Subject: Re: [Homestead] Questions for Lynn and others re chickens
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 14:55:44 -0700 (PDT)
Bev....... I am in total agreement.
--- Viking <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>
>
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> >> 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.
>
>
> Yeah, but then you get all those steroids and
> hormones that they feed
> the chickens and cows, as well as antibiotics and
> other crap that
> animals shouldn't eat.
> No one ever said it was cheaper to raise your own,
> especially these
> days. It certainly can be, but usually isn't. The
> difference comes in
> the quality of the product-in the health aspect of
> the crop or commodity
> or the taste of the crop, etc. It's hard to put a
> price on something
> intangible like the taste of a vine ripened tomato
> versus one bought in
> the store.
>
> Bev
>
> --
> erthnsky AT bellsouth.net BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm NW
> Georgia USDA Zone 7
> 34.498N 85.076W
>
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