Why have a backyard flock when you can buy Extra Large Eggs for 73 cents per dozen?

[Isadora]

I watched a homesteading YouTube video of a couple that had Guinea hens. They hated them and said they would never get them again because they made so much noise. And as to tick control, their Guinea hens spent most of their time in their neighbors lot instead of their own, so they did not do much for tick control where needed for the couple around their house. All the time the video was filming, the Guinea hens were screaming in the background. Kind of funny.

I saw that video, too.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I thought you were just kidding, but I looked up the breed and Deathlayers is the common name of the Westfalische Totleger. So that is a real bird breed, although I have never heard of them. Anyway, on the website, you can order them for $74 for 9 hatchiling eggs, or min 8 chicks at $55.00 each!

No wonder they are called Deathlayers. Dear Wife would have my head if I paid $440.00 and only got 8 chicks in the mail!

LOL and I wouldnt blame her! I didnt realize they cost so much.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

LOL and I wouldnt blame her! I didnt realize they cost so much.

They're very exotic in the state's, having been a recent import, and they're quite fragile too, which makes adults hard to find as well, which means it's harder to even make fertile eggs, let alone hatch and raise them up

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I watched a homesteading YouTube video of a couple that had Guinea hens. They hated them and said they would never get them again because they made so much noise. And as to tick control, their Guinea hens spent most of their time in their neighbors lot instead of their own, so they did not do much for tick control where needed for the couple around their house. All the time the video was filming, the Guinea hens were screaming in the background. Kind of funny.

They may have been in the neighbor's yard because they'd already cleaned up in their own home yard.

 

[CKfarm22]

I don’t personally eat the eggs i get from my chickens. But my mom uses them for cooking and my boyfriends mom eats them pretty much everyday. Both have said that our eggs don’t have that “egg smell” like the ones you buy from the grocery store

 

[Iluveggers]

1.The chickens are pets. I’d rather be outside with them then doing anything else. They get my son outside and away from video gsmes (he loves them too).

2.I refuse to buy eggs from a factory farm and support the inhumane life and conditions of those chickens. If we don’t have eggs, I buy from my neighbor & her flock or the farm stand 10 minutes up the road (their chickens are always free ranging when I stop there.) I would not even use free eggs from those conditions (I would give them away). I buy all my meat from local farmers as well (zero factory farm support in my house…livestock need access to pasture and a happy life outside).

3. They actually are healthier! https://backyardboost.co/2021/06/11/benefits-of-farm-fresh-eggs/

 

[BleuSaphir]

I watched a homesteading YouTube video of a couple that had Guinea hens. They hated them and said they would never get them again because they made so much noise. And as to tick control, their Guinea hens spent most of their time in their neighbors lot instead of their own, so they did not do much for tick control where needed for the couple around their house. All the time the video was filming, the Guinea hens were screaming in the background. Kind of funny.

Are you referring to Living Traditions Homestead? God their story crack me up! LOL

 

[BigBlueHen53]

1.The chickens are pets. I’d rather be outside with them then doing anything else. They get my son outside and away from video gsmes (he loves them too).

2.I refuse to buy eggs from a factory farm and support the inhumane life and conditions of those chickens. If we don’t have eggs, I buy from my neighbor & her flock or the farm stand 10 minutes up the road (their chickens are always free ranging when I stop there.) I would not even use free eggs from those conditions (I would give them away). I buy all my meat from local farmers as well (zero factory farm support in my house…livestock need access to pasture and a happy life outside).

3. They actually are healthier! https://backyardboost.co/2021/06/11/benefits-of-farm-fresh-eggs/

Well put! I battle depression, anxiety and a host of physical issues; sometimes my chickens are all that motivate me to get up and get outside to get a little fresh air, sunshine and exercise. They truly are therapeutic!

 

[Iluveggers]

Well put! I battle depression, anxiety and a host of physical issues; sometimes my chickens are all that motivate me to get up and get outside to get a little fresh air, sunshine and exercise. They truly are therapeutic!

When I brooded my first group of chicks I was the first one in the house up…I’m usually the last! I couldn’t wait to get downstairs and check on my babies just like a momma hen! (I don’t worry as much now but they still get me moving when I don’t want to.

 

[gtaus]

1.The chickens are pets. I’d rather be outside with them then doing anything else. They get my son outside and away from video gsmes (he loves them too).

My chickens are not my pets, but I sure do enjoy them. Plus, I get fresh eggs. I used to raise rabbits for meat, but prefer raising chickens as I get eggs for a few years before I have to replace them.

Children should be outside playing with others or doing something productive with their backyard flock instead of going brain dead playing video games. In my day, we only had Pong, and that was too addictive. I think I would be a video zombie if I had the game options that are available to kids now. I'm glad I did not have that option.

2.I refuse to buy eggs from a factory farm and support the inhumane life and conditions of those chickens.

No doubt my chickens have a much better life than caged chickens or even chickens raised cage free but in conditions that they can hardly move around in the barn because there are so many of them in a small space.

3. They actually are healthier!

I like to think that, too. I know the egg yolks of my backyard chickens are a darker orange than the pale yellow yolk of store bought eggs. Also, my chickens have lots of grass clippings, kitchen scraps, and "free range" of the chicken run compost which provides all kinds of bugs and worms for them.