How much do you think you are saving with chickens

[jojo@rolling acres farm]

Zip, zero, zilch. Nada...

 

[ThePamperedPullet]

even with as many chickens as we have and right now averaging over 1200 eggs a month, selling those and also selling chicks and an occasional hen or roo, we are still in the whole and can't see daylight any longer. but it keeps us occupied and we love our morning commute to the chicken pens every morning to start our job that we love taking care of the little heathens and they return the favor with the unconditional love that they show to us. do we expect to get rich doing this? Never. Do we ever expect to break even? Maybe Do we ever expect to make a profit? We can keep dreaming.

 

[Junkmanme]

They don't SAVE me a dime. They COST me money!

Now, IF I were to start butchering....maybe I'd approach a better "bottom-line"...but I still wouldn't break even.

-Junkmanme-

 

[dntd]

My chickens so far have costed umm $60 and all I have gotten were 12 bantom eggs

 

[FrenchHen]

If you can score coop and run materials for free, and if you can sell your extra eggs, you'll break even or maybe make a profit of $5-$10 per week.

If you buy organic eggs at $5 per dozen, you can break even.

Our girls are now paying for their maintenance; we sell the eggs for $3/dozen off the road and are about sold out again.

But, we get compost, entertainment, and weird looks from our family. the latter is priceless.

 

[Scoop]

Mrs. Turbo :

nothing!!! My husband won't let us eat the eggs....I buy chicken eggs from the store. Crazy huh with about 150 chickens in the back yard. He won't even let me eat a rooster.

Maybe I will eat the silkie eggs or goose eggs.

What?! You are forbidden to eat the eggs? Are you joking? I'd be sneaking them!

 

[KDbeads]

So... what.... I'm doing this wrong??? Gee..... my girls pay for their feed from egg sales (2 dozen a week at $3 a doz) and keep us from buying 6 dozen eggs a month! I no longer have to buy eggs for the CRF dog's food. Hubby can have eggs for breakfast, I get my pickled eggs and we can still have egg foo young when we want. All extra roos go in the fridge, that's less meat I have to buy. And now with potential chick sales I might be able to afford the cat food and cat litter and possibly food for the rest of the dogs!

 

[Mr chicken dude]

Ohhhhhhhhhh.....I guess I'm doing it all wrong then...Hmmmm Never knew that chickens were meant to "cost" you money.

 

[Katy]

I just saw this thread. This is my response to the question

 

[ChickenToes]

Oh, I'm not saving anything. They've cost me so much in the past. Now with the ducks, they only consume about $7 a month in feed, and I get 5 eggs a day. So they sort of break even when compared to what I would be spending in storebought eggs a month. But when you factor in past costs...yeah I'm still in the hole. But I don't have them to save money, I enjoy them and their eggs, and that's worth every penny.