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Title: Any of you raise chickens for eggs and shit?
Post by: Rman on September 06, 2020, 09:36:16 PM
Seems like a cool hobby.  Anyone do this? I always loved farm fresh eggs. The chicken coops must stink like high heaven tho.
Title: Re: Any of you raise chickens for eggs and shit?
Post by: thisismyusername on September 06, 2020, 09:41:41 PM
Seems like a cool hobby.  Anyone do this? I always loved farm fresh eggs. The chicken coops must stink like high heaven tho.

Not if you free-range. But then you have crap all around.
Title: Re: Any of you raise chickens for eggs and shit?
Post by: archnemesis on September 07, 2020, 12:46:02 AM
I've been tempted to both grow crops and look after a few animals, but I it simply requires more effort than I'm willing to spend. A single hen can produce 200+ eggs per year. You probably want about five hens and a rooster to keep them happy. The stress of having to take care of them would quickly outweigh the free food.
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Post by: MMaRsu on September 07, 2020, 04:32:47 AM
i dont collect the eggs but I use the shit so yeah
Title: Re: Any of you raise chickens for eggs and shit?
Post by: Mr Gilhaney on September 07, 2020, 06:36:52 AM
When I was a kid, my parents had chickens. Hated them. Weird dinosaurs creatures.
Title: Re: Any of you raise chickens for eggs and shit?
Post by: tiesto on September 07, 2020, 05:41:08 PM
My girlfriend's dad has about 24 chickens, he raises them for eggs and meat. They're cool but they smell baaaaad...
Title: Re: Any of you raise chickens for eggs and shit?
Post by: Cauliflower Of Love on September 07, 2020, 11:43:21 PM
I would totally be a farmer.
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Post by: kingv on September 08, 2020, 01:57:19 AM
I’m only really interested in the eggs.
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Post by: BIONIC on September 08, 2020, 02:00:08 AM
I’m only really interested in the eggs.

:shaq
Title: Re: Any of you raise chickens for eggs and shit?
Post by: Don Rumata on September 08, 2020, 02:52:28 AM
When i lived outside the city, we had a bunch of 'em (among other animals). Yeah can confirm the smell is bad, but the amount of eggs they produce is uncanny.
Title: Re: Any of you raise chickens for eggs and shit?
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on September 08, 2020, 03:49:41 AM
Maybe when all my kids are out of diapers.
Title: Re: Any of you raise chickens for eggs and shit?
Post by: HardcoreRetro on September 08, 2020, 04:51:44 AM
When i lived outside the city, we had a bunch of 'em (among other animals). Yeah can confirm the smell is bad, but the amount of eggs they produce is uncanny.

The smell mostly depends on how often you clean the coop.
Title: Re: Any of you raise chickens for eggs and shit?
Post by: Clockwork5 on September 08, 2020, 11:22:18 AM
No but my neighbor started to and now my dog can’t go in the back yard without having a breakdown. She wants to murder those birds so bad. It actually REALLY sucks.
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Post by: Joe Molotov on September 08, 2020, 11:30:54 AM
I raise chickens for the chicken milk.
Title: Re: Any of you raise chickens for eggs and shit?
Post by: Rman on September 08, 2020, 04:06:00 PM
My girlfriend's dad has about 24 chickens, he raises them for eggs and meat. They're cool but they smell baaaaad...
Did he get a rooster for them?

Those things are loud AF
Title: Re: Any of you raise chickens for eggs and shit?
Post by: team filler on September 08, 2020, 06:36:43 PM
never count your chickens before they shit  ;)
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Post by: El Babua on September 08, 2020, 06:48:37 PM
Free range chickens taste good af.
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Post by: team filler on September 08, 2020, 06:50:17 PM
love me some grass fed chickens
Title: Re: Any of you raise chickens for eggs and shit?
Post by: Don Rumata on September 08, 2020, 08:33:50 PM
When i lived outside the city, we had a bunch of 'em (among other animals). Yeah can confirm the smell is bad, but the amount of eggs they produce is uncanny.

The smell mostly depends on how often you clean the coop.
For sure that's part of it, but they tended to make a mess even in the area of garden they had to walk around in.
Title: Re: Any of you raise chickens for eggs and shit?
Post by: thisismyusername on September 08, 2020, 08:51:08 PM
My girlfriend's dad has about 24 chickens, he raises them for eggs and meat. They're cool but they smell baaaaad...
Did he get a rooster for them?

Those things are loud AF

Yeah, if you're in a city, definitely don't do chickens unless your neighbors are good with having a rooster around (and maybe get the "spur" broken, but they come back to where you'd have to do that often if you cared about them possibly being aggressive).