rethinking profit?

[rittert3]

I was looking into breeding and selling as breeders and you almost have to large scale right off around 150 breeders weth at least 80 or90 hens and hatch every egg and sell 1/3 as ready to breed. but with your versitility in all the differnt markets you might make it. I would raise the manure price a dollar or two i'd didn't consider selling it just because it's so hard to collect in it pure form. my plan was also really wide spread in breeds species and colors so that really wasn't feasable. my finacial projection fell a little under even the first year a hair over the second and right where i wanted to be on the third. best of luck let me know how it goes. omy prices per adult bird also aveaged $20 with so as high as $60 week olds ave. to $7 but i've got regular poultry and exotics auctions all around me 7 months out of the year.

 

[Bircheggfarm20]

well i went out to the chicken house this mournin and i caught 30 of my barred rock chicks that are a lil over 4 weeks old. from what i seen 5 out of the 25 appear to be roosters maybe a cuple more mite be also with brighter reder combs and a tad bigger. plus with the 3 older roos i got already for the hens im mad. im debating to sell out start over with older birds that i no are hens beacuse barred rocks are so scarce i probly wont even be able to find 5 hens to replace the 5 roos what do yall think?:

 

[Chicksdigit]

Nah.... I had a paper route when I was a kid and I hated going around and collecting the money every month. There is no way I am going to turn something that is fun into a money proposition.
I get lots of eggs I can have them fried, I can have them scrambled, I can even eat Deviled Eggs whenever I want. I give a few to my friends and a few to my neighbors and I don't worry about it. Food is $10.00 per 50# so I buy 3 bags a month and call it good. They are great fun to watch, and my daughters love to play with them, so....yeah, there is a large profit in chickens

 

[GrannySue]

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I agree!
I justify my time and expense by comparing backyard poultry to a tropical fish aquarium, with free eggs as a fringe benefit. An aquarium, after all, takes time, money and management.
When I got my first (Exotic) Hylines I started keeping track of eggs sold, money spent for feed etc. completely ignoring the initial expense of the henhouse, chickens and grower pellets before they started laying. Then I realized that it didn't really matter.
There was no way I was going to give them up, as long as I could afford to keep them.
Now I have runner ducks as well!