Is it in the bylaws, if not you may be able to hire an attorney and fight back
It is that we are supposed to keep a āniceā yard. Itās also in the bylaws that the front has to have a live oakā¦the roots of which kill the grass.
F**king morons.
It needs a good seed anyway. I will probably take @donnerschweer s advice and through some compost down before seed. I got Bahia grass to grow once before rains flooded it out.
Luckily in Arizona the HOAs day you can have either grass or ānatural desertā so you can just have some gravel and cactus and be done with it.
I plan on hopefully having a couple nice trees and some a nice assortment of plants when I get a house. Not necessarily a huge variety of brightly colored flowers, but something. A square of green grass that needs daily watering is boring, haha.
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Would love to see their definition of ānice yardā
My wife went all law student on them in our initial response to their āappears to be [bad]ā by saying that appears is subjective and to us it appears fine. Lol
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Thereās a young man in one of my construction classes, couple years older than me, really ambitious intelligent guy. He owns a real estate business with his best friend. His business partner/best friend was murdered yesterday by a piece of shit, he was only 24 years old. Smh I hate humans.
Walmart had eggs priced at 5.29/18 yesterdayā¦.holy crap.
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Thereās been an outbreak of bird flu which is affecting supply.
I canāt wait to move to a house where I can keep my own chickens and raise quail.
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Iāve been thinking of doing that for a long time. Maybe I should say that Iāve thought about the idea of it, never actually started planning it or how much it would cost.
My family in Minneapolis had a neighbor who kept chickens in his backyard and he said if you begin keeping chickens thinking youāre going to save money on eggs, youāre mistaken.
I know a few country people who do so, but they already had material for a coop, have plenty of space for the chickens to move around in, produce their own feed, and have enough chickens that they have more eggs than they need and can sell the rest.
Basically, Iām getting conflicting reports. Iām sure location matters - a farm and a big city backyard are pretty different conditions. Iām curious to know how much one could actually save by raising their own chickens.
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Hmmm.
If only we had somebody around here versed in economics and equation modeling that could find the break even point for egg producing chickens.
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Iām not mathematically competent enough tk write my own models yet
But you could start with a generic production function, f(number of chickens, hen productivity), subtract fixed costs for coop and variable costs (ie feed, time). Then add wedges to account for price shocks or weather.
Take the derivative with respect to number of chickens to calculate the optimal number of chickens. Then calculate the price given the optimal number of chickens. If that cost exceeds the cost of buying similar quality eggs, do not raise chickens
I think theyāre pondering How many chickens would it take to be an economically viable venture given the price of eggs?
My guess is that number would be very high, which is why most people who buy locally produced eggs cite an intangible like taste or ethics and not cost.
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11 chickens.
No I will not elaborate.
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Okay, i got that but Iām still confused.
When writing out the chicken derivative, do i put the chicken before the egg? Or is it the other way aroundā¦ i never remember
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If its being expressed as a ratio you just keep the order the same as it was originally.
In this case you have to put the chicken before the egg
(f(chickens) is defined only from chickens = 1 to infinity)
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Accounting for production of new chickens from eggs requires some more fancy macro stuff and I donāt do macro
When parents donāt teach their children boundaries/respect. I still work part time at my other job for Costco Wholesale. And Lord have mercy on some of these folks and their little shit head kids.
Was scanning items in this cart, and this little girl was seated In the upper part where the kids can sit. I lean over a bit to scan the items on the far side of the cart, and this little girl SNATCHES my damn Pandora bracelet enough to break it. Parents just standing there. Watching. Voided the transaction, and sent them to a supervisor.
Maybe I wouldnāt have been so pissed if this wasnāt the only piece of jewelry Iāve never taken off since my mom bought it for me.
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