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Please remember people that there are so many of us who are willing to pay up to $4/doz. for farm fresh eggs. The last time I bought back yard eggs, I drove almost 40 minutes to Sedro Woolley WA and had my pickup attacked and scratched up by a huge great dane, just to get 2 dozen eggs...

I purchased your same coop and borrowed my girlfriend's husband to put it together. He agreed that it isn't well made, however, like you, he added more brads and screws to make it sturdy. It also came with some broken parts but he fixed that, and put it on the garden wagon for me. I'm now...

Have you tried posting on Craigslist that you have farm fresh eggs for sale? They are selling around $3-4 a dozen around here.

If you make your own chicken broth from the carcass of a roasted chicken (add celery, carrot & onion), you won't need to add yellow food coloring. It comes out a deep rich yellow, almost auburn colored and has a much strength as penicillin if you aren't feeling well. Add your beaten eggs to...

Try making a cheese cake. I have recipes that call for almost a dozen eggs, and I can't even imagine how fabulous that cheese cake would be with farm eggs. I have to buy farm eggs off Craigslist for $4/doz. and I think I'm getting a huge bargain. If you haven't advertised on Craigslist yet...

I recently went thru this same question with some eggs I purchased from a backyard chicken lady. Check out the thread "Are they ok to eat?". There was some great info on there, but I got so excited about doing the float test, that I tested them all and later found out that I had washed off the...

I can just hear your frustration, and please don't let all this get you down. I started thinking of getting 2 hens and have a great coop and tractor, because I heard raising chickens was soooo easy, but then I see on there are hundreds of thousands of responses to questions on this site alone...

Thanks so much for your help. I used the float test and found half of the two dozen were probably 2 weeks old and not the "laid this week" she told me and one floated like a ballon. After I did the test, I realized that I may have removed the 'bloom' from the shell, but hope that just...

I love your windows. As you can see from my picture, I added "sky lights" to my coop and have them on both sides. The tractor will be in a shaded area, so I will have to see how this works out next summer. Nice job.

I've spent over 40 years trying to perfect the perfect biscuit recipe and found this one is just the best of the best. 2 C. flour 1 Tbl. sugar (optional and I leave this out) 4 Teasp. baking powder 3/4 Teasp. salt 1.2 Teasp. baking soda 1/2 C. veg. shortening 1 whole egg, beaten 1/2 C...

I just went thru this "how old is the egg?" on another topic. Don't have hens yet and have to buy them from other chicken people, and yesterday bought 2 dozen from a lady who had them on the countertop and not refrigerated. She assured me these were laid this week, but i was sceptical and...

Hmm, I just asked on another topic how to tell if the eggs I recently purchased were fresh as the chicken lady assured me they were (she said they were just laid this week), plus she didn't have them refrigerated. So a super "Chillin' with my peeps" told me about how to do the water float test...

Thanks so much for the details on this test! How can I have lived so long and not known about this wonderful informative test on eggs?

Today I just purchased some eggs from a backyard chicken lady and she assured me these eggs were laid this week, but as I was filling my cartons with them, I noticed they hadn't been refrigerated and were room temperature. Someone suggested the 'float test'. What is this test and which is it...

It wouldn't be illegal or against grocery stores policies if people didn't sue for getting ill off food they got for free from these establishments. It's just so frustrating tho, my mom used to get tons of stuff from her local supermarket's throw aways for her chickens, but that was years ago...

I really need some advise. Since my Poultry Palace isn't ready for my hens, I just searched Craigslist for farm fresh eggs. When I arrived at this woman's home, she assured me that the two dozen eggs I was purchasing had been laid this week. As I was putting the eggs in the crates i had...

I've seen my mom's chickens battle over tomato worms, those ugly horned things, which was great because mom like to garden organic.

I have the opposite problem, because I am wanting to buy hens about 1 year old. The seller says they are that old, but how do you know they are old chickens that have quit laying. If any of you know of another post to answer this question, please let me know.

As a dental hygienist of 40 years, I want to caution you other two legged types (humans) that even though the apple cider vinegar is great for chickens, please don't try it on yourself. It will literally melt your enamel on your teeth and will pit them and make them super sensitive. However...