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Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?

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310 points greenie_beans | 1 comments | 19 Feb 25 21:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | 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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tboyd47 ◴[19 Feb 25 22:21 UTC] No.43108497[source]▶
Let's say you have 40 chickens that lay 1 egg per day. Egg prices are $5 a dozen. You tell me.
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Blackthorn ◴[19 Feb 25 23:10 UTC] No.43108964[source]▶
It depends. Is your name Gaston?
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1. relaxing ◴[19 Feb 25 23:50 UTC] No.43109348[source]▶
I am roughly the size of a barge…