Eggs are expensive. Have you changed your breakfast because of it? What are you eating?

[bdg848]

We've wanted to get some chickens anyway and this is a good excuse so we are speaking at the city council meeting about allowing chickens in town but our city is kinda snobby........so it will go exactly nowhere, I'm Sure.

 

[FAAFO]

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Thread 'How’s your fuel prices'

Mar 1, 2021

Since the end of November the fuel and gas prices around here (NM) have been steadily going up and today diesel hit the $3.00 per gallon mark and gas is $2.69 per gallon. Just last year I was paying $1.78 per gallon for diesel fuel. Things are going down hill fast nowadays fuel has gone up $1.22 per gallon in just 3 months and this is probably just the beginning of it.

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I can write off fuel but I can’t write off eggs……yet

 

[FAAFO]

Every year I actually look at what it cost us to put game meat in the freezer and it's never been more than $5/lb. The goat this year was sub $2/lb.

Mr Kelly,
How do you break up the cost of the plane into your x/lb? What are you factoring in and not factoring in?

I like to do the same. I go pretty in depth though as I make $1200 a day at work so if I’m gone moose hunting for 10 days including travel that’s $12,000. It never pencils out for me for x/lb.

 

[Backyard]

We've wanted to get some chickens anyway and this is a good excuse so we are speaking at the city council meeting about allowing chickens in town but our city is kinda snobby........so it will go exactly nowhere, I'm Sure.

Can’t blame em tho. Nobody wants to get woken up to roosters crowing every morning. As most people get them also. They do around here. Especially when they aren’t theirs.


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[Uncle Goonie]

Chicks are in at our local feed stores, one bag of feed a month and our food scraps feeds our 8 chickens. I buy 2 or 3 new chicks a year to replace old hens and we get 2-8 eggs a day depending on season.

 

[CHWine]

We had our own hens for thirty years. They gave us so much intertainment and great eggs. Since we retired and moved to AZ it was a struggle. I've since met a young guy with his own flock. $6/dozen free range.

 

[z987k]

I would like to see that cost break down. Others have told me the same but they are missing about 20 inputs

Are you amortizing knives and grinders and the rifle? What if you use the gear 90+% of the time for other things? IRS pro-rata?

 

[KurtR]

Are you amortizing knives and grinders and the rifle? What if you use the gear 90+% of the time for other things? IRS pro-rata?

Yep it all costs and don’t forget transportation and time isn’t free either. Unless it’s a very rare circumstance it’s cheaper just to buy meat but it’s a good justification for the wife.

 

[Grumman]

Bags of layer pellet feed at Tractor Supply was $15.99/ bag in Oct2024 and is now $19.99/bag. No doubt raising prices for the backyard chicken demand.


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[z987k]

Yep it all costs and don’t forget transportation and time isn’t free either. Unless it’s a very rare circumstance it’s cheaper just to buy meat but it’s a good justification for the wife.

Ok, but then you also need to include the fuel and cost of your vehicle to drive to the store to buy meat. Obviously it'd still be cheaper to go to the store.
I count the difference in what I spent to hunt vs stay home and never hunt. It's rather minimal. Some gas, maybe specialty food depending on where we're going and how we get there, butchering supplies, the rifle, the pack.
The transportation, the clothing, the tent(all camping gear) I'm going to own if I never hunt again. They're not specialty for hunting.
I don't take time off work to hunt, so the time is free... I wouldn't get paid for that time no matter what I did with it, so it makes no sense to charge for that time.