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Eggspensive was right there!
Missed opportunity
Laid it out for you.
He clucked up
Lol, you can buy a full chicken for $5 (10 for $49.99) and they lay between 4-7 eggs a week, you can make an ROI between 1-2 weeks and never have to buy eggs again.
I would strongly recommend you buy chickens if you have the ability.
Unfortunately good feed is more expensive than the chicken.
don't they eat scraps?
Also testing for diseases. They could catch the bird flu and you might not know it right away and you end up catching it from them. I'll let the farms deal with testing.
Nice try, Purdue.
Yeah, keeping them alive and healthy is the expensive part.
We wanted chickens so badly this year but with H5N1 spreading and owning 3 cats (which seem to have a high death rate from H5N1) I'm still not sure if it's a great idea. If anyone can convince me though I would still happily get chickens.
To be fair, lots of animals like to kill chickens. I've lost dozens to predators. And I'm committed to free range, I don't want to keep chickens locked in a small coop/run all the time. I still lock them up at night and they appreciate that. I actually have zero at the moment, waiting for spring to start over after some dogs jumped over my fence and killed all of mine. I still get free eggs from my sister though. Oh, and you can't suggest chicken ownership without disclosing all of the chicken shit. It's almost mountains of chicken shit.
I had 7 and am down to 2 because of a coyote.
Call it Guano and sell it as fertiliser.
People have killed over guano. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_War
It's also how Bond originally killed Dr No
Bond kills No by taking over the guano-loading machine at the docks and diverting the flow of guano to bury him alive.
Re-he-he-eally
Bumblebee tuna!
What are your thoughts on suburban chicken ownership? I'm wholly uninterested, I need another creature to keep alive like I need another hole in the head, but my wife and daughter are really into the idea.
That's essentially what I have been doing. You'd be surprised how many predators still roam the suburbs though. I have lost chickens to raccoons, opossums, hawks, dogs and foxes.
My only real suggestion is check your zoning. I was operating in a kind of grey area but I have known people who had to get rid of their chickens to avoid daily fines. Getting well set up for chickens is a bit of work, I wouldn't want to do that in vain.
We get eggs by the dozen, or half dozen. I've never seen a ten pack.
The US Americans. Pretty sure the rest of America doesn't have crazy egg prices, right?
Did bird flu just miss your chicken populations, or are you just fine eating diseased produce?
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Dude, we tried to get coffee before it went up... It had already went from $12 to $16!
Related note: There are some good vegan eggs out there to give a try!
If you want something that cooks and bakes like eggs there's stuff you can by like Just Egg
For baking there's a million things you can use that are pretty cheap. For instance, Aquafaba is the leftover water from cooking chickpeas or the water in the can if you buy it canned. Acts like egg whites and can be used as a binder for baking
Actually that's really cool. Meat and egg prices have gotten so high that I'm basically an accidental vegetarian, maybe it's just time to cut those things out of my diet. I've heard soft tofu is a good egg replacement for breakfast, how is that done?
If you're looking for a scramble, things like tofu scrambles can be pretty good! Usually that's with firm tofu rather than soft tofu, but you absolutely can use soft tofu as well. It can also be seasoned a million different ways. Here's one example recipe (with firm tofu)
https://www.noracooks.com/tofu-scramble/
Soft tofu will have a different texture than firm so you can try recipes for both and see what you think. (EDIT: Note that you generally don't want to substitute one for the other because of that texture difference so look for recipes that specifically call for using firm tofu or specifically call for soft/silken)
Soft/silken tofu can also be used as a binder too and replace dairy / eggs in various recipes. Like I've made a chocolate mousse with it before and it didn't affect the taste. Had some friends and family try it and they both didn't know there was tofu in it and also were surprised to learn it was vegan
https://aseasyasapplepie.com/silken-tofu-chocolate-mousse/
There's a also some vegan cooking & baking communities here on lemmy if you want other inspirations. Here's one that's pretty active [email protected] and here's another that's a little less active but has recipes for it all [email protected]
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I'm American. I just bought 12 eggs for $5. What's this going on about?
In a lot of the US eggs were under a dollar pretty recently. I've been paying $5-$7 the last couple of months. But I also get a lot of free eggs. But it's just bird flu decimating the supply so they raise prices to reduce demand and make up for lack of sales volume.
$5 is pretty high for me. Even Dollar General is $4, and that's for lazy shopping. Aldi is still $3 I think?
First meme I saw today and made me laugh aloud. I donβt know that anyone has achieved that in a long time. Chefβs kiss.
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Five years ago it was toilet paper.
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