How much should I charge to incubate eggs?

[Bedste]

$2 for each hatched chick....... that is cheap and also fair.......

 

[Mahonri]

$1.50 TO $2.00 for each chick, unless they are your eggs and they are SQ purebreds... then you are looking at $5 a chick.

 

[geosheets]

I was actually looking into this same thing. Folks I talked to also said 1.50 to 2.00 per hatched chick. I was planning on charging 50 cents up front for each egg set and another 1 dollar for each one hatched. By charging some up front I'm hoping it will deter folks from bringing me eggs that may be infertile. All chicks to be picked up within 3 days of last hatched or I'm going to charge 4.00 per day to brood & feed.

 

[Paraclete 2]

Just a personal note: I liked what mudstopper said and believe If it's worth doing it's worth doing right and if it's worth doing right it's only right for the one that wants the product to pay all costs incurred along with a fair profit. JMHO.

 

[MandyH]

I used to charge .25 per egg, per week, whether it was 100 eggs or 8 eggs. Since we got NPIP certified and I now know better, I do not hatch anything for anybody.

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

Quite honestly, I wouldn't even venture into custom hatching. With the amount of diseases and illnesses that can be spread so easily from flock to flock, why would you invite it in and risk your own birds? In my opinion, its not safe, and shouldn't be done.

 

[farrier!]

We have a few that advertise locally. They are getting 1.00 for each hatched chick.

 

[davidb]

I would say if they bought the eggs, .50 to .75 cent would be fair if you keep them for any amount of time I would charge more. I don't know the prices in your area. but since the economy is down and feed prices are up, chicks around here are bring no more than .50 cent Half grown hens $3.00 roos you have to give away, already laying $5.00, And that's any type not just mutts, The market is gone in this part of Ga.

 

[JCoogle]

There is a farm around my area that does this. They charge a dollar per egg if you provide the eggs. The keep them for the first two days after but no longer. The also do not charge for dud eggs.

 

[Laurieks]

Thanks for all the replies, you guys are great!
She's going to pay me $1/day for incubating a batch, and we'll talk about brooding; I had posted $2 per bird a week for boarding purchased chicks & pullets, and told her that could be negotiated for batches.
I think I won't advertise this again. I had just tucked it in at the end of the craigslist ad for Silkie chicks & Fav pullets. DH thinks I'm crazy to do it at all.
The bator will get sanitized.
Few of the hatching eggs I've bought have had NPIP papers with them.
I'm still afraid of doing NPIP because NAIS has full access to that data and I do not want to be raided. Granted I'm tiny (and hopefully not on the radar), but when I see those videos of good honest farmers being raided, losing even their personal stores of food, by our own gov't, it chills me.

::shiver::