My $1200 egg!!!

[Mrs. K]

The best part is: all the eggs after it are free! W

That's my story and I am sticking to it!

Congratulations - this is the funnest hobby ever!

PS - if you consider chickens as necessary for your mental health, it is also helpful.

 

[schernis]

I still get excited every time I see eggs in the laying box. Going on about 10 years now...You will break even in about 5 years.
Congratulations!!!

 

[BDutch]

I still get excited every time I see eggs in the laying box. Going on about 10 years now...You will break even in about 5 years.
Congratulations!!!

I bought a chicken coop for 2 rabbits I had. After they died it became the home of 4 Dutch bantams. Break even was probably a lot sooner. But who cares?
I love their characters, watching them interact and the fact they gives me fresh eggs

If people had the need to break even with the animals they keep…. they wouldn’t have so many pets like cats and dogs for sure.

 

[RoyalChick]

A bit late to the party here, but congratulations! First eggs are so wonderful, and your is a very pretty one.
I remember staring at the nest box when I got my first egg like it was some sort of magic that had happened. I still feel a bit if a thrill when I collect eggs.

 

[Sammster]

Very exciting! Congrats!

 

[Thefishman320]

This is some of what they call Chicken Math. The baby chicks are so cute and cheap until you start building a coop buying food and then toys. In northern climates you then realize you need to spend more to keep water from freezing and the costly modifications to the coop to give them a space to keep the snow and wind from turning them into snow chickens.

You alway remember your first egg!

Lol, we regularly have 100° days where I am, so I put air conditioning in mine

 

[BDutch]

Lol, we regularly have 100° days where I am, so I put air conditioning in mine

Tip: Plant a tree next to the coop and run. That way you dont need airco within a few years and don’t contribute to global warming.

 

[Goose08]

I got my first egg today! I am jokingly calling it my $1,200 egg since that's how much I've spent to get this far I suspect it is from my olive egger Roxy I ran out to show my husband in my pajamas
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Ha! I’m always excited when my birds lay!!! Congrats!!!

 

[mallory2013]

Congrats… and do you have a list with spendings since you know what the costs were for the first egg?

Would be nice if you could share it.

I don't specifically have a list... just in my head I do have another post documenting my coop building journey if you want to check that out!

 

[mallory2013]

Thank you for all the congratulations everyone! I used the first eggs to make a cake I have another layer now, but I can't figure out who it is this hobby is so stinkin fun!