What a great, inexpensive hobby
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Or eat a horse apple ..
Or eat a horse apple ..
LOL I would agree great little hobby, inexpensive I would have to disagree.......... I have 43 chicks/chickens, 9 and 18 weeks, used recycled materials for most of the coop and pen, and I have spent way more than I first thought it would cost, between chicks, feeders, waters, fencing, screws, nails, posts, hardware cloth, ect, I have to date spent about a grand................ I did not want to spend over 300 dollars..........well I'm a bit over that. but hers the very expensive spoiled babies in there run and coop. Thery are happy but It take me years to come out on payment.
here was the original Idea.
here was the original Idea.
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I love it!
See most of the cost comes from the initial set up and add ons which are optional. There's nothing saying that you HAVE to build a bigger coop or HAVE to get more chickens. It's a decision you make because you love it. But when it comes to horses, you've got the initial cost of over $1000 per horse and building a barn and fences if needed and then there's all kinds of stuff that are required to keep up with the horses. They have to need to have feet done, they need shots, they need need need need need.
I could stop buying more chickens and be happy with my one coop and run and have lots of fun and what not and be out very little money. Will I do that? Probably not. But I still come out cheaper than most hobbies people get into, not just horses.
Of course it depends on if you're buying show quality birds and breeding for high standards, etc or if you've got a bunch of loveable mutts that you paid $1.50 for from a hatchery. Yes it could be expensive but it can also be very inexpensive.
Because of my new obsession with chickens and how much easier they are than horses we are actually selling our mare/foal and another broodmare. We'll only be keeping one riding horse for me and one for my BF and my dad's horses that we're taking care of while he's in the hospital. There's the donkey but he's guarding the horses from the pack of dogs that roams our area.
I guess my meaning is: anybody with a few bucks can raise chickens and have a great hobby
See most of the cost comes from the initial set up and add ons which are optional. There's nothing saying that you HAVE to build a bigger coop or HAVE to get more chickens. It's a decision you make because you love it. But when it comes to horses, you've got the initial cost of over $1000 per horse and building a barn and fences if needed and then there's all kinds of stuff that are required to keep up with the horses. They have to need to have feet done, they need shots, they need need need need need.
I could stop buying more chickens and be happy with my one coop and run and have lots of fun and what not and be out very little money. Will I do that? Probably not. But I still come out cheaper than most hobbies people get into, not just horses.
Of course it depends on if you're buying show quality birds and breeding for high standards, etc or if you've got a bunch of loveable mutts that you paid $1.50 for from a hatchery. Yes it could be expensive but it can also be very inexpensive.
Because of my new obsession with chickens and how much easier they are than horses we are actually selling our mare/foal and another broodmare. We'll only be keeping one riding horse for me and one for my BF and my dad's horses that we're taking care of while he's in the hospital. There's the donkey but he's guarding the horses from the pack of dogs that roams our area.
I guess my meaning is: anybody with a few bucks can raise chickens and have a great hobby
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Yep, I laughed when I read that too!
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Yep, I laughed when I read that too!
Weeeell, it CAN be inexpensive! Especially when comparing to something like cows or horses! It is a relatively cheap'er' farming hobby
And so Very VERY worth it!
I'm glad we got started!
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Yes that is what I'm trying to say! lol. Anything can be expensive if you make it that way but there are some things are just expensive period and there's no way for them not to be, ie: horses.
Chickens can be expensive but they can easily be cheap too
Chickens can be expensive but they can easily be cheap too
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Yes! Exactly!
I won't be taking any birds to the vet either unless it's my one special chicken. But even then I would hesitate. I'll do what I can for the bird myself and hope for the best.
Yes! Exactly!
I won't be taking any birds to the vet either unless it's my one special chicken. But even then I would hesitate. I'll do what I can for the bird myself and hope for the best.
Yes, compared to other animals, it's inexpensive. But then comes the obsession. You will just have to have one of those breeds, and of course if you want to hatch, you have to have a nice incubator, nothing cheap, you want a good hatch. Hatching is an addiction of it's own of course. And if one get's sick, and they will, you have to treat the whole flock, not just one chicken. Let's see what else I have experienced since I started my "inexpensive hobby". Brooders, yep got to have one of those too, if you hatch chicks to sell. And the list goes on. I wouldn't trade my hobby for anything else. It all depends on your ability to control yourself. See I wanted one of every kind of chicken there is, which there in lies the problem. Of course if you have great self control you're all set. I'm just a weak ole crazy chicken lady!
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