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Eggs sell? What you talkin' about?
Only eggs I was able to sell locally were peafowl eggs & shipped peafowl/chicken eggs ages ago.. other than that eggs were simply given to friends/relatives for free or tossed back to chickens to eat...
Good thing I pretty much have chickens strictly as pet/playing around with genetics...
Helps pay for the feed, except I'm letting my son put in his college fund in exchange for chicken chores. He's 4 so he helps collect eggs and put chickens away at night. The dumb ones who can't figure out they need to go to the coop.
Eggs sell? What you talkin' about?
Good thing I pretty much have chickens strictly as pet/playing around with genetics...
Helps pay for the feed, except I'm letting my son put in his college fund in exchange for chicken chores. He's 4 so he helps collect eggs and put chickens away at night. The dumb ones who can't figure out they need to go to the coop.
But even my hatching eggs goes right back into their food bills-I spend around 75$+ weekly on food and lights and fresh bedding-plus all the supplies for their medicine cabinet-. So the 75-90 I get from my split lavs just covers expenses-its the only way Dh would let me have so many-I was told way back when If I could figure out a way to make enough $ off of them to support themselves I can have as many as I want-within reason. I sell around 4-6 doz eating eggs a week too-so right now-they are supposrting themselves- but....The heating lights arent plugged in yet:-( The electric bills last year far outweighed what I brought in:-( Another reason why I got rid of my NN-How the heck would I keep that sucker warm in 20-30 below weather??? Im trying to stay with very winter hearty breeds
