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Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?

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310 points greenie_beans | 2 comments | 19 Feb 25 21:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.477s | source
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ezekg ◴[19 Feb 25 21:50 UTC] No.43108210[source]▶
Build vs buy. You can be me and build an in-house flock, pay $100/mo in feed, $500 for a livestock guard dog, $100/mo for dog food, $500 for a solar electric fence, and then $500 for a few coops, etc. It'll pay off before I'm dead, I think! -- right?

Right?!

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medellin ◴[19 Feb 25 23:15 UTC] No.43109006[source]▶
As usual when the MBAs get involved the build price magically becomes 10x what the actual cost is.
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1. triceratops ◴[19 Feb 25 23:20 UTC] No.43109044[source]▶
That's why you don't send your chickens to business school
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2. amatecha ◴[19 Feb 25 23:24 UTC] No.43109096[source]▶
hahaha, thank you, I needed a laugh :)