alt Hacker News> it's definitely _not_ the _monetary_ solution
Does this also take into account the current price of eggs in the same product category? i.e., organic, free-range eggs?
For current Erewhon prices, 8 eggs a day is $11.30 in free eggs a day, so $339 in eggs a month?
https://erewhon.com/subcategory/33022/eggs - $16.99 a dozen
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wiredfool • last Thursday at 12:02 PM
Your first egg is $1000. After that, Free Eggs! Except for the feed, and the work.
pipe2devnull • last Thursday at 12:09 PM
Free range isn’t that much space still. Pasture raised is better and at my local grocery store I can get a dozen for like $8/dozen.
I'm not who you're replying to... but: it cost me $2-2.5k to build my coop two years ago which houses 5 hens, and they cost roughly $10-20 per month to feed, change bedding, etc. Realistically my household eats 4 dozen eggs a month. Even with current egg prices I'm not saving any money for a long, long time.
Still absolutely worthwhile for my mentally though and one of my major life goals