Eggs are eggsploding in price and becoming very eggspensive! Beat the cost of living by being more self-sufficient and keeping some chickens!
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It's true! The cost of commercial eggs is rising and that's an eggsistential threat to humanity as we know it. Thankfully, keeping chickens at home is still eggstremely affordable and that's not a beat-up!
What is the round bed wall made of? Those are good looking eggs…look big.
Compost looks good too. What is your typical temp where you are? Where are you. Is property expensive…or not?
Store eggshells are very thin.
I'd have my own little flock of chooks already if I had a yard to keep them in. Renting stinks.
Eggselant upload 😊
I feel like everything is egging me on.
Oh goodness. The "blame government" is so much an overreach. Maybe add how consumers are priced gouged, monopoly on chicken growers, manipulating or mismanagement of supply chain, etc.
If you want to do these shorts be more careful with your words.
Mate , you‘re not funny and you never will be !
Just extremely irritating!
Makes good eggonomic sense.
For Christmas, im asking my parents for a dozen eggs
Eggceptional video!
Looking at getting my own chickens around or shortly after Christmas. But due to being in suburbia I am limited to the number of girls I can have, and of course no rooster. The cost of living in general is hurting everyone. In the process of putting raised garden beds in front yard, less grass to mow. And I have two large, one medium and a small vegepod in the backyard. My dream is to have a backyard like you have Mark, maybe one day.
Build yourself a Black soldier fly larvae bin….you get masses of black fly larvae that the chooks go mad for AND you get liquid gold fertiliser for your garden. It works fantastically for us here in Bundaberg as it runs all year. A 150ltr drum gives us around 250 grams of BF larvae 🐛 per day,which are, dry weight up to 50% crude protein(CP), up to 35% lipids and have an amino acid profile that is similar to that of fishmeal.
Well put…or should I say well pullet?
What BS. Most people don't live on a farm where they can do what you do. where do i keep chickens in my apartment you wanker?
As always – an eggshellent episode!
This post gave me a bit of an eggsistential crisis.
got the council peaking over my fence and sending me letters here in south Wales UK. Have local authorities gone bananas over bird flue over there too? About 4-5 years ago I did get a few bird flue deaths, but nothing since then. But their peaking over my fence because I'm letting them free in the garden for a few hours every other day……used to be all day every day….the poor things, I didn't get them to lock them up 🙂 Also the mess they make when indoors too much is not easy for a pregnant lady to clean up 🙂
Someone mentioned BSF larvae, here’s what you do. Just start an outdoor compost bin that is fueled with a good supply of brown materials, then add the complimentary percentage of fruits and vegetables. The fruits and veg will lure black soldier flies as it decays. They lay their eggs on the decaying material, the eggs hatch in the fruit/veg and larvae start feeding on it, along with red worms and other decay processors. Collect the BSF and red worms to feed the chickens. Along with the fruit/veg that you are already feeding the chickens. If you live in a warm or temperate climate, you will produce bunches. Gives the chickens a nutrient dense diet. Look up black soldier fly larvae on YouTube, there are tons of them about producing them.
Of course his eggs are expensive. More so than a carton at the store. His expense is in time, chickens, upkeep. I get what he's saying and he's right but there is quite a bit of expense involved.
And you really don't know the condition of the animal, fowl or fish. I've seen breasts of chicken the size of turkeys. The time of artificial food and artificial intellect are here. Thank you for sharing!!!
that's right
In the UK six organic eggs are £2. What’s the savings over a year?