As the bird flu outbreak impacts egg shortages and prices, some people are turning to renting or buying backyard chickens.
  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Chicks used to be $2.70, $3.00 for the fancy ones like Easter Eggers.

    I just paid $5.40 each for regular old red chickens. Easter Eggers were $7.50 It’s not like I’m NOT going to resupply my flock but damn, double price.

    • Joeffect@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      I don’t know chickens… But it seems like buying one is cheaper than buying a dozen eggs… I get it needs a place to live and upkeep… Even if you needed to buy 12 it seems like once they lay eggs you would end up with more eggs than you knew what to do with them… Sell them to your neighbors for 3 bucks a dozen and bam free eggs…

      • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, it’s cheaper than buying eggs. I’m also using them to rehab the back yard. Before I moved in there was sort of a private junkyard back there, now the soil is in much better shape