Yeah!!! Haha When I have a ton of eggs I make an egg wrap. I add all kinds of things to the eggs like onion, pepper, cheese, tomato, anything really. Then stick it in a flour wrap and it’s so yummy! Especially with sour cream!
Sometimes I’m dyslexic and I read this as100 years ago farmers struggled to get a then-profitable 100 eggs per hen per year -- from Leghorns. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/poultry-for-the-farm-and-home.1443907/
I had a Brahma, the worst layer in my flock, who did better than that.
We do not have our forefathers' chickens.
But if you do manage to reduce your inputs far enough the reduced production *might* yield a net profit. There was a member a while back who was in a very favorable climate who managed a semi-feral flock of game chickens with near-zero input so the eggs he got and the meat he harvested (with a shotgun), were pure profit to him.
Oh, I use the coffee grounds in the garden when there isn’t snow. Tougher to get out there in the winter! Never tried mushrooms although I’ll look into it.
Have you tried fermenting you feed. Basically you cover your feed with water for one to two days. It is supposed to have beneficial for gut health. The feed with soaks up the water which helps reduce the amount you feed. I have only done it twice because my flock didn’t realize care for it.
The feed would soak up water inside the chicken anyway.
My apologies I am just going off what I have been told. I don’t ferment my food, and my flock has 24/7 access to their feed.
and they are just correcting misinformation, so it doesn't get repeated ad infinitum.
