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(Keyrock the unfrozen caveman lawyer; your world frightens & confuses me)
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The area behind my house is loosely referred to as a subdivision but they don’t have and HOA and the lots run 8-15 acres.
The house nearest behind me is about 800 feet as the crow flies across the creek valley.
For a long time they had chickens, roosters, peafowl, hogs, dogs, and at least one emu. Talk about a cacophony. One of their dogs (I nicknamed “Big White Fluffy”) was best friends with the emu.
They’d stroll down through the creek and up to their fence, about 100 feet behind my house - only about 20 feet behind my own fence. The dog would just stand there while the emu did his pig grunting thing, and my dogs would go nuts barking at them.
After a couple of years, my dogs would go out there and bark, inviting them to come up. Then they’d just sit there and stare at each other - or maybe there was some kind of telepathic communion going on.
They must have moved or got rid of all their livestock. I don’t miss them. Probably moved, because they were also one of the neighbors who’d blow off 100-200 rounds every weekend, and I don’t hear that from their direction anymore.
We sometimes see those eggs at the East Hayward GO, but they pack them in plastic and my wife has now forbidden me from buying eggs in plastic cartons.
Are we talking forbidden styrofoam plastic or clear (recycle-eligible) plastic cartons? Paper cartons still do the best job of cushioning the eggs, in my opinion. And while they don’t qualify for paper recycling in trash (since already made from re/recycled paper), there are a ton of craft/garden reuse possibilities.
The latter. As far as I can tell, they’re not recyclable in my area.
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(Keyrock the unfrozen caveman lawyer; your world frightens & confuses me)
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The brand of pastured chicken eggs my grocer sells have like a double plastic carton. An exterior clear plastic carton in the usual expanded rectangle shape, and an interior plastic carton more snugly form-fitting over the eggs top and bottom. Plus additional printed lightweight paperboard identifying the product, source, etc.
Gah. And even if that stuff is officially recyclable, does it really get recycled once my bin is picked up? Who knows…
Just by happenstance I saw a small farm near here selling eggs; chickens run free (well, they’re fenced) with his dogs overseeing security. He uses those re-rerecycled paper cartons MTT mentions.
Plus, now I take the empties back to him for re-use. I put a small Sharpie dot on the underside in an unobtrusive place, and in some instances I’ve gotten the same carton more than once.
My supplier charges $5 a dozen for premium, gorgeous deep orange yolked eggs and I know her ‘girls’! I’ve been buying from her for at least a dozen years.
I. Up eggs from a local farm. Not only are the yolks gorgeous, so are the egg shells brown, white, several shades of brown, and always a blue one. It’s an indulgence, but I only use a dozen every few weeks.
My supplier charges $5 a dozen for premium, gorgeous deep orange yolked eggs and I know her ‘girls’! I’ve been buying from her for at least a dozen years.
