Managing flock in Collapsing Economy: Bye Bye Birdies.

[FourPawz]

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I'd like to ask you a favor. Click on the link in my signature. There you will see how desperately poor people are provided with chicks, chicks that change their lives for the better and not only provide them with food, but provide them with a product to sell or trade. If the economy gets worse, there are ways to keep chickens. They can eat leftovers and you can buy day old bread to supplement their diet.

If the economy gets really bad it might not be feasible to keep huge numbers of chickens but having a flock of 5 to 10 could mean a steady supply of eggs and that old depression standby, "Sunday chicken".

Take care, and I hope this makes you a bit more optimistic.

 

[noitulover]

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I'd like to ask you a favor. Click on the link in my signature. There you will see how desperately poor people are provided with chicks, chicks that change their lives for the better and not only provide them with food, but provide them with a product to sell or trade. If the economy gets worse, there are ways to keep chickens. They can eat leftovers and you can buy day old bread to supplement their diet.

If the economy gets really bad it might not be feasible to keep huge numbers of chickens but having a flock of 5 to 10 could mean a steady supply of eggs and that old depression standby, "Sunday chicken".

Take care, and I hope this makes you a bit more optimistic.

good post! my DH's family kept chickens through the Depression and made it out just fine! In fact, we keep our chickens in that SAME coop

 

[UrbanGrower]

On the contrary, we have the advantage. We are smaller, more versatile, and more efficient (although not when considering labor). There is no middle man and our eggs/birds will be in high demand as the system we've grown so accustomed to, one built around oil, changes as it fails. It'll be hard no doubt. However, the new system will be stronger and better. Like the threads of a rope, we will be numerous. We will be intertwined, essential to each other. My personal experience is that more and more people are eager to help push things local, and the best place to start is with our food. I don't want a corporation in control of what I eat, reaping undeserved benefits by skimming profits from something so sacred and essential as providing food.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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OMG I about choked on my lunch! Good thing I wasn't drinking anything or it would have been all over my computer.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Having chickens and a garden is the way to live- economy up or economy down.

Don't be afraid!

 

[ARose4Heaven]

I've got 20 acres of Iowa hillside, a little timber, a pond down in the hollow and at least 2 water wells on the place. I am not gonna starve or be fearful of my neighbors. Farm folk survive. It has always been that way. Even if the doom-n-gloom worst-case scenario happens...we may get tossed from our comfort-zone, but we will bloom where we are planted.

 

[Happy Chooks]

When Germany had hyperinflation in the 1920's, people who had chickens were able to pay off their houses. Their prices went up 42% per DAY. Sadly, with our government devaluing our currency, we are headed in the same direction. Amazing how history repeats itself.


Your loan arrangement is promise to pay in American Dollars, no matter how worthless they are in the future.

 

[UrbanGrower]

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I'm jealous.

 

[Whispering Winds]

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Amen. What about the tomato in Gurney's and some of the other catalogs called the "mortgage payer" or "mortgage lifter". . .depression era story. WE WILL SURVIVE this economy. This isn't the first time it has happened and it won't be the last. I worry about food and our independent truckers, because if they shut down we shut down, but this is the time to stand up to the plate and become more and more self-sufficient. My DH is disabled but is talking about getting beef and hogs to help us in rough times ahead. My motto in life is always have a plan. We need to start another thread on here about bare bones survival.

 

[UrbanGrower]

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Amen. What about the tomato in Gurney's and some of the other catalogs called the "mortgage payer" or "mortgage lifter". . .depression era story. WE WILL SURVIVE this economy. This isn't the first time it has happened and it won't be the last. I worry about food and our independent truckers, because if they shut down we shut down, but this is the time to stand up to the plate and become more and more self-sufficient. My DH is disabled but is talking about getting beef and hogs to help us in rough times ahead. My motto in life is always have a plan. We need to start another thread on here about bare bones survival.

Food, water, shelter and energy. But, you can't really do anything without a decent piece of turf.