Forum rules
Welcome to the Leverguns.Com General Discussions Forum. This is a high-class place so act respectable. We discuss most anything here other than politics... politely.
Please post political post in the new Politics forum.
It is usually better to have decentralized, non-mono-crop, locally-based food production though. So I think as many people as possible should have chickens and/or goats. Plus a garden.
It's 2025 - "Cutesy Time is OVER....!" [Dan Bongino]
We have had for quite a long time. My grandsons have a nice little egg-selling business going. The egg production feeds us, pays for the feed and gives the boys some spending money. Plus they sell their eggs cheaper than the stores so the customers get a good deal too.
Except for a couple of years, we've had chickens since we came to Missouri. We bought a wooden shed to use as a coop for our girls, and it has worked really well, especially with the winter we've had so far. I just ordered another 15 from Cackle Hatchery in Lebanon, MO, but they won't be ready to pick up until June! It seems like everyone is trying to get their own backyard flock going. I think a lot of people are in for a rude awakening about what goes into having chickens, or any other farm animal.
"When the shooting stops, and the dead are buried, and the politicians take over; it all adds up to one thing: a lost cause."
I would have to put a coop on the roof of my shop to keep my 3 bird crazy labradors from terrorizing chickens!
Neighbor has chickens and a rooster- boy how that rooster begs for a load of #4s!
Certainly home grown eggs, or as I refer to them- chicken fruit are much more appealing to me than those bland flavorless factory eggs.
Well we could bring back the WPA and it's slogan could be "A chicken coop in every backyard". The feds could build the coops and then supply a few hens and a rooster. Add in a years worth of chicken feed and all would be right with the world.
Jeepnik AKA "Old Eyes"
"Go low, go slow and preferably in the dark" The old Sarge (he was maybe 24.
"Freedom is never more that a generation from extinction" Ronald Reagan
"Every man should have at least one good rifle and know how to use it" Dad
Jeep -- frankly, if we all raised a few chickens and grew victory gardens again, a lot more things WOULD be right with the world.
And yes, Steve, the chicken coop does take some work and not all of it pleasant. Then there are the raccoons, foxes, tunneling rats, snakes and raptors to defend against. An elderly neighbor in the mountains of southern Oregon once confided in me that if the feds ever figured out how many redtail hawks were buried out beyond his chicken coop, he would be in prison the rest of his life.
Bill in Oregon wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 8:00 am
Jeep -- frankly, if we all raised a few chickens and grew victory gardens again, a lot more things WOULD be right with the world.
And yes, Steve, the chicken coop does take some work and not all of it pleasant. Then there are the raccoons, foxes, tunneling rats, snakes and raptors to defend against. An elderly neighbor in the mountains of southern Oregon once confided in me that if the feds ever figured out how many redtail hawks were buried out beyond his chicken coop, he would be in prison the rest of his life.
When we first moved here we were living in a subdivision and had a possum get into our first coop. A couple of months ago I had two possums within a week in our coop/shed when I went out to put the girls up for the night. Last fall a black snake was in there trying to get the eggs. And you're correct, the hawks are always a danger. I can tell when they've been flying over when the chickens are all hiding under a tree or up on the porch.
BTW, I grew up in Beaverton, but as beautiful as the state is, there's no way I'd move back to Oregon. The state government is crazy!
"When the shooting stops, and the dead are buried, and the politicians take over; it all adds up to one thing: a lost cause."
