How many chickens? If you keep a dozen then they’re simple and easy (provided you can feed them cheaply, I got a hookup on feed and even still it’s about $100 a week for what we have, even w/ hay and free ranging)
Once you scale up past 25/50/100/200/300 things get very problematic. Everyone faceplants because they get their first bunch and let them hatch, then start getting ideas about actually being able to make something out of it as an enterprise. One line of ours started with 1 breeding pair. A couple years later and that turned into at least 70, probably 100+ chicks. You realize selling them is more pain than it’s worth, dealing with brownoids, hagglers, and poors. Maybe guys in rich areas can do it. But most of the places west of the miss will already be saturated w/ egg sellers & chicken haulers.
And it all starts when your woman sees well-dressed upper middle class suburbanite-turned-2021-homesteaders i showing off a tidy pen of 50 ‘meat birds’ acting like they’re able to afford $500 Ulta makeup bills every month by selling birds to the feed store for five dollars a head. As the dad you gotta be a little heartless and put your foot down on flock size before it all spirals out of control
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2023-09-22 04:03:22
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