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We ended up putting an ice chest on the fence, by the road at our drive way. A couple of cool packs in there and a coffee can with some change for folks to leave their money in. Ours are not officiallyorganic. We feed AZ Feeds layer, a little scratch and whatever else they can scroung up foraging outside all day. We ask $2.00 a dozen and for folks to bring us back the cartons. The wife also takes a few to work to sell to co-workers. We get enough for us and sell about three dozen a day. We could get rid of more, if we had them. We are selling out earlier each day. Everybody says they would pay more, but $2.00 more than covers the feed when they free range, so we'll keep it where it is, for now.
 
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I just do it for fun. I figured the electricity cost me about 6 1/2 cents a chick, if, I can get 40 to hatch. The real cost comes when I have to put them it the brooder. It goes up to 3 1/2 cents an hour after that.
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We ended up putting an ice chest on the fence, by the road at our drive way. A couple of cool packs in there and a coffee can with some change for folks to leave their money in. Ours are not officiallyorganic. We feed AZ Feeds layer, a little scratch and whatever else they can scroung up foraging outside all day. We ask $2.00 a dozen and for folks to bring us back the cartons. The wife also takes a few to work to sell to co-workers. We get enough for us and sell about three dozen a day. We could get rid of more, if we had them. We are selling out earlier each day. Everybody says they would pay more, but $2.00 more than covers the feed when they free range, so we'll keep it where it is, for now.

That is a great idea. Better than having them sit at home wondering what to do with them. We feed ours az feed right now, and I love the taste of our eggs. If I lived closer to a main road I think I would do the same thing.
 
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We are by no strech of the imagination on a main road! We are at the end of a mile of dirt. Word just gets around. People start picking them up for their friends in town. A lady that does house cleaning takes them to her customers. I have some people from Phoenix with a vacation home nearby, that cleans me out of all I have when they go back home. Now, the Schwans guy is stopping to buy them.
When the chickens first started laying, We wondered what the heck we were going to do with all the extra eggs. Now, we have to make sure we set aside enough for us. Once people taste real eggs, they keep coming back.
 
Thanks for the welcome guys. What breeds are you all doing? Currently I am having more luck with show chickens than egg or meat. I have Colombian Rock Bantams, New Hampshire Red Bantams, White Silkies, a dutch and RIR Banty roo, and call ducks for show. I have a few mutts and some frizzles for eggs. I have some rosecomb, silkies, and colombian rocks and NHRB in the incubator right now and about to put some more NHRB in. I want to increase my "mutt" cage for eggs, and want to seriously breed the silkies, NHRB, and Colombians.

My Colombians have won BV, RV at both the Tucson and Gila Valley Show with about 20 entered. My silkies are from Chickedee farms in CA and are hopefully going to give me some pretty babies. I haven't entered them in any shows yet. Same with the NHRB.

My call ducks didn't do so well in the shows, dead last, but that doesn't mean their babies will be a total loss right? If nothing else, they are cute!

We did some meat birds and had more die of heart attacks than lived to see butchering day. I only get meat birds to eat, can't "cull" my show or mutts. My kids have named every chicken and I keep the meat ones separate and forbid them from getting attached to those, though when we jokingly named one BBQ my 3 year old tried to make it his pet.

"Barbeque! I love Barbeque, it's my favorite"
 
Welcome to the new members, I haven't been here very long either, but I have had chickens for a along time.

I am up in the northern part of the state. I love having this place to share about chickens. I have hatching eggs to pick up at the post office today...
 
Well I wouldn't say I had all my pens in place
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We have been making some slowly and surely, but we have a few in a dog kennel, and a few in metal cages. I hate having chickens in cages, but they are large enough for them.
 
I can understand about having them in cages, I bet you cant wait
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I wish I could let the ones Im going to get free range in my backyard all the time, but I cant. I have a very large dog (she's an inside outside dog), that has an extreme interest in birds, she thinks they are fun to chase.

So for piece of mind, mine need to be in a pen. Its going to be pretty large though. And the top is going to be covered with wire as well. I dont want to feed all the birds in the neighborhood.

And I will beable to let them out when the dog is inside, that will be nice
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Plus we have bad neighbor cats that come around, I dont want any of them getting hurt.
 

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