we raisekeep chickens. did the calculation a couple years ago (eggs/week / feed/week) and it was essentially break even, but I think the eggs are better (store bought eggs have super pale yolks). We feed them a mix of feed and kitchen scraps (trimmings of produce etc). Now its a good price from what I read in the news, but if you include labor, its probably not worth it or you would pay yourself next to nothing.
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raisekeep chickens. did the calculation a couple years ago (eggs/week / feed/week) and it was essentially break even, but I think the eggs are better (store bought eggs have super pale yolks). We feed them a mix of feed and kitchen scraps (trimmings of produce etc). Now its a good price from what I read in the news, but if you include labor, its probably not worth it or you would pay yourself next to nothing.Oh yeah, I consider myself unpaid labor so that’s ok. XD Do you mean that you also sell the chickens? Or just that you raise them from chicks?
sorry, misspoke. we keep chickens for eggs.
And plus you’ve got fair-trade ethically-sourced cruelty-free local eggs. Those aren’t cheap.
But you get chickems! They are their own reward.