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| Mr. Evil Rooster |
I just left Lowe's with another $184 spent to finish the run on the Chicken Coop! I have been feeding them Non-GMO organic food...same with their scratch, and they have eaten alot!!! 250 lbs @ $ 32 per 50lb bag...since they were 2 days old...now almost 6 months. I am still a few weeks from even the first egg and I am thinking..."Good Stinking Grief...these 6 hens and 1 Rooster can never give me enough eggs or chicks to pay off what it cost to build this coop, run, feed them, let alone the time it has cost me and my husband." Since my husband and I are hardly the most accomplished DIY people we have spent countless weekends trying to get this done. I started to calculate how many farm fresh eggs I could have bought at the store or from someone else and wouldn't have to do a dang thing with all that I have spent! Ugh! Slipping into despair and depression...forgetting why this seemed like a good idea at the time. I have a Rooster who is now acting up...his testsoterone is on high so every morning he charges at me...they have eaten just about all my plants. I had Cabbage Transplants that I hadn't gotten into the ground before they almost destroyed them. They ate a berry wreath that was hanging on the front porch....A FAKE BERRY WREATH!!! Why am I buying the best food when they ignore food from my home and eat fake berries??? Okay so just as I am coming to the conclusion that I have put a lot of energy in the wrong things and money...I remember why I am doing this. To be Self-sufficient...To be Self Sustaining. Maybe someday...there won't be the readily available food...Maybe someday money will be pretty much eaten up by inflation and eggs will be out of the question to purchase...among other things. THAT is why I am doing this. What if my husband lost his job? What if there is no real net like Social Security in the 11 years we need to wait to collect in full and we are on our own? Even though in 2008 we still had work...we were still going on vacation even bought a new car in 2009...while so many other people lost everything. I want to remember that this is always a possibility in this very uncertain economic climate we live in. All of this to say that it costs Time and Money to Homestead...to prepare to be self sufficient...and a heck of a lot of work...And I need to rethink doing some of this Pinterest stuff, it all looks great but do I really
need PVC feeders and waterers? Or can I just go to the farm supply and buy the old cheap ones that have been used for years by farmers? I think I need to revisit Lowe's with my returns and do what needs to be done to prep as frugally as I can.
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| My Poor Pitiful "Berry" Wreath... |
