$209 breakfast

[plumberroy]

I had 2 regular eggs and 1 small egg 2 slices of bacon 2 slices of toast and a glass of iced tea. 
The small egg is the first egg from our chickens. According to my records, in buying chicks, lights, feeders, waterers, and food I have $208.38 in that egg 
Was a damn fine tasting egg though
Roy

[Questor]

Oh well, after 100 breakfasts it'll be down to just over $2, so look for the bright future.

[Hodr]

Sounds good to me.  I have a tomato eating dog  (?).  Last year I bought a chainlink dog kennel (10' x 14') on the basis that if it would keep a dog in, it would keep a dog out. This year i added a drip system to the cage and bird netting.  My wife estimates I have reached the point where I have spent $75 apiece for tomatoes to  say nothing of frustraintg the dog. 

blindhari

[pastorp]

Good points gentelmen.............Kind of like hunting. I've been doing my hunting at the meat market the last few years since I can't walk well anymore. I take my deer call and go to the market and load up. I bought T-bone steaks yesterday for $6.99 a pound instead of the normal $100.00 a pound the deer steaks used to cost me when I hunted.

Regards,

[m-g Willy]

Good points gentelmen.............Kind of like hunting. I've been doing my hunting at the meat market the last few years since I can't walk well anymore. I take my deer call and go to the market and load up. I bought T-bone steaks yesterday for $6.99 a pound instead of the normal $100.00 a pound the deer steaks used to cost me when I hunted.

Regards,

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[plumberroy]

  News Flash 
The cost per egg just went down to $104.19 each I found another one 
Roy
Update they are now down to $69.46 got a second egg today

[Brett]

Look on the bright side.  When the day comes that they quit laying you can eat chicken.    Nobody wants to eat an empty egg carton. 

[holahead]

I got some baby chicks back in Febuary and raised them up. I got my first egg last week and man it was fine. I have only one hen that is laying but she is laying everyday. I would hate to figure out how much I have got tied up in mine but its worth every cent to me cause enjoy raising them.

[mechanic]

I could tell the story of the hay barn that burned, the bull that died and the market that went down, but no one would believe $10,000.00 steaks.

[atitagain]

Reminds me of back in the early 80's, when everybody wanted to burn wood for heat.
$250.00 for new chainsaw to cut wood
$500.00 for trailer to haul wood
$500.00 for wood burning furnace and installation.
$100.00 for extra chains and accessories
$15,000.00 for 4WD truck
$75.00 /year for dry cleaning curtains.
Where are you saving money?

Now-a-days, I tell people,
So you want to save gas by buying a motorcycle to ride to work.
Well, let's see...............
$2,000.00 for a (used) motorcycle.
$100.00 /year for maintenance 
$200.00 a year for insurance
$75.00 for helmet
You still have to buy gas
And you can only ride maybe 5 months out of the year.
Now the BIG savings come................................................Where?

[Hodr]

My uncle Clarence lived in the Ozark mountains.  He sold all the firewood you could put in your trunk for $25 or in your pickup for $50.  People came out from towns and loaded all they could.  About 1/2 mile from his house they hit an uninproved rock creek.  Greedy folk with all the wood they could load would frequently break an axle or drive shaft, sometimes an oil pan or differential cover.  After they hiked back to his place he (for a price) would take a tractor and trailer to get them to the nearest garage.  This garage belonged to his son, one of my first cousins.  In the fall they made as much from tows and repair as they did from firewood.

blindhari