Eggs

[Amish Heart]

Straight run chick's are cheaper, and the farm store prices might be a little less too. We have only bought chick's from Murray McMurray or Strombergs. This way we can get only the chick's with the traits that we want.
We just placed an order for stright run meat chickens last night, to be delivered in late June.

How much? And what kind? I'm almost afraid to ask. Last time I ordered, I can't remember what I paid, but I got cornish roosters for their weight. 50 of them. If they're too expensive this year, I'm happy enough with my barnyard mix of heritage breed roosters for meat, they're all heavy weight birds.

 

[SLADE]

I like the taste of a good mixed breed farmyard chicken. Not much meat and kind of tough but stewed I find them tasty. I've raised the cornsh cross and find them as tasteless as commercial chickens.

 

[Mountain trapper]

How much? And what kind? I'm almost afraid to ask. Last time I ordered, I can't remember what I paid, but I got cornish roosters for their weight. 50 of them. If they're too expensive this year, I'm happy enough with my barnyard mix of heritage breed roosters for meat, they're all heavy weight birds.

We bought Cornish Cross this time. I think they were $3.43 each. Last year we went with Buff Orpington. They were good eating but took a long time to get to butcher weight. We also really liked the Ginger Broilers but they haven't been available for a couple of years. The Cornish Cross is a fast growing bird so we save a lot of feed cost.

 

[Tim Horton]

In the ..far frozen north.. we had a motley flock of mostly Isa Brown chickens because they were easily available and cheap.. One year we left a travel cage by the barn at the crazy chicken lady place with a deal to buy 10-12 Isa Brown chickens.. When we picked up the cage there were about another 10-12 extra culls she stuffed in there.. We brought them home, fed them and they laid up a storm of eggs.. We ate, froze, powdered, sold, gave away eggs like crazy.. We had a rooster like on the Kellogg Corn Flakes box, named Cornelius, who just about died trying to ...do his duty... with the flock..

Our biggest and best seller was fertilized eggs.. We got reports of people hatching all kinds of mixed nests of chicks..

 

[Amish Heart]

We bought Cornish Cross this time. I think they were $3.43 each. Last year we went with Buff Orpington. They were good eating but took a long time to get to butcher weight. We also really liked the Ginger Broilers but they haven't been available for a couple of years. The Cornish Cross is a fast growing bird so we save a lot of feed cost.

The last cornish we got down to $1.85 each
Bummer now.

 

[poltiregist]

Alert - The second largest egg producing farm in the United States " Rose Acre farms " has now been proclaimed to have bird flue within their massive flock . The chicken killing we can expect soon , if not already occurred . This is pre - main stream media information . --- There is " now " semi- fake eggs being put on the market in liquid form . These concoctions are mostly filler with less than half the volume being actually egg . We can expect desperate restaurant owners using this mess in order to stay in business as they have to compete with the business down the street that quickly started feeding this stuff to the public . -- Chicken flock owners can go to bed tonight knowing they had the correct instinct to prepare for what is now going down .

 

[Amish Heart]

That egg filler has been used in restaurants for a long time. Only way I'd know if I was getting a real egg in a restaurant was if it was hard boiled or sunny side up, otherwise it's the cooked muck in a bag.
Get chickens, people! I have eggs for days, really!
And then I just listened to an American Homestead youtube where Zach was talking about Indiana and Penn were places were being "rezoned" WEF style, so no chickens.

 

[Tim Horton]

It seems a good idea to research and have on hand recipes with no or other substitutes for eggs.. Recipes from WW1, WW2, rationing type options seems a good source.. (?)

I know from working in church and other organization fund raiser kitchens eggs came in a plastic bag or 5 gallon bucket already scrambled.. I never read the label of ingredients, but never minded the taste of that type scrambled eggs..

 

[SLADE]

Makes me wonder if it's spread by the feed as these are locked down facilities.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I hope that everyone who doesn't already have chickens gets their order in soon. The closer we get to spring many hatcheries will be running out of chick's, both egg layers and meat breeds. Our hens have been laying all through the winter so we haven't had to preserve any eggs. We should be selling eggs but instead we've been giving them away. We like to donate eggs to the senior center in town.