@Sighlass
Seems like a lot money spent and work to save 2 bucks a week on eggs. Have you stopped to consider how little of ANYTHING 2 bucks buys you these days?
And that is not even considering having to gather and wash the eggs every day. How much is your time worth?
@sneakypete Nope and nope.
Farm fresh eggs are not the same thing as what you get from the store. So the money don't even matter. And you are forgetting the stew pot, which is the other side of raising birds... They change out about every two years, and the graduates go to freezer camp.
I have a freezer full of 4 lb chickens that are basically a secondary output of raising hens... That ain't altogether right or fair to say, because we intentionally raise meat birds too... But it remains that retired hens and hatched roosters are a part of that.
And you don't wash eggs if you can help it. They keep a long time at room temperature if you don't wash em. If they are clean, leave em be. If they are dirty you have to wash em, and then they have to go in the fridge. And you eat those first.
but if your eggs are always poopy, you ain't doing it right.