Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 02, 2020

Five bucks a dozen? And we want our nation to “shop local”?

Cost less to produce. sell for higher price.

They are 3.99 in the store and you don’t get to see the chickens.

Know your market! Out community farmer said he raises brown eggs ’cause people pay more for them. He prefers the standard white variety. Go figure.

so glad to see that Meg is wearing a mask

a consumer is a push-over and willing to pay more for something when it is being sold by a kid than an adult.

The trouble with producing free range eggs, if you want to avoid killing chickens or treating them cruelly, is getting new hens when the old ones get too old to lay. Half of all chickens born are roosters. You only need one for a stud, and the rest are useless. Further, roosters are highly aggressive male animals and will fight each other to the death over territory and mating. You really can’t do anything with them but kill them and eat them in your chicken dinner as soon as they become mature. Even if your hens are bought as chicks at a feed store, they killed all the males in those hatchings behind the scenes. It’s a similar situation with milk production with cows and bulls. And cows don’t give milk unless they’re pregnant, so they have to be kept that way. I know these things because my grandparents raised chickens and produced their own eggs, and I still remember the “butchering days”, when they beheaded roosters and old hens by the dozens, cleaned them, cut them up, and froze the meat.

While they are there for eggs, sell, sell, sell (what ever you can. Fresh Produce, gourmet box lunches, home made jams & jellies, etc,)

Meg isn’t getting hair cuts (shut down). So now she is sporting Janis’ style before she got her hair changed years ago.

Glad Jimmy has Meg’s hair long-no trips to the salon for her.

Where are the chicken masks?

$5 a dozen? Forget the goose. Megan has chickens that lay golden eggs.

So, one day you’ll be working a the Chicken Ranch?

I live in the country. I’m used to paying 88 cents for a dozen eggs at my local grocery store. Ain’t no way I would ever spend $5 a dozen. However – these comments have given me the motivation to buy a local dozen from a farm around here and conduct a taste test between the two. I will admit however, from the grocery store, I believe the brown eggs are superior to the white eggs.

This kid seemingly hasn’t grown any taller in the last 7 or 8 years— they’d better have her checked out thoroughly! (that’s common in many strips— but this one has been different in terms of having people age, even if not even-up with the aging of the author or readers!)