Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Sally PB]

Oh! Big news! A FIRST!

Snowbird took a leaf of spinach from my fingers today at snack time. He looked like he was reaching for it a couple times, but one of the girls got it. He wasn't avoiding me and running away, so I kept trying, and BINGO!

He did drop it right away, but still.

 

[riss]

We decided we are going to be getting chickens again due to the price of eggs and miss having them. Does anyone close around the southwestern part of Michigan breed? We want to get chicks but will get them from TSC if have to

 

[Sally PB]

https://www.yellowpages.com/kalamazoo-mi/poultry-hatcheries
Try this and see if any of the listings have what you want.

 

[aart]

We decided we are going to be getting chickens again due to the price of eggs and miss having them. Does anyone close around the southwestern part of Michigan breed? We want to get chicks but will get them from TSC if have to

You know that it's not cheaper, right?
Especially if you start with chicks and have to feed them for 6 months before you even get an egg.

The few eggs I'm getting now....EACH egg costs more than a dozen at the grocery.

 

[Sally PB]

Yeah, but do you get warm fuzzies from petting the store bought egg carton?

 

[aart]

Yeah, but do you get warm fuzzies from petting the store bought egg carton?

No, but.....they said it was due to the price of eggs

 

[Sally PB]

they said it was due to the price of eggs

Yeah. I think I'm getting mine for about 20 cents apiece atm, just for the feed cost:

$23/50 lbs of feed. Lasts about a month for 7 chickens.
23 dollars divided by 210 chicken feed-days (30 x 7) = 11 cents/day/chicken
I get about 4 or 5 eggs a week.
77/4 = 19.25 each

So I get a dozen for $2.31 feed cost.

Now, factor in what we have in the coop/run/feeder/waterer/etc. No idea what my eggs have cost me.

 

[aart]

Yeah. I think I'm getting mine for about 20 cents apiece atm, just for the feed cost:

$23/50 lbs of feed. Lasts about a month for 7 chickens.
23 dollars divided by 210 chicken feed-days (30 x 7) = 11 cents/day/chicken
I get about 4 or 5 eggs a week.
77/4 = 19.25 each

So I get a dozen for $2.31 feed cost.

Now, factor in what we have in the coop/run/feeder/waterer/etc. No idea what my eggs have cost me.

Quicker estimate:
23.00 divided by 20 eggs in the month the feed lasts is 1.19 per egg.

I have a spread sheet set up, eggs counted daily, cost tallied for each bag of feed.
Also used to tally sales(none since Sept) and other sheets list supplies and other expenditures.

 

[Sally PB]

23.00 divided by 20 eggs in the month the feed lasts is 1.19 per egg.

Oh geez... You're right, of course. SMH at myself.

Well, on the bright side, I'm eating $14.28/doz eggs! Living the high life!

 

[aart]

Oh geez... You're right, of course. SMH at myself.

Well, on the bright side, I'm eating $14.28/doz eggs! Living the high life!

Actually I keyed in wrong...and you multiplied wrong.
1.15 per egg...so 13.80 per dozen.