CostcoI'm going to have to start tracking my chicken feed costs. Bought 300# (half scratch, half crumble) for $72 today.
That's a good price on broth, Easterner. I've seen it for 50 cents a can, that's it.
CostcoI'm going to have to start tracking my chicken feed costs. Bought 300# (half scratch, half crumble) for $72 today.
That's a good price on broth, Easterner. I've seen it for 50 cents a can, that's it.
I did the math on both rabbits and chickens and it’s cheaper to buy them than raise your own. UNLESS you have a lot of land where they can forage a lot. Here I had land but too many predators. (Including my own dumb dogs)… but if your pen raising animals it’s for the experience, not the price.I'm going to have to start tracking my chicken feed costs. Bought 300# (half scratch, half crumble) for $72 today.
That's a good price on broth, Easterner. I've seen it for 50 cents a can, that's it.
We raise rabbits, quineas, chickens, and turkeys but have land. I grow food for them, too. But, you know, winter coming. Still they can have all the arugula growing in the greenhouse that husband wanted me to plant and now decided he doesn't like it.
We incubate our own chicken and turkey eggs, raise our own replacer chicks. Use the excess eggs for barter.
Ha, funny about the kale. I still have elephant kale growing outside that husband wanted, but he'll eat it in salad if it's chopped small. The animals eat most of it, and it's been going strong since spring. So I like to grow different greens in the greenhouse this time of year, and it's great till it gets to negative temps. He insisted on the arugula, but I also green mustard spinach, two types of lettuce, and another type of kale which is not as "thick" as the elephant . I get tired of buying iceberg. Not only is it bad quality, it's up to $1.50 a head.
What do you have against water GP?Agree! Iceberg is useless health wise too.
No it isn’t always cheaper to raise your own, but I know what goes into the meat and eggs that go into me, my 5 grandchildren and the rest of our extended family. Ditto with our beef cattle and our dairy cow. The yolks on our eggs are pumpkin orange, our chicken actually tastes like the chicken I grew up on, and the beef is flavorful. I have a huge poultry run with turkeys, geese, ducks and chickens. I feed them a combination of garden surplus, cracked corn, free gleaned wheat, kitchen scraps and layer pellets. Life’s a trade off. I can buy cheap meat/eggs raised God knows where and fed God knows what, or I can walk outside and see exactly what they’re eating, if anyone is acting sick or injured, and that’s more than worth it to me.I did the math on both rabbits and chickens and it’s cheaper to buy them than raise your own. UNLESS you have a lot of land where they can forage a lot. Here I had land but too many predators. (Including my own dumb dogs)… but if your pen raising animals it’s for the experience, not the price.
I keep three cases of chicken, beef and turkey broth each. You can add flavor to everything with the stuff.
What do you have against water GP?
I don't get the hate for iceberg lettuce. It doesn't have anything bad in it, it's mostly wate
We plowed the garden on Sat. and re-filled it a bit with some sand, fertiliser, compost and hay to get it ready for next year. The early potatos, peas, garlic and onions go in deeper than normal and will come up around the end of Feb. Bought the V50 Volvo station wagon finally. Is better than we thought and much more safety items and is also more comfortable than any other car we have ever had.
Shortages are for a reason. The local farmers were pushed out of business for a reason. Our communities are smashed together on small parcels of land for a reason.
We use crooked politicians, bad neighbors and far left democratic voters.For those paying attention (and not using google for searches…use DUCKDUCKGO for Truth) the facts are in plain sight. Their plan that they are on video touting is to reduce the World Population by BILLIONS. They are well into their plan to starve as many as they can. Using the “global warming” scam is key. Has anyone noticed that Fertilizer Plants in the UK and USA have been shut down or greatly reduced? What do you think happens when farmers don’t have fertilizer?
If everything is going to be just fine, why would China be doing this?The hoarding is taking place in China.
According to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, China is expected to have 69% of the globe’s maize reserves in the first half of crop year 2022, 60% of its rice and 51% of its wheat.”
Our plans for this year is to expand our garden, orchard, chicken flock, add rabbits and grow and preserve as much food as possible.
Im not sure what type of rabbits that we'll get, other than meat rabbits. Years ago we had rabbits but most of them were smaller pet type. The wife can make a pet out of anything. Maybe someone can start a rabbit thread...Everyone needs to be following your example! I too am increasing our gardens. Will be adding raised beds soon. Already started gathering the material. Will be adding to the chicken flock in March. Praying it won’t be too late. I do have a backup locally, just in case. Would really like the ones I get from on line though. They lay so many more eggs. The garden shed we are building shortly will be used for the rabbits. What type of rabbits are you adding Arctic?
Anyone else raising rabbits? I’d like to have some information on breed types that work well for homesteaders.
Im not sure what type of rabbits that we'll get, other than meat rabbits. Years ago we had rabbits but most of them were smaller pet type. The wife can make a pet out of anything. Maybe someone can start a rabbit thread...
We're working on our chick order now. We'll get 50-75 meat chickens and probably 25 or so laying chicks plus a couple roosters. We need to pick out layers with short combs to prevent frostbite. We'll place our order next week for a May delivery. I'm also going to order a couple hundred quail, chucker and turkey eggs, plus an incubator.
Chucker, not checker. Its kind of like a grouse and its usually found at lower elevations in the deep canyons around here. They may be in other areas too in different parts of the country. The turkey, quail and chuckers will be turned loose to provide more food opportunities if needed.I don’t even know what a “checker” is! LOL. Sounds like I’m a mushroom. If my hubby wold let me I would get meat chickens and turkeys too! Quail are great lookouts.
We have valley quail here with a few rare pockets of mountain quail, which are bigger. The quail, wild turkey, deer and elk all head down to lower elevations in winter. Its kind of interesting to see hundreds of deer and elk tracks all heading down hill after we get our first deep snowfall.I don’t even know what a “checker” is! LOL. Sounds like I’m a mushroom. If my hubby wold let me I would get meat chickens and turkeys too! Quail are great lookouts.
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