While at the post office I heard a man ask, "Got my chickens back there?"
"Not yet; check back around 2:00." Yep, he raises chickens (free range,
organic feed). And he sells eggs. Large brown eggs, $1.50/dozen. Just so
happens we ran out of eggs this morning so they were on my shopping list.
Unfortunately he wasn't going to be home until much later and I was on my
way to the store right then. But I know where to get them next time

The price of regular large white eggs at the grocery store wasn't too bad;
$1.89/doz. The "organic" white eggs - $3.59/dozen! and the brown ones were
10 cents higher. Ridiculous! IIRC the only different between white eggs
and brown ones are the feathers on the hens that lay them.

Jill

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:02:15 -0400, jmcquown wrote:


The price of regular large white eggs at the grocery store wasn't too
bad; $1.89/doz. The "organic" white eggs - $3.59/dozen! and the brown
ones were 10 cents higher. Ridiculous! IIRC the only different between
white eggs and brown ones are the feathers on the hens that lay them.


Heh. Wouldn't have put it quite that way, but IME the color of the egg
shell makes no difference to the quality/taste of the eggs. FWIW, I have
one old hen that lays white eggs... I also have 14 younger hens (different
breed) that lay brown eggs... All their eggs taste great - and they all
have the same feathers...

Unfortunately, they haven't come up with a way to email eggs, or you would
be welcome to as many free range eggs as you could (probably) eat - for
nothing ;-)

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Is that chip on your shoulder edible?

"jmcquown" wrote in
:

Ridiculous! IIRC the only different between white eggs and
brown ones are the feathers on the hens that lay them.

actually, it's the ear color, not the feather color. i have a
white arucuana that lays blue-green eggs, & my speckled sussex
girls (brown) lay almost white eggs. the black & white silver
spangled hamburgs lay white eggs. my black orpington lays dark
chocolate brown eggs & one of the buff orps lays spotted eggs.
lee every day is Easter
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I pinged a host that wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
The host resolved to NSA.

"enigma" wrote in message
. ..


actually, it's the ear color, not the feather color. i have a
white arucuana that lays blue-green eggs, & my speckled sussex
girls (brown) lay almost white eggs. the black & white silver
spangled hamburgs lay white eggs. my black orpington lays dark
chocolate brown eggs & one of the buff orps lays spotted eggs.
lee every day is Easter
--

This is so cool. I want to see pictures of your chickens and their eggs.

ChattyCathy wrote:

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:02:15 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
The price of regular large white eggs at the grocery store wasn't too
bad; $1.89/doz. *The "organic" white eggs - $3.59/dozen! and the brown
ones were 10 cents higher. *Ridiculous! *IIRC the only different between
white eggs and brown ones are the feathers on the hens that lay them.

Heh. Wouldn't have put it quite that way, but IME the color of the egg
shell makes no difference to the quality/taste of the eggs. FWIW, I have
one old hen that lays white eggs... I also have 14 younger hens (different
breed) that lay brown eggs... All their eggs taste great - and they all
have the same feathers...

Unfortunately, they haven't come up with a way to email eggs, or you would
be welcome to as many free range eggs as you could (probably) eat - for
nothing ;-)


My mom was the postmaster (mistress?) in the tiny rural country
Illinois town I grew up in...around this time of year cardboard boxes
of little peeping chicks would be delivered to the folks around who
grew chickens...

I always wondered how they fared on their journey from the poultry -
hatching places in Iowa or wherever...

This was in the 60's...I wonder if chicks are still delivered to
people in that manner...



--
Best
Greg

Gregory Morrow wrote:


My mom was the postmaster (mistress?) in the tiny rural country
Illinois town I grew up in...around this time of year cardboard boxes
of little peeping chicks would be delivered to the folks around who
grew chickens...

I always wondered how they fared on their journey from the poultry -
hatching places in Iowa or wherever...

This was in the 60's...I wonder if chicks are still delivered to
people in that manner...


