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Awesome it is, for sure and for certain. Funny, the names we choose for our chickens… I had a Buff Orpington named Goldie and a goldfish named Mr T! My favorite hen was a little black, half bantam I named Ella. Best mama hen ever! Her sister was Aretha. Sadly, a fox got both of them in one day, along with four others. Greedy little shit.
One thing about your very cool visual: waddle is a way of walking while wattle is the fleshy dangle on fowl, and fish too.
I love your name choices! My favorite chicken was a Buff Bantam Cochin I named “Bud.” He was a super sweet rooster. Thank you for the spelling edit. I will get that fix in there right away.
It costs $2.00 for a dozen eggs around here in southern NM. If you have just the right amount of chickens, around 10-20. Its cheaper to feed and keep the chickens, plus you get enough eggs to sell and make some feed money. (-:
Good to know chickens can pay off monetarily as well! It can be quite the guessing game to find out how much keeping chickens costs, and I hope this infograph at least helps give people a baseline. Thanks for your input!
Based on Triple Bottom Line, hens are a great choice. Important component of Household Food Security cycle. CLUCK is involved in a trial on the Right to Food, initiated by a fine against urban hens.
Food Trial http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/03/12/running-a-fowl-of-the-constitution/
CLUCK http://www.facebook.com/groups/CLUCKCANADA/
Some interesting information there. Here is another interesting article I was reading on the fight for urban chickens that involves CLUCK: http://www.sacmag.com/Sacramento-Magazine/March-2011/Chickes-in-the-City/
While it is always a good idea check with the city whether or not chickens can be kept, hopefully more bans on chickens will be lifted in the future due to cases such as the one mentioned in your link. Thank you for sharing!
Great infographic! I love it!!! My pullets are on their way. They’re names are: Nugget, Potpie, Kabob, Olive and Parm. Olive is an olive egger, of course.
Nice! I just let my little pullets out free range with the rest of the big chickens this weekend. Got some new-to-me breeds this year so it will be fun to watch them grow!
Eggs actually cost around $4 a dozen for battery hens where I live and around $5-6 for free range. Eggs are expensive! This also doesn’t account for being able to feed food scraps to the chickens and grow green feed. That’s a lot of free food there without having to buy feed, if they are free range they will find their own bugs and insects also. You probably would buy them some feed, but it would not be heaps.
This also doesn’t factor in people wanting to get their eggs from happy healthy chickens, wanting the joy of having chickens ( they have great personalities), and the freshness of the eggs. But yes the coop itself would be quite expensive, especially as in my area they are required to have a cement foundation.
Yes, prices do vary quite a bit and there are a lot of factors involved in figuring out how much your chickens will cost you. I myself feed my chickens food scraps and they spend all day outside, but they still do eat quite a bit of feed. But I am more than happy to have them as pets and for their extra nutritious eggs!
I agree coops can get spendy for sure… I did spend quite a bit on mine, haha (my neighbor calls it “the chicken hotel”).
Don’t forget all that free fertilizer they produce! If you’re a gardener, that can be where you break even with chickens.
Ah yes, used some on my garden this year. It’s fantastic!
Surprisingly, though we live in New Zealand, the money amounts are very similar (our eggs, even cage ones, are a bit more pricey). Great graphic! Will be sharing this!
Thanks!
The one benefit from your own chickens is the amount of composting they do if you pile leaves etc in their yard. Instant good soil for the garden and no need to burn off! Unfortunately we had a very greedy fox that got our five one morning, (Dooby, Bear, Chicken, Penny, and Jay) and now I have piles of leaves and twigs to get rid of which never happened when they turned and turned it looking for bugs.
So sad to hear about your chickens. Right now I have set my chickens loose in my garden so it will be ready and fertilized for spring, which will be great!
What a great graphic!! I am part of a group that is trying to legalize backyard hens. Can I have your permission to use this in helping our more “uneducated” residents become less fearful?
Hi Brittany,
Glad you like it. Feel free to use it as long as you attribute it back to us and don’t use it for commercial purposes.
Thanks,
Money Side of Life Editor Jens Odegaard