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Something is wrong with a chick from our first flock

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jimmyboy

so the production cost of teh bird is something around $2 when you crank in labor, power, housing, meds.

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Parrothead

Well, I can say this for sure. They went through a 30 Kg bag, plus 5 kg, in 4 weeks. Of course, that was 61 birds. Not including the watermelon, chinese cabbage, and other greens we fed them.

 

We just had purchased a new 30 kg sack of maintaining feed when we transferred them to the farm the other day.

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jimmyboy

so at that point, each of your birds had eaten about 600 grams of their 2 kg ration. as they grow, they eat more.

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Parrothead

Yeah, I have noticed they eat a LOT more now than before.

 

By the way, we picked up 20 more chicks today, exactly one month, to the day, that we bought the first birds.

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jimmyboy

if you can reduce the cost of the ration and maintain a balancen diet, sales of 10 birds/day @$5-$6 each should net around $900 - $100/month.

a single restaurant could take that many.

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Parrothead

if you can reduce the cost of the ration and maintain a balancen diet, sales of 10 birds/day @$5-$6 each should net around $900 - $100/month.

a single restaurant could take that many.

But, are we talking with us killing and cleaning them? Or, them getting live birds?

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jimmyboy

ask teh client! LOL. all you need is clean hot water and an icy brine bath- easily processed.

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T2A

Paul,

I know a lady in the UK who runs a project to rehouse battery hens, she knows a lot about them. Do you think emailing her might be of use ? If you PM me an email, I will send it to her, well as soon as I can receive PM's lol

 

Ed

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