Do like I did and move out to the countryside, buy a vastly cheaper house with some land, work in IT so you can work remotely most days and get some hens. Spend far less on their feed than I did on eggs and I find home range eggs to be a very appreciated going away gift these days.
I do work in IT (software engineer) but I don’t eat eggs so much that I need to buy a damn countryside farm because my egg consumption is ruining me here in the city lmao. I’ll eat cheaper things/eggs only sometimes. It’s not the most expensive food here, in the least. 😄
Weeell we all have our priorities. I like to be close to friends and family and things to do like team sports, and live close to the sea. Close to a grocery store, close to daycare and schools etc.
I don’t think I could live in the country. I wish I could. It’s very nice to be out in nature, where it gets dark, and quiet. How I love the quietness of the countryside.
I remember seeing a youtube video that broke down the economics of eggs, and you need like 35 chickens before your economy of scale begins to compare to the price you pay at the grocery store.
I don’t know if that figure was counting assumed labor on the part of the homesteader though.
Probably since the feed price doesn’t start scaling down until you order pretty extreme amounts. Well I guess if you also consider the capital expenditure of building the pen and buying the hens and then look at a 5 year ROI then you do need a few and the larger you build the cheaper it gets per hen, generally speaking.
Do like I did and move out to the countryside, buy a vastly cheaper house with some land, work in IT so you can work remotely most days and get some hens. Spend far less on their feed than I did on eggs and I find home range eggs to be a very appreciated going away gift these days.
I do work in IT (software engineer) but I don’t eat eggs so much that I need to buy a damn countryside farm because my egg consumption is ruining me here in the city lmao. I’ll eat cheaper things/eggs only sometimes. It’s not the most expensive food here, in the least. 😄
The eggs is of course just a side benefit, the big thing is a house that is literally 1/10th the cost per square meter of living space.
Weeell we all have our priorities. I like to be close to friends and family and things to do like team sports, and live close to the sea. Close to a grocery store, close to daycare and schools etc.
I don’t think I could live in the country. I wish I could. It’s very nice to be out in nature, where it gets dark, and quiet. How I love the quietness of the countryside.
I remember seeing a youtube video that broke down the economics of eggs, and you need like 35 chickens before your economy of scale begins to compare to the price you pay at the grocery store.
I don’t know if that figure was counting assumed labor on the part of the homesteader though.
Probably since the feed price doesn’t start scaling down until you order pretty extreme amounts. Well I guess if you also consider the capital expenditure of building the pen and buying the hens and then look at a 5 year ROI then you do need a few and the larger you build the cheaper it gets per hen, generally speaking.