Yard eggs! we all said. What the heck are yard eggs?
It turns out that they are exactly what the name says --- just eggs that people who aren't egg factories gather from their own chickens. So by definition I suppose they are "organic" and "free range" and all those good things.
Well, I had never heard of them, but last week, as I drove down a road near me, I saw this sign. The man who sells all sorts of farm-fresh produce there said that the eggs he sells are better for us than the ones we get from the grocery store --- no chemicals in their diets and the only feed outside of what they find on the ground is the occasional handful of cracked corn.
I am now the proud owner of yard eggs, and I feel healthier already.
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did Jimmy crack the corn? And do you care?
I wish I were young enough to get a flock of chickens. But every time I start such a project, DH ends up looking after them--like the sheep and llama.
I wouldn't mind cleaning the barn, but carrying water is the killer on the joins. We can buy farm eggs at the farmer's market, so all is good.
I saw someone selling those when I was in Idaho with my sister - now I know the story!
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