How many Eggs did you Sell today?

[kuntrygirl]

9 dozen

 

[Jen4]

kuntrygirl: Nice... I see you have 96 baby chicks, you keeping em all?

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Thanks. No, I'm not keeping all of them. I am down to 77 right now. I guess I should update the info on my profile. Thanks for letting me know. I have been selling them. Someone is coming over this weekend to buy 10. The only problem is my hens keep going broody and I don't have the heart to stop them. I just let them set. I have 6 hens setting on eggs right now. 1 hen is in the same box with my turkey. What a sight to see! My feed bill is high, so I have to sell the babies. It's hard parting with them.

 

[Jen4]

Kuntrygirl Wrote:

Thanks. No, I'm not keeping all of them. I am down to 77 right now. I guess I should update the info on my profile. Thanks for letting me know. I have been selling them. Someone is coming over this weekend to buy 10. The only problem is my hens keep going broody and I don't have the heart to stop them. I just let them set. I have 6 hens setting on eggs right now. 1 hen is in the same box with my turkey. What a sight to see! My feed bill is high, so I have to sell the babies. It's hard parting with them.

Oooo... I know it is sad partin with them, I've actually sold alot of chickies this year too. I've had half of my hens go broody this year too, its crazy. I feel sorry for them too and give then eggs. Got 1 right now with her eggs due, 1 has a pip in it, I had given her 12 eggs and she broke all but 4. My feed bill is up, How much feed to you go through with that many chickens in a week?​

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Oooo... I know it is sad partin with them, I've actually sold alot of chickies this year too. I've had half of my hens go broody this year too, its crazy. I feel sorry for them too and give then eggs. Got 1 right now with her eggs due, 1 has a pip in it, I had given her 12 eggs and she broke all but 4. My feed bill is up, How much feed to you go through with that many chickens in a week?

Ok, now don't fall out of your chair but this is my weekly feed bill. Now keep in mind that I started off with about 60 ducklings, 96 baby chicks and 11 turkey poults. As I sold my babies, the feed bill went down a little bit but when I had all of them at one time, this is what I bought and this is what I spent EVERY week.

6 - 50lb bags of Dumor Starter/Grower 20% protein = 300 lbs of feed every week - $12.69 per bag = $76.14 each week)
1 - 50lb bag of Turkey starter/Grower 30% protein = 50 lbs of feed every week - $ 16.00 per bag = $16.00 each week)
$96.14

The ducks ate the Dumor Starter/Grower 20% by itself.
The chicks got a combination of Dumor Starter/Grower 20% mixed with Turkey Starter/Grower 30% protein to fatten them up just a tad.
The turkeys ate strictly Turkey starter/Grower 30% protein.

I'm only purchasing about 4 - 50lb bags of Dumor Starter/Grower right now because I sold a lot of baby chickens and ducks. I am down to 11 ducklings as opposed to 60 ducklings and only have 77 baby chickens.

I have turkeys that will be hatching in the next 2 weeks so I will be purchasing MORE turkey starter at $16.00 per bag.

All of my animals have access to food and water 24/7, in addition to free ranging all day long as well. Also keep in mind, when the babies have hatched and are in the brooder with the mama, the mamas are eating the starter/grower as well. I had up to 12 broody hens eating starter/grower all day long as well with their babies, so that put a dent in the feed as well. It went quick with the broody hens eating it as well. Same thing for the mama ducks. I had 4 adult hen ducks eating starter/grower because they were all together in a pen, so the mamas have to eat what the babies eat.

The feed listed above does not include the cracked corn and lay pellets for the adult chickens, ducks and geese and the feed for my sheep, goat and rabbits

50 lb Cracked Corn - $7.69 x 5 (purchased once a week) = $38.54
50 lb Lay Pellets - $13.00 x 2 (purchased once a week) = $26.00
50 lb Sheep Pellets - $9.00 x 1 (purchased once a week) = $9.00
50 lb Goat Pellets - $9.00 x 1 (purchased once a month) = $9.00
Bail of Hay - $7.50 x 3 (purchased every week) = $22.50
50 lb Rabbit Pellets - $13.00 x 1 (purchased once a month) = $13.00

So my total feed bill varies because some things are only purchased once a month. But still too high.

Definitely no profit for me.

 

[Jen4]

I'm pickin myself up off the floor as I type! Lordy thats alot and I was complaining about my 24.00 weekly feed bill

 

[kuntrygirl]

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$24.00????????? WOW !!! I would love to pay $24.00 a week. How much feed do your chickens eat and how often? Do they have access to feed 24/7?

 

[Jen4]

Kuntrygirl Wrote:

$24.00????????? WOW !!! I would love to pay $24.00 a week. How much feed do your chickens eat and how often? Do they have access to feed 24/7?

I buy 2 bags of layer every week, 1 bag of scratch a month and 1 bag of chick starter as needed.

I go out and feed the chickens in the morning and in the evening, I use a big coffee can, the barnyard flock has a feedin pan in their run and a hangin feeder in their coop, the bo flock has a feedin pan in their run... plus I let my barnyard flock out to free range. My 10 bo girls and their rooster stay in their run right now, then I have a tractor for 1 bo rooster and a tractor for 1 mean bantam rooster and his girl that I can move around the yard so they get fresh grass. So yeah they all have access to feed pretty much 24/7

 

[JimWWhite]

4 dozen yesterday after being off for a long 4 day weekend. Then 3 dozen today. All for $3.00/dozen. We have 11 new Youngster Gold Comets who just started laying and there have been being 4 or 5 small bantam-size eggs every day. We've been getting 20 to 24 eggs every day so this heat hasn't hurt too much. I can tell though that the Gals are feeling it. They stand around with their wings outstetched and panting with an open beak. We've been going down with the water hose and sprayer each afternoon and dampening the run down to cool it off. Seems to be working afterwards. I should look into rigging up a sprayer/mister for them and run it several times a day when it's this hot.

 

[mxpres]

8 dozen today