Ladies’ Lunch at the Salad Bar

Ol’ Buff (front), Big Red, and Kevin are enjoying fresh salad for lunch

I had a few too many lettuce seedlings to transplant them all into the keyhole garden. Rather than letting them go to waste, however, I decided to offer them to the hens for lunch. Ol’ Buff, Big Red, and Kevin all seemed to enjoy them quite a bit.

Fluffa Buff over there on the right wasn’t interested. She dined on some lay pellet and scratch instead.

What ever they want is fine with me because the eggs they deliver are better than gold right now. I actually did a calculation on what a dozen eggs from my hens cost a couple of years ago, and found we were saving around $77 per year. Give that eggs are now almost 50% more expensive ($8.99 a dozen? Yikes!!) at the store, the $2.64 per dozen my own farm fresh, free range cost is a really, really good deal.

If you’re thinking about getting your own chickens, I say do it. Not only do the hens provide eggs, but they also do a great job cleaning up insects and other pests while fertilizing everything at the same time.