Feed Price Outlook

[Yardfulla poopers]

A little more on topic for the subject than my last post, I have grown millet, wheat, corn and barley and just let it dry on the stalk, then let the chickens in the garden to supplement their feed. All are easy to grow but a pain to harvest and hull. So keeping the chickens out while they grow and letting them in come harvest time works great.

 

[allosaurusrock]

I agree. I went to get a few more more chicks as I do every year and it was like old-time black Friday. I was 5th in line and those ahead of me were buying 20 or 30 and asking me for advice on brooding!! There will be lots of hens/roosters for sale soon or being dropped in the countryside for us farms to absorb.

20-30 chicks on someone’s first go is crazy behavior. Those poor birds.

 

[Yardfulla poopers]

20-30 chicks on someone’s first go is crazy behavior. Those poor birds.

Agreed. People panic buy with no idea how to care for them or how much care they need and deserve.

 

[Cindy in PA]

I bought 12 chicks in 1993 after reading an 8-page story in Organic Gardening Magazine. All the basics were there. Good food, clean water & a secure coop. I have seen the buying of chicks in 2009, 2020-21 & now. Each time I think these people will give them up pronto, but I have never seen it happen. I have seen people housing hens in too small a space, diapering them & leashing them. It's not how I started out. My DH built an 8 by 8 coop that is still in use today. Chicken keeping is only as complicated as you make it. Had this forum been in existence in 1993, I probably would have given up on chickens. Just so many problems, but then negative stuff is mostly what is posted everywhere. If you are having a good run with what you're doing, you don't have a reason to be on the forum. Enjoy the chickens.