I guess feeding them is cheap, literally “chicken feed”.
Maybe people see chickens pecking at the ground and assume they eat dirt. Cracked corn is indeed cheap. Whenever I go to Farm&Fleet or RuralKing, they have lots of bags of chicken feed, so chickens must be popular. I remember when my daughter still lived with us, she decided she wanted to raise some ducks. She literally mail ordered ducklings. I suspect most people would buy chicks rather than have a rooster and raise their own. Even our local pig farms are not typically farrow-to-finish, same with cows. Raising the babies and then feeding them to slaughter tend to be separate specialties. Some people say Mick Jagger reminds them of a rooster. I think politicians are like roosters. Noisy, self absorbed, don’t produce any eggs, aren’t even good eating, but you still need them. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Steven Kenney Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 9:58 AM To: af <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic They don't live that long too so you only get eggs for a year or so.. so you need roosters and if you have roosters you can have fertilized eggs... and loud and annoying noises ! We have rules in our town you can't have roosters because the noise bothers neighbors. Texas on the other hand everyone lives far apart :) -- Steven Kenney Network Operations Manager WaveDirect Telecommunications http://www.wavedirect.net (519)737-WAVE (9283) _____ From: "Jaime Solorza" <losguyswirel...@gmail.com <mailto:losguyswirel...@gmail.com> > To: "af" <af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 10:53:31 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic Yep...and worse...the smell of chicken shit.... On Sun, Apr 5, 2020, 10:52 PM Lewis Bergman <lewis.berg...@gmail.com <mailto:lewis.berg...@gmail.com> > wrote: I wonder if they understand what it takes to raise a chicken so it will lay eggs. Where are they going to house them, what are they going to feed them? So Stupid. On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:22 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com <mailto:af...@kwisp.com> > wrote: https://www.newsweek.com/texans-begin-hoarding-chickens-during-coronavirus-pandemic-1496226 -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- Lewis Bergman 325-439-0533 Cell -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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