biggles

for a dozen eggs laid on the day of purchase? This is a question for other aussies but I suppose it would be interesting to see the price elsewhere.

Don't count store bought eggs because they are usually a month old when they hit the shelf.

biggles

The chooks are laying , you have to KNOW what you'd pay god damnit! bloody writers never eat eggs. Okay would you eat a fertilized egg?

The Backward OX

You're becoming rabid again. We pay about $3.50/doz in the supermarket for X-large, or $2.50/doz for farm-fresh (including the poo)
Why don't writers eat eggs? Is that some Irish joke?

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Pete_C

The best eggs are about six to eight weeks old from battery chickens. What's more, they are also the cheapest. It's a win-win scenario.

biggles

It's 4.50 for free range now- it fluctuates alot. But people will pay much more for day to two day old eggs with happy free roaming chickens. Thankfully battery farms have been banned in Canberra.

The Backward OX

I thought, from your earlier reference to Monaro "snowie" country, that you lived closer to Cooma. Now it seems possible that my daughter's partner may just be purchasing his hen fruit from you. He's a Macedonian restaurateur, lives in Flynn.

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red lantern

When I buy, I try to get free range or from the local market guy who I know cares for his chickens well. But as you say the price is just silly but unfortunately this is a world of homogenized, sanitized and convenient production we live in. Long gone are the days of keeping chickens in ones back yards.

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