Cage free eggs at the store are 3 bucks a doz. If you are raising the chickens in a coop with a small run or out in tractors you have the equivilant. With 20 layers in a coop over winter we used at least a bag a week. We sold the eggs for a buck a dozen. (this was 2 years ago) Feed was 7.50 a bag then. We made enough to keep the hens fed and by the time we sold them off they might have paid for themselves but not by much. Feed is up to just under 12 bucks/bag at the moment
We do 50-100 meat birds a year. We use the CornishxRocks because they grow fast and make excellent meat. Two years ago I sold them for 6 bucks a bird live, last year I sold them 7 bucks a bird live, this year 8 bucks a bird live. We don't get rich but we recover the cost of the birds we sold with some extra. Our coop came with the property so I have nothing in it. I did spend some money on their yard but the fenceposts were all ready there so that cut out a major cost.
A small chicken tractor like this http://script-host.com/self/tractor.html is cheap and easy to make. We kept 6 in it which would be a good number to start with.
In our area it is still pretty rural and it seems everybodies brother has chickens so it can be hard to get decent prices for your stuff. I've had a few people snort when I mentioned my price but the customers I have keep coming back. We sold 70 out of the 100 we started this year.
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