- Nov 28, 2010
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Buckeyechicken, I've found there are alot of things that our Grandparents did that if followed today wouldn't be as practical. Sadly, the days of the healthy 25¢ chicks from a hatchery are long gone, at least at the level that most individuals would be purchasing them. Of course, you can still find bargain basement birds at auctions and swap meets and such, but since the health is so often questionable, often as not they are no bargain. For the most part, breeders of heritage fowl want their birds to be self reproducing, they want to eliminate having to start all over every year. In that sense, I think what Knitty was pointing out is that putting a priority on eating eggs over live chicks would be a false economy, especially considering the cost of a dozen eggs vs the price of a dozen chicks.