Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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I have been hunting around on craigslist for a good deal on eggs. I posted recently about bf and I going completely away from the grocery store. We will be getting all our food from the farmers market or local farmers. I found an ad that had a great price 5$ for 50 eggs! They sell them for 2$ for 8 at the local asian market. I contacted the person and he said the following (responding to my question about if they were free range)

"Hi,

The eggs come from Jumbo Coturnix, Tuxedo, Texas A&M and Golden speckeled Quail. All of my birds are fed Layena bird food. They are not free range but do have plenty of room to live. "

I would also need to travel for an hour total to get them via public transit. What do you think? It would add some variety in nutrition, seems like a great deal (with farmers market chicken eggs averaging 7$ a dozen).

Does this sound like someones pets? Any thoughts? Im tempted to do it twice a month or something..

edited Jan 24 2012 at 14:36

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Eric · Answer 1 · 2012-01-21 06:47:39Z UTC

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If you can get pastured eggs from chickens that live outside and eat grass and bugs it is worth the $4-8 dollars a dozen...

answered Jan 21 2012 at 6:47

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	I agree. But at 4-8 a dozen and 5 dozen a week??? yikes!! We would be still eating the majority of our eggs from pastured chicken.. but these to fill in the cracks? – ancestral_stars Jan 21 2012 at 6:55
	It sounds like you are getting whole sale pricing... 83 cents a dozen is really cheap... It is not likely someones pets... Pastured eggs though expensive are a bargain... If you buy 6 pastured eggs a day (3 per person) at $7.00 / dozen you are at $106 / month. Which is $53.00 /person/month... 3 pastured eggs beats 4 normal eggs any day.... It is sometimes possible to find pastured eggs for less if you search really hard... – Eric Jan 21 2012 at 8:11
	quail eggs are MUCH smaller than chicken eggs. photo for comparison featurepics.com/FI/Thumb300/20100605/… – Moonablaze Jan 21 2012 at 10:08

Jackie · Answer 2 · 2012-01-21 06:48:14Z UTC

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I would go there and check out the premises - if it is not allowed, I would probably steer clear. A two hour round trip could be a pain but it could also be a positive investigation, and the price sounds amazing. I would also research the feed of the birds.

answered Jan 21 2012 at 6:48

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	I googled it and it seems to be your standard bird food. sighs definitely a strike against the idea. The whole point of 100% farmers market and pastured grass fad ranch meat is to avoid the industrial crap. I just wish I knew more about animal husbandry in general I have no idea if this is the standard food or cheap stuff. – ancestral_stars Jan 21 2012 at 6:57
	Yeah if it is soy based I would avoid it. It is hard to avoid some crap, but I think eggs are something that we can find high quality at pretty decent prices in a lot of stores, just has to be chicken eggs. – Jackie Jan 21 2012 at 19:22

lil' Richard frm tx fan · Answer 3 · 2012-01-21 09:30:46Z UTC

Might not be all that bad considering the time of year, most places where quail reside natually--I can see them outside my window during the day--they can't be eating much in the way of insect forage and have to be subsisting on seeds and such. Probably not much different than commercial feed. Given the price it may not be a bad deal at all. But obviously free range chickens might be a better--read healthier--option, although I doubt that even they can reasonably obtain enough nutrients to produce eggs this time of year without some kind of augmentation in the form of commercial feed.

henny · Answer 4 · 2012-01-24 14:39:34Z UTC

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Given the fact that they are so far away, so small in size, and questionable re: the feed used to raise them I would skip the lengthy trip and use more local free range chicken eggs instead.

answered Jan 24 2012 at 14:39

henny

Potential good deal on quail eggs but I have questions regarding their source

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