In France, 6 eggs : From 1€70 (direct at the farm) to 3€(organics supermarkets) This the Price of organic eggs => hens outside mot part of the Time, no chemical medecines , only plants the Farmers grows themselfs. *** Of course in ordinary supermarket the Price is less expensive : 1,43€ for 6 eggs.
My wife and I had 148 chickens for years. We were able sell all of our eggs to a local business (yes, we had an egg handlers permit--an extra $20 a year) We were able to offset all of our feed expenses (about $200 a month), pay for our bag of dog food (about $50 a month), and keep and dole out about 4 dozen eggs for us and family. A lot of quiches! And a ton of fun...
6 bucks a dozen, I feed my chickens all kitchen scraps and food plus their own egg shells. With six chickens I get about 35-42 eggs a week, with a family of three we spend 18 dollars a month on feed, we eat around 18 eggs a week and sell the rest for 2-3 dollars for 12. We usually get enough money to cut our cost of 60 eggs a month that we eat for around 10 bucks which means we’re are saving around 14 bucks a month. But it’s great for our kids to know where the eggs are coming from and the taste is so much better with free range birds
Chickens are great! We have a Rooster though, because he will not only protect the flock from any predators, but will also help keep the hens in order.
$8 for a free range dozen here in MD. Ive been considering raising chickens for a few years, but specially for chicken poo. Perhaps its time to bite the bullet. If you calculate the compost they help create, it's definitely worth the investment! Thanks for the tips.
3.69cdn 2.76usd is what we are paying in my area Ontario 🇨🇦 Thank you for doing the chicken math! I've been wanting chickens but looks like my husband just won his argument 😣
I bought two bags of feed in October and they aren't empty yet. I have four americaunas and I supplement their food with garden and kitchen scraps. Sometimes I buy them greens from the store just for them.
In Malaysia, the price of chicken eggs are rising. Sometimes there are no stocks. The government steps in to subsidize chicken eggs. It will stable in next 3 months.
Eggs here are between $4.78-$9 in grocery stores. I sell mine for $4 and still loose money. Good breakdown Yes feed skyrocketed and you forgot to add oyster shells and bedding to it. I also give mine mealworms during cooler months that bugs are scarce that also doubled in price
Feed your chickens the shells crushed up with kitchen scraps. Chickens only need about 1/2 a cup of food a day. They will eat and I eat if you give them more which they do not need.
I agree with you just about on everything I have raised chickens for over 40 years but chickens live a long time I have some that ate 12 years old I also have one that is 15 . We do butcher chickens these 3 just became pets. I find your videos very enjoyable.
Eggs are between $5 and $12 here in Southern Indiana. I'm getting chickens again very soon. It'll still take six months but that's okay. I'm vegetarian as well (meat allergy) so I'm not sure what I'll do once they get older. But I haven't had chickens in 15 years so I'm having to relearn everything.
We currently have 2 hens however we are going to be purchasing at least 4 more... We're a family of 3 but we use a lot of eggs ... Thanks Jag 🥰🙏 Kendra
I see you keep duck or ducks? We used to raise both chickens and ducks, but noticed that our ducks were jerks, aggressive towards the chickens. All they did was make messes of the food and water containers. We had to separate them and that was just too much of a hassle. We re-homed them to our in-laws and they produced eggs for which they loved. Hope all well and you guys are back normal after all the rains. Happy gardening 2023!
Yes, I have 2 ducks, used to have 10, gave 8 to a friend who has a pond because i did not have a pond back then. They do make a mess of the water. However we raised these from ducklings and handled them everyday so they are very nice and gentle ducks.
Central Texas grocery stores where I live cost for 18 count package is between 4.16 to 6.22. We love our chickens & are so glad to have them. We have enough for our family & give away to 3 neighbors weekly. 🙌
Chicken are probably more smart than some humans 😉 love my baby's girl's. Thanks for your videos they are really interesting,and fun to watch. Have a good day
I feel like people are panic buying eggs like they did toilet paper. I started eating non-dairy egg substitute. Really no difference. I just use real eggs for baking. I hope if people buy chickens, they treat them well. Pasture raised Eggs are $6-$8 here. Regular eggs $3-$4.
great video, jag! and, kudos to you for letting your chickens live out their lives, that's a pretty decent thing to do. one point you left out in your computation: chickens also produce manure which is useful fertilizer for gardeners.
For the most part you were pretty correct I don't spend quite that much on freed and I do let my chicks also live their life out but I do heat their Coop so there's that expense but I get enough eggs that I'm able to give them away and they're fun except for cleaning the coop that is not fun.
