Keeping Chickens Free Range

[SmColorInDaPan]

On the same note as yours Lazy gardener, I tried to give some eggs to the local food shelf, they refused them.

A Pharmacy Tech buys my eggs, sold some when prices were high, while shopping at Wal Mart. Course, I don't charge much. I get too much food out of them to demand a high price~~
I let friends know I'm selling~~

 

[duluthralphie]

A Pharmacy Tech buys my eggs, sold some when prices were high, while shopping at Wal Mart. Course, I don't charge much. I get too much food out of them to demand a high price~~
I let friends know I'm selling~~

I do the same, but in the spring when I am saving eggs to hatch I get low on supply and lose some egg customers.

In the summer as I stop hatching I get a glut of eggs for a few weeks until others find out I have eggs again. That's when I went to give them away to the food shelf.. Besides I thought it would assuage my conscious for being a greedy capitalist pig....

 

[denimangel]

Mine roam all day but they go to bed before dark on their own accord and I lock them up for fear of foxes.. We have a perimeter fence around the farm they stay within but that's the only limit

 

[denimangel]

 

[vpatt]

My lonely free ranging rooster has a little pullet now. I got her at saturdays swap. They are walking around the yard making chicken noises to each other.

 

[SmColorInDaPan]

I do the same, but in the spring when I am saving eggs to hatch I get low on supply and lose some egg customers.

In the summer as I stop hatching I get a glut of eggs for a few weeks until others find out I have eggs again. That's when I went to give them away to the food shelf.. Besides I thought it would assuage my conscious for being a greedy capitalist pig....

I don't have regular customers, being Too far out. Name Calling aside, bet if you left your number on an elder OR low income apartment Post board, set a date, time, You could sell a BUNCH @ 1 time!? Just a thought..

 

[duluthralphie]

I don't have regular customers, being Too far out. Name Calling aside, bet if you left your number on an elder OR low income apartment Post board, set a date, time, You could sell a BUNCH @ 1 time!? Just a thought..

In Minnesota we can only sell to a licensed food handler, after buying a license ourselves as egg producers or from our farm or farmers market. The Food shelves are licensed. as I understand it,,,

I would get a license if I had a place to sell them. Otherwise, I will give them to friends and family or sell them from the farm. If I get too many the chickens get to eat scrambled eggs.

 

[SmColorInDaPan]

In Minnesota we can only sell to a licensed food handler, after buying a license ourselves as egg producers or from our farm or farmers market. The Food shelves are licensed. as I understand it,,,

I would get a license if I had a place to sell them. Otherwise, I will give them to friends and family or sell them from the farm. If I get too many the chickens get to eat scrambled eggs.

Leave it to politics to RUIN a good thing...

I hard boil some of my eggs. Have both dog & Chicken attention, when I step out the door! Last of watermelon JUST went out the back door.....

 

[lazy gardener]

My pup has super glossy fur! She likes her morning egg ritual.

 

[duluthralphie]

My pup has super glossy fur! She likes her morning egg ritual.

My dog is no longer allowed to eat eggs, she abused the privilege and is now wearing court mandated behavior altering devices.