My parents considered it, but heard that they attract snakes.
Also, what do you do with the eggs you don't eat?
Also, what do you do with the eggs you don't eat?
We've had some problems with snakes, but we're in the country outside Austin, TX and snakes are just a way of life out here. We even had to remove a rattlesnake from inside the house a few weeks back. Skunks are a big problem this year -- lots of them out and about.
We give and sell fresh eggs to everyone we know. I routinely take them into work and sell them for $5 a dozen. We've had to explain the whole not washing or refrigerating them to most people but after they've had fresh eggs they always want more.
As such their yolks will tend to be yellow instead of orange or nearly red, as true pastured chicken eggs yolks will be.
re: snakes - not so far, and the other comment about them keeping potentially dangerous insects (ticks) in check is right on. Hawks and foxes are more the concern as predators around here, we've lost a few to foxes in the last two years.
Not that I mind black snakes, but I don't like them stealing eggs.
Relocating them off on a distant part of my 40 acres doesn't keep them from coming back.