Not all of those eggs are from our girls.I have a friend that is a local chicken farmer.He has been so busy lately that he doesn't have the time to be at the farm to sell his eggs. In fact, recently, he hasn't had any customers coming to him for eggs. I go to his farm and collect his eggs and i then sell them from here and or at the local farmers market. Those 399 eggs were a combination of 2.5 weeks of his girls laying and a week er so of ours.( mostly his)
Here is what Janet and I do with them.
At the market we sell jumbos for $2.50 and larges for $2.00. Here at home,and at the market, any Veterans that come to us for eggs pay
NOTHING. I pay him $1.00 a dozen for his eggs.
IF i sell them.( his policy) We encounter folks here that are in need and they pay nothing for eggs.
Janet and I regularly give away from our garden and chickens more than we sell. God gave this stuff to us and it is up to us to share what He provides us with. We decided to only sell enough eggs to buy feed for our girls when we need it and to sell only enough from our garden to buy what supplies we need for IT for the next season. Nothing goes into our pockets or into anything personal for ourselves.
So far this has been working out for us to keep our garden and our chickens self sufficient. And, as long as we contine to go about this in GODs' way, it will continue to work out that way.
Now, i'm goin to take a small bit o' time here to go and respond individualy to some of the responses to my original post and i then have to git back to cuttin and splittin mass quantities o' firewood and cannin maters,beets,peppers,etc,etc.
GOD has truely been blessing us with a bountifull harvest this year. And as for the very high cost o' heating oil that we can't afford this year,well, there's presently no shortage of fallen trees for firewood. I'm over a half dozen cord so far and still cutting. Should be 'nough o' that to share also.
Jim
