i also had to buy some of THOSE eggs yesterday. i was starting some pound cake and had my three store bought eggs on the counter in a bowl to come to room temp. my 6 year old walked by and said where did you get THOSE from....he said, they are the wrong color....too funny
I had to do it for Thanksgiving.. told the family they would have to eat cereal for breakfast for a few days so I wouldn't have to buy any for Christmas baking.. right now, I just have 4 laying hens, average 3 a day.. with one pullet laying TINY eggs every 3 or four days.. I think that one could work for gravy..
I have seven pullets that should come into maturity soon.. not to mention all the chicks I am hatching out starting late summer. 2011 looks promising in the egg production department.
Yes, I spend extra $ and purchase the cage-free eggs. If I knew someone locally who hac eggs, I would pay 2x the cost of the store eggs.. I JUST hate them.. Even my adult children have become spoiled and started looking for local people w/ egg signs...
I had to do the same thing for Thanksgiving. Even spent extra money for "free range organic." I was making a pie with some when the wife happened to come into the kitchen as I was cracking the eggs into the bowl. She asked, "Those aren't OUR eggs are they?" Nope, she could tell just by looking.
The sad thing about it was that I had twelve dozen eggs in the refrigerator! But my mom and aunt were coming and I always send eggs home with them and I had my store account to deliver to the next day so had none to spare to cook with.
And in spite of having twenty five 7 and 8 month old pullets out there to backstop the older birds it looks like Christmas is going to be much the same.
Yes. I spend whatever it costs to get free range, vegetarian fed, preferably organic (if available) eggs. I'll spend even more if they are local.
The ones I bought this week are antibiotic & hormone free but don't say organic. They were $2.75 a dozen, which is actually CHEAPER than the Eggland eggs they were next to. (I'd have bought the local eggs, anyway.)