The Rego Ranch

27/05/2025

☀️Summer☀️ Succulent Sale ☀️

29/04/2025

Backyard Chickens: Are They Paying Rent Yet? (An ROI Breakdown)

The Setup:
5 vaccinated, sexed hens: $45 each = $225

Chicken housing, run, first aid, pest control setup: $900
Total investment: $1,125
Production:
- Chickens started laying ~100 eggs/month since January

- They lay for about 8 months per year (hello, seasonal freeloaders)
- That’s-100 eggs x 8 months = 800 eggs/year - 800 eggs ÷ 12 eggs/dozen ≈ 66.67 dozen eggs/year

If backyard eggs are worth about $5 per dozen

Annual egg value = 66.67 dozen × $5 = ~$333.35 per year

Now, the math you’ve been waiting for:
ROI (Return on Investment)

$1,125 ÷ $333.35 ≈ 3.37 years

Translation:
It'll take a little over 3 years to fully "pay off" your initial chicken setup

— IF the hens stay healthy, keep laying, and inflation doesn’t make eggs $12 a dozen tomorrow.

Bonus Benefits You Can’t Put a Price On:
- Fresh fertilizer (your garden will love you) - Compost machines (they eat your kitchen scraps!)
- Endless entertainment (chickens are hilarious drama queens)
- Chicken snuggles (ok, they’re not into it, but you can try)

Final Verdict: If you were here just for the money, you might want to start a crypto farm, not a chicken farm.

If you’re here for the lifestyle, the laughs, and the best scrambled eggs of your life? You're already winning.

19/04/2025

So many fresh herbs 🤩

18/03/2025

Found this great spread sheet! Here’s a copy for you to use!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1igbIJVLW2VH84MbvI0pF6h--vFnFX0hKGrkmEajsphw/edit

If the link doesn’t work message me I’ll send the file direct!

& Pom Pom my favorite baby chicken!

Oh and btw 55 eggs in 18 days 😮

07/02/2025

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03/02/2025

Poppies anyone?

03/02/2025

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26/01/2025

They were so little :o

26/01/2025

Available starts. Purple Cherokee-top left, mushroom basket-left, Kelloggs breakfast-right and bottom right striped French heirloom.

22/01/2025

Did you know you can take a class on chicken keeping?

Check it out, we started this 🐓 journey at The Rego Ranch for the second time in July of 2025 and we now have a thriving healthy happy flock of 5 and collecting 4 eggs per day! All thanks to Four Acorns Farm🥚

https://cabrillo.augusoft.net/index.cfm?method=ClassInfo.ClassInformation&int_class_id=14135 #

Thinking about raising your own chickens, or want proven tips about care and how to add to your current backyard flock? ...