How do you feed your rooster?

[FVRM]

No normal heritage chickens. And we eat every day for breakfast. Maybe I should do this for a living? I sold a dozen for $10. The going rate here for fresh eggs is $10 to $12. Inane!

I sold 17 for $5. I haven't advertised them or anything. i told a lady i had chickens and she wanted some of the eggs so i just said $5 because I don't know if anyone in this town cares how their eggs are produced. so far I've seen farm eggs sold for $6 a dozen, i don't know if they actually get bought.

 

[Beekissed]

My husband is very concerned that our rooster is eating layer feed. Granted they're outside quite a bit and get a lot of worms and greens.
I'm not so worried as I don't see how to seperate them when they live together. But I promised I would ask you guys/gals here so I am.
Many times he's right

He's from a cattle ranch where the chickens roam free and eat everyone elses food and they're last on anyones mind.

Ours have always eaten layer rations with wonderful results....no sick roosters here and haven't had any for the past three generations of flock tending.

 

[Spanishchick]

People should care about what they eat. I'm sure you can find people who'd buy. Sell for $6, I think $10 is insane but that's what they sell for. Homesteading is becoming really popular even really creative ways to grw food vertically for city folk. We have a garden evey year. This year will be our biggest. I already started a lot of seeds.

Beekissed, I have no idea now with the new chicks who will be in the coop in a month if even that long if it gets hot here soon which it might. I have a hard time believing that they are as delicate as people say and I mixed them today for a few hours when it was sunny so they can share germs.

 

[blucoondawg]

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

 

[Spanishchick]

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.

 

[blucoondawg]

You can always order chicks from a hatchery and avoid the local prices

 

[Spanishchick]

I got the ones I have from local farmet $8 pullets, the chicks a local hatchery, 2 weeks old@$6 a chick. check out what they woke up to. We finished the expansion last night at midnight.

 

[blucoondawg]

6 bucks isn't bad for 2 week olds considering they had to feed them for awhile by the time you mail order and pay shipping you aren't far from that anyways

 

[Spanishchick]

I'm not complaining. I realize the work. Plus I support a local farmer and they are not day old. Perfect.

 

[ten chicks]

I have all my birds on developer feed due to the fact that i have several roosters. My girls have oyster shells/crushed eggshells available to boost calcium,i have never had any problems.