Some Friends...

[Heidi]

I sell most of my eggs at work, but there is one friend I sell to about every other week. Anyways last week when I dropped the eggs off and collected my $1.50 he said, "Boy you have a lucrative business going." I kind of looked at him dumb founded and said I profit $6.00 a month and that doesn't include the electricity from the light that now is on or my many hours cleaning, feeding, checking their bodies over, and etc.... Oh, you did notice I dropped his eggs off so I probably used his $1.50 in gas.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

Yeah... people think they're just soo funny sometimes.

 

[MissPrissy]

I am always astounded that when people people think you have a dollar that you have become rich with a nice steady income from the hens. They never see the work just the end result.

 

[Standard Hen]

I don't make a dime on my chickens. With the small amount of eggs that I sell it goes right back into feed. And never mind everything else that goes with it! I am sure if I sat down and figured it out I would be in the hole big time. They eat more than they put out, right now I have a good amount of chickens that are not even laying.
But I do not have them to make money, I have them for ME.

 

[BantyChickMom]

I have 2 bantams and 2 red stars laying. The stars have just began and i've collected 20 so far.
But i have a friend that i occasionally give a doz bantam eggs to even tho she is willing to pay me for them.
I too have my chickens because i like them, not to make money.

I have many more coming up, for some it should be anyday, most are like 16 weeks, and then I have a few that are 13 weeks and younger.
I figure when I start getting too many eggs, I will give them away to the elderly people who live at the apartment complex where my mom and grandma live.

 

[McGoo]

I hope he was joking... Or maybe totally oblivious to the world around him.

Where I live in NY, I can sell a dozen eggs for $5. Of course that's if my little gals would cooperate and start the laying process

I figure they'll git around to it eventually. I relate to the gals - I had 2 children so the thought of giving birth every other day seems like a big deal to me; those big eggs coming from those little hens.

Consider a delivery charge

 

[Heidi]

The funny thing is he offered to pay me for eggs when they started laying. He pays $3.75 at the grocery store. He just thought I was making lots of money or something - who knows. I do give away some of my eggs to family members and an elderly lady at church.