Where to get the best freshest eggs in Victoria?
#1
Posted 28 March 2013 - 10:11 AM
I'm a bit of an egg fanatic. I have been getting my eggs from Costco (the 2 pack of omega3 enriched ones with really orangey yokes). However, I don't think they are all that great and was wondering if there are places where I can get farm fresh eggs?
Thanks!
#2
Posted 28 March 2013 - 10:23 AM
#3
Posted 28 March 2013 - 10:58 AM
#4
Posted 28 March 2013 - 10:58 AM
#5
Posted 28 March 2013 - 11:06 AM
#6
Posted 28 March 2013 - 05:23 PM
#7
Posted 28 March 2013 - 06:55 PM
Take a Sunday drive out the Peninsula - Oldfield etc... Can't get much fresher than that.
Exactly, take any rural back road and you will see eggs for sale every mile.
Some people think that there needs to be a rooster in the hen house so to speak, to get the best eggs, I have no idea of the validity of that.
#8
Posted 29 March 2013 - 09:27 AM
#9
Posted 29 March 2013 - 10:11 AM
Look for places with actual chickens visible. I have heard some folks buy eggs at the store and sell them roadside so that they can claim farm status for their property taxes.
I doubt this happens to any significant extent. Would be almost impossible to hit the income requirements.
"Minimum income requirements are calculated as follows:
a) $10,000 on land less than .8 hectares (2 acres);
b) $2,500 on land between .8 hectares (2 acres) and 4 hectares (10 acres);
c) on land larger than 4 hectares (10 acres), you must earn $2,500 plus five per cent of the actual value of any farm land in excess of 4 hectares;
d) $10,000, in order to qualify unused land where the area in production by the owner makes up at least 25 per cent of the portion of the parcel outside the ALR."
http://www.bcassessm... Farm Land.aspx
#10
Posted 29 March 2013 - 10:48 AM
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#11
Posted 29 March 2013 - 03:34 PM
#12
Posted 29 March 2013 - 03:35 PM
I doubt this happens to any significant extent. Would be almost impossible to hit the income requirements.
"Minimum income requirements are calculated as follows:
a) $10,000 on land less than .8 hectares (2 acres);
b) $2,500 on land between .8 hectares (2 acres) and 4 hectares (10 acres);
c) on land larger than 4 hectares (10 acres), you must earn $2,500 plus five per cent of the actual value of any farm land in excess of 4 hectares;
d) $10,000, in order to qualify unused land where the area in production by the owner makes up at least 25 per cent of the portion of the parcel outside the ALR."
http://www.bcassessm... Farm Land.aspx
I don't think that they actually hit the required totals necessarily. Just makes it look plausible that they could.
#13
Posted 29 March 2013 - 04:11 PM
#14
Posted 29 March 2013 - 04:39 PM
#15
Posted 29 March 2013 - 04:47 PM
4 of our chickens unfortunately are young and lazy and dont lay any legs yet
They have to be older and motivated to lay eggs?
#16
Posted 29 March 2013 - 09:23 PM
They have to be older and motivated to lay eggs?
They have to be older, apparently. I bought them off a guy who resells chickens on UsedVic, and after complaining, he guessed the that chickens weren't as old as her thought they were when he first got them. He gave me a free chicken as a sorry, which I was happy with. I did some message board reading online, and the date in which a Rhode Island Red will lay its first egg can be anywhere from 20 to 30 weeks of age.
#17
Posted 15 April 2015 - 06:39 AM
The numbers show that eggs are probably a bigger part of your diet now than they were a few years ago.
On average, Canadians are eating about three dozen more eggs each year compared to 2007, according to the federal agriculture department.
Indeed, per capita egg demand, which troughed in the mid-1990s at 17 dozen a year, is now approaching levels not seen since the early 1980s when annual consumption was nearly 22 dozen per capita.
"We feel like we're in a bit of a sweet spot for the demand for eggs for the foreseeable future," says Tim Lambert, head of the Egg Farmers of Canada. more; http://www.cbc.ca/ne...3032173?cmp=rss
#18
Posted 15 April 2015 - 11:20 AM
Yeah, friend of a friend always has the best eggs. There's a lady at my wife's office that has chickens and sells to everyone there. You just sign up on a sheet and she brings in eggs a few times a week. Charges less than what you'd pay at the supermarket too. Sometimes the eggs need a slight wash but otherwise they are wonderful. People's pet chickens generally have pretty good lives too, selling their eggs is generally just something to do with all the damn eggs rather than a money-making venture.
#19
Posted 15 April 2015 - 08:36 PM
"a slight wash" they are in the shell aren't they?Yeah, friend of a friend always has the best eggs. There's a lady at my wife's office that has chickens and sells to everyone there. You just sign up on a sheet and she brings in eggs a few times a week. Charges less than what you'd pay at the supermarket too. Sometimes the eggs need a slight wash but otherwise they are wonderful. People's pet chickens generally have pretty good lives too, selling their eggs is generally just something to do with all the damn eggs rather than a money-making venture.
#20
Posted 15 April 2015 - 09:52 PM
4 of our chickens unfortunately are young and lazy and dont lay any legs yet, so our current output is spoken for.
Aren't the younger ones more likely to lay the double-yolk eggs though?
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