Free Range Eggs
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- Gloria_Morris
- whimsical
- Ambermusic31
- SunnyM
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» Gloria_Morris - Free Range IS BEST!
I keep chickens also, and there is nothing like the freshness of a REAL chicken egg. When they get plenty of grass, weeds, bugs, and sunshine, their egg yolks are a beautiful deep gold, and nothing like the "eggs" one can buy at the store. Great that you are promoting this!-- posted by Gloria_Morris
» Ambermusic31 - raising your own chickens
we also raise our own chickens, and have found it an enjoyable (if not yet profitable) pastime. We started with two hens from a friend and purchased six babies earlier this summer. It is a wonderful way to teach children responsibility and to put them in touch with the reality behind what they eat. My children are now well aware of not only the source of eggs, but chicken, and other meat and dairy products. I would also encourage any family to try it. Chickens are a great first foray into the world of self sustainable living. At least in our case they have proved to be fairly low maintenance animals with a steady yield (except for their off time and when we moved), not to mention that you can't buy eggs nearly as inexpensively as you can raise layers.-- posted by Ambermusic31
» SunnyM - Question about free range eggs...
We have a small flock of chickens, but I do not know what to classify them as. I wouldn't call free range because they do go to bed around 8(depending on daylight savings) to 5 in the coop, locked in for a safe place away from the preditors. In the morn they start their busy day around the farm, and yard, an occasional snack with the cats and dogs. They greet us whenever we're out side. They are so cool, they even let my sons hold them. So any ways... they do have a rooster - so they woould be fertile, free range?-- posted by SunnyM
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