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flower~power

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Certainly not going to save any money buying chickens as opposed to eggs. Unless you have access to free chicken food. I think we go thru a $18 bag every two weeks or so. Then there is the straw and in my case, my wife likes to feed them dried meal worms at $30-$40 a bag. We tried growing our own meal worms once. Stinky endeavor.
I will say the quality sure is worth it. Maybe if you just 3 or 4 hens it could be a break even situation.
could always get ambitious >>>
“AI Overview
Chickens are a natural, chemical-free way to control pests in gardens and greenhouses.They eat a variety of garden pests, including beetles, caterpillars, slugs, and cabbage worms.Chickens also eat insect eggs and larvae, which can help break the cycle of harmful infestations.

How chickens help with pest control
  • Eat pests
    Chickens have a natural instinct to forage for insects and will eat any bugs they find.

    • Eat eggs and larvae
      Chickens eat insect eggs and larvae, which can help break the cycle of harmful infestations.
    • Turn over soil
      Chickens scratch and peck at the soil, turning it over and aerating it.This prepares the ground for planting and reduces pest numbers in the next year's garden.
    • Fertilize
      Chickens leave fertilizer behind as they scratch through the soil.
What pests chickens eat

Cabbage worms, Grasshoppers, Japanese beetles, June bugs, Slugs, Caterpillars, Beetles, and Weed seeds.
I've kind of always wanted chickens, maybe six. I am at Tractor Supply every week so yeah I know the expense. They will not be getting meal worms though, maybe red wigglers in the summer. My friend from my "youth" grows his own meal worms and even that isn't worth it to me.

I do eat six eggs a day though. I eat a very high protein diet. It will give Buffy the feral cat something to watch as well.
 

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oldmaninbc

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could always get ambitious >>>
“AI Overview
Chickens are a natural, chemical-free way to control pests in gardens and greenhouses.They eat a variety of garden pests, including beetles, caterpillars, slugs, and cabbage worms.Chickens also eat insect eggs and larvae, which can help break the cycle of harmful infestations.

How chickens help with pest control
  • Eat pests
    Chickens have a natural instinct to forage for insects and will eat any bugs they find.

    • Eat eggs and larvae
      Chickens eat insect eggs and larvae, which can help break the cycle of harmful infestations.
    • Turn over soil
      Chickens scratch and peck at the soil, turning it over and aerating it.This prepares the ground for planting and reduces pest numbers in the next year's garden.
    • Fertilize
      Chickens leave fertilizer behind as they scratch through the soil.
What pests chickens eat

Cabbage worms, Grasshoppers, Japanese beetles, June bugs, Slugs, Caterpillars, Beetles, and Weed seeds.
When I had chickens and a garden, I would put a few chickens in my garden area and let them forage in there. They loved those big juicy tomato hornworms. The chickens seemed to do more good than harm.

When I was being scanned in the hospital for asbestosis, unintentionally they found my spleen had been exposed to histoplasmosis. There is a link between cleaning a chicken coup and histoplasmosis.
Probably best to mask up when cleaning a chicken coup. If masks don't get controversial.
 
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unclefishstick

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Another Gray Day of snow flurries. I mean it’s been six weeks or more continuous …it’s hard to stay cheerful without sunlight but I’m doing pretty good…. It was real light therapy going into a packed grow room brightly lit with HPS in the middle of the winter. miss it…(not the drudgery of it, but the positive feelings)
shorts and sandals today,top down on the forklift,sellin' those cubic yards
 

armedoldhippy

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It's kind of like when people talk about "spiking" trees.
spiking trees damages the saws of workers that legally bought the logs for lumber production. spiking mudholes behind gates damages tires of idiots driving illegally & damaging public property because they think rules don't apply to them. one i have sympathy for, the other one? i hope their asshole grows shut...
 

flower~power

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Another gray day! Spent 45 minutes on the phone with the electric company always fun I was going to say it’s like pulling teeth trying to get information out of them (And could relate to that sentiment very well)
 

flower~power

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:oops: "cool hand Luke" could eat fifty boiled eggs...:eek: great movie! i might could eat six a day, but that's gonna be one hell of an omelette for breakfast!
That was a good movie ! I met Paul Newman he lived in Westport Connecticut when I was young was classmates w/ his daughters (went to the grade school I was in in) He even came and gave acting lessons once
 

Jenn

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Another gray day! Spent 45 minutes on the phone with the electric company always fun I was going to say it’s like pulling teeth trying to get information out of them (And could relate to that sentiment very well)
Another one here too. Plus we have been getting like an inch or two of snow everyday. We've got that Polar Vortex coming in again (not sure the first one left) so zero degree temps soon.

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