[–] Dumb_Comment_Bot ago
I started looking into it after you made the other comment and it looks like with certain chicken breeds you can get one in 8 weeks, no eggs like you said.
I was kinda thinking of how my grandparents had chickens, I think they only had like 10-20 at a time. But basically they were all egg-laying hens and then maybe every two weeks or so, they would butcher one and make soup with half of it(because the meat would be too tough for just eating), freeze the other half. Basically have soup once a week out of it, and way too many eggs.
Grandmothers can think of really creative ways to feed a lot of fucking eggs to children. Ahh memories.
[–] zxcvbnasdf 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yeah for sure. I mean if you had 1200 layers, you get 250,000 eggs / year. It's quite intense. And they don't exactly stop laying them if you don't eat them, either.
I'm looking into doing this kinda stuff. On 20 acres you can raise 2-300 pigs and at least that many chickens. Then growing some crops, and you got a stew going.
[–] Dumb_Comment_Bot ago
I've got a good sized lot in the city (1/4 acre), its not much but definitely enough to have chickens without smelling them.
I want to get some chickens but I travel a lot for work and my wife already said she wouldnt lift a finger to take care of "retarded feather dinosaurs". So its a pipe dream.