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I was in the middle of the Nuns Fire in Sonoma County and stayed through the whole event. My employer was extremely kind and
resupplied us with groceries. Normally, I get the Safeway brand which is usually the cheapest. Whole wheat bread for a $2.50
or so, a dozen large eggs for $2, a gallon of whole milk for $3. The groceries my employer's wife purchased were whole wheat
bread for $6.50 (I usually eat 2 slices for breakfast, 1 is about all I can handle of this stuff. Good bread but the calorie
content must be much higher.), a dozen extra large eggs for $9 and a gallon of milk for $9. God, love them, they wouldn't
accept any payment and I am forever grateful but the prices blew me away.

The odd thing about the eggs, supposedly organic, was nearly every one of the 3 dozen was a double yoker. What are the odds?
That cannot be natural.

By the way, I love the postings someone does showing the sales at the groceries through the plains and midwest. The price
difference between here and there is insane.
 
My Rhode island reds lay a lot of double yoke eggs and the white eggs rarely have a double.
 
It's pretty common with healthy well fed young birds, which is more common with an organic group, and since they separate the eggs by size, giant eggs are statistically more likely to be double yoke. When you're eating big ag food too much you lose track of what healthy looks like (-=
 
Our Rhode Island and New Hampshire Reds lay double yokers regularly. We are not organic and feed soybean/corn mix with nutrients mixed by a local farmer. We give plenty of vegetable scraps and open space for them to roam. We ask $5 a dozen and are in Massachusetts.
 
It?s no more prevalent in organic raised birds than big ag produced as you put it. As long as the chickens are fed properly and are healthy, the
larger eggs happen with the same frequency as with organic. Nothing unhealthy about non organic raised chickens,or the eggs they produce.
 
you double yoke guys are trying to give the Easter Bunny a hernia. Try fliping them "over-eazy". Scramble is more better, eh?.......chicken Dell
 
That would account for Donald Duck's nephews ..... Hughie, Dewie, and Lewie I think they were. or maybe they
were his sons?
 
(quoted from post at 12:19:47 11/01/17) It?s no more prevalent in organic raised birds than big ag produced as you put it. As long as the chickens are fed properly and are healthy, the
larger eggs happen with the same frequency as with organic. Nothing unhealthy about non organic raised chickens,or the eggs they produce.
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The regular store bought eggs are produced in huge facilities with feed and water doled out very selectively. The goal is the largest number of eggs, not the largest eggs. The backyard chicken guys, like me, let the birds eat all they want, as long as they want. Usually, I get this with young birds, the double Yorkers don’t occur as often as they get older. These eggs get so big that I cannot fit them into egg cartons. I am not organic, but the birds run around in the fields all day, eating anything they can find. The love bugs.....????
 
(quoted from post at 12:19:47 11/01/17) It?s no more prevalent in organic raised birds than big ag produced as you put it. As long as the chickens are fed properly and are healthy, the
larger eggs happen with the same frequency as with organic. Nothing unhealthy about non organic raised chickens,or the eggs they produce.
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The regular store bought eggs are produced in huge facilities with feed and water doled out very selectively. The goal is the largest number of eggs, not the largest eggs. The backyard chicken guys, like me, let the birds eat all they want, as long as they want. Usually, I get this with young birds, the double Yorkers don’t occur as often as they get older. These eggs get so big that I cannot fit them into egg cartons. I am not organic, but the birds run around in the fields all day, eating anything they can find. The love bugs.....
 
"The regular store bought eggs are produced in huge facilities with feed and water doled out very selectively."

LOL,Where do you think the "cage free" eggs come from around here? Herbruck's in Saranac. All "cage free" means is that they are free to walk the floor. The still don't see sunlight. They're in 900 foot long barns that are walled off in the middle so each group is in a 450 foot long barn. They're supposed to lay their eggs in nests,but the fact is,a whole lot of them just lay them on the floor in the manure. Immigrant workers walk those barns 24 hours a day picking them up before they get cannibalized.
 
We buy most of our eggs at Target, 18 pack for 1.39, been like that for quite a while. I like them just fine, I know they come from an egg factory.
 
(quoted from post at 14:19:38 11/01/17) "The regular store bought eggs are produced in huge facilities with feed and water doled out very selectively."

LOL,Where do you think the "cage free" eggs come from around here? Herbruck's in Saranac. All "cage free" means is that they are free to walk the floor. The still don't see sunlight. They're in 900 foot long barns that are walled off in the middle so each group is in a 450 foot long barn. They're supposed to lay their eggs in nests,but the fact is,a whole lot of them just lay them on the floor in the manure. Immigrant workers walk those barns 24 hours a day picking them up before they get cannibalized.
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RRlund,

Well, I have an 8000 bird organic laying operation, and I can tell you for a fact that 99% lay in the nests. I can go out and pick floor eggs once in the morning and once at night and I won't even need a basket. A barn that has a lot of floor eggs is very poorly managed. My birds are at the end of their run and will be gone by December first, but thay are still laying at 90%. They peaked at 96-97% for about 6 months.

