The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

I have just come from a short trip which proves I must be nuts. The feed store I used to patronize when it was between my work location and home - too far now unless I am making a trip to Sacramento - is still referring people to me who have rooster-less flocks but broody hens. My flock is mixed, so I always assure buyers I have no clue what will hatch. I try to provide bantam eggs for folks with broody banties, unless they specify otherwise.

On Sundqy, the feed store employee who first asked a couple years ago came up to my place for the first time. ("Boy, you weren't kidding when you said you lived way out there!" she said.) I sold a dozen green & olive green-ish eggs to her, LF and bantam.

Today, I sold a dozen mixed eggs - brown, pinkish, white, green and olive, 8 LF and 4 bantam - to a retired high school teacher. Because they're "could be anything" eggs, I charge the same as I do for eating eggs:$3.00 a dozen. Our meeting place was 25 miles away.

I couldn't find my wallet so I departed sans ID (and money), wearing a shirt with my former agency's logo on it "just in case" I got stopped. Uhhh, you know, as ummm proof of something...

The little gas warning light came on enroute. I put that three bucks into the tank at the return trip closest gas station. (Less than a gallon - the light came on again before I got home.)

So, it cost more to sell & deliver those eggs than I made.

But more of my GrandChicks will be entering the world in places distant from the Olmstead Homestead. Mwwaaahahahahahaha!

Yes, the enjoyment factor is hard to turn into dollars....

 

[thebirdguy]

new baby lambian

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Congrats!

 

[bamachicks8]

Yes, the enjoyment factor is hard to turn into dollars....

Very true i have a standing order of eggs on waitlist and based on my calculations i dont see me ever actually making money good thing thats not the real reason i do it. Although it does give me an excuse to get more chicks. I mean i have to keep up with supply right?

new baby lambian

Aww so cute!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Very true i have a standing order of eggs on waitlist and based on my calculations i dont see me ever actually making money good thing thats not the real reason i do it. Although it does give me an excuse to get more chicks. I mean i have to keep up with supply right?

We had an extra (and we eat a lot of eggs) 18 dozen eggs this week. All of a sudden a few weeks ago someone just turned on the egg making. We went from 2 eggs a day to two dozen at the minimum.

I feel desperate like in the middle of summer when you realize you've planted too many squash plants and you start shoving them in random people's mailbox on the way to work...

Soon it will be the broody parade though, and I'll be begging for eggs again.

 

[bamachicks8]

We had an extra (and we eat a lot of eggs) 18 dozen eggs this week. All of a sudden a few weeks ago someone just turned on the egg making. We went from 2 eggs a day to two dozen at the minimum.
Well with the breeds i have i dont see many of them going broody ill have at least 6 that i know wont the 3 leghorns and 3 rsl not sure the broody rate of the ee's or Brahma I was beginning to get concerned about Elle she hadn't laid since the moved to the new coop. then the leghorn missed two days. Well that made me really worried. They hadnt shown any signs of sickness or been fussy so i decided to go on an egg search.well they just decided they wanted to lay outside instead!

I feel desperate like in the middle of summer when you realize you've planted too many squash plants and you start shoving them in random people's mailbox on the way to work...

Soon it will be the broody parade though, and I'll be begging for eggs again.

 

[dsqard]

SCG why can I soooooo picture you driving down the street in the dark shoving squash into people's mailboxes? Huh? Why is that such an easy mental image?

 

[dsqard]

birdguy you are no longer allowed to post pictures of such adorable baby animals. Now I want one!

Congrats!

 

[bamachicks8]

birdguy you are no longer allowed to post pictures of such adorable baby animals.  Now I want one!   Congrats!

X2

 

[Cynthia12]

We had an extra (and we eat a lot of eggs) 18 dozen eggs this week. All of a sudden a few weeks ago someone just turned on the egg making. We went from 2 eggs a day to two dozen at the minimum.

I feel desperate like in the middle of summer when you realize you've planted too many squash plants and you start shoving them in random people's mailbox on the way to work...

Soon it will be the broody parade though, and I'll be begging for eggs again.

You eat 18 doz. eggs a day?

No wait.

J/K, I see how you meant that. That's a lot of eggs in a week, are you selling them?
Squash in a mailbox..now there's an idea. Around here, people put them in other people's cars at church. I would take them off your hands if I were close, I don't have the best place to plant them now. I plant the yellow crookneck squash..love it!