In article <IKmdnU9YyJZz5HvbnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
George <george@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> Omelet wrote:
>
> >
> > Then Congdon egg farm is doing it wrong.
> > I watched them using a sorting ramp, then putting them straight into the
> > cartons.
>
> Not wrong just old school. But guaranteed somewhere along the line they
> adjusted the sorting equipment so that 12 eggs of a certain physical
> size would weigh as much or more than the required weight to sell them
> as that size. Likely they are giving product away because of their
> method because they need to bias towards heavier.

Well, it is a small home run farm.
They only have about a dozen barns and 4 of those are dedicated to "cage
free".

I find it ironic that they are sold as "free range". Granted, they are
not in battery cages and there are roosters wandering around in the
barn, but the birds still never see the outdoors.

We used to purchase some of their 2 year old hens for $2.00 each as
laying hens. It never ceased to amaze us how even the battery cage hens
that had never been on the ground in their entire lives would adapt and
be up in the trees in less than a week.

There is still plenty of laying life left in a 2 year old white leghorn.
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