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I'm just telling you what happens in the operation that supplies all the cage free eggs for every McDonalds east of the Mississippi. My best friend since we were four years old just retired from there a few months ago. He maintained all of their computerized feeding systems for them. They have entire crews of Burmese immigrants there in shifts 24 hours a day picking up eggs.
 
Can't remember just where it is right now,but there's a restaurant here in Michigan that only serves double yolkers. The owner always had a good story about some little farm where he started getting them. His daughter said the truth is,he just always bought small eggs and fried two of them up together. LOL
 
(quoted from post at 15:07:30 11/01/17) I'm just telling you what happens in the operation that supplies all the cage free eggs for every McDonalds east of the Mississippi. My best friend since we were four years old just retired from there a few months ago. He maintained all of their computerized feeding systems for them. They have entire crews of Burmese immigrants there in shifts 24 hours a day picking up eggs.
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Not doubting your friend, just saying it’s a poorly run operation if they have that many floor eggs
 
Poorly run or not,it's huge. Makes me laugh that people think they're getting something special from there. They have several of their own brands,including Eggland's Best,as well as packaging for a lot of store brands. I got a chuckle the other day when I went past their feed mill. Two signs by the entrance said something about "conventional feed mill" and another sign with some fancy name saying "organic feedmill". They're both the same place.
 
sell our eggs for $3.o0 a doz, supply two mom and pop diners with eggs and sell at the saturday morning market. grind my own feed GMO corn and beans and wheat, buy a 17% protene supplement to mix in I have the venders lic but the granpup's sale on sat and keep the money
 
(quoted from post at 16:03:46 11/01/17) Poorly run or not,it's huge. Makes me laugh that people think they're getting something special from there. They have several of their own brands,including Eggland's Best,as well as packaging for a lot of store brands. I got a chuckle the other day when I went past their feed mill. Two signs by the entrance said something about "conventional feed mill" and another sign with some fancy name saying "organic feedmill". They're both the same place.
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If their "Organic" side is certified, you can bet your butt they have a paper trail. I get inspected every year, and it's a 4 hour ordeal to prove I'm doing what I'm doing. If they're that big, they have a many day ordeal. And I wish they'd quit the organic side. My egg price is suffering because of these BTOs who thought it'd be a good idea to get into organics. They wreck it for everyone else. My birds are outside every day the weather is good. I pound through weedy beans to give them bean meal, and I do everything I can to be ethical and humane and get the premium. BTOs just do the minimum and lobby Congress to make the rules more lenient.
 
What is wrong with eggs picked up off the ground we had chickens when I was a kid and the eggs were sometimes on the ground pick them up wash the outside crack the shell throw them in the pan scramble them and have at it i'm 75 and they didn't kill me.
 
I raise chickens but give the eggs away as rarely eat one at home. We don't wash them but if you do they have to be refrigerated. If not washed they will last several weeks out of refrigeration. Ours are not free ranging but confined in a 30 by 70 ft pen.
 
Nothing wrong with it,but I'll bet consumers who are buying them have a picture in their minds of chickens outside laying eggs in green grass,not eggs being laid in manure in a dark building where it's such a stinking dirty job that they can't even hire Mexicans to do it.
 

JimS,

We went with a tour group to San F and the wine country. Nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there and couldn't afford it anyway. However, if I could afford it and wanted to move, I could see myself living in the Sonoma area. Not too crowded, nice people, nice scenery. Hope the fires didn't mess up too much of it.

KEH
 
And I doubt there is a difference in nutrition or taste unless you are raising and selling the eggs.
 
Keep up the good work! I would buy your eggs. The Bible says a good man is kind to animals but an evil man, even his kindness is cruel.
 
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(quoted from post at 16:03:46 11/01/17) Poorly run or not,it's huge. Makes me laugh that people think they're getting something special from there. They have several of their own brands,including Eggland's Best,as well as packaging for a lot of store brands. I got a chuckle the other day when I went past their feed mill. Two signs by the entrance said something about "conventional feed mill" and another sign with some fancy name saying "organic feedmill". They're both the same place.
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If their "Organic" side is certified, you can bet your butt they have a paper trail. I get inspected every year, and it's a 4 hour ordeal to prove I'm doing what I'm doing. If they're that big, they have a many day ordeal. And I wish they'd quit the organic side. My egg price is suffering because of these BTOs who thought it'd be a good idea to get into organics. They wreck it for everyone else. My birds are outside every day the weather is good. I pound through weedy beans to give them bean meal, and I do everything I can to be ethical and humane and get the premium. BTOs just do the minimum and lobby Congress to make the rules more lenient.
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We just sell to some friends and neighbors. Not organic, but definitely free range. My biggest problem is free range fox and coyotes. I guess everybody likes chicken. We get $4 per dozen.
 
Last 2 times I bought eggs at grocery they were .49 per dozen or 2 dozen carton for $.99. If I had to pay your prices I would have to quit eating eggs. And for just me 2 dozen per week.
 
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