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Post by cco »

wil421 wrote: post #745
cco wrote: post #653

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Having slaughtered my fair share of chickens on a relatively small but not back yard operation, there is a much easier way! Buy a t-post (any 3-5 foot rigid metal pole will do but a t-post has perfect geometry). Next, you'll grab your chicken, lay her down on her back or stomach [1], once she has settled down you're going to lay the t-post gently across her spine just a bit behind her skull. Now place your feet on ei…

Use a traffic cone. It will be easier and calm the chicken down.

Definitely can help, but I've found that for people that don't do it very often, it's very easy to make mistakes with a knife. The t-post method has very little opportunity for mistakes and really makes it a lot easier for people that don't have a ton of experience, i.e. backyard poultry owners.

Re: Eggs US – Price – Chart

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Post by cco »

MRPockets wrote: post #778
picture wrote: post #775

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I think your sentiment encapsulates the hypocrisy of modern people where the systems have developed over thousands of years to further and further insulate us from all the less pretty aspects of life, to a point where we largely forget the fact that we shit and kill things for food and greed. Our meat comes pre-portioned on a polystyrene tray and wrapped under cellophane. Just abstract blocks of yummy protein. We als…

I don't think hypocrisy is really the best word. The GP's objection may be uninformed or out of line with reality, but it is (likely) the result of the very distance between food source and consumption that you are talking about; ignorance not hypocrisy. I have had the opportunity to hunt twice in my life; both times I harvested a deer. I would happily do so again. But while I disagree with the sentiment of the GP, I…

Perhaps expected, but I have similar feelings towards people that work at slaughterhouses. So I definitely can understand where GP is coming from.

But like you and the other poster said, killing an animal for food is a deeply ambivalent experience. For me at least.

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Post by talldrinkofwhat »

mplanchard wrote: post #467
mothax wrote: post #463

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My half-dozen chickens in my yard in VT are hardy and out and about! I get about four eggs a day, and endless entertainment from the small herd of therapods.

I love to hear it! I didn't realize they were so cold tolerant, but I'm glad they can still enjoy the outdoors even when the winters are as cold as this one. I'd love to get some chickens one of these days. Four eggs a day would be enough for us to regularly give away dozens while supplying all of our own egg needs.

If you ever get the opportunity, have a chicken perch on your finger.

First thing you'll notice is much lighter they are than they look.

Second thing you'll notice is how hot their feet are.

A tangible lesson in the importance of surface area vs volume wrt mechanical, thermo, aero systems.

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Post by prawn »

wiredfool wrote: post #602
declan_roberts wrote: post #408

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We're able to keep the feed costs down simply because as a family of 7 with young kids we have a lot of food waste that the birds will happily gobble up. Also their bedding makes fantastic compost for next year's veggies. It's a nice system.

Leftover spaghetti and red sauce is hilarious when chickens get a hold of it.

We've recently taken on chickens and I also find the spaghetti free-for-alls very entertaining. I also like 'Chicken Basketball' where they will all attempt to get control of a squishy tomato or steal it from whoever has possession.

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Post by prawn »

oaththrowaway wrote: post #194
wiredfool wrote: post #143

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That $800 first egg... 10 years back, we were getting eggs at something like 25c/egg in feed costs. But we had a bunch of birds that only laid every 2 or 3 days, so they were no where near as efficient as a first year dedicated layer. OTOH, they all had names, we had most of the egg colors, and the bantam eggs were so cute. And the one hen that basically only laid double yolkers.

Double yolkers are my favorite, always a pleasant surprise!

We recently had a small egg (shell and all; size of a large grape) within a large egg.

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Post by prawn »

chneu wrote: post #319
joe8756438 wrote: post #226

I’ve got a flock, not counting infrastructure my costs are tied directly to feed. I source local non-gmo and herbicide free grains. My cost is about $3/doz. It’s unusual to be so close to a farm that produces the variety of grain at that level of quality. A local farm that produces on a large scale and sources grain from the same farm charges $8/doz. Seems totally fair, if not a little too cheap.

Almost nobody has the space/time/money/skills to do this.

I think that is exaggerating things. Whether the trade off for eggs to build/effort exists is arguable, but there are ways to build hoop-coops quite affordably and easily. Most people with a backyard could accommodate one and anyone remotely competent could build one in a day.

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Post by dinkumthinkum »

snakeyjake wrote: post #767
qwerpy wrote: post #756

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All I can come up with is that DEI programs got canceled. It probably feels like oppression if you were previously benefiting from it. As a minority (Asian) I feel the opposite of oppressed.

>As a minority (Asian) I feel the opposite of oppressed. That's because strong acceptable use polices based on the "E" in "DEI" meant that organizations ranging in size from Meta to Hacker News deleted comments when they turned into "kill the dirty ch**ks" during COVID. It is now acceptable on Meta to post comments calling trans people mentally ill sexual predators. Why do you think that, given a crisis requiring a b…

Oh my gosh, this is just such nonsense. You think the whole world is about meta comments? Which demographics do you think say the most terrible things about South-East Asian people? This demographic does better in this country than any other and yet you think the parent does not feel oppressed because a recent social media site (in the history of this country) used to have more comment moderation? Is this real?

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

Spivak wrote: post #746
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #639

This is it? This the big meme of 2025? "Remember when eggs were expensive"? Ukraine is at war, minorities are being oppressed at home, an economic tidal wave is about to hit us vis-a-vis Chinese imports, the economy is on the ropes, and big brother is literally banning the government from saying words like "sex" and "gender" - but, oh boy, can you believe the price of these eggs??? Is every person in this country eat…

I mean egg prices became a meme for exactly the subtext you're implying. This election season was unbelievably frustrating because of how large a focus was placed on economic conditions which as a general rule leads to throwing out incumbents. And the new generation running the GOP is a bunch of people who look more like a conspiracy forum than a government. To the point where Democrats got nervous and ran someone wh…

Strangely enough, just last week I heard somebody complaining about egg prices in Dollar General. And I live in red country. So at least on the ground, people haven't forgotten about the eggs.

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Post by kennysoona »

bdangubic wrote: post #654
Retric wrote: post #643

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That’s over 20$/day per person. All 3 of you could literally eat exclusively fast food in most of the US on that budget. You’re not just paying for food here. One possibility is you’re talking things you buy at the grocery store here, but laundry detergent is’t food. So what’s the actual deal here.

eating healthy… eggs are $14/dozen and all that “inflation” jazz

I think the problem is more you are eating luxuriously than eating healthy.
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