I live out in the countryside in Texas. I have chickens but my main problem is with the squirrels. They eat all my chicken feed and now I started to buy eggs
@@DaisyCreekFarms my chickens are scared of the squirrels so once the squirrels done eating, my chickens get a chance, seems like squirrels can eat all day.
Definitely going to grow chickens , at Walmart where I live is $ 5:50 per dozen or more . So I believe it's an investment and a great one since I cook a lot with eggs . I get at least 3 dozen every two weeks.
Interesting, here in Austin, things are still OK with eggs. Thanks for the wonderful and much needed content. I always wanted to have chickens for eggs, compost and for the cuteness :), but they are not permitted per our HOA. HOAs are on the stricter side around Austin area restricting many things.
Great and informative video! They have more than doubled here in Utah! Funny enough, our grocery store has plenty of eggs, but I think that is because they are @$8 for 18. And I wouldn’t mind raising some chickens, but I have a dog who has killed critters before and I would hate to have her get in there and do some damage. Yes, I could keep them safe, but there might be a lack of vigilance and would hate to have them perish because I looked away for a moment.
Price of food is way to high to justify having chickens unless your farming and like where I live if you don't have three acres they won't let you have them .Took care of many chickens I know
We have had plenty of eggs, they went up to $4 a dozen 2-3mos ago, I figured it was all part of the inflation hoax, where corporations are making record profits the last two yrs. 😠 Before they were like $1.79 -$3. Only a month ago i heard about avian flu. I love chicken meat but idk if i could eat my own chicken, let alone kill it n pluck it. Everything is crazy high in CA. Garden looks like it’s drying up! I knew you would be ok.
Excellent breakdown of costs! I wonder about the coup & fencing too. I'm sure that's gone up. Much more inflation and pornos are gonna switch from the pizza guy at the door to the next door neighbor coming by with those eggs you asked for 😆
I'm from italy and right now we don't have this problem with eggs!! Still interesting video but kinda shocked about how many eggs you estimate a family of four to eat in a week! Not sure if it's my family or Europe in general but we eat like half of those
I’m from Greece and we use to eat at least one egg for each person per day but Americans eat more eggs than Europeans. They eat a lot more of everything in general. 😂
Excellent video, again, of course; however, it seems like people don't think about the fact that eventually, you will not be able to buy the chicken feed...world gov'ts are planning to starve us, I think. If you can't buy feed, will the chickens survive on bugs?
It is possible to go without feed but you will have to build huge compost piles that attract maggots, larvae and bugs to keep the chickens busy and fed, some people on youtube have done that
My family has 4 hens (and a rooster) and though I don't think they're cared for nearly as well as you care for your hens, we get about 2-3 eggs per day - assuming they're fetched before the hen(s) accidentally squash them. Question: How do you address predators? Despite having a rooster, there is a hawk that keeps flying by in the hopes of snatching a chicken.
Yes, 3 would be good to0, no less than that. Chickens are social animals too. I have seen the chicks that grew up together in the same brooding box, stick together in adulthood too and form their own flocks.
How much are egg prices in your area?
We have a Dollar general nearby, they sell eggs, $3.65 for a dozen now.
best price is $4.49 per dozen at trader joes, free range even.
but, they've been totally out last couple months.
In France, 6 eggs :
From 1€70 (direct at the farm) to 3€(organics supermarkets)
This the Price of organic eggs => hens outside mot part of the Time, no chemical medecines , only plants the Farmers grows themselfs.
*** Of course in ordinary supermarket the Price is less expensive : 1,43€ for 6 eggs.
$6.00 a dozen at grocery, white regular eggs....Ohio
In Turkey, price for 12 eggs: $1.3 for medium, $1.8 for large eggs, from local farms. Supermarket prices for standard eggs are similar.
My wife and I had 148 chickens for years. We were able sell all of our eggs to a local business (yes, we had an egg handlers permit--an extra $20 a year) We were able to offset all of our feed expenses (about $200 a month), pay for our bag of dog food (about $50 a month), and keep and dole out about 4 dozen eggs for us and family. A lot of quiches! And a ton of fun...
It's expensive, BUT, I have food security.
I have 11, ones a roo, ones 8 years old, another is 6. They are my freeloaders. I love my chickens!
Thanks for adding the bloopers too... 5 eggs per day! Made me smile.
:)
6 bucks a dozen, I feed my chickens all kitchen scraps and food plus their own egg shells. With six chickens I get about 35-42 eggs a week, with a family of three we spend 18 dollars a month on feed, we eat around 18 eggs a week and sell the rest for 2-3 dollars for 12. We usually get enough money to cut our cost of 60 eggs a month that we eat for around 10 bucks which means we’re are saving around 14 bucks a month. But it’s great for our kids to know where the eggs are coming from and the taste is so much better with free range birds
Chickens are great! We have a Rooster though, because he will not only protect the flock from any predators, but will also help keep the hens in order.
