I love farm fresh eggs, and therefore, I also love mild winters. Chickens don’t usually lay eggs at the same rate during the winter months. Their biological instinct knows that this isn’t the right time of year to hatch chicks (without human intervention they wouldn’t survive). Therefore, during the winter months the egg production on our farm (and most farms) slows down considerably. The spring is usually the best season for eggs. The hens have no problem plopping out one egg a piece per day during that season. During the winter though, we might be lucky to get one, maybe two, eggs per week per hen. But this mild winter we have been having seems to have confused our poor hens, and we have continued to get about half a dozen eggs per day all winter so far (this isn’t anything compared to spring and summer production; it’s nothing to get a dozen and a half eggs per day all summer long).
Unless you have ever had a fresh free range/pasture raised chicken egg, you couldn’t possibly understand the awesomeness that comes in the package of a practically neon orange egg yolk, so firm you could bounce a quarter off of it –I’ve never actually tried that quarter thing… but it’s probably possible. The taste is like nothing you could compare to a store bought egg, no matter what the carton says… Free Range, Organic, Farm Fresh… all bullshit compared to the real deal. Not to even mention the price difference… it’s possible to pay up to five dollars per dozen for the best quality eggs in the stores; we have so many –superior- eggs plopping out all summer long, we run out friends and neighbors to give them to. The farm life definitely has its advantages.
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