Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[SD Bird Lady]

I charge $2 a dozen for free range, organic eggs. Am I over charging?

I think that is a good price. Regular eggs here are 1.79 a dozen for factory eggs and brown factory eggs are 1.90. People who know quality will pay it and those who won't, do not know quality. Also, with the drought and feed prices rising expect to see animal products rise as well so keep an eye out so you dont get taken advantage of.

I am assuming you are talking a dozen medium - large eggs not bantam size

 

[chickenoverlord]

Yeah they are large/jumbo. Thnks 4 the info!

 

[marlo1968]

"Pickles" is a regional term. Where my dh is from they grow pickling cucumbers. Where I currently live and where my mother grew up they would look at you as if you were putting on airs if you called it pickling cucumbers; it was just pickles. Some people pickle their pickles and some have them in salads; confusing, eh?

Where I'm from if want to order a soda, you say "I'd like a small coke", the waitress will then ask, "Which kind"...then you answer "Dr. Pepper" or Sprite, or Coca Cola....lol, so I get the whole "pickles" thing.

 

[janinepeters]

The cartons that I use brake in two parts, each side holds six eggs, and I charge $2.00 for six... I call them Six Packs...
The local elementary school lets the kids raise chickens and sell the eggs as a fund raiser, they sell them for $5.00 a dozen.

I now charge $5/dozen as well. The going rate for locally produced eggs around here is $3 - $7 a dozen. The lower end is eggs from chickens confined in barns but not in little cages. These birds may be debeaked. The higher end is for eggs from chickens who really have meaningful access to green vegetation and insect forage, mostly organic, and not debeaked.

 

[marlo1968]

I now charge $5/dozen as well. The going rate for locally produced eggs around here is $3 - $7 a dozen. The lower end is eggs from chickens confined in barns but not in little cages. These birds may be debeaked. The higher end is for eggs from chickens who really have meaningful access to green vegetation and insect forage, mostly organic, and not debeaked.

I charge $3 per dozen. Which is about what everyone else in my area charges. My hens free range, are most certainly not debeaked, and while they do not get organic feed, they do get feed that doesn't have animal by-products in it. I live in a mostly rural area, a small town where FFA and 4H are going strong. What type of area do you live in that people are mindful enough to sell eggs locally and yet are debeaking their hens? Mind you I am not trying to be rude nor sarcastic, I just can't wrap my head around people who choose to sell locally but would debeak their hens.

 

[oldrooster]

Quote:
Your daughter is smarter than my cousin he spent the night at a neighbors house once and they had chocolate milk and he went home and told his parents they had to buy a black cow like the neighbors so they would get chocolate milk too since their white cow gave white milk...... and he was 8......

 

[ChickLuvr4Ever]

"Do you still eat chicken even though you have them?!?!"

Wow. some people are just really ignorant.

That same person thought it was really weird that we feed our chickens leftover chicken meat sometimes. I mean, they're not going to start eating each other even though they've had chicken!

 

[chickenoverlord]

Hehehe. Some people just don't get it.

 

[janinepeters]

I just can't wrap my head around people who choose to sell locally but would debeak their hens.

These are not really back yard farms, but the few surviving family farms that have been in our area for generations. They are of a very different sort than the young rock star farmer with a degree in agriculture or resource management, or the backyard "farmer" who keeps a small flock for fun, for eggs, and a few extra to sell. The long term family farmers around here tend to be less interested in concepts like organic and animal welfare. They might keep something like 50-100 hens "free ranging" in a big barn. It's local, and it's better than battery cages, but the hens are kept at rather high density, so they are debeaked to prevent cannibalism. It's sort of like the set up of Pete and Gerry's Organic eggs, which you can buy in the supermarket (at least here in New England). Those hens range in a big barn and are also debeaked.

 

[sjshaw1980]

"Do you still eat chicken even though you have them?!?!"

Wow. some people are just really ignorant.

 
That same person thought it was really weird that we feed our chickens leftover chicken meat sometimes. I mean, they're not going to start eating each other even though they've had chicken!

Well, that COULD have been an intelligent question if it had been phrased properly....she should have asked "do you still eat store bought chicken, now that you have your own?"
I've declared to my DH, after seeing the way commercial producers treat their livestock, that any chicken consumed in our home will have grown up, been killed and processed right here, on our property. That means raising about 50 birds per year and a lot of work! But it also means No batteries, no debeaking, no 400 birds to a 20x20 pen, no antibiotics, and none of the conditions and treatment that make (IMHO) the commercial poultry industry one of the most inhumane things ever devised by man.