Post B2aC86eYIXkuRJtcHo by annakatarina@nicecrew.digital
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 (DIR) Post #B2aC83BNCZdHfxDltA by missjanedoe@nicecrew.digital
       2026-01-23T16:53:55.771852Z
       
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       Buy your eggs local, people! https://open.substack.com/pub/farmerash/p/the-vital-farms-egg-scandal-isnt
       
 (DIR) Post #B2aC84I94sdz7FOh5E by annakatarina@nicecrew.digital
       2026-01-23T16:59:17.572744Z
       
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       😔 I have bought these eggs and they often have darker yolks than local eggs, so I thought they are good eggs 🤔(many local chickens are not free range they are fenced in with no grass)chickens should be free to roam a much large space than most people think, they need sunshine and grass
       
 (DIR) Post #B2aC85n1VYwBlIqrqq by missjanedoe@nicecrew.digital
       2026-01-23T17:00:03.300244Z
       
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       I have bought them before too, but now I only buy from a local farmer. I can see the chickens out scratching for bugs.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2aC86eYIXkuRJtcHo by annakatarina@nicecrew.digital
       2026-01-23T17:00:55.424039Z
       
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       I will have to look for a dependable local farmer
       
 (DIR) Post #B2aCQ9xMkqh9tiIwT2 by missjanedoe@nicecrew.digital
       2026-01-23T17:01:48.520177Z
       
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       it’s difficult, i find smaller farmers are usually more willing to feed actually healthy feed than larger ones.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2aCUUykXIdYFu1LTE by BattleDwarfGimli@nicecrew.digital
       2026-01-23T17:06:49.443066Z
       
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       We buy feed for our flock from a farmer who has hundreds of birds, and makes their own feed. I supplement with meal worms and black fly larva in the winter, and in the summer I give them forage times during the day. Even right now at below zero temperatures, they're giving us 7-9 eggs a day (we have 12 layers).
       
 (DIR) Post #B2aCYNkDNLCyyc4dm4 by annakatarina@nicecrew.digital
       2026-01-23T17:05:58.596337Z
       
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       I buy their butter because it is more yellow so I can tell it is grass fed, I just noticed it is from Ireland. 🤦🏻‍♀️basically I have found a single American producer of grass fed butter (Straus Family Creamery) and I can't buy it now because I am too far from California to obtain it. sigh
       
 (DIR) Post #B2aCqVdglHqifrfIeW by Thickasabrick@poa.st
       2026-01-23T17:10:47.925378Z
       
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       @annakatarina @missjanedoe We raise rabbits and chickens.  We found a guy who grows non-GMO no spray alfalfa hay for the rabbits.  The bunnies eat the stems and leave the leaf.  We give the leaf to the chickens and that seems to be a key factor in the really dark yolks in their eggs.  I'm mostly interested in the poop from all this, but mighty nice eggs.  Thinking about getting ducks too for their larger eggs.