Excel spreadsheet for tracking expenses and income from chickens

[JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom]

Wow. This is about to replace our current 4-H record book form.

Thanks so much!

 

[Big C]

Would like to say a BIG thank you for this:
http://www.hardinsonline.net/chicken_tools.htm

We have been able to bring our cost per egg to $0.11

Thank you so much for your work on this project.

 

[raizin]

you are welcome. we have our cost down to .08/egg for the summer, overall for the year it is .16/egg. I counted feed costs for the babies I fed up since January who are now laying in that also. I would be doing better if I had not had a 20% kill off by the evil chicken predators!! I will pass this on to my wife, she did all the hard work.
raisin

 

[sriston]

I have Excel 2007. I downloaded the .zip file of the most recent version from your website. Once I unzipped it, there were several files and folders in the unzipped file. I have never had multiple files with Excel stuff that I have downloaded and used before, so I am not sure what to do now. Which one of these do I open with Excel to get started?

Susan

 

[Big C]

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Most of ours are just starting to lay and we are at 61% productivity to date. Yes we had the same approx 20% predator kill until we "hardened" our runs and coops.

Next is hatching to replenish what we lost as soon as we get the space available.

Please tell your wife that I was testing Office 10 beta for MS and sorta skrewed up my system. Still trying to work out the bugs. Did a bug report on the error and to date no one on the beta boards at MS can reproduce my error, so I am stuck in Office limbo hell on my favorite machine. Not looking forward to reformatting this lapper but...

 

[raizin]

I will tell the excel support (my lovely wife) you are having problems and have her get back with you.
raisin

 

[sriston]

Thanks! She must have done something, because I went back to try to download it again, and this time instead of a zip file I downloaded just the normal Excel file. It works great!

This is such a fantastic spreadsheet- thanks so much to you and your wife for creating it and sharing it.

On the down side, I discovered that my eggs are costing me $8.95 each. LOL. Of course, I only have one chicken that is laying in my flock so far, she she is carrying the entire financial load.

Susan

 

[raizin]

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I'm glad you figured it out. That zip file was a fix for folks who had just downloaded the spreadsheet when we found an error. All new users should just download whichever excel file is right for them. I probably need to take down the zip. I'll put it on my list.

Sorry about the bad news. We went through a little shock at first as well. Actually, a disagreement between raisin and I as to whether or not the chickens were actually paying for themselves is what led to the initial spreadsheet *grin*. They were - if you disregarded all expenditures required to get the coop and run done - barely.

We do like the eggs, though. Good luck with the spreadsheet.

Ann Marie

 

[Big C]

Ann Marie,
Thanks for all the work.
Appreciated mucho!!!

 

[sriston]

I have a question to ask. I looked back through the previous posts to see if anyone had asked, but I didn't see anything that helped me.

We only buy chicken food once every three or four months, mostly because there is nowhere close by to buy it, so we have to make a pretty far trip to get it.

We bought food in July. Haven't bought any since. Even though our egg production is up, the cost per egg hasn't changed in the summary. It has stayed at $8.95 per egg. We are getting so many eggs now that I can't believe this cost hasn't gone down. There was only one egg laid in the month we bought the food- now all of the chickens are laying and it just seems to me that the price should have come down a little bit. The only expenses we have had thus far have been in July.

I guess my question is: since we are not buying food every month, will the cost per egg go down or does something need to be changed?

I hope you can understand what I am saying, LOL.

Susan