Can you make a living on chicks, and eggs?

[they'reHISchickens]

From another angle, my son and DIL have an old fashioned large chicken house on their farmette and they put in 50 sexlinks and hung out an "eggs" sign. They have been doing this a few years now, feed organically as much as feasible, don't free-range, and I am told they made $500 last YEAR on their chickens. They were considering how to hatch their own sexlinks to keep costs down when they rework their flock ( yearly) but they decided keeping the extra pure flock to produce the sexlinks wasn't worth it.
I do envy them their chicken house tho. Someone could really do some separations and breeding in one that size!

 

[faykokoWV]

I was lucky that my husband started a home based business shortly after I got interested in chickens. When he incorporated, the chickens became part of the business. Now we can deduct most chicken expenses on our taxes as part of our business expense. We still just break even.

 

[Teresaann24]

I myself don't get back as much as I put in. This is a love and not a job for me so maybe thats why I don't make back much instead of selling eggs/chicks I keep them..LOL

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

I just found a woman who wants to buy 3 dozen duck eggs per week, for $5 a dozen! If I sell to her for a month, that's $60!!! That covers all the feed for 2 months. So if I can keep it up for 6 months, they'll pay for all the food all winter too!!!!!

 

[eggsellent]

chickensducks&agoose :

I just found a woman who wants to buy 3 dozen duck eggs per week, for $5 a dozen! If I sell to her for a month, that's $60!!! That covers all the feed for 2 months. So if I can keep it up for 6 months, they'll pay for all the food all winter too!!!!!

That's awesome! Congrats!

I am enjoying everyone's take on this, keep it coming!​

 

[LaSombra]

I definitely don't take in as much money as I spend on my chickens but I only charge $2/dozen for them and that's just to my husband's friends. I don't think you cold make a living doing it unless you had a big farm, but you could make a few bucks on the side, I'm sure. If you can take care of a little flock, a big flock wouldn't be that much harder, right?

 

[LaSombra]

by the way, your avatar is so cute with the tech decks

 

[MetalSmitten]

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Forgive me if you already know this, but since you mentioned having trouble getting to the PO without a car -- you can use the usps.com website to buy and print your own postage at home (it's free to use their site, all you pay is actual postage and it prints out a big old label that you just tape to your package). Then you can also set up a request for pickup for that package so that your postal person will know to come get it from ya as they're making their rounds. I think they make you ship priority if you do this, but it's an easy way to mail packages from home without needing to get to the PO yourself

 

[Illia]

If you have some well sought after, rare, quality birds that are free ranged. . . . You'll make decent money, but you still need income from somewhere else.

 

[LaSombra]

I kinda wonder if you could make a living at raising chicks to Point-of-lay pullets. A friend of mine's husband is paying me $10 per chick, plus giving me feed and supplying the chicks to raise them until aug/sept... that's 20 chicks, too! If I could have a business doing that for people, I could do pretty well. I love those babies...

I don't know what kind of demand there is for that type of thing, though.