Thanks, for sharing. We pay $ 2.50 a doz (up .50 from last month) to our Amish neighbors. We are in WI.
nice!
Good to see you back and on dryland! And thank you for running the numbers for us.
$8 for a free range dozen here in MD. Ive been considering raising chickens for a few years, but specially for chicken poo. Perhaps its time to bite the bullet. If you calculate the compost they help create, it's definitely worth the investment! Thanks for the tips.
3.69cdn 2.76usd is what we are paying in my area Ontario 🇨🇦 Thank you for doing the chicken math! I've been wanting chickens but looks like my husband just won his argument 😣
I bought two bags of feed in October and they aren't empty yet. I have four americaunas and I supplement their food with garden and kitchen scraps. Sometimes I buy them greens from the store just for them.
I'd have to raise insects to feed them anything but corn.
You are doing really good!
Your chickens look really healthy and well-cared for. Also, very interesting, thank you :-)
Yea!!! Sunshine!!
In Malaysia, the price of chicken eggs are rising. Sometimes there are no stocks. The government steps in to subsidize chicken eggs. It will stable in next 3 months.
Great video. I love my chickens, we have 12 hens and we have eggs coming out of our ears - just the two of us, we give eggs away to friends.
Eggs here are between $4.78-$9 in grocery stores. I sell mine for $4 and still loose money. Good breakdown Yes feed skyrocketed and you forgot to add oyster shells and bedding to it. I also give mine mealworms during cooler months that bugs are scarce that also doubled in price
Start raising those insects.
Feed your chickens the shells crushed up with kitchen scraps. Chickens only need about 1/2 a cup of food a day. They will eat and I eat if you give them more which they do not need.
I’m so happy your chickens survived the flooding and things are better for you !
thank you, yes, all is good now with flooding.
I agree with you just about on everything I have raised chickens for over 40 years but chickens live a long time I have some that ate 12 years old I also have one that is 15 . We do butcher chickens these 3 just became pets. I find your videos very enjoyable.
Those hair mops on the chickens.... priceless :)
Glad to know how much you love the chickens!!
Eggs are between $5 and $12 here in Southern Indiana. I'm getting chickens again very soon. It'll still take six months but that's okay. I'm vegetarian as well (meat allergy) so I'm not sure what I'll do once they get older. But I haven't had chickens in 15 years so I'm having to relearn everything.
I'm sure you really have a meat allergy bruh. 👌
We currently have 2 hens however we are going to be purchasing at least 4 more... We're a family of 3 but we use a lot of eggs ... Thanks Jag 🥰🙏 Kendra
I see you keep duck or ducks? We used to raise both chickens and ducks, but noticed that our ducks were jerks, aggressive towards the chickens. All they did was make messes of the food and water containers. We had to separate them and that was just too much of a hassle. We re-homed them to our in-laws and they produced eggs for which they loved. Hope all well and you guys are back normal after all the rains. Happy gardening 2023!
Yes, I have 2 ducks, used to have 10, gave 8 to a friend who has a pond because i did not have a pond back then. They do make a mess of the water. However we raised these from ducklings and handled them everyday so they are very nice and gentle ducks.
Central Texas grocery stores where I live cost for 18 count package is between 4.16 to 6.22. We love our chickens & are so glad to have them. We have enough for our family & give away to 3 neighbors weekly. 🙌
That is awesome!
Chicken are probably more smart than some humans 😉 love my baby's girl's. Thanks for your videos they are really interesting,and fun to watch.
Have a good day
Thank you so much for the excellent breakdown of the cost of raising chickens and the advantages involved.
I want chicken so bad, but it's not legal in my area. Apparently, the neighbors are too close and the coup had to be 250 away from them
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I'm a new gardener and just got a few chickens - I'm not sure but I guess it's a thing. Chickens and gardening go hand-in-hand.
They do, chickens make fertilizer and you can give them all the weeds to eat as well.
I feel like people are panic buying eggs like they did toilet paper. I started eating non-dairy egg substitute. Really no difference. I just use real eggs for baking. I hope if people buy chickens, they treat them well. Pasture raised Eggs are $6-$8 here. Regular eggs $3-$4.
great video, jag!
and, kudos to you for letting your chickens live out their lives, that's a pretty decent thing to do.
one point you left out in your computation: chickens also produce manure which is useful fertilizer for gardeners.
Yes, I do cover manure in 5 benefits of raising chickens video. This one is just eggonomics, lol, numbers on producing eggs.
