Selling Eggs:We need to start selling more eggs! The chickens are producing about 15 eggs per day and we need to sell as many as possible. So, let's talk about marketing today. First, how are are our eggs different than the ones people buy at the store? If we can convince people that there really are differences between our eggs and the ones at the store, maybe we can convince them to buy their eggs from us.
If you want to think about this assignment in "school" terms, here it is:
Compare and contrast (using complete sentences) the eggs purchased at the store with the eggs being produced here at Grayling Farms. Use specific examples (and the word sustainability), write how our eggs are different from the eggs at the store:
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The eggs that are being purchased from the store is from some company that we know nothing about and don't know what they are feeding their chickens or whether they let the chickens run on grass or is being caged up and are crowded when released.
Our chickens from the Grayling Farms are being fed scraps from the school kitchen, and chicken feed and we change their water frequently. In the spring and summer they will be let outside to graze about and bathe in the sun. In other words we know about our chickens and we know that these chickens eggs are sustainable, because we won't run out and we won't need to order from a different state that will take days or weeks for them to arrive. For healthy foods you have to pay a little more, because of the Chicken Feed and other appliances we may need to keep our chickens healthy and maintain a good source of eggs.
Thank you Melissa. It is obvious that you've been paying attention this year and that you've thought about this before you answered. You only have a few months left before you graduate and I'm very proud of the work you've done this year, and for the past 5 years that I've known you. Great work.
The eggs that people buy at the store is not better than our eggs. Why? Because the Grayling Farm eggs comes from a healthy chicken. Healthy chicken equals healthy egg. Also the Grayling farm chickens are not boxed up tight in a cage. They do get enough exercise each day.
Compared to the store bought eggs.
The eggs from the store is not trust worthy. They come from strangers out of Grayling. People we don't even know or never even met!
We don't know anything about the chickens that we use for their eggs being bought at the store.
But we know about our chickens and where they came from, and whats being feed to them, and know that their healthy. Our chickens here can actually get some exercise and get to run around, some chickens are just in a box and don't do anything. So that's why I think our chickens are better, because we know our chickens and we don't know anything about the chickens we buy eggs from.
Well the eggs from the native store they come from Cherry lanes company in Washington state. You don't know what the people feed there chickens. They might feed there chickens the same thing everyday. You don't know if there chickens are healthy. Are chicken came from Palmer but we raise them here in Grayling so we call them the Grayling chicken eggs. We feed are chickens Alaska Mill & Feed's High Energy and sometimes we feed them scraps from the school kitchen. Are chickens lay about 15 eggs per day. Well are chicken eggs are nice and healthy and the chicken eggs the native store get is probably about 1-2 weeks old when it gets here. So I think are chicken eggs are alot healthy better then the ones at the native store.
The eggs at the store are from an egg industry that we don't know about and we don't know about their nutrition. For all we know they are caged in small spaces for long periods of time with hardly any exercise.
The eggs that we have are healthy, we know what we are feeding them and they have a healthy diet. They have a lot more room to move around and exercise by running on the grass in the summer.
The eggs that people are purchasing from the store are from the Cherry lane company that we know nothing about, we don't know if they cage their chickens all their lives, or what they feed they them which is especially important because the eggs are made of what the chickens eat.
On the other hand we know exactly what our chickens eat and we know that we never let them out, we know that their always cooped up in that chicken coop all the time we know that our chickens were almost poisoned by the compost from their own faeces. We also know that our chickens are under extremely stressful conditions not only because of their confinement but also because of the extreme weather conditions.
A good thing about having our chickens is that they are almost completely sustainable because they are a food source that is produced right here in Grayling. The reason I say ALMOST sustainable is because we rely on outside sources to feed them.
It is true, our chickens do not get to go outside during the winter. What are the possible health effects of this? Also, when we are talking about exposure to ammonia, how is this happening? What can we do to mitigate this problem? Are there any observable health effects of the chicken's being inside all winter? If so, please state them.
Are the conditions for the chickens "extremely stressful"? Again, base your writing on observations. Do the chickens seem extremely stressed? What sort of criteria would you use to define a chicken's stress?
These are great comments James and I hope you follow them up with a few careful observations.
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