Got 'em! 150 Colored Range Broilers (aka Freedom Rangers)

[Bossroo]

Congratulations on achieving first profits in the chicken business as a backyard chicken raiser. When how to raise a million at once is figured out, let me know as I am very interested in paying off my mortgage and retire too.

 

[UncleHoot]

Quote:
Please don't take the following seriously. It's intended just for fun...

If you spread the million over 1 year, and if you managed to raise them to 8 weeks, at any one time, you'd have 150,000 chickens, assuming you did this year round. 150 chickens go through about 10 gallons of water per day, or more, depending on maturity. So, that's roughly 10,000 gallons of water per day. Plus, they'd eat about 50,000 lbs of feed per day (25 tons), again depending on maturity.

I'd figure about 1,000 chickens per acre per year, or 1,000 acres needed, assuming you would still free range them.

If you can service them pretty fast, and it only takes 5 minutes per person per day per 100 chickens, that's 125 man-hours/day. For an 8 hour day, and only 5 days/week, you'd need 22 people. Unfortunately, that would cut into your profits. At minimum wage, that'd cost you about 1/3 of your million dollars, but perhaps you could make that up by buying the feed 500 tons at a time, or something.

Then, of course there's processing. I think your processor would need a new facility. If they were processing 365 days/year, they'd have to process about 2700 per day, average.

The end result?

 

[greyfields]

rofl

 

[Bossroo]

With the large volume to process at a new facility, I would negotiate a new contract then apply the newfound funds to pay for the minimum wage workers on the farm. Now that that is solved, we still need to confront the new taxes that would be assessed.

 

[Spud395]

Quote:
Please don't take the following seriously. It's intended just for fun...

If you spread the million over 1 year, and if you managed to raise them to 8 weeks, at any one time, you'd have 150,000 chickens, assuming you did this year round. 150 chickens go through about 10 gallons of water per day, or more, depending on maturity. So, that's roughly 10,000 gallons of water per day. Plus, they'd eat about 50,000 lbs of feed per day (25 tons), again depending on maturity.

I'd figure about 1,000 chickens per acre per year, or 1,000 acres needed, assuming you would still free range them.

If you can service them pretty fast, and it only takes 5 minutes per person per day per 100 chickens, that's 125 man-hours/day. For an 8 hour day, and only 5 days/week, you'd need 22 people. Unfortunately, that would cut into your profits. At minimum wage, that'd cost you about 1/3 of your million dollars, but perhaps you could make that up by buying the feed 500 tons at a time, or something.

Then, of course there's processing. I think your processor would need a new facility. If they were processing 365 days/year, they'd have to process about 2700 per day, average.

The end result?
http://www.beantoad.com/newimages/Greyfields.jpg

I'm guessing you had to much time on your hands today

 

[robbdebbie]

Quote:
Please don't take the following seriously. It's intended just for fun...

If you spread the million over 1 year, and if you managed to raise them to 8 weeks, at any one time, you'd have 150,000 chickens, assuming you did this year round. 150 chickens go through about 10 gallons of water per day, or more, depending on maturity. So, that's roughly 10,000 gallons of water per day. Plus, they'd eat about 50,000 lbs of feed per day (25 tons), again depending on maturity.

I'd figure about 1,000 chickens per acre per year, or 1,000 acres needed, assuming you would still free range them.

If you can service them pretty fast, and it only takes 5 minutes per person per day per 100 chickens, that's 125 man-hours/day. For an 8 hour day, and only 5 days/week, you'd need 22 people. Unfortunately, that would cut into your profits. At minimum wage, that'd cost you about 1/3 of your million dollars, but perhaps you could make that up by buying the feed 500 tons at a time, or something.

Then, of course there's processing. I think your processor would need a new facility. If they were processing 365 days/year, they'd have to process about 2700 per day, average.

The end result?
http://www.beantoad.com/newimages/Greyfields.jpg

That is too funny. I do this kind of thing all of the time. I try to figure out how long something takes, how much the lottery would be per minute after taxes annuity or cash payment, etc. Glad I am no the only one.
Debbie

 

[bodybutter42]

Hi UncleHoot! Nice post,a very useful and informative one. By the way im also planning to enter into this biz like you do. I'll be bookmarking this site for references. Thanks!


Regards,
Bodybutter42
Placement financier

 

[UncleHoot]

2100 lbs of feed at 61 days. That's about 600 lbs in the last 10 days.

 

[UncleHoot]

Also thought I'd mention that for the last few days, they have really been crowing. I'm not sure if my other two roosters are making it worse, or if that's just what they do at that age. Regardless, their crow sounds about as bad as the cornish x: pretty weak and almost sounds like a goose.

 

[UncleHoot]

I grabbed a couple of the cockerels last night. These were a couple of the larger end of the size range. The weighed around 8 lbs, which I suppose would dress out to around 5 to 5.5 lbs. This is at 9 weeks. So, at 12 weeks, these guys might dress out at around 6.5 to 7, which is pretty much what I'm expecting. If the males dress in the 5 to 7 lb range, and the females in the 3.5 to 5 range, I'll be exactly where I hoped to be. At this point, I'm just hoping that they do not get too large.