Poultry Math
Each week we deliver quail eggs to a number of local businesses. We enjoy meeting our customers and appreciate very much their interest in our business. It has allowed us to still have some egg profit while taking time off from the outdoor market during the worst of the summer heat, and has kept us from wasting a huge number of eggs each week. The question we kept being asked was, "Do you have chickens too?". Several customers really, really , wanted some of our specialty egg products but only if we had chicken eggs. After being asked this question a dozen or so times, we sat down one evening and talked about it. Should we add chickens back in? Do we have the space to do it? Could Cletus construct what we would need for housing them? Could we find a market for the eggs? Would it be worthwhile to add them? Do we want to add them back in? The answers were: probably, yes, yes of course he can, probably, yes...