How efficient is keeping chickens, financially speaking?
Can you replace your whole diet with eggs produced by your chickens? How many hens do you need to feed yourself year-round?
How efficient is keeping chickens, financially speaking?
Owen Brooks
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Aaron Morales
hens of the proper kind lay one egg per day. i read there was a guy in italy who lived on eating around 20 hard cooked eggs every day in his 60s.
Tyler Stewart
You have to buy feed, user. Chickens dont violate the law of thermodynamics.
Tyler Carter
all animal farming is efficient
because you are using their stomachs to digest things you cannot digest
that is why the aliens want to ban animals
Robert Jackson
Can you recommend a good feed store? Preferably something in a rural area, away from city slickers
Nathan Jenkins
That's what (((they))) want you to believe.
Aaron Taylor
Can I feed chickens my shit?
Ethan Hughes
For me, it's indoor cow ranging
Brayden Miller
your chicken is well fed will produce about one egg every two days or about 3 per week. Well fed means about 90 grams of feed specifically for laying eggs and keeping their weight up, and about 10 grams of crushed sea shells for calcium (shells, legs). Add a bit of finely crushed rock to that to help digesting. This is based on ~25 celcius outdoor temperature; add 1 gram of feed for each degree drop in temperature (so more in winter). Costwise the price of feed varies per country, but you can calculate with these numbers for feed and supplement. Chickens are always hungry; make sure you spread the feed over the yard so they can go about and eat over the day.
Henry Wright
no but you can feed leftovers. Chickens are omnivore they will eat pretty much everything. Grass is a great addition. Remember, eggs take the taste of the food you feed them so be careful with your leftovers esp if it's fatty food (also because it hurts creating strong shell)
Adam Edwards
I hear that Chuck's is pretty good. Haven't been there in a few years though.
Ethan Jenkins
This. Chooks could be feed with almost anything, plants, bugs, food scraps. If you feed them just grains then are ngmi
Jason Gutierrez
Fellow indoor rancher
Juan Nguyen
Got some news for ya city boi
with ur fancy German car
Jack Johnson
>home chicken farming
Rookie numbers
Thomas Roberts
Doesn't exist anymore, I think it got bought out
Jose Wright
yea it really is that easy or keep paying prepared food tax and uber fees
Elijah Price
I really don't like animals other than dogs.
Austin Sullivan
I think I'm the only chicken egg farmer on this site. Lonely community.
Chickens are as efficient as you want depending on their grazing area and whether or not you can keep them safe.
If you lack a huge amount of space, then buy a 20kg block of Lucerne chaff and add that along with their feed (separate feeder) for nice yolks. Also shell grit.
Eggs are a complete meal. You can live off eggs, but it fucking sucks in short order.
We have Isa Browns, and they're an egg a day for around 15 months, complete drop off at 18. Heirloom variety chickens will lay an egg every 2/3 days I think, but will last for years sometimes.
If you were just living off eggs then I'd say 10 chickens, which leaves you enough eggs spare to preserve. You adjust for macros by either discarding yolks or albumen.
Chase Garcia
That's cute. Id branch off into clearing landmines with that lot
Robert Perry
From a purely business and finance perspective it is not efficient, unless you are in a situation where you have access to some free building materials and a continuous supply of free or almost free grain. It's hard to compete with globohomos economy of scale. That being said I buy cheap feed and feed my birds kitchen scraps and in the end I'm getting free range cruelty free eggs for the price of Walmart shit eggs.
You can not subsist solely on eggs but eggs can make up a significant portion of your caloric intake. Honestly potatoes eggs and a multivitamin is probably all you need. If you plan on eggmaxing your diet I suggest 6 hens per person. For normal consumption 2 or 3 will be fine. Egg production significantly declines in the winter.
Wyatt Green
Are you profitable? How do you sell your eggs? This is my dream but I figured it was impossible
Samuel Fisher
Jack Sullivan
Barely. It's a fuck ton of work, but in farming here, it's go big, go niche, or go broke. We go niche by using mobile caravans, and people like coming out to see our set-ups.
We sell to restaurants and supermarkets, but we don't have enough money to expand atm, and everyone's tired.
We'd be profitable if we didn't have other issues debt wise, but it's all I know now, so I'm fucked when we'll shut down.
Grayson Reed
Some of the cringiest shit. Newfags beware, just because a meme exists, does not mean it wasn't forced like the dilator into these sewer pits
Sebastian Hernandez
In terms of efficiency, you just need to buy feed for them, as well as an initial overhead of buying heat lamps + heated waterers for winter if you live in a cold climate. Selling high quality grass fed eggs to your neighbors/friends can pay for the $30 feed bags though.
I grew up with ~100 freerange chickens, with fresh eggs for breakfast and lunch every day, and it's fucking sublime. Genuinely everyone should have 2-4 layers if they have the yard space. They're also extremely easy to take care of - just feed/water them and keep their fence secure, and you'll never need to worry about anything else.
If you buy chickens I recommend buff orpintons - they're sweethearts and lay these gigantic brown eggs daily.
Ask me if you have any questions my family still takes care of about ~20 after downsizing and it's a blessing.