It looks like you forgot to teach one chicken how to read.First day of laying, got 3 eggs! Chickens born on May 27, it's Oct 11, so 4 months and 14 days. No idea who layed them. 2 in the morning, 1 in the evening. Hopefully moving forward egg production will pick up, no more buying eggs!
And of course, we have one bad egg.
Especially when you can go to Costco and buy large rotiseree chickens for $5 and they are good. We pick up two every time we go and my wife pulls the meat off and puts it in mason jars and freezes it for cooking with. Talk about cheap meat. My son and DIL work there and they use those chickens as "Loss leaders" to get people in the door. Though that could change in an instant.I'm also not seeing the cost savings compared to buying them at the store compared to buying the chicks, then the cost of feed for 10 weeks, and a full day of labor cleaning them.
Completely understand that, that's why I have chickens for eggs but I haven't ruled out meat chickens yetAs the price of everything creeps up, i dont' want to rely on costco's $5 chicken. There were times where costco wasn't carrying them in the past 2 years. Shows how unreliable our system can be. This is why I'm doing chickens. I dont' want to rely on a system that is not reliable. I'm planning to do meat birds as well next year, just want to get everything set up and producing eggs for now.