I am so glad I've gotten into the chicken thing.
I've always loved animals, every shape, size and color. Horses and dogs were always my favorite and ever since I was little I've always wanted to breed/raise/train my own horses. Now that I'm out on my own and have a few horses of my own and a couple dogs I'm thinkin there's no way I could ever breed and raise horses as a business for a profit. It takes a very long time to get established, we'd need new fences and big barns. I'd need a lot more training than I've had and a bunch of other things. As much as I hate to say it, unless you've grown up in a family that is in the business and has money, there's not much room in the economy for "another horse trainer." I couldn't compete.
My passion has always been animals and raising them, breeding them, selling them, etc but horses are just too much of an expense to do on a large scale and really there are already too many dogs in this world that are uncared for, I don't need to bring in more.
So now it comes to the chicken thing. What better animal could there be for someone that doesn't have a huge amount of money and/or space?
*Dear boyfriend has built me a great coop and run from pine logs he sawed himself so it's very cheap aside from hardware cloth and nails/screws/hinges.
*You feed the chicken, the chicken feeds you.
*Sell the eggs for eating or sell them as hatching eggs if you have a rooster. If you sell puppies or young horses you've got time and money in them before they can go to their new homes. Eggs just sit there no charge. The buyer pays for shipping. 100% profit on eggs.
*How many other animals only need a minimum of 15 square feet of space? That means I can have how many chickens on 100 acres??
*If you have a mean chicken/rooster.....eat it! Can't do that with a horse or dog. They have to be rehomed and then what do you do if nobody else wants them?
*Can't afford to feed the chickens anymore....eat it! Can't do that either with horses and dogs.
Have I left off anything?
But! How can you stand the wait?! My chicks range in age from 3 weeks to 6-7 weeks old. I don't get eggs yet and nobody's old/big enough to eat yet. I don't have an incubator or broody hen yet so I can't buy eggs to hatch, it's too hot to ship chicks.
I guess I'll have to just suffer until that first egg arrives
I've always loved animals, every shape, size and color. Horses and dogs were always my favorite and ever since I was little I've always wanted to breed/raise/train my own horses. Now that I'm out on my own and have a few horses of my own and a couple dogs I'm thinkin there's no way I could ever breed and raise horses as a business for a profit. It takes a very long time to get established, we'd need new fences and big barns. I'd need a lot more training than I've had and a bunch of other things. As much as I hate to say it, unless you've grown up in a family that is in the business and has money, there's not much room in the economy for "another horse trainer." I couldn't compete.
My passion has always been animals and raising them, breeding them, selling them, etc but horses are just too much of an expense to do on a large scale and really there are already too many dogs in this world that are uncared for, I don't need to bring in more.
So now it comes to the chicken thing. What better animal could there be for someone that doesn't have a huge amount of money and/or space?
*Dear boyfriend has built me a great coop and run from pine logs he sawed himself so it's very cheap aside from hardware cloth and nails/screws/hinges.
*You feed the chicken, the chicken feeds you.
*Sell the eggs for eating or sell them as hatching eggs if you have a rooster. If you sell puppies or young horses you've got time and money in them before they can go to their new homes. Eggs just sit there no charge. The buyer pays for shipping. 100% profit on eggs.
*How many other animals only need a minimum of 15 square feet of space? That means I can have how many chickens on 100 acres??
*If you have a mean chicken/rooster.....eat it! Can't do that with a horse or dog. They have to be rehomed and then what do you do if nobody else wants them?
*Can't afford to feed the chickens anymore....eat it! Can't do that either with horses and dogs.
Have I left off anything?
But! How can you stand the wait?! My chicks range in age from 3 weeks to 6-7 weeks old. I don't get eggs yet and nobody's old/big enough to eat yet. I don't have an incubator or broody hen yet so I can't buy eggs to hatch, it's too hot to ship chicks.
I guess I'll have to just suffer until that first egg arrives
