Does anyone actually clear a profit with their chickens?

[KingsCalls]

When the ladies are laying well and I'm selling eggs....I am up for the month. If not selling eggs.....no way. I make a lot more money from buying and selling goats. BUT, who's in this for the money? If I were, I'd be belly up!

 

[erthymom2]

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I agree, I hatch & sell chicks and eggs too but don't really spend sleepless nights worried about "the bottom $$$ line" - it's still gotta be cheaper then drugs or booze !!!!

 

[chicksgalore]

I figure the coop cost was the initial investment to having the chickens (which I love) and our own eggs (which we all enjoy).

 

[my first peepers]

A local farmer told me that you can't make a profit until you have more than 200 layers!!!

 

[Jashdon]

We sell our eggs at the farmers market for $4/dozen and we always sell out. If we could just get our girls to stop molting and going broody I think we would do pretty well. A chicken farmer once told me that if you are selling eggs for $2/dozen you should be covering the cost of feed and making a small profit, but he was talking production chickens, not pets and that was before feed costs went up, up, up!

 

[kstaven]

No comment

 

[ridgefire]

People do this for money? hmmm I should try that

 

[LilPeeps]

Profit?!?

 

[Reinbeau]

Hobby chicken keeping is the same as hobby beekeeping, I've found out - you don't do it for the money, you do it for the enjoyment.

We figured our 55 pounds of honey we got the first year was worth $66.20 a bottle. But it's really tasty!

 

[Matt A NC]

You just have too look at it like cheap psycho therapy.

My chickens keep me from losing my mind, at least not completely.

Now figure how much a psychologist would charge for a 1 hour session once a week.

Alot cheaper to go spend an hour playing with chickens.

Matt