Farm Fresh Eggs
I am getting on average 17 eggs per day from my hens.
I am surprised daily by the people who turn down FREE farm fresh eggs.
I sent a basket of 60 (sixty!) eggs to work with Steve to help with the sudden overflow.
They were shocked at brown eggs, light brown and dark brown. The speckles on the eggs set them into near fits of disbelief.
I told Steve he should have told them the eggs in the grocery store are spray painted white. Or that the brown eggs are rooster eggs! Hahahahahahaha! I crack me up! (Get it? Crack like to crack an egg? Never mind - )
The people who really knew what was being offered took them graciously. They even sent a note of thank you home to me. They came back to work the next day with tales of what they did with the eggs for supper that night. I know one person was waiting for my eggs to try homemade eggnog.
I believe I could write a book on hens and eggs but it wouldn't do any good for the most part. It seems most city folk are so far removed from their source of food one lady didn't even believe the egg actually came out of the chicken. Steve told her it was true, straight out of a chicken butt.
Hahahaha!
People like that will starve to death if left in the wild for very long.
In other news there is a new recipe up over in my recipe box - banana nut bread, yum!
I will PAY YOU to FedEx me your eggs. For Christmas breakfast. Please? You have me e-mail!
Dude, people are STUPID. I keep telling you that!
Wow, really?
I live in farm country - around the corner from chicken farms. (And up the road from various and sundry hog farms.) While I would hestitate accepting 'free' stuff from them (pesticides, anyone? How about some hormones?), I would JUMP at the chance for organic, home grown REAL farm fresh products!
I don't care what color the eggs are, as long as I can bake with them.
Angie, if I lived close to you, you could give me every egg you didn't want!! I am amazed at how dumb some people are. If that woman didn't know that an egg came out of a chicken, where the heck did she think it came from???
People are so freaking weird.
I hope they figure out one day what they passed up and kick their own butts. Although, I must confess my son hasn't ever eaten an egg by itself. He'll eat them baked in a cake, but he cannot stand them just cooked. He boggles my mind.
I'll take 'em!!! Me! Me! Ooh!!!
Wait...how would I get 'em?
Oh! I know! I'll come to visit!
Wait...when?
Hmmm....must think.
I would buy these eggs from you. I am from the city and even I know where eggs come from.
Organic yummy eggs.. mmmmm. Speaking of delicious your puppies combined with your beautiful kids are a fabulous pick me up . How do all the puppies get along ? They are all adorable .
Who ARE these people? They just have no idea...
Anyone in their right mind would love your eggs!
You're kidding right?
Those people who don't want your gorgeous brown eggs are crazy! I love fresh brown eggs... yummmmmy! Any time you want to send them this way - I'd love some!
xo
LBC
I'm originally from New England (military wife now in VA) and the eggs are always brown there. As a child, the only time we ever saw white eggs in the grocery store was at easter time. And they would cost more so some years we colored brown eggs. The colors would just be a little different. They actually have a little commercial jingle up there..."brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh!" (musically sung of course) My Dad still buys brown eggs at the store when he visits me even though here the brown eggs are more expensive.
Those people are crazy! Did I tell you that after all your raving about fresh eggs, I found a nearby farm and went a purchased some eggs and they were AMAZING. Huge and delicious and freshly laid that day and Gabe loved them.
Thanks for the tip!
I'm very aware of my citi-ness, but I would take your eggs. You're funny though with the spray-painted white. :) My grandmother always told me brown eggs taste better anyway.
Angie, I'm sorry that those foolish people hurt your feelings. Thank goodness there were some wise ones and the others' loss was their gain.
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I am a city girl, born in Ft. Worth, Tx. but now living in Kansas City, MO.
I am wanting to get 2 or 3 Rhode Island Hens this spring for my back yard. I HATE mowing and I LOOOOOOOOOVE fresh brown eggs.
I have really enjoyed your pics and stories. I was always a city girl who ate the white eggs then my "Amish farm friend" gave me some homegrown brown eggs.......the end.
wow! What gorgeous eggs. People are amazing,
they will pay double for nice brown eggs in the grocery store, and turn down your beautiful eggs? go figure....ps How do I get on the Backyard
Chicken board? I registerd 3 days ago and nothing has been sent to me so far. How did you do it?
Jo
Got 25 Red Star and Black Star chicks on the way(prolific egg layers). My son is going to market the eggs to neighbors.
He's going to give the first dozen per customer away for free with a self published newsletter about the benefits of "organic" foods. Then he'll take orders for sales. Anyone who eats a store bought egg after tasting the real thing is a sick individual.
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