French frogs

[Tumbling K]

That's not terribly low, not for mixes. Especially being able to sell straight run that old. I have a hard time selling straight run when they aren't fluffy

around here, laying age birds, even mixes, sell for $20-25 per bird.....

I'm really hoping that starting in the fall, the chick selling gets way more profitable for us......be setting our own eggs, and getting sex linked chicks......can sell just pullets. not to mention egg selling....already have folks that know we are chick heavy now, asking about eggs.

 

[dan26552]

More colorful isn't necessarily always good....

I did to but them I remembered I was married....

Then sebrights are amazing....

 

[DnDFarm]

around here, laying age birds, even mixes, sell for $20-25 per bird.....

I'm really hoping that starting in the fall, the chick selling gets way more profitable for us......be setting our own eggs, and getting sex linked chicks......can sell just pullets. not to mention egg selling....already have folks that know we are chick heavy now, asking about eggs.

Laying age, yes, but not 2&1/2 months old. Rule of thumb for me on mixes is $6 straight run for the first 4 weeks, then it goes up a dollar/week after that. I start selling marans pullets at 8 weeks for pullet prices, and offer group rates on roosters. Average pullet prices that young are $15-20, but AMs will be more if any ever last that long

 

[Tumbling K]

so just a few dollars under your price plan......

the BertS Farm management team are gonna need to sit down and figure what the birds are actually costing us at different ages, and a profit margin to sell them at.....

 

[DnDFarm]

so just a few dollars under your price plan......

the BertS Farm management team are gonna need to sit down and figure what the birds are actually costing us at different ages, and a profit margin to sell them at.....

I'd be willing to bet Walnut or Ravyn could tell you

 

[WalnutHill]

I'd be willing to bet Walnut or Ravyn could tell you

In my area, completely counting out the cost of real estate, taxes, and buildings, I can make a good profit on hatching eggs, on chicks and poults up to two weeks old, on processed broilers, on processed turkeys, and on hens that have had one year of lay behind them. I lose on poults and pullets 2 weeks - point of lay, on peak layers, or 80% of market ready. I make a killing on live stewing hens but buyers are getting hard to find for live birds around here.

If I paid for hatching eggs for chicks or poults for sale, it would not be worth selling them. If I could free range on pasture, I could grow birds out at lower cost.

I shoot for 100% profit margin but 50% is sometimes all I can do. I assume all the risk, so it has to pay. If I just had a flock that popped out their own babies and they raised them in the back yard, I'd sell the chicks for whatever I could get for them.

 

[Ravynscroft]

I'd be willing to bet Walnut or Ravyn could tell you

Ask Walnut, not me... I have someone who likes to keep all the pretty ones... :/

 

[WVduckchick]

Ask Walnut, not me... I have someone who likes to keep all the pretty ones...

You need to stop hatching such pretty ones then..

 

[abbevilleoz]

 


Stupid thing hurts!  Swollen, black and blue, but somewhat better this morning.  It'll be fine in a day or two.  Thanks for asking.

How's the phumb coming along?

My ph@#%^ Phumb hurts like the dickens. We just nailed the roof cap on the coop and run. It's starting to look ok. I've been taking it out in public a little. You wanna see an after pic?
I'm so glad you didn't break something! It happens quick don't it...

 

[Ravynscroft]

You need to stop hatching such pretty ones then.. 

Yeah, sure... I'll get right on that...