Please I am begging!!! I really need help getting an A!

[tazcat70]

Thank you Angie and Southern28chick.

I will add your information!

Tonya

 

[KKluckers]

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That is really nice! A wonderful way to pass on the love of chickens. Do you usually give them chicks or adults? Thank you for posting!

It just depends. Most kids in these parts dont have much money, but do enjoy the birds.

 

[DoctorGoose]

1. Where do you live? General area of the country is fine.
Pacific Northwest

2. How many chickens do you have?
17-odd

3. What breeds do you have?
Barred Rock
RIR
Cuckoo Maran
Aracuna
GLW
SLW
Silkie
RSL
Buff Orpington

4. What do you sell? Eggs, birds, etc

Eggs
5. How much do you charge?

$3/doz
6. Do you advertise, sell at health food stores, or a
farmer's market?
Have a sign out front!

7. When pricing your product did you take into count the cost of production? Housing?
Yes---both. Chickens have a money jar.
8. Do you include the cost of your time in pricing?
No
9. Locally what do you pay for feed?

Feed (alfalfa pellets, layer pellets, scratch, oyster shell, grit, and chick starter)--about $50/mo.

$13 for #50 layer
$15 for #50 scratch
etc....

 

[opihiman911]

1) Kauai, Hawaii
2) 6 laying hens right now. 2 dozen more austrolorps and maran eggs are in the mail right now
3) RIR & production reds. adding austrolorps & marans next week
4) eggs. I trade my older hens and all my roosters destin for the stew pot to a fisherman who gives me fresh fish in exchange. I'll get 5-6# chunk of fresh fish per chicken
5) mostly trade them away to neighbors for fresh fruits, vegi, wild game meat & fish. I try and sell 1-2 dozen a week for $4 to cover my feed cost. Food is very expensive here in hawaii. a dozen white eggs are $3, brown $5, organic brown $6.50!!!!
6) neighbors, friends and work....all by word of mouth
7) NO, just try and recoop my feed cost and get other fresh food for the family's dinner table.
8)no, its a hobby and I do it to put fresh natural food on the table
9) 50# 16%layer crumble $13, 50# scratch $11. I go through 1 bag each per month.

Good luch on your paper. You have a wealth of knowledge and info available here.

Aloha,
Cory

 

[carugoman]

Yes. For some reason I seem to have a mental block when someone is speaking economics or algebra.

For the life of me, I still can't understand the look one receives from,the masses of hi-school students,when I was a math and physics teacher,when you mention words like:algebra...geometry...trigonometry...prob and stats...and the big "C"
CALCULUS!

What's so hard? Can you add,subtract,multiply and divide? If so,then can you think of something in the abstract? Say like "The sky is cyan not just blue today!" Or, how about "Did you know that the printed money that you have in your wallet or purse,in reality,is worthless;since there is no gold to back up the dollar? We hold the federal government,in trust,to give us the abstract concept,that this piece of paper is "worth" what is printed on it and we can use that paper,as legal "tender" to trade,sell,buy and settle all debts." Now there's an abstract concept! Algebra and all the "higher" forms of mathematics are as simple as the dollar concept. You substitute the real numbers analogous to "gold," with symbols of various types but these symbols still retain the value of the "real" numbers. Addition and subtraction are opposites(inverse operations),of each other;as is multiplication is the opposite(inverse operation),of division. It's that simple;just like substituting paper for gold.

I do wish you well on your paper. I do hope that the information that I have offered,the past few days,is not of the point of view of a preacher giving the weekly sermon? I have/had no intention to demean nor slight you,or anyone for that matter;it's just the way I have lived my life.

All y'all take care!​

 

[tazcat70]

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No offense taken. It is not that I can't do it, I can. Homework is fine. On tests it is just that I never know which rule to use. Some of the rules just are, I try to rationalize them to understand them, and well I am told to not worry about that just learn the rule. I am the type that it helps me to understand why.

Thanks again for your help.

Tonya

 

[OffSpring]

1. Where do you live? General area of the country is fine.

Cornwall, UK (the most southerly part, where the land meets the ocean)

2. How many chickens do you have?

Approx. 50-60 hens

3. What breeds do you have?

Silkie, Rhode Island red, Maran, Light Sussex, Poland, Pekin, Barnevelder, New Hampshire Red, Plymouth Rock, Welsummer, Warran (also know as ISA Brown) and few unknowns...

4. What do you sell? Eggs, birds, etc

Eggs, only when there is a plentiful supply

5. How much do you charge?

£1 per 6 eggs

6. Do you advertise, sell at health food stores, or a farmer's market?

No, just to colleagues, friends, relatives

7. When pricing your product did you take into count the cost of production? Housing?

Yes and also the local price of my competitors!

8. Do you include the cost of your time in pricing?

I don't really cost up my eggs to sell for profit, it is more of a hobby. I am sure that if I actually worked everything out I would be making a loss!

9. Locally what do you pay for feed?

£5 for 25kg sack