Posted on 07/21/2015 8:07:37 PM PDT by Steelfish
“For about $400, depending on location, the service provides two chickens...”
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Why stop at 2??? Get 535, you’ll have your own Congress.
A really good chicken will lay 1 egg per day. Unless the weather changes, they molt, they get scared, an airplane flies over, a dog barks too close...
Those are some high priced eggs!
I have thousands of dollars in my chicken coop!!! Yea!
I think the country would be better if Congress was replaced by 535 chickens. Getting back to the subject, well as the saying goes, “see a need, fill a need.”
The Chickens come home to roost!!!
Don’t we already have 545 CHICKEN-SH!TS in Congress as it is?
sorry - meant 535...
my best advice for folks wanting to get into chickens is contact local ag extension agent, buy laying hens on Craig's list, and matching chicks online (McMurray, etc). Save your cashish!
P. T. Barnum and fools.
I ordered 100+ chicks for an FFA project one year. Bought them for pennies and housed them in an old garage. The feed back then was too expensive so can only imagine the cost today - ok, looked it up and it’s $45 for 10 lbs of organic feed which will be gobbled up in no time. Couldn’t have been happier to see those nasty creatures go to the end of year bbq. Went back to cattle the next year. Much easier and profitable. No thanks, I’ll continue to get my eggs at the grocery store.
This is an “anchor fallacy”. While the % increase is big the base (or anchor) for the increase is small. Sorta like 100 X nothing is still nothing. In this case eggs are about $1.50/doz so now the could be as high as almost $2.00. But a headline staing eggs increase $0.50/doz would not make a splash.
It is typical liberal scare tactics. Next up poor neighbors nedd sustainable and affordable eggs.
I’m launching an App which will send a chicken over to your house in a self-driving Prius. Upon arrival, the chicken will lay an egg on your kitchen counter, kill, pluck, gut and fry itself; before its skeletal remains return in the Prius to the recycling center, which then sends you carbon credits via email.
I'm trying to figure out how to get bacon from a rental pig. This could go big.
Will the chicken produce Cadbury Eggs?
We get our eggs from “The Egg Lady”, $2.00/dozen delivered to our door every Tuesday. She’s a local school teacher, who keeps chickens and ducks. She knows I like to bake with duck eggs, so she occasionally delivers a few no extra charge. :)
If not Cadbury, how about Faberge?
What sort of Turkey would pay hu dreds of dollars to rent a chicken.
“Will the chicken produce Cadbury Eggs?”
No silly! Those come from the Great Plains Jackalope.
Here’s how the pros do it.
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Hens start laying at around six months old. They lay one egg per day. By manipulating the light they receive the poultry farms are able to keep them on eight day weeks, laying eight eggs per week. They start out laying small eggs. As they grow older, they lay medium, then large, and so forth. After a year of egg production they are sold to food processors who turn them into soup and stew and such.
Maybe that’s the idea. (Scammin the rubes)
I have a cousin who has some acreage and decided to have chickens. They’ve had them about a year now and he says he is getting rid of them. They wind up with too many eggs so give them away and the feed is expensive. He says it’s cheaper and less trouble to buy them at the store.
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