I got persuaded to agree to us keeping a few chickens.
By the time I'm done with buying a coop, bedding, feed, drinkers, feeders, grit, tonics, sanitisers, tonics, toys, shelter, sandpit, hardwood chippings for the run (no bark allowed), f***ing Fort Knox 500SqFt run (we have badgers and foxes living in the garden), I reckon the eggs will be about £20 each. Oh, and that's before I've bought the sodding chickens (between £30 and £50 each - WTF?!!).
"Oh, but [12-month old baby G1976] will love it. Won't you love her little face when she collects the eggs?"
"She can help me kill them when they get too old. Perhaps she'll like plucking them?"
Any chicken keepers on here? Please tell me that there is some benefit to put into my mental cost:benefit calculation, because I'm currently seeing pretty much only downside.
By the time I'm done with buying a coop, bedding, feed, drinkers, feeders, grit, tonics, sanitisers, tonics, toys, shelter, sandpit, hardwood chippings for the run (no bark allowed), f***ing Fort Knox 500SqFt run (we have badgers and foxes living in the garden), I reckon the eggs will be about £20 each. Oh, and that's before I've bought the sodding chickens (between £30 and £50 each - WTF?!!).
"Oh, but [12-month old baby G1976] will love it. Won't you love her little face when she collects the eggs?"
"She can help me kill them when they get too old. Perhaps she'll like plucking them?"
Any chicken keepers on here? Please tell me that there is some benefit to put into my mental cost:benefit calculation, because I'm currently seeing pretty much only downside.
?? Rescue all the way with an optional donation. All in all should cost you far less than a posh dinner out and you'll have more fresh eggs then you know what to do with - in our case up to six a day.
