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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: 0.203s | 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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1. matwood ◴[20 Feb 25 08:24 UTC] No.43112340[source]▶
Did you factor in the cameras and 10g Ethernet you ran to the coop for ‘future proofing’? Hehe. It’s ok to have hobby, and if you get eggs out of it, even better.