There’s a couple of reasons. 1. There is a pretty good deal on units of 25 on Welp. 25 birds won’t be enough. 2. We would like to sell some meat. To family and friends. I think he want to do 2-3 batches each year.
As far as 10 egg layers go. We do want to be overwhelmed our first season. Ten almost sounds like too many birds for me and our daughter to take care of. I didn’t thin 5 egg layers would be quite enough for our own personal use. I’m learning we might be lucky if 10 birds provide us with enough for our household much less my SIL too. We may not have enough space at our current location to have enough production birds to sell any. Selling was only an option to possibly make a little spending money or to buy more chicks with. We really only have access to 2 acres at most for the types of critters we want to raise. My primary objective is to raise enough goats, pigs, chickens, and rabbits to provide our family with better food. Our house lives on frozen pizzas as our favorite food item. Meat and eggs just cost way too much to buy any amount of at the grocery store. But along with providing food for our family we want to find animals and breeds that we can use or make at least a little money to invest into new stock as we need it. Eggs, goats milk, pelts, compost, and their meat offers us a few opportunities to become have and provide some diverse products. I doubt we will ever make much if any profit from such a small farm. This is as much a hobby, something to do, and a learning tool for our little girl as it is to stock our fridge and freezers. My hubby works full time and I’m on SSDI. We would like to buy 10 or more acres so we can expand our farm and potentially make some extra spending money to renovate our property/cabin, supplement a few of our hobbies, or create a financial cushion in case of an emergency. As a general rule we don’t have much in the lines of a “rainy day fund or an emergency fund”. I would love it if the only thing we needed to go the store for was paper products, frozen pizzas, and possibly some fruit that can’t be grown in Wisconsin. If we could do that, we’d be eating better, healthier, more variety, better quality, and less expensively than we currently do. We could even start a worm farm. We love to fish as a family. Fishing is also pretty popular in this area. This would allow us to tap into that as well. The possibilities are endless. The future of our world is questionable at best. Inflation, decreased farm production, and other things are things to keep in the back of our heads. If we can be self sufficient that would be an awesome thing. I’m even willing to go off the grid. Technology is ruining today’s people. Most kids these days don’t have a clue what a cow is or where eggs come from. 40 years ago. Bigger and/or family farms was a pretty standard way of living for many. Farms are shrinking or dissolving. Kids have no clue what responsibilities, chores, and respect for others much less animals are. We are destroying our world, becoming lazy, cold, and antisocial in today’s world. People are going to need to be able to provide for their own family wants and needs really soon.
