donrae
Rest in Peace -2017
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Well, you're going to be feeding that hen regardless of if she broods babies or not. It's not like she needs more feed to make milk, like a mammal. You could raise more chicks with a light, true. But a single hen eats, what, four ounces of feed a day? Not sure on that, would have to check with someone who only has a few hens. A fifty pound bag of feed is up to 13.50 for me. At four ounces a day, that bag will last 200 days. That's less than 7cents a day. I'm pretty sure an incubator pulls more than that, and I know a red heat bulb costs more.
So, small scale, go with the broody. If you're going for numbers, artificial would be the way to go.
Well, you're going to be feeding that hen regardless of if she broods babies or not. It's not like she needs more feed to make milk, like a mammal. You could raise more chicks with a light, true. But a single hen eats, what, four ounces of feed a day? Not sure on that, would have to check with someone who only has a few hens. A fifty pound bag of feed is up to 13.50 for me. At four ounces a day, that bag will last 200 days. That's less than 7cents a day. I'm pretty sure an incubator pulls more than that, and I know a red heat bulb costs more.
So, small scale, go with the broody. If you're going for numbers, artificial would be the way to go.
