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I have been moving in that direction without even thinking about it.
The bator house is essentially three rooms. The furthest back is 6*12*8. I am modifying the dehumidifier to work from the outside as the new one is a little more powerful and generates too much heat to run inside the small room. Its heat output cooked my turkey eggs. So I am just ducting the airflow and putting the compressor in the hatching room which is a open alcove 12*6*8 section.
The final section is 12*12*8 and that holds 6 brooders and up to a ton and a half of feed.
It would be pretty simple to add an hour inch of foam insulation and have three carts with turner motors. I could easily have 8000 eggs going.
If I was generating that sort of income I would move operations to a hectare of land close to the airport and just have the beach house as it is now. Just a nice collection of fancy poultry.
Our little piece of paradise is triangular in shape with about 70 meters of beach front and thirty meters of highway. Its about 150 meters from front to back. The chickens goats and pigs are reserved an area about 2000 sq meters. So far I have about 1200 of that taken so I have room to put 2 large coops with decent runs that could house breeders to generate enough eggs to make a living that would eclipse the income I get in the USA.
I refuse to turn our retreat into a stinky poop farm. The pig manure is collected for composting and gets covered in saw dust three times a day. We have an industrial pressure washer to clean the pens three times a day and the pigs also get a hose down. Its a very clean operation.
The chicken runs get raked daily and the collection also gets sawdusted the compost area. Rice husks are the ultimate coop deep litter and keep any amonia contained. Again its a very clean system.
Our soil is desperate for amendment. We could easily handle 2000 cubic meters of composted poop so I am not concerned with the poop of 500 chickens.
Of course this is all conjecture at this stage. I have gone from just wanting a few eggs for breakfast to trying to just make CocoBeach self sustaining to talking about a commercial hatchery in 20 months.
Its not going to cost a lot in capital to get to to 3000 chicks a month. Any more than that will require a major investment in both dollars and lifestyle.
I have been moving in that direction without even thinking about it.
The bator house is essentially three rooms. The furthest back is 6*12*8. I am modifying the dehumidifier to work from the outside as the new one is a little more powerful and generates too much heat to run inside the small room. Its heat output cooked my turkey eggs. So I am just ducting the airflow and putting the compressor in the hatching room which is a open alcove 12*6*8 section.
The final section is 12*12*8 and that holds 6 brooders and up to a ton and a half of feed.
It would be pretty simple to add an hour inch of foam insulation and have three carts with turner motors. I could easily have 8000 eggs going.
If I was generating that sort of income I would move operations to a hectare of land close to the airport and just have the beach house as it is now. Just a nice collection of fancy poultry.
Our little piece of paradise is triangular in shape with about 70 meters of beach front and thirty meters of highway. Its about 150 meters from front to back. The chickens goats and pigs are reserved an area about 2000 sq meters. So far I have about 1200 of that taken so I have room to put 2 large coops with decent runs that could house breeders to generate enough eggs to make a living that would eclipse the income I get in the USA.
I refuse to turn our retreat into a stinky poop farm. The pig manure is collected for composting and gets covered in saw dust three times a day. We have an industrial pressure washer to clean the pens three times a day and the pigs also get a hose down. Its a very clean operation.
The chicken runs get raked daily and the collection also gets sawdusted the compost area. Rice husks are the ultimate coop deep litter and keep any amonia contained. Again its a very clean system.
Our soil is desperate for amendment. We could easily handle 2000 cubic meters of composted poop so I am not concerned with the poop of 500 chickens.
Of course this is all conjecture at this stage. I have gone from just wanting a few eggs for breakfast to trying to just make CocoBeach self sustaining to talking about a commercial hatchery in 20 months.
Its not going to cost a lot in capital to get to to 3000 chicks a month. Any more than that will require a major investment in both dollars and lifestyle.