For the most part you were pretty correct I don't spend quite that much on freed and I do let my chicks also live their life out but I do heat their Coop so there's that expense but I get enough eggs that I'm able to give them away and they're fun except for cleaning the coop that is not fun.
Home grown eggs taste far better than going to Safeway. You get what you pay for and it’s worth your time and energy.
I live out in the countryside in Texas. I have chickens but my main problem is with the squirrels. They eat all my chicken feed and now I started to buy eggs
That's a real problem, and birds eat the feed too.
@@DaisyCreekFarms my chickens are scared of the squirrels so once the squirrels done eating, my chickens get a chance, seems like squirrels can eat all day.
Definitely going to grow chickens , at Walmart where I live is $ 5:50 per dozen or more .
So I believe it's an investment and a great one since I cook a lot with eggs . I get at least 3 dozen every two weeks.
For the home gardener you get composting machines!
That's true!
I never was into "eggonomics", unti lnow.
Interesting, here in Austin, things are still OK with eggs. Thanks for the wonderful and much needed content. I always wanted to have chickens for eggs, compost and for the cuteness :), but they are not permitted per our HOA. HOAs are on the stricter side around Austin area restricting many things.
Great and informative video!
They have more than doubled here in Utah! Funny enough, our grocery store has plenty of eggs, but I think that is because they are @$8 for 18. And I wouldn’t mind raising some chickens, but I have a dog who has killed critters before and I would hate to have her get in there and do some damage. Yes, I could keep them safe, but there might be a lack of vigilance and would hate to have them perish because I looked away for a moment.
At least your dog would be fed.
Securing your food supply.
Nutritional value.
Compost/fertilizer.
They eat bugs.
Are added values in keeping chickens !!!
LOVE the bloopers
Glad you caught it :)
I love to know I have food coming. I feel one the most important things you need for keeping animals, they NEED housing & fencing...
Price of food is way to high to justify having chickens unless your farming and like where I live if you don't have three acres they won't let you have them .Took care of many chickens I know
We have had plenty of eggs, they went up to $4 a dozen 2-3mos ago, I figured it was all part of the inflation hoax, where corporations are making record profits the last two yrs. 😠 Before they were like $1.79 -$3. Only a month ago i heard about avian flu.
I love chicken meat but idk if i could eat my own chicken, let alone kill it n pluck it. Everything is crazy high in CA.
Garden looks like it’s drying up! I knew you would be ok.
THANK you!
Excellent breakdown of costs! I wonder about the coup & fencing too. I'm sure that's gone up.
Much more inflation and pornos are gonna switch from the pizza guy at the door to the next door neighbor coming by with those eggs you asked for 😆
I'm from italy and right now we don't have this problem with eggs!! Still interesting video but kinda shocked about how many eggs you estimate a family of four to eat in a week! Not sure if it's my family or Europe in general but we eat like half of those
I’m from Greece and we use to eat at least one egg for each person per day but Americans eat more eggs than Europeans. They eat a lot more of everything in general. 😂
@@theheritagehousesc that makes sense!!!!
Excellent video, again, of course; however, it seems like people don't think about the fact that eventually, you will not be able to buy the chicken feed...world gov'ts are planning to starve us, I think. If you can't buy feed, will the chickens survive on bugs?
It is possible to go without feed but you will have to build huge compost piles that attract maggots, larvae and bugs to keep the chickens busy and fed, some people on youtube have done that
The 🐔 are happy very Happy very High
My family has 4 hens (and a rooster) and though I don't think they're cared for nearly as well as you care for your hens, we get about 2-3 eggs per day - assuming they're fetched before the hen(s) accidentally squash them. Question: How do you address predators? Despite having a rooster, there is a hawk that keeps flying by in the hopes of snatching a chicken.
Guess I shouldn't complain about 50 cent eggs especially when I can buy them any time I want.
50 cents? Not at all
Happy to be vegan 😃🌱
You're going to die young.
Don't die on processed food hill.
what pre fab coop is that in background?
$4-6 in Nova Scotia Canada. Chickens eat waste food that would otherwise attract wildlife. Like bears.
Will the minimum number of hens be about three? Please let me know what you think about the smaller flock size, for a smaller household
Yes, 3 would be good to0, no less than that. Chickens are social animals too. I have seen the chicks that grew up together in the same brooding box, stick together in adulthood too and form their own flocks.
What type of Collie do you have? Looks like an old fashioned breed, a female. Lovely.
She is an English Shepherd
Is that the same area that was flooded?
Yes it is, all good now!
Where did you get the coop at?
Tractor Supply has it
👍🐔🐓🐣🐸
You should used foder
Thank you for letting your chickens die a natural death....