I was raised having some 300+ layers around. Gathering eggs,
washing, and cleaning up chicken poop. These weren’t free
range so the rest of the area was clean but gathering eggs and
feeding was a mess to say the least.
The most I ever had was 50 at a time, but that was plenty! I had the Araucana/Easter Eggers and I would package them in clear egg cartons with nice labels and tied with a raffia bow.
This was a decade before everyone had backyard chickens, so I sold them to a local Liquor Store/Deli that gave me $2.50 a dozen. He turned around and sold them for $5/dozen and people were screaming for more!
God Bless American Capitalism, LOL!
Selling them covered my feed costs, buying new chicks and having plenty of eggs for my family back then.
Nothing quite as educational to a 5 year old as going into the chicken coop on the farm where your mother got her eggs.
I remember following Old farmer Ott into the coop and found a 5 ft ceiling and 1 ft of dried chicken poop on the floor/ground!
(Excellent as dried fertilizer no doubt!)