Raising chickens

[RonMexico]

I'm in a rental out here in NC, so I'll have to get creative but I won't have to deal with the "real" winters Colorado has to offer( just a few cold months but not many days below 20degree). The shed next to the coop only stores my kayaks, so maybe I'll incorporate it into my winter plan but idk.

[Great-Kazoo]

I'm in a rental out here in NC, so I'll have to get creative but I won't have to deal with the "real" winters Colorado has to offer( just a few cold months but not many days below 20degree). The shed next to the coop only stores my kayaks, so maybe I'll incorporate it into my winter plan but idk.

Oh just wait. The rain starts slowly, temp drops within an hour or so. You're stuck 1/2 mi from the house, 2 hours later back home, because EVERYONE can't drive on anything but dry pavement.

Now tornado season gets interesting, with the potential for a good hurricane to work it's way inland. Yeppers, those CO winters are a bitch.

[RonMexico]

Oh just wait. The rain starts slowly, temp drops within an hour or so. You're stuck 1/2 mi from the house, 2 hours later back home, because EVERYONE can't drive on anything but dry pavement.
Now tornado season gets interesting, with the potential for a good hurricane to work it's way inland. Yeppers, those CO winters are a bitch.

In Feb everyone lost their minds durning a small ice storm but I stayed home bc you're right, NC drivers weren't prepared.


I am rolling the dice with $108... I want to see how cheap and efficiently I can raise a few birds. If they produce 1k plus eggs, Awesome; if I only get 50 eggs and cook three chickens, it's not a huge waste either. I'm not looking to spend a lot of money and I don't need a new hobby but a $100 experience is well with it to me as I would rather have a trail and error period now then when SHTF.

[Great-Kazoo]

In Feb everyone lost their minds durning a small ice storm but I stayed home bc you're right, NC drivers weren't prepared.


I am rolling the dice with $108... I want to see how cheap and efficiently I can raise a few birds. If they produce 1k plus eggs, Awesome; if I only get 50 eggs and cook three chickens, it's not a huge waste either. I'm not looking to spend a lot of money and I don't need a new hobby but a $100 experience is well with it to me as I would rather have a trail and error period now then when SHTF.

The satisfaction of knowing one can do it makes it all worth the time. Our daughter has a full house between cluckers & goats. Shes adding 2 cows and possibly 1 or 2 hogs.
These are the layers. The feeders, those they already processed and in the freezer. She said home grown birds are a big improvement (as always) over store purchased ones, both for eggs and eating.


They came home after processing their feeders and found these sitting on the steps. I told her they knew what happend and were there for retribution.