Because I am Aversive to Dying

[Sundae]

Glinda I wish you lived near us
The 'rents won't drive to buy free-range local eggs (reasonable I guess) so the choice is supermarket ones, or local - caged - ones. I fall down on the side of the supermarket ones, all things considered. But I'd LOVE to get those pretty colours and still feel as if I was doing the right thing.

There is a supermarket that sells breed-specific eggs, but it's 8 miles away.
And plenty of local farms, but again within that kind of radius.

If I save an egg carton there's a teacher at school that is happy to pass on eggs from her own coop. I rejoice in that. But they are all brown anyway... How shallow am I?

[Glinda]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Glinda I wish you lived near us
The 'rents won't drive to buy free-range local eggs (reasonable I guess) so the choice is supermarket ones, or local - caged - ones. I fall down on the side of the supermarket ones, all things considered. But I'd LOVE to get those pretty colours and still feel as if I was doing the right thing.

Yeah, knowing what I do about how big egg farms work, I could never buy commercially produced eggs and sleep at night. Of course, my neighbors laugh at the way I pamper my birds, but they sure LOVE the eggs they make!

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

If I save an egg carton there's a teacher at school that is happy to pass on eggs from her own coop. I rejoice in that. But they are all brown anyway... How shallow am I?

Buy your school teacher a few Araucana (Easter Egg birds) pullets next spring and in six months, you'll have the colored eggs you dream of! Do you have a garden? If so, why not get yourself a few pullets (yes, they come in the mail!) and have at it? Chickens don't take up much room at all, they eat just about anything, and they're so interesting to watch - cheap relaxation/meditation plus delicious, pretty eggs!

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Glinda

Buy your school teacher a few Araucana (Easter Egg birds) pullets next spring and in six months, you'll have the colored eggs you dream of!

I'll see how well we get on in the next few months - at present I think it would creep her out a bit
ETA - have just looked up Araucana and found a place that supplies them. I may subtly court Mrs G all through the Spring term so that a present becomes a natural consequence of friendship...

Do you have a garden? If so, why not get yourself a few pullets (yes, they come in the mail!) and have at it? Chickens don't take up much room at all, they eat just about anything, and they're so interesting to watch - cheap relaxation/meditation plus delicious, pretty eggs!

Mum said if she had her time again she'd have kept chickens. They look after them at a number of housesits and she loves them.
They would be wrong for this neighbourhood though - too noisy for our packed-together houses and gardens.

[Griff]

If you didn't keep any roosters, you'd find that a few hens really don't make any noise other than soft clucking...

[Glinda]

That's right, and you don't need a roo at all. Hens will lay eggs whether or not there's a guy around.

Oh, come on! You know you wanna!