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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

We would have gotten more money IF the chicken yard
had been converted to a soybean field.  But my parents
did not do that.  They would never make decisions
based on nothing but economics.
On my own farm I am already planning to take ag land
out of production for the kind of individual projects
that we all prefer.
I am not a fan of industrial scale agriculture.  "Agri
is a culture not a business".
Van Dell


--- Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw AT chilitech.net> wrote:

> > My dad calculated once that if the resources we
> put
> > into chickens and milk cow were put into cash
> crops we
> > could buy eggs and milk and have some money left
> over.
> 
> My hens are free range and get most of their food
> for themselves. I have
> an open compost pile just for scraps that they would
> like...I don't get
> much compost from that pile, but they get a lot of
> food. In the winter, I
> bump up the feed a little, but they still find a
> lot...I give the cows a
> pound or two of grain a day in the winter, and the
> chickens clean up what
> the cows throw around. Several years ago, I
> calculated that it costs me a
> yearly average of $.67 per dozen...figuring in lots
> of eggs in the spring
> and none in the winter, etc., feed has gone up since
> then, but I feed less
> than I used to. I make money, IF I can find a place
> to sell them.
> 
> Also, I won't eat supermarket eggs...I know what
> they feed to commercial
> hens.
> 
> 
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