking. I still give away and my kids (2 grown) use them. ME? May eat 2 or 3 a month. They are good for you and I try to make myself eat them more often but, I really am not a big egg fan. So, unless I have a lot of peppers/onions, etc., to add to very well cooked scrambled -- hmm. But, I absolutely love to collect eggs from the nests!! And the girls do a lot of bug control. They go broody and give me more roos than pullets most years. I just bought a new hatchet 2 days ago -- some roos are waiting for me to add them to the freezer. Not fun but, that's where chicken comes from! Time for more bone stock, too.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I just bought a new hatchet 2 days ago -- some roos are waiting for me to add them to the freezer. Not fun but, that's where chicken comes from! Time for more bone stock, too.

I've got some I need to do too....