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[quote=Anonymous]I have backyard chickens. Given the limits of of how many I'm allowed to have (4), it's not really a money saving venture. Feed prices have increased over the past year, and because I live in suburbia I have a nice coop and not a knocked-together coop like my grandparents had for their dozen chickens. It's also not self-sustaining because I'm not allowed to have a rooster, which also means my chickens need constant human supervision when I let them out of their run, and I have a roofed, predator proof run (also more money) for them because again, no rooster to help make sure they're safe. My grandparents had roosters with their chickens, so were fine with fencing where the chickens could range around during the day as long as they had a reasonable coop for them to sleep in.

Chickens do make fantastic pets, however. The kids adore them and the eggs are a million times better than even the free-range, organic, fancy eggs we get from the grocery store. If where you live has laws that allow for a larger flock and rooster(s), you might come out ahead financially. Also keep in mind that egg production changes throughout the year. We get fewer (or none) in winter, and more in summer. And hens don't lay their whole lives, so have a plan. Ours are pets. When they stop laying, we just don't get any eggs. For people who have hens for egg production, that might be when they kill and process the chicken for dinner, which is what my grandparents did.[/quote]

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