From a sheer dollars and cents standpoint, she’s right. But if you raise your own hens, you never have to put any food scraps into the landfill or down the sewer, and you know your eggs (much better tasting) and poultry meat comes from happy, healthy birds instead of battery hens or the still-crowded conditions they like to call “free-range” these days. It’s a trade-off.
Yet, in the third strip, you have backyard chickens, so I’ll bet you yourself don’t settle for pallid, two-dollar-a-dozen store eggs. Are we being a little condescending?
You have to protect them from animals and neighbors in rural areas, too. You need fences, dogs, guns, traps. And you have to protect your garden from the chickens. Don’t think you’re going to make money selling eggs if you buy feed. Only if you have the space and equipment for large grain crops will you have economical feed. If you homebrew, the chickens love the spent grain, but that’s only enough for a treat, not regular feed. The eggs are great, and have more healthy nutrients than factory eggs, but your wife will not permit her pets to be eaten. Ours have a great retirement plan. The young ones that lay pay for the food for the old ones that barely lay.
You have to feed the chickens house them and take care of them in the winter and go out to feed and water them every day make sure their water isnt frozen the heat bulb is working In the end it could cost and be more of a hassle than justing buying meat and eggs from the store Though the fresh eggs did taste better
Neo Stryder over 7 years ago
And of course, the space they need, and in urban areas, you msut protec them from animals too.
The Old Wolf over 7 years ago
From a sheer dollars and cents standpoint, she’s right. But if you raise your own hens, you never have to put any food scraps into the landfill or down the sewer, and you know your eggs (much better tasting) and poultry meat comes from happy, healthy birds instead of battery hens or the still-crowded conditions they like to call “free-range” these days. It’s a trade-off.
MeGoNow Premium Member over 7 years ago
Yet, in the third strip, you have backyard chickens, so I’ll bet you yourself don’t settle for pallid, two-dollar-a-dozen store eggs. Are we being a little condescending?
grainpaw over 7 years ago
You have to protect them from animals and neighbors in rural areas, too. You need fences, dogs, guns, traps. And you have to protect your garden from the chickens. Don’t think you’re going to make money selling eggs if you buy feed. Only if you have the space and equipment for large grain crops will you have economical feed. If you homebrew, the chickens love the spent grain, but that’s only enough for a treat, not regular feed. The eggs are great, and have more healthy nutrients than factory eggs, but your wife will not permit her pets to be eaten. Ours have a great retirement plan. The young ones that lay pay for the food for the old ones that barely lay.
Robert Nowall Premium Member over 7 years ago
That and most places have ordinances against running a few chickens.
jP. over 2 years ago
You have to feed the chickens house them and take care of them in the winter and go out to feed and water them every day make sure their water isnt frozen the heat bulb is working In the end it could cost and be more of a hassle than justing buying meat and eggs from the store Though the fresh eggs did taste better