Posted on 07/18/2009 8:07:22 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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!
Suit yourself.
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
Do you mean the inevitable fued with my neighbor when my air rifle gets a taste for his trespassing dog's hind end?
Wow 2.50? They’re FOUR dollars where I live.
I hope not!
Roosters are quite loud, but hens lay plenty of eggs without a rooster for miles.
Our barred rock girls and Mr. and Mrs. Turkey eat their weight in ants and weeds now. We set them on an ant hill and well...poor ants!
I’ve read that it’s not too hard to keep clean if you keep them in a movable hen house.
If chickens eat fleas in the yard, I just might be able to talk my daughter into it! lol
My chicken tractor is almost done and yes it seems to be true about the cleanup being easier.
Chickens will eat almost anything you put in front of them I think. They’ll eat whatever bug that crawls into the chicken run!
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