Why my eggs taste better then everyone elses!

[Troyerbuilding]

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I agree. A simple chicken adobe can be achieved by a healthy load of horse dung and straw.

..deep in the heart of Texas!!

 

[wombat]

Somehow, a pile of horse dung would not fit in so well in my neighborhood. That and it rains like you're gonna need an ark at least once or twice a month, and I don't think horse dung and straw would work out so well in that environment.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

My hubby and I both thank you for the great belly laugh after reading this. And we both agree!! We have to have the best tasting eggs ever because we've darned near spent a small fortune on those 6 hens, one rooster, laying feed, scratch grains, oyster shell, etc etc.

I love a person with a great sense of humor!!

Laurie

 

[jbowen9]

Shoot i say 18 bucks a egg i would say that is a great deal to alot of us. Sad part about it is you will have to have more chickens because they lay a different color egg or you just like the way they look so look forward for that egg price to go up in the future. Last but not least is expensive chicks some me included has 150 or 200 bucks in a chick time you pay for shipping buying the eggs and then hatching 2 or 3 and they die so you order more then 1 hatches and ta da 150 dollar chick it grows up then someones stupid dog or something else usually kills it first before it kills the others.

 

[Big C]

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Should have said:
natural to your environment to your flocks environment

Your flock adapts to your environment if raised there. Provide the essentials with plenty of natural surroundings and they will take care of themselves without much inteference into their normal daily lives.

 

[Beekissed]

I don't believe I would have chickens if they costed me that much. But then, some folks don't worry about cost like I do, so each to his own.

I'm a very frugal person and try to repurpose, or recycle, items to keep costs down. I can't imagine buying all new materials in order to have chickens....or any other animal, for that matter.

I guess this makes my eggs taste better for less money....

 

[feathersnuggles]

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Seriously! And, how many times have I endured my friends pronoucing this bit of good news to me?... "Well, now you've got chickens, you'll have FREE EGGS!"

Umm, sorta.

 

[blackfootfarm]

X$$ for dirt
X$$ for feed
x$$ for meds
Price of home grown eggs........Priceless! LOL!!

 

[chicknjane]

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Seriously! And, how many times have I endured my friends pronoucing this bit of good news to me?... "Well, now you've got chickens, you'll have FREE EGGS!"

Umm, sorta.

Aren't friends wonderful.

Every week my best friend asks me where her free eggs are.

 

[wombat]

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Should have said:
natural to your environment to your flocks environment

Your flock adapts to your environment if raised there. Provide the essentials with plenty of natural surroundings and they will take care of themselves without much inteference into their normal daily lives.

Agreed ... I was being a wise-guy about the horse dung. Adobe is great in the SW.

Ours birds are low maintenance; they generally coop themselves up at night and I only need to send a kid out to count them and close the door for the evening. They know where to hide when they forage, and they have their "routes" they follow, scratching under the pines for bugs. They seem content with their home.

I did put a bit of $$ into the coop, though. We are in an area that is rapidly becoming suburbs. The two large farms down the road have turned into a high-density and very pricey subdividion ($800k townhouses, $1.3mil for single family homes, snooty shops, snooty people). We are still on land zoned mixed residential/Ag, where you can keep livestock as long as you have more than an acre fenced. Nonetheless, we hear people from the development walking their little rat-dogs past, spotting our chickens through the pines than line our property, and saying "Chickens? They can have CHICKENS?" ... yeah, lady, we can have a freakn' bull inside that fence if we want to, and we were here long before you ...

... but anyway, we built a small gable roofed coop, painted it the same color as the house, put on a shingled roof, and tried to make it "fit in." Cost a bit more ... on the other hand, it's insulated, and the cement-fiber siding I used is rated for 50 years. It rains hard here, it's hot and humid in the summer, and we had more snow than Chicago a couple years ago, in spite of being much further south. I tried to build for the weather, and for not having to replace rotting wood every few years. That and years involved in engineering have caused me to over-engineer things. Occupational disease.