White17 i think by the time i mailed them from alabama to alaska you might be better off getting them at the store!

We are selling ours as fast as they lay them for $4 a dozen. You just have to develop your market.

It’s good to give some back to the chickens also, great protein for them and they get the calcium back for their shells too. As much as the hens give us you gotta spoil em from time to time.

Lots of people around here have chicken pens. The people that want yard eggs usually have a family member that gives them to them. Other people scoff at fresh eggs when walmart was selling them for 79 cent a dozen. They thought we were trying to rip them off.

I thought this would be a post about being quarantined in the house with the kids!

If you purchase a Jersey cow, just remember you have to be smarter than that breed. I have two and the are not Holsteins, in they learn to open gates, are more like dogs in demanding attention and will own you instead of owning them.

What starflakes says is correct. Cows eat a lot more forage than dogs do.

I never realized how blessed we truly are by having our own eggs and a milk cow if I need her. It really doesnt take much to keep a few chickens and a milk cow.
We bought 5 dairy calves for a few hundred dollars a couple years ago and sold off the steers and kept the heifers. Raised two nice calves out of the heifers as they were crossed on a sim-angus bull. We lost one of the heifers as our bull broke her back. The other one is still in milk feeding her calf.
Around here you can buy a bottle dairy heifer for 150-200 now and raise up a nice milk cow. All you people that like to mow - they love to eat grass clippings........

I try to give my extras away. I get alot of eeuuuu I don't like brown eggs. Or, euuuu these have pooo on them. Potatoes are another one. euuu these have dirt on them!

In my experience I don't want the chicken having any idea the eggs are edible. All it takes is one egg eating chicken and the rest will follow busting eggs on the nest and eating them. It is quite irritating. I will buy or supply other supplement like oyster shells. Also our chicken coop is built in a 16' car trailer. It states inside premier 1 electro net fence that keeps our goats in. That gets moved around the farm as conditions dictate. Some times its 3 week others a week. So they are always on nice clean grass and weeds with tons of bugs and greens to eat. Thay are not always in a stomped down mud run or the same area. It may be w years before they hit the same place again.

I'm glad it works for you and it's a good use for the extra eggs. But it only took once of getting an egg eating chicken to stop me. Man I'm glad I culled that flock.

Don't you guys know milk and eggs will kill you. To bad my parents and grandparents didn't know that, that was their main go to in the depression era. But they died in their eighties and nineties i guess from eating those eggs and milk !

My daughter sells eggs. Has a LOT of chickens. They let them free range. Have two big pyrenees dogs that guard them. They could sell more eggs than they are. I had to quit telling her we need a few cause she won't let me pay her. I would hate to guess what her dog feed bill is or the cost of chicken coops and nesting boxes. They have a lot of eggs get laid on the ground but know where to look for them. The eggs are delicious. Something about chickens foraging really improves the taste.

I have heard this a few times from folks who raise chickens.

I have had chickens for twenty-plus years and never had that issue.

We let our grandkids gather eggs and they inevitably crack a few which are then thrown into the pen to be eaten by the chickens. So the birds get fresh eggs on a pretty regular basis but I never had an issue with them breaking and eating eggs in the nesting boxes.