I don't know about delivery to individuals, but there's a farm supply
store about 10 miles away (in a very yuppie area that used to be farms
15 years ago). Every spring they put an ad in the paper saying "The
chicks have arrived." They get them via overnight delivery and keep
them in big tubs with warmth lights and grain. So cute!

gloria p

Gloria P said...

Gregory Morrow wrote:


My mom was the postmaster (mistress?) in the tiny rural country
Illinois town I grew up in...around this time of year cardboard boxes
of little peeping chicks would be delivered to the folks around who
grew chickens...

I always wondered how they fared on their journey from the poultry -
hatching places in Iowa or wherever...

This was in the 60's...I wonder if chicks are still delivered to
people in that manner...


I don't know about delivery to individuals, but there's a farm supply
store about 10 miles away (in a very yuppie area that used to be farms
15 years ago). Every spring they put an ad in the paper saying "The
chicks have arrived." They get them via overnight delivery and keep
them in big tubs with warmth lights and grain. So cute!

gloria p


gloria p,

Why the warmth lights I wonder? They're coated in down. If I was a chick,
I'd be overheat... I say I'd be hot!!!

Andy
Foghorn Leghorn

enigma wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in
:

Ridiculous! IIRC the only different between white eggs and
brown ones are the feathers on the hens that lay them.

actually, it's the ear color, not the feather color. i have a
white arucuana that lays blue-green eggs, & my speckled sussex
girls (brown) lay almost white eggs. the black & white silver
spangled hamburgs lay white eggs. my black orpington lays dark
chocolate brown eggs & one of the buff orps lays spotted eggs.
lee every day is Easter

Chickens have ears?

cybercat wrote:
"enigma" wrote in message
. ..


actually, it's the ear color, not the feather color. i have a
white arucuana that lays blue-green eggs, & my speckled sussex
girls (brown) lay almost white eggs. the black & white silver
spangled hamburgs lay white eggs. my black orpington lays dark
chocolate brown eggs & one of the buff orps lays spotted eggs.
lee every day is Easter
--

This is so cool. I want to see pictures of your chickens and their
eggs.

Oh yes, so would I)

Gloria P wrote:
I don't know about delivery to individuals, but there's a farm supply
store about 10 miles away (in a very yuppie area that used to be farms
15 years ago). Every spring they put an ad in the paper saying "The
chicks have arrived." They get them via overnight delivery and keep
them in big tubs with warmth lights and grain. So cute!

My aunt had friends with a smallholding on the east coast (of Yorkshire) I
can remember when she brought the chicks home overnight, ready to take them
to the farm next day.

They used to run around in the hearth)

"Ophelia" wrote

Chickens have ears?

hahaha! So do lizards, and I think they are similarly flat.

cybercat wrote:
"Ophelia" wrote

Chickens have ears?

hahaha! So do lizards, and I think they are similarly flat.

heh, who knew

cyberhillybilly wrote:

"Ophelia" wrote



Chickens have ears?

hahaha! So do lizards, and I think they are similarly flat.


Boy, you two should audition your act for _Hee - Haw_...


--
Best
Greg

Ophelia wrote:
enigma wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in
:

Ridiculous! IIRC the only different between white eggs and
brown ones are the feathers on the hens that lay them.
actually, it's the ear color, not the feather color. i have a
white arucuana that lays blue-green eggs, & my speckled sussex
girls (brown) lay almost white eggs. the black & white silver
spangled hamburgs lay white eggs. my black orpington lays dark
chocolate brown eggs & one of the buff orps lays spotted eggs.
lee every day is Easter

Chickens have ears?

External ears? Nah. If they did, we would be eating Chicken Fried
Chicken Ears, down here in the south.

Becca

"Gregory Morrow" wrote in message

My mom was the postmaster (mistress?) in the tiny rural country
Illinois town I grew up in...around this time of year cardboard boxes
of little peeping chicks would be delivered to the folks around who
grew chickens...

I always wondered how they fared on their journey from the poultry -
hatching places in Iowa or wherever...

This was in the 60's...I wonder if chicks are still delivered to
people in that manner...

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They still do. The USPS offers some services than no other carrier will.