Nicola O Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Just reading the paper at lunch and saw this.........dont know how to find it on line and do a link so I'll type it out....... "Shell out, Save lots. Families struggling with rising fuel bills and food prices are buying live chickens to save cash, claim farmers. Experts say one chicken can lay 300 eggs a year yet costs as litttle as £9 a year to feed and house. The average large free range egg in a supermarket is 25p. After the initial cost of shelling out on a coop and four birds, a famil'y annual saving can be more than £250. Johannes Paul, whose firm Omlet, of Wardington, Oxon, sells chicken coops with birds ready to lay, said "We're three times busier than last year." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/money/article1234227.ece/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilda-and-evadne Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 My browser can't use that link unless you remove the trailing slash, viz http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/money/article1234227.ece Good for Omlet. Nice picture of a windswept chook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina C Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 £9 a year?????????? My chooks are spoilt then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura & CTB Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 £9 a month is closer!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Awww, what a cute frizzle - you don't often get pix of them in the press. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 i thought that the article was a bit short £9 a year? I'd like to know what the feed is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachel19 Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Hmm with a bag of food costing approx £5-6 and the fact it goes off within 3 months i dont see how that works out even without all the extras like sweetcorn, mealworms, porridge, wormer, mealworms, citricidal, mealworms and not to mention all of the additional things that slip into your basket for them when you go to actually buy said food Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilda-and-evadne Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 I wonder how they arrived at that figure. It is £9 PER HEN. Perhaps this is what it costs in Australia (apparently wheat is Australia's largest crop). Bit of a mystery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Just done a quick calculation and mine cost £8 a year each to feed on pellets. 2 hens eat a kilo of pellets costing 44p in 10 days so, 365/10 = 36.5 x 44p = £16.06 or £8.03 per hen Of course, if you add on all the extras, plus the cost of re-seeding the lawn and replacing plants they eat I imagine it comes in a lot higher than that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Nice to see an article showing eglus in a positive light even though the name "eglu" wasn't mentioned . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 I did a phone interview yesterday with the Banbury Guardian, and the photgrapher is coming round at lunchtime to take photos (just the weather for it!!!) Let's see what they come up with.... due out on Thursday. Must be a slow news week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 OOOH get you Miss Celebrity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 OOOH get you Miss Celebrity Jealous? You won't be.. I called the reporter to suggest that he might not get any decent photos considerig the weather, but he still wants to go ahead - I shall spend my lunch break today out in the pouring rain, cuddling a wet bantam! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 OOOH get you Miss Celebrity Jealous? You won't be.. I called the reporter to suggest that he might not get any decent photos considerig the weather, but he still wants to go ahead - I shall spend my lunch break today out in the pouring rain, cuddling a wet bantam! Not jealous just not sure you will lower yourself to speak to us mere mortals anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 of course I will Mel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubereglu Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 You lead a glamorous life don't you Clare-I'm just jealous really! Nice to see you on here Mel, thought you'd got lost in that rain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
