Chicken Update

It's been a long, long time since I've thought of posting a chicken update, so here's a quick one (I hope).

We now have twenty hens laying full force, giving us between a dozen and eighteen eggs every day. Most of the pullet-sized eggs have moved on to mediums or larges, with some jumbos and a rare egg so big that I wouldn't know how to classify it (too big to fit in any egg carton we have).

Needless to say, we have plenty of eggs for personal consumption (I usually keep about three dozen in the upstair's fridge for us), with up to 9 (or more) dozen a week that we can sell off. Whenever we get about 8 or 9 extra dozen, Kenzie loads her wagon with eggs and goes door-to-door, selling eggs, with a big brother in tow as bodyguard. Today she had over 9 dozen eggs when she left, and had 15 eggs (and $22) when she got home. She gave one dozen away to a customer that overpaid last week because nobody had change. She's stilling them for $3 a dozen, but told everyone today that next time, the price will $3.50, unless they return an empty egg carton, in which case she'll keep the price at $3. We used up all our saved up cartons and had to buy more, and they cost between a quarter and a half-dollar each, so she just added the higher price to the eggs.

It seems that every time she goes a-sellin', she finds new customers. If they all ever decide they want eggs at the same time, we'll never be able to supply them all.

I always get a little worried when I see the supply of eggs piling up in the fridge, because I wouldn't know what to do with a gross of eggs, but somehow she always sells them all. We haven't had to give any free ones away to our close neighbors for months. I really don't want to go "commercial" because I don't want to get the government involved in our little backyard lesson in economics, entrepreneurship, and free enterprise. I figure, when Kenzie's ready to go that step, she'll be asking if she can call the county and get herself incorporated, regulated, and overtaxed, like any other business.