Brahmas Beauty Homestead
Brahma Momma
Hi good morning, sounds frustrating for sure. Your not being crazy this is completely not right of her to take your eggs especially after her son asked her not to. It’s a hard one because you are using her property for your coop and girls and she might feel since the set up is on her property she has full range. I would have your boyfriend or both of you to have a conversation with her and say something like after this week our plan to self sustain is to sell our chicken eggs and use the money toward the feed cost , shavings and to slowly build your emergency bag ( getting things so it’s not all at once) . And other things needed to raise them. We are going to charge 5.00 a dozen so if you will please not get our eggs unless you want to pay for them to help us toward our goal of making money on our eggs to help support our flock we would appreciate that . We have a lot of money spent to get this far and now we have a way to reward our hard work by selling our eggs.I didn’t really know what to title this but I need some advice. I’m going to try not to give my age away but…..
Me and my boyfriend are the owners of our chickens. However we live separately with our parents. We got chickens and where i lived, we were not allowed to have any sort of “farm” animal and his town allows it. So we built the coop at his house…. me and him take care of the chickens, we built the coop with our own money. We pay for their feed. We pay for everything, without any assistance from other people unless my parents buy a bag of mealworms or something (that’s once in a blue moon).
However, my mom has offered to give us money for a bag of food. My parents have offered to help pay for the coop build (we declined) His mom has never offered anything, not food, not shavings, not money to build the coop, absolutely nothing. But she’s so greedy with the eggs.
For Instance, the first ever coop we built and the chickens just started laying eggs, she would help herself to the fresh eggs and not tell me or my boyfriend. This went on for quite a while. We had a chicken that was unfortunately egg bound (she passed away bc we caught it too late) and the reason we caught it too late was because she would take the eggs everyday. I got fed up and my boyfriend had to tell her multiple times to not take them.
We had a situation where when the chickens first started laying (ofc the eggs were small) she would complain that she needed to use more eggs because of the size.
Unlike my mom saying “hey if you guys have any extra eggs i’ll take a carton” his mom will say “i need eggs this week”.
As of now, we have 5 laying hens. So we fill a carton every 2-3 days. Which I am not complaining about. But it seems like she’s just so greedy with them and it kind of gets on my nerves, especially when she does nothing for us. Never offers anything.
And i want to start selling the eggs to make some money that will go to the chickens.
Am i being like crazy or what??
……. So having a conversation about your goal and what you really are aiming for gives her a clear picture of your reasons why she cant just go grab a egg when she feels like it. You have to tell someone bluntly sometimes or you have to tell them your plan or they won’t know and just continue to do as they don’t see it your way .