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643 points throwaway5752 | 2 comments | 05 Feb 25 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.643s | source
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joe8756438 ◴[05 Feb 25 17:18 UTC] No.42951836[source]▶
I’ve got a flock, not counting infrastructure my costs are tied directly to feed. I source local non-gmo and herbicide free grains. My cost is about $3/doz. It’s unusual to be so close to a farm that produces the variety of grain at that level of quality.

A local farm that produces on a large scale and sources grain from the same farm charges $8/doz. Seems totally fair, if not a little too cheap.

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1. chneu ◴[05 Feb 25 17:51 UTC] No.42952361[source]▶
Almost nobody has the space/time/money/skills to do this.
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2. prawn ◴[07 Feb 25 01:33 UTC] No.42968299[source]▶
I think that is exaggerating things. Whether the trade off for eggs to build/effort exists is arguable, but there are ways to build hoop-coops quite affordably and easily. Most people with a backyard could accommodate one and anyone remotely competent could build one in a day.