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[Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net>]

On May 19, 2008, at 8:43 PM, Gene GeRue wrote:

> > Roy Morgan wrote:
> > > We are developing plans for a few chickens.  But to eat the eggs,  
> > > not
> > > the hens.
>
>
> Grain price alert: now that my three purchased hens have laid three
> dozen eggs, the cost per dozen is down to slightly less than $13.00.

My mother was one to try new things. So she went to "the hippy food  
store" in nearby Greenfield Mass.  (She was well into her 70's at the  
time.) Bought all the stuff to make granola.  She liked the granola,  
but being very good with numbers, she figured out what it cost.  The  
answer was about 87 cents per pound.  She could buy commercially  
offered granola for 89 cents a pound.

About out proposed hens. I am not sure how much grain we'd get for  
them.  Can they find things to eat in the field?

Roy
who knows nada about chickens.

Roy Morgan
k1lky AT earthlink.net
Lovettsville, VA 20180