Sounds like a plan. What breeds are you looking to sell?Many of you know that I was going to school to be a midwife and took a sabbatical to have our last baby. I'm anxious to get started again and have one more big tuition fee left to pay. (It's a biggie too) Actually, not that bad considering my other option was SF school of medicine and that is truly horrific in price. Not getting a loan is important to me and I don't want to burden my family either. I was considering selling my car but since it's the only transport around here - that really wasn't a viable optionAnyway, I finally figured out how to raise the money with the resources we already have.
I need to sell apx 300 started pullets for $20. The trick is getting enough birds growing all at once to amass the fee instead of saving $20 at a time all year long. My chickens only lay a collective 2 dozen hatching eggs a week but I can set 5 dozen every week in my nice incubator. I had the idea to ask if people are done hatching their eggs if they'd be willing to sell some hatching eggs for a lower price (or donate) to help fill my incubator. I'd like to fill it a tray a week for 9 weeks straight. That should get my numbers up high enough to have all the pullets I'd need to grow out and sell.
Can any of you see a problem with trying this? My goal is to just have chickens for the average back yard flock - egg layers. I have the room and I think if I marketed to the home school and charter school groups that I could sell the chickens pretty quickly. All the young cockerels would just have to get taken to the auction. I don't have the facilities to raise that many for meat myself. Once I was done raising the money for school I would go back to my small breed preservation flocks and focus on breed improvement.
I'd love feedback.