*** Quoting BIRDMAN from a message to CAROL SHENKENBERGER ***
Bi> (...)  If I begin selling them at the produce stand, I'll probably ask 
Bi> $1.25 or $1.50.  After all, they *are organic, free-range eggs!
JB> Free-range??  I don't get it?  But it does sound like a 'green' name 
JB> :)
CS> Grin, means the chickens arent full of antibiotics and are let loose
CS> in the  yard vice being kept in a hatchery type thing all the time.
BI> (...)
BI>     Great answer Carol, probably does a better job than I did in a 
BI> previous  response, although the antibiotic part speaks more to the 
BI> qualifying the eggs  (or chickens) as organic rather than free range. 
BI>  Free range only refers to  the method of containment and even 
BI> chickens that are kept in acoop,as long  as they aren't individually 
BI> penned, are technically "free-range."
True.  I was being a bit 'short winded' to make it simple (grin).  There was 
a chicken 'place' in walking distance from my house when I was a kid in SC 
(Clemson).  They used the 'free range' idea with the limited movement (big 
yard, fenced and covered, each group let free 4 hours a day in series and no 
antibiotics required as they had nice *space* per chicken even in the 
roosting places).
Mom ould send me up once a week to get fresh chicken and eggs.  I'd go up 
there an extra time a week just to play.  Grin, owner made 'work' fun and 
there werent many kids my age in the neighborhood so it was 'play' to me to 
go help out a bit. Cant say I learned much about chickens, but I have a 
general grasp of the idea.  This was 25 years ago, so their version of 'free 
range' may not be the same today.  They were rather ground breaking for the 
idea actually.  A LARGEISH chicken farm, doing it that way?  My what a change 
for then!
Meantime I would feed chickens, mix feed, help fix pens, refix screens, etc.  
Got paid with both fun and learning as well as 2 dozen eggs and a chicken 
(3-4lb cleaned) per every 2 hours 'work'.  Fair considering the amount of 
work I would accomplish in 2 hours and the cost to them of the goods as 
opposed to hiring another to do these small tasks.  I wasnt the only one, 
they had paid help obviously.  Add it al up and I made more than minimum wage 
in market value, but cost them probably *way* less.
CS> Personally, I'm used to getting 'free range' chicken eggs from farmers
CS> direct,  and paying *less* than normal non-free range egg prices at the
CS> stores but if he can sell them for more than store cost, more power to 
CS> him!
And that was the basis for this comment.  Sorry, didnt explain it before.
BI>     The price one can charge for the eggs is very dependent on whom 
BI> one is  selling them to and where.  When I'm selling eggs to my 
Exactly.  You are not doing anything wrong, and my apologies if i made it 
sound like you were.  The more the market, the better the price.
Years later, I have still gotten them much cheaper than market price, but 
that is more due to knowing something about it and wise shopping.
                                       xxcarol
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