I’d rather spend $2.50 on a carton of Eggland’s Best eggs.
And then the inevitable feud with the neighbor when his dog gets a taste for your Rhode Island Reds.
America in the 21st century(and much of the latter half of the 20th).
Just had some fresh brown eggs for supper that were given to me.
You wouldn’t think there could be that much difference in the taste of an egg. But day-um...it was good!
I was in charge of raising the chickens when I was a kid. The chicks are sooooooo cute. That stage doesn’t last long. Then comes the chicken stage, not so cute. Then the fresh eggs, great! And some eggs are neat shades of brown too! We’re talking the 1970’s here, before the enviroweenies were so loud. I liked those brown eggs because they were pretty not because they were organic!
Then the chickens get to that big stage, the stage where you have to end their laying days before they get too tough to eat.....well, we slaughtered the chickens at the farm ourselves once. Let’s just say the sight of seeing a freshly slain chicken run around with it’s head cut off is still a vivid memory...after that year we sent them to the chicken “processor”.
Farm raised chicken is the best chicken on earth. Breasts as big as store bought turkey breasts. Eggs, the best.
After I went to college in 1980, the chickens, pigs, beef cattle, all magically disappeared...no more free labor from me! So after that it was all store bought meat and eggs. The folks still have a nice big veggie garden though.
Raising the animals was great. I appreciate it more now than then of course. Now I have my own place and 2 horses, 2 dogs (1 husband).
I don’t think city chickens are a good idea. Chickens are rather....smelly. Noisy of course too. And it’s unlikely those chickens will end up on a dinner plate at all. Maybe that’s OK. It’s just not a good idea to have livestock in town.
OK, TMI, but I don’t want to go to sleep yet...
Hey Diana, did you get to see “Public Enemies” yet and did you like it?
My grandson has chickens, we love the eggs but it really isn’t all that cost effective if you don’t feed them a lot of leftovers.
I used to have chickens and I didn’t feed them much I let them out during the day and I kept a light in their pen and they had all the bugs they could eat.
Raising chickens isn’t just about saving money.
The eggs are healthier and the hens are downright entertaining.
Aren’t they awfully noisy to inflict on your neighbors? Just asking ... don’t know too much about chickens! lol
The economic stupidity of Obamanomics is breathtaking.
I wanted fresh eggs and liked the idea of having a few chickens around.
My wife and I are nearly finished with building a chicken mansion. LOL
I bought 8 chicks about 3 months ago and they should all be laying brown eggs in about 3 more months.
In for a penny, in for a pound... A friend called me yesterday and needs to get rid of his 20 brown layers, and these should start laying within the next two weeks. I’m paying $1 each.
I didn’t plan on doing this for the money, I’m doing it for the fun, it fits with my country living and I like knowing what the rascals have been feed.
I plan to get fryers next and within 8 weeks, I can put 30 chickens in the freezer. LOL Part of my GSD’s raw diet is 1/4 chicken (hind quarter) each and every day.
Heck with eggs. That’s way too much trouble for eggs. If I go to that much trouble, I want meat. These are easier to catch and there’s plenty of meat on them:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/images/domgoo39.jpg
These got even more meat on them, but not as easy to catch:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heritage_Turkeys_in_MD.jpg
Domesticated pheasant is the tastiest, imo.
Our chickens free range but need feed in the winter. The turkeys work much harder, they are up before sunrise catching cold bugs in the grass. Two turkey hens raised 19 poults this year, we hatched more in the incubators. It’s nice having turkey at times besides Thanksgiving.
Wait until they start writing articles about backyard hog raising. We have those, too, along with rabbits.
My recently moved in new neighbor decided that one of my kids favorite cat that had a license and shots was a predator against his chickens and shot him.
Just wait and see what happens when I get a hold of a pregnant possum and start breeding them to set loose.
When I was younger and had a large chicken coop I found over 30 of my hens all killed in one night from just a sole bite on the head, nothing consumed, possums will do that.
We get our eggs from The Egg Lady, Delivering Eggs to the Finest Homes in _____.
Free range, she charges 1.00 for small/med 1.50 for lg/ex lg and duck eggs are free. She delivers every Wed. leaving in the cooler we have on the porch.
We were going to build a small coup/tractor arrangement and keep a few hens but someone told about The Egg Lady. Lots less work. We have friends who live in town a few blocks from us that have the cutest bantams. I could sit and watcvh them all afternoon.
We had ducks until the Great Halloween Massacre last year. Someone came in our yard, 1 acre fenced and cut off their bills. Not a funny prank.
