Yeah, you can always count on Mother Government to screw things up no matter what! Grrrr!
So glad we got around to getting chicks last Spring. We have 11 ladies and get 7-10 eggs per day. Taking a few dozen to our Easter Sunday gathering to share the ovum-love!
Going to make Egg Salad today with some hard-boiled eggs from earlier in the week. Not coloring any today but we always went crazy with colored eggs when we were kids. Mom baked and decorated cakes on the side and she had EVERY color food dye known to man, so we could be quite creative. Dad always wanted boring old blue for his egg, though! ;)
How Much A Dozen Eggs Cost The Year You Were Born:
https://www.thedailymeal.com/1182342/how-much-a-dozen-eggs-cost-the-year-you-were-born/
As a child we never had chickens, but many kinds of plants in our large Victory Garden and for 7 years after WW2 ended. My father always put a raw egg in his glass of milk and swallowed it whole. Around age 12 I tried that ONCE! I never heard of Salmonella in raw eggs until in my 30s.