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I just read it, your reply was what she needed to hear.
After I read that she was gonna keep the hens after they stopped laying all I could think about was the 13 Roos we just butchered and sent to freezer camp a few hours ago.
There is no way she could make a business off of chickens that are spent. She would have to have like 4 jobs just to feed the 300! I would go crazy doing that. And the space she wanted to house them in.
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Redhead Rae said:
Thanks, it hasn't been too bad yet, just annoying, but I need more sleep and he doesn't need to nurse at night anymore, he just wants to.

There isn't much of a market out here, people can't afford it. I'd rather have it going for a good cause.
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Oh understand the annoying part of it... I was prego when I weaned her, I didn't want to be feeding 2 lol

And I agree, at least you can pump and provide it to someone who needs it. I have never been able to pump enough for much... I think my mind messes with me. ​
 
Hope Hughes said:
And I agree, at least you can pump and provide it to someone who needs it. I have never been able to pump enough for much... I think my mind messes with me.​
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This stash is what is left over from when I was dealing with an over supply. My son won't drink breastmilk from anything but the source, so this milk has just been sitting in the freezer, getting older.
 
I like you @Hope Hughes
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Redhead Rae said:
This stash is what is left over from when I was dealing with an over supply. My son won't drink breastmilk from anything but the source, so this milk has just been sitting in the freezer, getting older.
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Yea mine don't seem to like the bottles too much so why make them! It's so much easier to feed them and I don't have to carry a bunch of crap and clean extra stuff.

CapricornFarm said:
And we need pictures please, Hope!
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I will post some in the am :D


TexasSam said:
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I like you too, Sam!!

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Rae, I only read a little bit of the homesteading via egg sales, and I was like :eek::thThey definitely need to branch out with how they want to make their money, and um, yeah, 300 actively laying birds on a quarter acre, they would have animal control or their local animal cruelty prevention people out there. There would be massive complaints because there's no way that they can deal with the conditions that would result. They may as well just put up a warehouse and keep all the chickens in it, it would end up being the same thing anyway... no room to free range, the only insects they forage would be the lucky catches of flies at beak level, no way to move around comfortably, etc. And then there is the start up and maintenance cost, because I don't recall seeing anything about including eggs for hatching to keep the laying number up, and if hatching, what about all the roos that they would end up with...

I know people want to be self sufficient, but in this case, this person is literally trying to put all their eggs in one basket. I hope they take all of the responses to heart and rethink their plans and strategies, cuz, oi vey.
 
Anansi said:
And then there is the start up and maintenance cost, because I don't recall seeing anything about including eggs for hatching to keep the laying number up, and if hatching, what about all the roos that they would end up with...

I know people want to be self sufficient, but in this case, this person is literally trying to put all their eggs in one basket. I hope they take all of the responses to heart and rethink their plans and strategies, cuz, oi vey.
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That's the best part, they are vegetarian and want their girls to have a "forever home" and doesn't want to adopt older birds out unless the people they adopt them out to want to keep them forever. They also don't want to keep any roosters because they don't want fertile eggs. I told them straight up that if they get 300 birds they are for dang sure getting a couple roosters. Most hatcheries only guarantee sexing to be 90% accurate. I also told them that if they are doing this to be humane, they really aren't because they are participating in the death of the day old roosters they didn't buy by proxy.
 

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