Are you close to a big city getting those kind of prices for your eggs? I couldn't imagine selling eggs for that much money, if I were you I would put in an order for a couple hundred red sex link chicks and get to building a huge coop. In my area we are doing good to get 3 dollars a dozen most the time 2 or 2.50.
I feed an all flock because I didn't want the roosters on the calcium and I have a smaller feeder of oyster shells and grit
My mother in rural vermont said the same thing. Im not from GA originally. Yes I'm 'in' a big city on may be 5 + acres of land. Means i cant do anything really. I can't mass produce here and I don't have the money to move yet. I'm not sure it would work. I'm also in a very large mexican/hispanic neighborhood and they pay to eat eggs! Also a milk only fed baby goat is also another huge money maker and cheese!
We're getting goats soon 2 only. The price of goats is nuts.... (((((craiglist it in ATL and let me know your thoughts. Id really love to hear your feedback. In fact check out the price of chicks lol!)))))
Honestly we started this because we were concerned with store bought food. I am very sensitive to what I eat. It has to be fresh. I'm not sure why but I lived on farm for a long time and we had what we grew.
When neighbors came and asked for eggs and told us they pay a guy up the street $10 a dozen, I got 8 more chicks. In the brooder now. I might get more, I'm not sure because I don't want problems. I can ask for $12 trust me. A friend south of me in a white neighborhood does!
The supermarket sells organic eggs for $5 here but they're very often out of them. They look like RIR eggs to me.
I find that so far all my chickens lay almost daily. I would love to do this for a living. Its not my current field but I am studying horticuture. Id like a green house and a small farm. I don't have the room here. Id have to ask Jules Dervaes how to make it legal! Smart man.
The farming industry is changing like everything else. With the government regulations its very difficult to do some things without a lot of money. We're not in progressive San Francisco or Oregon!
Money is in organic. People are afraid of GMO's and will pay for GMO free food. The organic market here is soooooo expensive! Or they come from places where they know a real egg from a factory egg.
But you give your chick an antibiotic and she's no longer organic. Might as well put her in a pot.
