Want fresh eggs? Rent a chicken. No, really.

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4. Fresh eggs from own chickens are very different from $1.50/dozen store eggs

Occasionally I've had to buy a dozen store eggs and am amazed by them. They have thin fragile shells. The yolk is pale. The white spreads out so wide. They taste like egg-lite.

Even "free range" or organic eggs do not stand up to your own eggs.

I have no clue what it costs to rent a hen, but our eggs run us about 2.50/dozen, less than store bought good eggs, AND we get a way to recycle food scraps, good stuff for compost, chickens to watch.

2 young hens will get you 10 eggs a week, maybe a dozen during high laying season if they are of a high laying breed. That means it costs about a dollar extra a week compared to factory farmed eggs. With much happier birds, much better eggs.


But no, it won't compete with factory chicken eggs for strictly money.