The True Cost?

[Victoria26]

sigh - I REALLLLLLLLLLLY want chickies...

Can one of you please have a word with Mr. Paul for me?

[HayleyB]

I pay £1.50 for straw (get loads for the nags), £5.95 for 20kg layers, and £6.50 for shavings. Don't forget louse powder and mite powder, chook spice, evening porridge I buy from Tesco - value option. I find economies in scale though and the eggs are making a small profit over and above their keep. They slaughtered a cabbage today, kept them busy a while (overwintered and was tasting bitter so decided they could have it instead)

[dozey1]

They love crab sticks as well, i think some one is right when they say thiongs are dearer in the South...

[Hilary B]

There is one aspect of 'the true cost' that hasn't been mentioned (on THIS thread, although it gets mentioned often enough on all the others). You WILL get addicted, and want MORE!<WEG>

Less pleasantly, there is also the emotional cost when you lose one. Chooks are NOT long lived creatures at the best of times, and you DO get attached (yeah, even those of us who kept them 'for the eggs' and wouldn't admit to being able to tell them apart)

[di]

They love crab sticks as well, i think some one is right when they say thiongs are dearer in the South...

P****s me off a bit!!!...the layers that Snadger gets for less than a fiver are closer to a tenner around here...despite the fact that the company that make them are originally Ipswich based!(I think their factory has now moved,but as far as I know their H.O is still in Ipswich!)
I'm not very good at remembering what I've bought when,but we worked out that their food costs are approx £5 a week,straw we pay either 2.50 for a bale from down the road,or if we're passing another farm a bit farther out it's 1.50.Woodshavings,Andi gets from work.
We don't worm ours...did until one of the old boys asked whatever we were wasting our money on when they'd not even got worms...he assured us that we'll know if they need it & we've still got some in the shed for if ever the need arises.
We don't use poultry spice either,they've never seemed in need of a pick me up.When they moult I may look into making up my own little mix...got to be cheaper?I often add a couple of crushed cloves of garlic to their brekkie.
We have a few friends/family members that "help us out" with buying the food in exchange for a weekly supply of fresh eggs...so far it seems to work out evens!

[Snadger]

P****s me off a bit!!!...the layers that Snadger gets for less than a fiver are closer to a tenner around here...despite the fact that the company that make them are originally Ipswich based!(I think their factory has now moved,but as far as I know their H.O is still in Ipswich!)
I'm not very good at remembering what I've bought when,but we worked out that their food costs are approx £5 a week,straw we pay either 2.50 for a bale from down the road,or if we're passing another farm a bit farther out it's 1.50.Woodshavings,Andi gets from work.
We don't worm ours...did until one of the old boys asked whatever we were wasting our money on when they'd not even got worms...he assured us that we'll know if they need it & we've still got some in the shed for if ever the need arises.
We don't use poultry spice either,they've never seemed in need of a pick me up.When they moult I may look into making up my own little mix...got to be cheaper?I often add a couple of crushed cloves of garlic to their brekkie.
We have a few friends/family members that "help us out" with buying the food in exchange for a weekly supply of fresh eggs...so far it seems to work out evens!

It's the North/South divide! My dear auld Dad honestly believed that with the closing of the pits and heavy industry up North everyone would move darn sarf and eventually it would get so over populated that the extra weight would make the bottom end of the country break away and float out to sea, forming a completely different country!!

[HayleyB]

the extra weight would make the bottom end of the country break away and float out to sea, forming a completely different country!!

Can we leave the government behind

[Glutton4...]

Is my computer clock on the blink?, or was Hayley's post timed at 9 minutes past 4 THIS MORNING?!!!

Get a life Hayley

[di]

Is my computer clock on the blink?, or was Hayley's post timed at 9 minutes past 4 THIS MORNING?!!!

Get a life Hayley

Aaaahhh!!!But how are we to know she wasn't posting having got in from a wild night of clubbing???

[Snadger]

Is my computer clock on the blink?, or was Hayley's post timed at 9 minutes past 4 THIS MORNING?!!!

Get a life Hayley

I would say that if she's been out clubbing to that time...............she's got a life!

[HayleyB]

I would say that if she's been out clubbing to that time...............she's got a life!

Believe me guys if I could afford 'clubbing' I'm too old anyway. Nope I woke up and couldn't sleep