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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: 0.001s | 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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dgfitz ◴[19 Feb 25 23:22 UTC] No.43109067[source]▶
500/month for a dog? 500 for solar?

Do you need a consultant?

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1. ezekg ◴[20 Feb 25 00:17 UTC] No.43109573[source]▶
Livestock guard dogs are expensive, especially trained ones.
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2. dgfitz ◴[21 Feb 25 02:58 UTC] No.43123495[source]▶
Nope, sure aren’t. Unless you want to buy a fully-trained dog, then sure.

If you plan to raise chickens, but also plan to buy a 5k dog, you probably aren’t mentally prepared for raising livestock.