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Chicken

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cool thanks. can you point me to trustworthy sites with advice/how-to?

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I learned a bunch from Justin Rhodes.

We have had egg layers for a few years now. You can throw them any scrap food, if they don't like it like citrus or onion they ignore and it'll decompose and the chickens will eat the insects and grubs and worms.

We just butchered our first batch of forty meat birds, now have a full freezer and started freeze drying them after smoking.

Like others have mentioned keep the cock count low, but a rooster can help protect the girls and fertilize eggs so you can keep making new chickens.

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keep the cock count low

My life motto.

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@boone

My wife handles that business. I think she gets them from MyPetChicken. Sounds corny AF but they're always super healthy.

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Chickens cost more to feed than they are worth to buy at shop.

You'll always have more eggs to eat than you can or none at all.

You could pickle?

My chickens are more like pets with low value.

I raise beef for money and lambs to eat.

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Poal's top comment of the day is "Chicken"

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We keep it simple here.

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Wisdom comes in all sizes on poal.

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Mate I left to be self sufficient 5 years ago by buying a lifestyle block.

The number one animal to rear is sheep by far. From a local farmer by orphaned twinned lambs.

Hand raise one ram and how many ewes you need plus first years freezer stock.

My six ewes gave me ten lambs last year.

Lamb is a super food. Super easy to raise. Easy on paddocks. Friendly.

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Interesting, never heard that before

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$25 per Lamb. $35 of milk powder first year only. There after free. $50 to kill and slaughter or learn to do it yourself.

One year later you get 30kg of meat at $30 a kilo.

Downsides. Shearing twice per year for the keepers. Food doesn't get shorn. Sheep fencing wire needed not just wires.

They use way less grass than beef and don't make big shit piles nor divets.

Upsides

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Chickens work for me. Chicks are cheap and easily obtained. Cheap to feed and love restaurant leftovers, particularly noodles from pho restaurants. They eat bugs and love grass and small weeds. Downside: Learn which roosters to cull or hens get stressed from abusive roosters. Too many roosters cause constant fights and lots of crowing. Prone to all sorts of predators.

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Quail.

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??? For the bird meat or the eggs?

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I have a friend that makes a good living selling rabbits. They require less space than chickens chickens and sell for more.

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Cat. Cats eat mice. Mice eat seeds. Without seeds, no crops. There's a reason cats were domesticated by the ancient Egyptians thousands of years ago, and it wasn't because they purred.

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The way things are going I’d say crickets. They are selling cricket hot dogs in Canada

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Crickets are actually a great nitrogen source for chickens. Bugs are bird food, screw anyone that tried to push the "ze bugs and happy" narrative on ya!

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