Someone responded to this that chickens only cost 15 cents in feed per day, which is less than an egg.
Great to hear. I didn’t realize chicken coops, feeders, fencing, runs, and the chickens themselves would materialize out of the aether if you just put food out.
Great to hear. I didn’t realize chicken coops, feeders, fencing, runs, and the chickens themselves would materialize out of the aether if you just put food out.
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Maybe that’s part of the “Let them raise chickens” strategy. Kill all the empathy in your heart.
It’s very “Let them eat cake!” to me.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-official-tells-americans-to-buy-chickens-to-deal-with-egg-pricing-crisis/
And if I didn’t already need an electric fence for livestock and get smart about keeping the coops inside said fence, I would have given up. The bears around here really like chicken.
Apple trees don’t prune themselves in the spring or gather their own apples up in baskets for you.
Definitely more cost than feeding, as you've pointed out.
And that's if a virus doesn't wipe them all out. Which happened to us twice.
And it's hard work.
Are they trying to turn us all into tradwives on mini farms? (Yes, I know they are.)
We think there's a housing crisis NOW. Wait til everyone needs 2 acres.
and they start making noise at 4am when the grackles wake up, and don't stop until it's dark out again
😫
I have experience, and yes, I’m very tired.
wildlife encroaches into suburban and urban areas WAY more than folks are aware.
You'll get to compete with coyotes, foxes, raccoons, possums, snakes, rats, owls, hawks, possibly squirrels - just taking account of what's in Northern Ohio.
I loved my chickens, but they are livestock and take work and investment!
Machinery was invented to make that life easier, then MUCH easier, then not necessary for those who couldn't/didn't want to do that incredibly hard work.
and only a tiny fraction of Earth's land can support such a lifestyle
and when it comes to an agrarian lifestyle, you have a lot more land you can live on, but you're going to be working all day every day
in fact, with modern technology, it's very much detached from output; that's why a single digit percentage of people working in agriculture can feed literally everyone else