fair exchange?

It's a good thing our hens give us plenty of eggs, because they sure eat their fill of our fruits and vegetables. This year they enjoyed lots of strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries—and about all of the tiny crop of blueberries (we have six plants, but only one flowered this year). And then today they got into the garden and ate three-fourths of the first almost-ripe tomato. I wanted to eat that tomato! I mean, share it with my family, of course. Luckily there are a great many more that we can expect to come ripe at some point in the near future; I only hope I can manage to improve the fencing in time!