HOW HOMESTEADING HELPED ME CUT MY SPENDING!

Let's talk about homestead in agriculture today!
Thanks to @sirknight for the initiation of this #celestialchallenge where we get to appreciate and talk about agriculture.

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Practicing homesteading is something really interesting so I've always seen while going through @papa-pepper's posts on homestead.
As a young homesteader, I have never really checked to see how homesteading affected my spending as regards food. It really didn't occur to me as I never really had issues as to what to eat throughout the year 2017.
This changed a little in December same year as yuletide drew closer. Read along!

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Having to accommodate visitors who were family, I had to really make sure they ate what they were used to! My mum made it easy for me by always helping with the cooking, I did the dishing.
They were going to stay just one week which was till the eve of Christmas!

Four days after they came, it just suddenly occurred to me that three out of my chickens had been killed!.... I had to go talk to my mum as the rate was seeming really fast. Did you forget that chicken is their favorite? is what I got from her!... Mehn!! I was thinking, was it because they saw I had chickens this time or did five persons just develop such great love for eating chickens in 11months? It was scary! my vegetables were on the run too!

After the forth chicken, I really was uncomfortable. I was now thinking of the cost of breeding the chickens.. my vegetables would grow up eventually.
As I thought, I decided to do a check and balance comparing 2016's spending when they came where I had to buy the chickens to now(2017) that I bred them. I was amazed!

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I am not much of an economist but here was my analysis!
A 12weeks old chicken of same size cost #4500 in 2016. I used 5 chickens for analysis.

2016 December
No of chickens	5
Cost of chickens	#4500/chicken	5 x 4500 = #22500

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2017 December
No of chickens	5
Cost of four weeks old chicks	700/chick	5 x 700 = #3500
Cost of feed for remaining 8weeks	#3800/bag..Two and half bags used	2.5 x 3800 = #9500
Total		#13000

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Definitely, from the analysis, you can see I didn't make a loss. I was able to save up #9500.

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Yes! there was a lot of work and you know that the mortality rate of chickens can be very high. I solved that by buying chicks from my school's farm. The personnel there pretty know these things and they give the required vaccines! They also told me drugs to administer too and how to go about it.

Imagine doing this on a larger scale.

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So, homesteading is really profitable. The good thing is that you spend little for setup using your yard!

As @papa-pepper would always do. Here is my proof!

These ones were 11weeks old as at 2nd January 2018!

Image is original

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Cheers!