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I appreciate this. However, having two, or three chickens as pets is doable with restricted commercial feed. What may not be is trying to keep a flock in conditions that are not sustainable without commercially produced feed. Quite a few people where I live keep two or three hens and a rooster...

What happens when that few months worth of feed runs out? The assumption seems to be always, that things will return to how they were.

The model is similar all over Asia and North Africa from what I've seen, albeit many years ago. The important factor is the breed of chicken. The prolific egg producers favoured by many backyard keepers was not the type of chicken I saw.

This is how it seems to work in many other parts of the world. If you can feed yourself, then you can feed your chickens. When the balance for this tips, you eat your chickens. It is a bit simplistic but one of the attractions of chickens as livestock is they are omnivorous, they will eat...

You keep chickens don't you... The feed stores here are not subject to the lockdown and have made provisions for delivery if necessary. Spain is about to go into full lockdown. Some towns are already.

I can't help thinking that's it's threads like this that have erupted on the Internet that are causing the panic buying. So far more people die each day in car accidents. Sure the virus is dangerous, particularly if you're elderly and have respiratory, or cardiac problems. It has actually killed...