How many chickens would you need to keep to supply all the meat and eggs your family eats?

[Shadrach]

You're trying to make definitive claims though.

Potatoes need an acre to make 10lbs because I said so. Therefore, nobody should bother growing their own potatoes because I said this.

This is your argument.
This argument is stupid.

Produce an accurate model that reflects reality and not whatever garbage your model is and make your argument from there.

You're getting a bit offensive now.

 

[FortCluck]

I'll say I'm raising 50 chickens, 4 turkeys, 50 quail, 20 ducks, and hunting 2 deer (we can get up to 5 per person so technically my husband and I could get 10) to supply a year's worth of meat for my family... That includes my parents who don't live here. We are a family of 3 (technically 4, but I'm not a meat eater)... Not including my parents that are getting some of this meat. Include my dogs in this too, they eat meat a few times a week.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

You're getting a bit offensive now.

The claims about providing for the family and not supporting the meat industry are self righteous delusional nonsense. Basically it’s insignificant.

My it must feel terrible to be told that your conclusions are just outright wrong and terrible.

You literally made up a bunch of numbers that we've seen don't reflect reality, and then drew a conclusion from them.
In a world where incubators don't exist, people eat 2-4Xs the amount of chicken and 5Xs the number of eggs they do, where broodies can only have one clutch of four chicks per year, and where companies don't change... You're correct.

But that's literally not reality. So you're not.

(Amusingly, the OP quote is ad hominem - attacking the person. And mine is attacking the argument and is not.)

 

[Molpet]

"An egg a day per person works out as 28 eggs every week 52 weeks of the year. That’s 1456 eggs a year."
Technically true. But who on EARTH eats that many eggs!?

umm I eat 2-6 eggs a day, every day.... boiled, fried and scrambled...
in the spring, I freeze some for use in the winter


also eggs are used in noodles, bread , mayonnaise and lots of things that I don't eat

 

[ChocolateMouse]

umm I eat 2-6 eggs a day, every day.... boiled, fried and scrambled...
in the spring, I freeze some for use in the winter

also eggs are used in noodles, bread , mayonnaise and lots of things that I don't eat

Welp. You are now Gaston. XD But seriously, obviously some people like that exist and so do people who don't eat eggs. I'm pretty sure my BIL eats about 20 eggs a year as just eggs/omelettes/whatever instead of as like part of cakes or something. I know of a body builder that actually does eat 18 eggs a day. (Edit; Here he is! He eats 8-12 eggs for breakfast alone!) But they're outliers, not the average american family. We don't live in a world where most people eats eggs more than a couple times a week or less than a few times a year.

Those numbers I was under the understanding were included in those. Personally I think I have egg noodles like once a year? The majority of america just does NOT eat 1500 eggs a year.

 

[Molpet]

Welp. You are now Gaston. XD But seriously, obviously some people like that exist and so do people who don't eat eggs. I'm pretty sure my BIL eats about 20 eggs a year as just eggs/omelettes/whatever instead of as like part of cakes or something. I know of a body builder that actually does eat 18 eggs a day. But they're outliers, not the average american family. We don't live in a world where most people eats eggs more than a couple times a week or less than a few times a year.

Those numbers I was under the understanding were included in those. Personally I think I have egg noodles like once a year? The majority of america just does NOT eat 1500 eggs a year.

Must be my area... I have several egg customers that buy a dz eggs per person per week

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Must be my area... I have several egg customers that buy a dz eggs per person per week

Lucky. Most of my egg customers buy a dozen every week for two people tops. Most of them buy a dozen every two weeks or a month!

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

We butcher our own pigs, own cows, own chickens, own turkeys. We drink our own milk and eat our own eggs. We have an orchard, berries and a small garden. We still have a huge grocery bill. Guess what I want for Christmas? All the stuff to start making hard aged cheeses at home. I never have enough to do.

 

[CindyinSD]

It's something I should do here but don't. I make bone an bits stew occasional. I don't have canning equipment here. How long does it last in a sealed jar?

You can keep it a long time if you leave the congealed fat on top. I keep it in the fridge in Ball jars or in the freezer in repurposed plastic tubs. DH doesn’t trust home canning of any kind let alone meat products, so for me, that’s just easier, less angst, plus he’ll eat it.

I keep the bones, etc. in the freezer until there’s a nice cool day... not that it matters *that* much since I make my stock/bone broth in a pressure cooker. It’s worth the trouble or I would just give the leftovers back to the chickens without broth making instead of after broth making.

 

[Molpet]

It's something I should do here but don't. I make bone an bits stew occasional. I don't have canning equipment here. How long does it last in a sealed jar?

if you refrigerate, then boil it every 5 days and refrigerate, it will last a month.

before refrigeration parents used to keep it simmering on the wood stove and use it every day, and adding to it every day too... sorta like "pea porridge hot, pea porridge cold, pea porridge in the pot nine days old"