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Baby chicks cost $6 at a supply store, but I can get a rotisserie for $5? What is the real cost of having chickens? (lemmy.ml)
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I do not understand the mathematics behind the dilemma. I'm assuming only the firts chicks cost money, because down the line they will breed.
But feeding them, housing them - vitamins and doctoring costs a lot of money.

So anyone with couple or more chickens - how much does it cost to have them on the table? And realistically how many eggs do you get?

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[–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Chickens take several months to reach full meat bird size. The feed is like $20/50lbs and 6 go through 1-2 bags per month.

That sounds like a lot? We have 5x the amount of birds you have and buy 2 bags of food and a bag of cracked corn every month & a half.

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