hilarious. Even if we ignored all the upkeep, it's not like chickens are popping out a dozen safe to eat eggs every week to keep up with your diet. It can be a nice hobby, but we let farmers specialize in this for a reason.
hilarious. Even if we ignored all the upkeep, it's not like chickens are popping out a dozen safe to eat eggs every week to keep up with your diet. It can be a nice hobby, but we let farmers specialize in this for a reason.
This feels like a weird take.
Factually it feels a bit off - with two chickens you very much will get a dozen eggs a week for the bulk of the year (there'll be some variation depending your distance from the equator, your choice of breed, etc). As noted elsewhere here, two chickens is probably insufficient to keep them as happy as they could or should be - and practically keeping four chickens is not significantly more effort or cost than keeping two.
Finding someone local who'll happily pay for some fresh eggs from happy birds is easy.
The implications around your use of the word 'safe' there feels misplaced, also. I'm guessing you're based in the USA? I'd argue egg-handling in other western nations is probably safer (here in AU we don't wash eggs, so we don't need to keep them refrigerated - removing their natural protective film seems to be contraindicated, f.e.).
Also keeping chickens can be fun. And economical. They process your kitchen scraps, kids love them, they definitely fit into the pet category.
It's weird to imply we should out-source the keeping of cats and dogs and goldfish to specialised cat-and-dog-and-goldfish farmers who can raise them much more cheaply than you could at home.