Comment on More chickens!

• yuri@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  everyone i know with chickens in town isn’t hatching anyway. you need more space and a LOT more effort.

  anyway their lifespan is long enough that you can use your egg-savings to buy new birds and still end up spending less money than if you’d just been buying eggs the whole time.

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  • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Makes sense. I live in a very different environment. People walk their cows around and usually let their goats and chickens roam around free during the day and they come home before night. There’s no freedom of speech really but there’s a lot of freedom that doesn’t exist in more developed places. Like today I can buy a plot and set up a completely off grid house with a whole farm without any permits whatsoever for anything.

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    • yuri@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      i don’t mind the chicken setup specifically because it means farmers around here get to raise extra birds and sell em directly to city folk for a way higher profit than they’d get otherwise. to be fully transparent tho, my town allows something like 5 hens and 1 rooster per household, so we COULD hatch. reckon people just don’t want the hassle haha

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