It also helps to have good quality specimens of those breeds. Now this is what I mean by follow the money: The key to selling chicks for $5 or more per chick, is to have the right breeds for your area. You could even break this down further into 3 breeding groups if your market isn't strong enough to support the sales of chicks from 2. Large quantities of 1 breed over-saturates your market quickly. Remember, we're getting at least 65 eggs a week out of 13 hens, which makes hatching 50 chicks a very feasible number.Īlso, trying to sell 50 chicks of 1 breed is harder than trying to sell 25 chicks each from 2 different breeds. Using this number I have to sell 50 chicks a week to make my thousand dollars a month. I don't expect a 100% hatch rate, so I choose to sell chicks for $5 each. Unfortunately it's not quite that simple, you have to take into consideration hatch rates which may cut into your profit. So if you hatch all those eggs and sell each chick for that amount, you'll make $1,000 a month. Divide that by those 260 eggs and you get $3.85 each. Now take that thousand dollars that we want to make. Take those 65 eggs and multiply it by the four weeks in a month, and now we have 260 eggs. Since you have one rooster to each set of hens you should have a high rate of fertility. If every hen laid an average of 5 eggs a week, that would equal out to 65 eggs (on the low side, most 1-2 year old hens will lay 6 eggs a week). Let's say each of those breeding groups had six or seven hens and one rooster. My calculations today are going to focus on 15 chickens because I realize that even when I had 90 I was making most of my money 15 chickens, which are two of my breeding groups. In fact I'm pretty sure you're sitting there now saying "well yeah, but I can't make $1,000 selling chicks!" I promise you though, that you can do it. In my opinion though, the best way to make money off chickens.is by breeding chickens for profit. I'm not knocking that at all, because it is a good way to make extra money. Of course you could sell eating eggs, feathers and even chicken poop to make money from your chickens. I've realized that by setting things up the right way I can make up to $1,000 a month on as few as 15 chickens. Over the years I've had as many as 90 chickens and as few as six. The calls kept coming and I kept hatching.
#Quail coop full
As soon as my chickens were full grown, I hatched their eggs! When word got out that I had hatched chicks, I started getting calls from people who wanted to buy my chicks. When I started raising chickens, I decided to hatch the chicks from eggs I ordered from a breeder. I've tried many different ways to make money from my chickens but the most profitable way just fell into my lap! Even if you don't count the coop, the feed and bedding are monthly expenses that add up a lot! I decided a long time ago to have a no freeloaders policy and I make all my chickens earn their keep.
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