Welcome to Debora’s Egg Farm or Jus Doin My Part to Combat Global Warming!

Grade A Large Eggs in the Grocery retail for $2.79 per dozen.

Each spring on one of our many visits to TSC we would look at the baby chicks they have on display and think that perhaps we should build that chicken coop this year. About five years ago I actually laid out an 8x8 site (ya it was to be a true backyard chicken farm), build the foundation to only abandon it for other projects. I eventually ripped it out to make way for other projects because after-all Grade A Large Eggs in the Grocery retail for $2.79 per dozen.

Meanwhile, I likely drew 10 layouts of various size and configuration over the years and at the end of the exercise abandoned the idea because I always come back to the fact that Grade A Large Eggs in the Grocery retail for $2.79 per dozen.

Nevertheless I set out this spring to build what I’d call a conservative 8 bird layer house. Well ok let’s just call it what it is, it’s just a dam small chicken coop akin to something seem in Mother Earth News or Grit Magazine. I do, by the way “like” GRIT on Facebook, so many good ole-timey ideas. But as you might expect the project quickly turned from using mostly recycled materials (doin my part to combat global warming) to adding a few newly purchased materials. Not that I ever envisioned this being a project to make or even save me any money because Grade A Large Eggs in the Grocery retail for $2.79 per dozen.

Once the Coop was framed in it needed siding and the “recycled” ship-lap vinyl I had in stock wasn’t going to do so off I went to Lowes and bought new siding and trim and some nails for the air gun and staples too. $207.31 later (divided by Grade A Large Eggs in the Grocery retail for $2.79 per dozen) I was 74.3 dozen eggs in the red.

At the same time my wife had made a trip back to TSC and purchased the chicks and a waterer and a feeder and some feed and some antibiotic that the good salesman assured her she needed. I never did see that bill so let’s just say that the “contingency” line on the budget was used up. But conservatively guessing that she spent $50 and considering that Grade A Large Eggs in the Grocery retail for $2.79 per dozen, I’m now 92.2 dozen eggs in the red.

With the chickens home and in the brooder, which was in a converted end of our Garden Shed, Debora’s Chicken Farm was launched. As the little coop was coming to completion I knew I had to build a pen around it so I came up with a 12x12 design and back to TSC I went. $156.05 later I was home and because Grade A Large Eggs in the Grocery retail for $2.79 per dozen I was now 148.13 dozen eggs in the red.

Oh did I mention that we bought 12 chickens. It looks as if four of them will be males. So with 8 hens and a beginning deficit of 148.13 dozen eggs my projected breakeven date will be 222 days after they mature knowing that Grade A Large Eggs in the Grocery retail for $2.79 per dozen.