How much did your first egg cost?

[Red Mangrove]

Maybe 50$ start-up cost. Since then I buy around one bag of feed a month for my chickens

 

[CrystalAnon]

$5076,42 .I do the books for our farm so for and giggles I added a poultry column. I do record our egg consumption and any eggs we give away as a sale . The good news is that ,after 3 month, we are now at $19,68 per egg lol . There is also an app that tracks your flock ,finances and egg count

Omgosh… I love it!!! You are a chicken tender/accountant, after my own heart!

 

[CrystalAnon]

I think people will vastly underestimate the costs because they are unlikely to include their time and often that is worth far more than the cost of materials etc.

Yes… exactly! Labor of love. But honestly, the security of having very available protein right on your property… I’m not sure I could quantify that, as far as food security goes.
We don’t have enough space for larger animals, unless we turned our entire yard into a goat pen or something.
Who knows. May eventually happen. I won’t rule anything out.

 

[LizzzyJo]

Haha! Love this thread. Probably $500 on my end. Lol

 

[CrystalAnon]

Haha! Love this thread. Probably $500 on my end. Lol

I bet you do, with spending $500!
I love it too. Interesting to hear everyones situations & decisions for their setups.

 

[LizzzyJo]

I bet you do, with spending $500!
I love it too. Interesting to hear everyones situations & decisions for their setups.

Well I only have 9 chickens and started with 3 five years ago so it’s a lot of money for that!

 

[Chipmunk Chicks]

I was just talking about this with a friend of mine.... I started crunching some numbers last week but haven't quite finished... I'll get back to you. I wish I had the mind of an accountant but lol I just don't.

 

[LizzzyJo]

I count most of my egg cartons as $10/ each because I don’t sell them, but I take them to dinner parties and social events in lieu of wine (by request) —so I didn’t have to buy a bottle.

 

[NagemTX]

Let's see, 10k plus. But it's both chicken and cat cost. 6k to fence the entire acre @ 6ft high. $1200 give or take on materials for first coop. $480 for the 25 chicks. Feed is about $75 to $100 every 1 to 2 months. Chicken maths equal more building materials, equals more equipment.... this is how I got the number. It might be larger than that.

 

[tori729]

After roughly calculating our cost so far, I wanted to see how it lined up with others and how crazy we were for spending so much!
I've spent about $1K so far and half of it was labor costs for our coop/run builder; 1/5 of it was supplies our builder bought and the rest is random stuff I bought for the builder, food, supplies etc.
I *think* we are good for awhile - should hopefully have the first egg in a month or two!