Multi didn't work.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!
Linda I've driven so far to meet people for birds and eggs and every time I send more than I made except maybe once.
Right now though, I'd just like someone to take some of these eggs. I have no room in any of the bators right now and dozens of eggs a day backing up. Send 2 dozen to each of my next door neighbors and they're about to get more. I holding back some of them though and I haven't gotten any fertile eggs from the LF AMs or the SPPRs, so yesterday while i was out back ALL DAY chasing my Marans flock down, I took the time to trim butts! I'll be darned if those beautiful eggs aren't going to produce chicks! I tried AI on Wednesday. OMG! It turned into an event when my neighbor came to tell me something was wrong with my chickens and it was just my SPPR roo Ziggy, running around telling him there was a perverted crazy woman in the house. Big mistake, my trying to explain to a man that only speaks Spanish about AIing a rooster. It was a loooong crazy day and he even called over an audience.
