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crazychicknladySpring means an overabundance of eggs 'round here. The geese only lay for about four months of the year. As it so happens, though, this coincides with the lengthening of the days and mildly warmer weather that leads to more regular laying by the hens.
By no means is raising birds to get eggs cost effective. Just considering feed prices and predation, I'm sure our per dozen cost is astronomical.
I like having birds for their own sake, though. So eggs are a happy bonus and can be counted in my human* food budget as basically free. As a result, having scrambled eggs each morning has become routine for me. A good use of our resources, and tasty.**
One of our younger chickens, Sapphire, lays eggs of a distinctive enough brown that I can tell hers from the older brown egg layers. As she is younger, sometimes she still lays double yolk eggs. She managed to push out this massive egg the other day. Poor dear, if she had a choice about it, I wouldn't have blamed her if she gave up the whole laying thing all together after that.
As per usual, I can't seem to get Imgur to upload my photos anymore, so if you want to see what I'm talking about click on the links above to see my Twitter posts on the subject.
*We have such a large number of animals to buy feed for that we have a separate animal food budget from our human food budget.
**My kids and I have basically become egg snobs over the years. I expect without fresh eggs I would never eat scrambled or fried eggs again.
By no means is raising birds to get eggs cost effective. Just considering feed prices and predation, I'm sure our per dozen cost is astronomical.
I like having birds for their own sake, though. So eggs are a happy bonus and can be counted in my human* food budget as basically free. As a result, having scrambled eggs each morning has become routine for me. A good use of our resources, and tasty.**
One of our younger chickens, Sapphire, lays eggs of a distinctive enough brown that I can tell hers from the older brown egg layers. As she is younger, sometimes she still lays double yolk eggs. She managed to push out this massive egg the other day. Poor dear, if she had a choice about it, I wouldn't have blamed her if she gave up the whole laying thing all together after that.
As per usual, I can't seem to get Imgur to upload my photos anymore, so if you want to see what I'm talking about click on the links above to see my Twitter posts on the subject.
*We have such a large number of animals to buy feed for that we have a separate animal food budget from our human food budget.
**My kids and I have basically become egg snobs over the years. I expect without fresh eggs I would never eat scrambled or fried eggs again.
