My meaties practically ran each other over just to get outside. Of course their feeder was outside.
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THat would do it!!My meaties practically ran each other over just to get outside. Of course their feeder was outside.
Food independence is priceless.At a nearby meat market that I frequent, the pastured chickens are $2.89 a pound. This makes a whole chicken nearly $15.
I have rarely gotten lucky and found a 99 cents per pound deal on chicken. I don't always look at the per pound cost when I buy one but I generally spend between $8 and $11 for a grocery store chicken. Since store chickens are not 10 pounders, I am pretty sure I'm spending more than 99 cents. Plus, I don't have a local grocery store. I have to drive 15-20 miles to the nearest one. When I add gas and my time on to that....well.
Anyway, I am happy to be raising my own now and hope not to buy grocery store chicken again. In a way, I don't care what it costs me to raise my little meaties. I feel that raising them is getting me outdoors more, making me more active, allowing me to not support commercial chicken raising practices and going to provide me with delicious healthy chicken that I know where it came from. That far outweighs the costs for me.
Besides, nothing delights me more than those silly little chickens running.....erm waddling across the pasture following me wherever I go. They are living a happy, healthy life as a chicken no matter how short that life is. I just feel like I am doing a good thing for myself, my family and those little chickies.
At a nearby meat market that I frequent, the pastured chickens are $2.89 a pound. This makes a whole chicken nearly $15.
I have rarely gotten lucky and found a 99 cents per pound deal on chicken. I don't always look at the per pound cost when I buy one but I generally spend between $8 and $11 for a grocery store chicken. Since store chickens are not 10 pounders, I am pretty sure I'm spending more than 99 cents. Plus, I don't have a local grocery store. I have to drive 15-20 miles to the nearest one. When I add gas and my time on to that....well.
Anyway, I am happy to be raising my own now and hope not to buy grocery store chicken again. In a way, I don't care what it costs me to raise my little meaties. I feel that raising them is getting me outdoors more, making me more active, allowing me to not support commercial chicken raising practices and going to provide me with delicious healthy chicken that I know where it came from. That far outweighs the costs for me.
Besides, nothing delights me more than those silly little chickens running.....erm waddling across the pasture following me wherever I go. They are living a happy, healthy life as a chicken no matter how short that life is. I just feel like I am doing a good thing for myself, my family and those little chickies.