Ooh I'll answer here, yes, we have the chickens for eggs, we have 30 hens, and 2 roosters. <3 <3 I give most away haha! Though I have one regular customer who buys them with fiat. I would prefer to trade, that is the future goal!! Trading with locals for other goods that I need. Cut out all the middle men lol.
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@lynsaybowes, I wanted to propose you one kind of business. Let me tell you what I mean. You may create a farm in your homestead and ask for funding the Steemians. Let's say you want to buy 100 chickens/hens (from those ones, in order to save their lifes). We will send you STEEM into your STEEM wallet. For exampe, I can buy 5-10 chickens. You will also make some kind of accounting and tell us how much STEEM you need in order to maintain the farm per month. So you can calculate this costs. So, the Steemains will invest in your business. But, you will later distribute to us some part of the profit, in case your farm will be able to produce eggs and sell it.
So, it means we (the Steemians) will save the life of some chickens, you will run a farm (if you like it) financed by a community of Steemians. And, if you sell the eggs for fiat, and later pay us back part of the profit by STEEM, it means we will enlarge the adoption of STEEM and support the STEEM blockchain. Because there will be a direct link between STEEM and fiat. :)
I will chew on that...thank you!
What happens to the 50% of chicks that are born male?
@drutter, I think they just enjoy the life in the homestead.
I know from personal experience that the roosters like to run out and antagonize delivery drivers. Ha
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I had a guard rooster once...I was the only human he wouldn't attack. Unfortunately that didn't sit well with the rest of my family...
In a former life, I worked for a package delivery company. It covered a large area, and a lot of it was very rural. That's my main experience being on farms, as I went to many, many, many Wisconsin farms throughout my time working for that company.
The roosters I was thinking of were actually just on someone's "regular" property. They would come out and I'd actually just sort of have to gently drop the box by the garage door and not really get out of the truck. Very protective birds. :)
Okay, well to answer your question, I'm assuming you are referring to @cryptospa's above proposal. What he is referring to, is that the factory farms here, when a laying hen is 18 months old, they get rid of the hen, and sell them for 1$.
So there are no roosters that come from the factory farms.
Now, when I hatch my own chicks, because I breed them, we have to kill the majority of the roosters. Some we eat.
Oh. That kind of makes it sound like a proposal to profit off (and make profit for) factory farming of sentient birds, but I guess that's just my animal lover side speaking up, heh..