Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 08:41:14 -0700

A couple of our neighbors raise chickens. They buy female chicks 2 dozen at a time. They tell me 2 dozen is the minimum order from the outlets they use. They come overnight in a box, and they usually throw in 2 or 3 extra to cover any shipping deaths and the occasional rooster that sneaks though the screening.

They tell me the chickens will produce eggs reliably for a year or two. After that, they are chicken soup.


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On 4/6/2020 8:34 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

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
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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 :) 

 

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From: "Jaime Solorza" <losguyswirel...@gmail.com>
To: "af" <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> 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.

 



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