selling mea birds

[aoxa]

The butcher in my area charges 3 bucks out the door to process a live chicken

and he is close enough where i can do the drop off and the customer can just pick up from butcher

so i figure for example , i say i have 8 lb meat birds for $23 dollars each, they can come to me and pick the bird if they want or they can pay me over the phone

i then drop off at the butcher and pay for the processing out of my 23 dollars, '

then they simply pick up a ready to cook bird from the butcher all ready paid for

and all for $23 bucks, i make 20 the butcher gets his 3 and the customer gets to put it in the oven for $23 bucks

where i live i have never seen a meat bird for sale on craigslist not even a chick. not saying i would depend on craigs but it would be kind of easy to be seen by the people in the

farm and garden section seeing as no one else is selling anything similar.

for me i have looked for the reason to put meat in the freezer that's not store bought, seeing as we don't buy meat from grocery stores ever

so i guess that's where i got the idea


and just so everyone knows, i'm not trying to get rich i just want to make it so the meat birds that end up in my fridge didn't technically cost me anything when the whole thing is said and done

I'm sorry, I'm an accountant so I have to point this out. You will not make $20 bucks. There are a lot more expenses than the butcher

I worked it out to be $9.70 per bird in costs without butcher for my own. That includes cost of chick. How much did you pay for each chick?

How many pounds are you feeding a day per 10 chicks?

Right now I feed 16 pounds for my entire flock. That is just the feed soaked (by the way, soaked feed saves me $26.40 a day!). I use whole grains as well scattered through the pasture that helps keep the grass low in the places I want it to be low. So that's another 16 pounds of whole grain. I have over 300 birds.

 

[xmonster0]

i am aware there are other expenses. i'm just referring to the final sale. i'm looking at 1.05 per chick and im going to get about 100 of them so ill have to do the feed math which i don't really know as i have never fed layers and i can only guess what they will eat.

im figuring ill be lucky if i make a single dollar. but the point is not to make money , it is to make back just enough so the meat that i put in my freezer becomes free at the very least.

 

[aoxa]

i am aware there are other expenses. i'm just referring to the final sale. i'm looking at 1.05 per chick and im going to get about 100 of them so ill have to do the feed math which i don't really know as i have never fed layers and i can only guess what they will eat.

im figuring ill be lucky if i make a single dollar. but the point is not to make money , it is to make back just enough so the meat that i put in my freezer becomes free at the very least.

Question: are you going to free range and restrict feed, or freely feed and confine? That makes all the difference.

Confined Cornish X:
A 10 pound meat bird will eat roughly 20 pounds of feed to the point of butchering
**See chart


Source: http://www.welphatchery.com/cornish_rock_care

My birds are fed with every other bird I raise. I'd say they eat 50% of the feed I put down.

8 pounds of feed a day - this is weight soaked - so it's roughly 1/2 of that total dry = 4 pounds per day for roughly 40 birds. That's .7 pounds a week each (they are 6 weeks old today) So far with free ranging they have consumed 4.2 lbs of feed a bird. If I butcher them out at 8 weeks (going to probably push it to 10 weeks for the pullets), each bird will have consumed 5.6 lbs of feed

That's 1/4 of what a confined bird would eat. I would cut the feed in half if I didn't free range younger chicks that need that nutrition with the meat kings.

Sorry to get all technical on you

 

[xmonster0]

free range is the only way i know how lol

and these birds will be bought all at once and the same age , i don't know what difference that makes.

i have never really got to technical on it as i'm not really trying to make money yet

also i am going to feed them and keep them seperate from my layers and turkeys

 

[aoxa]

free range is the only way i know how lol

and these birds will be bought all at once and the same age , i don't know what difference that makes.

i have never really got to technical on it as i'm not really trying to make money yet

also i am going to feed them and keep them seperate from my layers and turkeys

I am splitting the costs of my birds with a friend. They are helping me butcher all of them. We are sharing the costs. I have to make sure I am precise

It's almost better not to know haha

 

[xmonster0]

im kind of doing the same thing in order to get the best price, you can get red rangers for $1.05 each if you just buy 100

 

[aoxa]

im kind of doing the same thing in order to get the best price, you can get red rangers for $1.05 each if you just buy 100

What about shipping?

I paid $1.30 for my meat kings. No shipping. I didn't find it bad at all. I would not want to raise 100 of them. I am only raising my birds for myself, and my immediate family. I can't imagine processing so many.. :S

 

[xmonster0]

Automatic Plucker lol

 

[aoxa]

Automatic Plucker lol

Yeah.. those things are expensive, and have no idea where to rent one

 

[xmonster0]

hey where do you buy meat kings? id like to look into that one