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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Chicken Economics
  • Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:17:45 -0700


Do chickens produce more eggs or poop

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mchickenegg.html

What fun! Thanks, Tim.

". . . resulting in a feed cost of $7.52 in feed per year per hen, an egg production of $13.20 per year, and a net profit of $5.68 per hen-year."

Fertilizer value discussed but not used in this calculation, hm.

I would raise a flock whether it were economical or not. If most American families raised enough hens to produce all their own eggs and used the "waste" to fertilize a veggie garden, we would have better values and healthier citizens.







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