>>Yes, one needs to know the places to visit to find them.
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>Problem is that it was usualy a henn from the egg laying sort. What is laying eggs today is not usable. Full of medicine ... And the organic will make the soup more expensive then the roast, to use this german proverb.

Luckily, the double bad luck that we have (not an EU member and won't be for many more years, yet we have all the bad laws as if we were - the worst of both worlds) is only on paper. All those rules are impracticable, so they are used only to dissuade startups who may encroach on tycoons' monopolies - regular folks keeping a few dozen hens are way below the radar. So we eat best eggs, the yolk is rich orange color, and we buy chicken and old hens across the fence, from our first neighbor. His roosters keep odd hours, though, but I'm used to the sound.

>>And they have to have their milk shepherdized or whatever they write the verbized name of that french pastor. That cheese is dead...
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>Not much differnce in the EU. I have a farmer nearby that sell milk. Unprocessed. It realy became sour, not perish. Like some for your cheese?

...and also got a good source for raw milk, with over 4% of milk fat. Unlike the industrial stuff, where they skim 100% and replace it with margarine...