What is the best form of poultry raising for profit?

[Tat2d]

Which kind of chicken you get depends on how you want to make your money.

If you're raising chickens for meat, you need to go with Cornish cross (also known as Cornish X and Cornish X Rocks). They are the hybrids that all the meat houses use as they grow at fantastic rates, and are ready for butchering at 8 weeks (twice as fast as the standard breeds). In fact, if you wait much later to butcher them, they begin to have all kinds of health problems due to their rapid growth.

If you're raising chickens for eggs, then you need to either go with one of the White Leghorn strains (if you live in a warm winter area), or with one of the Sex Links (if you live in a cold winter area), which come in Black and Red varieties. These are the hens used by the laying houses (which depends on whether they're producing white or brown eggs) for good reason as they are egg laying machines. I have raised Black Sex Links for many years and they give me six eggs (occasionally seven) per day per hen.

If you want to sell chicks or raise show birds, then you need to go with a good quality standard breed (or breeds). Which breed would be up to you.

 

[gander007]

@Two Crows, Gave you some great advice

 

[drumstick diva]

If you plan to have a commercial enterprise you will probably need to meet zoning laws and restrictions, have inspections of your facilities and birds, have them tested for certain diseases etc. Also you need to meet regulations for selling eggs/meat to the others.

Unless you intend to have a really large business and are assured of a strong customer base, it's extremely hard to make a profit. The bigger the business the bigger the headaches. For instance if you sold meat or eggs, that spread a disease, it could wind up ending your business and dealing with litigation.

 

[Michael OShay]

I have raised Black Sex Links for many years and they give me six eggs (occasionally seven) per day per hen.

Oops! Typo. I meant six eggs per week per hen. Sorry about that. ) I wish there a hen that could give six eggs per day.

 

[Michael OShay]

Thanks for pointing out my typo. I wish there was a hen that could give six eggs per day. I guess I'll have to be satisfied with six eggs per week per hen. )

 

[Tat2d]

Thanks for pointing out my typo. I wish there was a hen that could give six eggs per day. I guess I'll have to be satisfied with six eggs per week per hen. )

That would be an awesome breed.

 

[1muttsfan]

You would only need to keep one hen for a whole family