Record Egg Sales!!

The Brand New Old Fox Egg Dispensary (Patent Pending)

After much waiting and messing about our egg sales commenced today. Having added some additional decoration to the egg dispensary so that potential customers could see a picture of the egg production operatives and also see a few words to describe their personality, we were ready for action. Katherine and Hannah chose the best spot for display outside the front gate and I pegged the dispensary down to prevent wind damage. Having set things up we retreated to a safe distance so as not to look like we were stalking customers. Katherine went to get ready for her riding lesson and by the time we left the first half dozen eggs had been bought and paid for! I dropped Katherine to her lesson, went to collect Brodie from his friend's house and then went back to collect Katherine. On the way back down the lane we bumped into Allie who stopped us to say that all the eggs were gone and that she had put the money tin in the porch. I was amazed. There was another six eggs spare when we left but Joanna and Hannah had already put those out and they had sold as well! Thirty eggs gone in less than an hour - unbelievable! At £1.50 per half dozen that is a first day profit of £7.50 plus an extra 40p left for no apparent reason. I did attempt over lunch to set the children a task of calculating net profit after costs but there wasn't much enthusiasm, maybe next time if I give them a little more encouragement.
The production operatives must have sensed there was something afoot as this morning I collected five eggs which is a first. Mind you with the amount of special treats that Joanna has been giving them over the last few days I can't say that I am surprised that they have upped their efforts. We used to fight over seconds at dinner time but now that fight is resolved before it starts. The extra portion is now allocated to the chickens before anyone else can get a look in and, in actual fact, I suspect that extra portions may be being deliberately prepared by a certain somebody just to keep the chickens sweet.
Anyway, all in all a very exciting first effort at "farm gate" selling of produce made even more special by a text message received by Joanna from one of the other residents of the lane congratulating us on the quality of the eggs and encouraging us to keep it up! Well worth the effort I would say. All of the proceeds by the way will be going towards more equipment for the chickens and also towards any further "agricultural" endeavours that we may undertake in the future.
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