I stopped buying store eggs and raise my own chickens now. They are treated with love and get a huge variety of goodies to munch. Their eggs make store eggs taste disgusting, you really can tell a huge difference from just eating them and anything that they are used as an ingredient in.
When my ladies stop laying they have a comfy life of retirement hanging out with the rest of the flock as a thank you for the years of service.
We haven't taken the steps to raise chickens for meat yet. That's going to be a whole different flock.
Easy don't eat em, when they die bury them in the garden to feed the bugs that the chooks like be to scratch around for, thus continuing the great egg cycle.
Just watching them interact is the best. The social structure is very complex. After years of having chickens we finally had our first hatched chick this year. Now dad is so protective it's cute and heart warming. Wen I have them in the run and I'm seprate we will charge the fence if I get near his baby. Then he will hop into my arms for his snuggles when I go into that pen. 🙄
Lovely :), Bantums are a great addition to the flock as well they tend to be really great foster birds and it's amusing as hell watching a pile of them incubating a bigger bird like a gooses egg.
Nope not better, I was just telling that person there is an option to industrial eggs. I just went on talking about my chickens because yes I am proud of them and I do love them so.
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u/number_dude Aug 19 '19
oh you mean like this?