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Usually at the market they are close to $2.00 dz, here.  But, the market has 
them regularly, on sale, for 99 cents per dz. Because I know (I wish I 
didn't) how chickens are raised, today, in big ag; I don't mind paying more 
for healthier eggs, but I just don't trust the market 'organic' eggs to be 
much different than the others.  Roxanne said her tests showed they were 
similar.  They taste the same.  When I bought free range eggs, the yolks were 
more 'orange' like someone mentioned, but the market eggs all seem the same 
except for the carton and the price...............

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--- On Sat, 1/3/09, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:


> I have the problem, also, of the local family store
> undercutting my egg 
> prices. When I raised my price to $1.50/doz, they charged
> $1.25. I know that 
> they have penned chickens, so they must be buying food and
> selling at a 
> loss.  They went up to $1.75 by the end of the summer. Now
> neither I nor 
> they have any extra eggs to sell. In fact, last time I was
> in that small 
> store, they had NO eggs, commercial or local.
> 
> My hens are free-range, too. I don't lock them up at
> night. I don't seem to 
> have a preditor problem here; they roost on top of the
> stalls and things in 
> the barn at night. I feed a couple handsful of layer
> pellets a day in the 
> winter, but they find their own food in the summer. They
> also find my garden 
> (who knew that chickens loved tomatoes?). I'm glad that
> they are so 
> industrious in finding food, but I won't share my
> garden with them...they 
> take a bite out of every tomato and squash, and pull up the
> bean plants. 
> This year, it's either fence the chickens or fence the
> garden. The garden is 
> easier to fence.
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA