How much does it cost??? ROFLOL

[herefordlovinglady]

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funny i love this....

 

[sekinkead]

I agree that happiness = priceless. Congrats on the new fuzzy butts and the new house!

 

[AndreaS]

I think I would pay twice as much for these guys if I had to. They are so much fun!

 

[rncmomx2]

My local is running a buy one get one on Purina Layena layer (also Starter and Flock raiser), there 50 lb bag is $10.99-that makes it $5.50 per bag yippie!!!!

 

[Serrin]

Nope! You just can't put a price on this kind of fun and happiness.

I've got 18 in the brooder that I hatched out myself a week ago. I never]/b] expected to get so many from my very first hatch!

So far, the brooder is the bathtub in the new home that we're building ourselves. Since the bathroom is nowhere near done, and it will be months yet before we're ready to move in, it works great as a brooder!

Starter is running right about $10-$12 a 50# bag.

Miscellaneous dishes, bowls, feeders, heat lamp etc, to set up the brooder....about $30.

Eggs were donated from a very kind neighbor who had fertile eggs.

The whole shebang, around $50 into this year's chicks...and I wouldn't trade a single one, or a single moment for all the tea in China!!! Absolutely priceless!!

 

[write2caroline]

Yes, I hear you!

We live in a triple wide in what my son lovingly refers to as RED NECK HELL HOLE so that we can have ELBOW ROOM and wide open spaces. I love that I can have just about any kind of animal I want and not have to consult the homeowners association about ANYTHING!!!!! My immediate neighbors are all very nice and I must say I am loving it here in the middle of no-where. There is a woman that keeps rescued exotic cats not too far away Cattyshack Ranch.

I used to live in a beautiful Californian neighborhood where the homeowners assoc harrassed us about clover in the grass and the backyards that were too close for comfort. I do not miss having to think about what the H.A. is going to think about this or that not one iota!

Of course I never dreamed I would be living in a triple wide either but there is a lot to say about a well built manufactured home and living within our means and not working to pay the mortgage and a lifestyle we weren't really enjoying because we both worked all the time. Now if I can only convince my kids they really do want to attend one of the five fine free military academies life would really be good! - It's not like I am not giving them a choice right? There are five to choose from!!!! FREE IS GOOD!

LOL
Caroline

 

[Serrin]

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I just love this entire post!!! **Nodding vigorously in agreement with all of it** We were once part of a H.O.A. Never again!!! In my humble opinion, H.O.A.'s are nothing more than a bunch of uppity snobs that are dieing to be in control of something...anything...just so that they can make someone else's life just as miserable as their own! Nope! Not for me! Not for my family! Don't fence me in!!! We're soooooo much happier out here in the country!!

OK, sorry to hijack the thread...we now return you to your regularly scheduled postings!!

 

[InsaneBreeder]

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woe woe woe slo down there killer
my grower slash start cost me 11 dollars on sale at tractor supply

My grower/starter was 8.00 at TSC for 50# bag.

What is TSC?

 

[FireTigeris]

Tractor Supply ... um... wells its just like a feed store but bigger...

 

[gryeyes]

I used to ignore any post mentioning TSC or Tractor Supply because I'm an ignorant former Monterey County, California elitist. I may have moved to Sacramento, but a TRACTOR SUPPLY store? Nah. Feed stores, sure. I figured the semi-trucks with TSC plastered all over them were driving THROUGH Sacramento to someplace really, really, rural.

Y'all may slap me now. There's a TSC in Dixon, about 20 miles away from here, and I have been to it twice now. I was able to purchase a horse stall mat for the new coop I'm building. I was able to compare feed brand labels to those I puchase at Bradshaw Feed (my favorite feed store here) and think about any changes I may need to make. I don't intend to buy any chicks there, ever, because I wasn't impressed with the store employees' understanding. But hey, they sell all kinda stuff there; chicks and feed are just a small part of the company's business.

And I am incredibly happy living where one could almost say it was rural. My land-lady owns an acre, she lives in the front house and I live in the back house. She keeps 3 sheep as pets, and let me move in with my four cats and two small dogs. Then she let me build two goldfish ponds. Then raised garden beds. And THEN, keep chickens and now I'm building larger coop for 'em.

Anyway, TSC has some great stuff. The feed is slightly cheaper than what I've been buying, but it's not the same brand(s). I don't know which is better, frankly.

But my first coop cost about $150.00 to build (counting the circular saw and cordless power drill I bought). My second coop was a kit from eBay and I don't want to admit how much I paid for it (but the shipping was free), and I just spent about $300.00 for the materials for the coop I'm now building.

The experience, and learning to use power tools, plus the wonderful, adorable, entertaining, egg-laying chickens I have raised MYSELF from chicks - all this is priceless, indeed.