Guest guest Posted April 8, 2012 Report Share Posted April 8, 2012 What kind of colorful eggs? My grandparents alway had chickens. Now people live in cities and don't have them much anymore. However, where we live, it is surprising but someone the other side of our fence (mobile home park in FL 55 and up) has a rooster. I don't know if here are chickens who consort with that rooster but a neighbor a couple doors down can hear it and gets the alarm crowing rather early in the morning.  That is a normal little subdivision and we are not used to people having chickens but evidently it is not a violation of the law and people can keep chickens here (not in the park but in the city borders). I've always been a little afraid of chickens as when I was young, a really little kid) I had some chickens that scared me by flying up and I thought they were trying to flog me. But fresh eggs, I would like that. Carolyn Wilkerson  To: sproutpeople Sent: Saturday, April 7, 2012 2:53 PM Subject: Re: Met your farmer  Amen, amen and amen. I sell eggs from my free-ranging chickens, and you cannot buy eggs of this quality or freshness from grocery stores. You also can't buy the rainbow-colored assortment of eggs, except from the farmers market. My customers don't buy from me because I'm cheaper, because I'm not ($5-$6 a dozen), but because they want great-tasting eggs from chickens living a good life. A few of them have been out to the farm to meet the chickens and see how they live. You also can't do that with supermarket eggs. <g> Jeanmarie > > From Carolyn's comments: > Do they allow you to process and sell the chickens if people come to you to buy it there but only require FDA processing plant when you sell to stores? > > Yes, this is true - but we don't want to steal the customers from the market. There are other farmers who will continue selling to that market. They are willing to travel a few hours away, process, and sell to the market. It's just not the route we want to go. > > Free-range I hope? Yep > > Can you put up a web site and do things organic and say so on there? > I have a website - but having a website and turning that into customers in my area is another thing, unfortunately. > > You can sell it probably cheaper than the stores so people will look you up if they know you are there and what you are selling. > > Nothing I do is ever cheaper than the store. There is just no comparison of my eggs to any egg sold in the store. They have labels that say " free range " - but they don't mean the same thing as what I do. Anyway - just as an example, my eggs are $5-6/dozen. But, you get what you pay for, as they say. > > Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions. Just thinking about what Melody went to yesterday has given me a few ideas. > > Carol S. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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