[maryellen]

I sold two of my march hatch pullets and picked up these two Breda fowl.
They look like vultures and have no combs. Pretty cool looking chickens. They are dutch, and I got them from a breeder who is getting out of the breed as she shows barnevelder and welsummer chickens. After the Ohio show she is giving me a few more hens.

They were born this spring. They are very quiet, prefer to hang in the coop instead of out in the pen. They have vulture hock feathers and a cool Mohawk hairdo lol...their legs and feet are feathered. They lay a medium.white egg.

Supposedly some of the woman's flock came from the Netherlands.

 

[gazar]

Reall handsome. Like the "hairdo"

 

[cowsmom]

Oh nice. Very nice

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[gazar]

How are the chickens doing, maryellen?

 

[maryellen]

They are settled in good now, part of the flock. Stanley likes them too lol. I'm hoping to get a few more from the woman I got these from.

 

[gazar]

Very good. How are the eggs selling?

 

[maryellen]

Not good at all. People complain $3 a doz is too much lol. Plus up here everyone is getting chickens so no one is buying. They fired all the people who used to buy too

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[oznog]

I just give the extra eggs to people at work. Your flock has to be tested to legally sell them here. We feef organic and our land has been pesticide/herbicide free for over ten years . Organic certification is pricey and people will not pay the 4 bucks plus per dozen that they bring at the store. Most people don't care or are clueless.

 

[cowsmom]

I pay almost 5 dollars for my humane certified non gmo free range eggs. After seeing them on the back of a truck one day I was sick to my stomach

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[maryellen]

I'm npip and ai tested by the state,but here you don't need it to sell eggs. What I did was I gave all my extra eggs that I couldn't eat to the farm stand a few blocks away. Told the guy to sell them for whatever he wanted.i didn't take any money from him. When Halloween came around he gave me his prices on a case if Indian glass corn and a case of decorative gourds. It worked out perfect trade..


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[cowsmom]

Well that's cool

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[maryellen]

Yeah we don't use pesticides either, and my chickens are loose all the time (except the past 3 weeks due to the hawks migrating, they tried to take out 2 of my chickens so for now they are locked up in their pens).

Of course they are molting now,and with shorter daylight not laying as much, so I figured ok time to deworm.... so I deworm both coops and they decide to pump out eggs.. which can't be eaten for 2 weeks due to the dewormer meds..... so I had all these pretty eggs I couldn't eat or sell lol..

So they got scrambled eggs and I tossed the shells in the garden

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[cowsmom]

Love the eggs

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[maryellen]

Thanks !!

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[gazar]

Gotta love trading - may be some more people willing to trade out.
I buy organic eggs and I know I am going to pay more for them then regular eggs.

I have a 20 ounce crock pot lunch tote --
( Crock-Pot SCCPLC200-R 20-Ounce Lunch Crock Food Warmer, Red ) Crock-Pot
And I like to mix up a vegetable omlet and pour it into the crock pot. I take
it to work with me and plug it in. In about two hours it is cooked and ready
to eat. I think the omlet tastes better with better eggs. I make a three egg
omlet - that is only a $1.00 plus left over veggies - what a deal and very
filling. Sure beats these $7 - $10 dollar lunches. Throw in a slices or two of
100% whole grain bread and it is a perfect lunch.

 

[maryellen]

You pay that much for eggs?omg. Are they truly organic? There is chiropractic dr here thst I saw,she bragged to me she sold her eggs as organic for $7 a doz only cause she used the local feed farms food..which isn't organic.. she lies to customers and says the eggs are organic when they arent. I was shocked. Needless to say I never saw her again after that first visit

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[cowsmom]

Oh that's terrible to do that. I pay about 5 dollars for eggs but they are organic and certified humain. Sometimes I get other brands that are cheaper.

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[maryellen]

The only way to know if they are humane us to get them from a farmer where you can see them out in the grass....and to be organic fed the food itself must be certified organic and made in an organic plant

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[gazar]

I usually get mine from Walmart and they are $4.47 (just checked) a dozen.
But my husband works with a nurse who has some chickens and when we can,
we get them from her as she raises her chickens in the free range style.

 

[maryellen]

Walmart chickens are kept in a barn. Probably in battery cages but I'm not sure

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