Apparently, farming is quite difficult but it touches everyone in one way or the other. Those who are in it can attest to it. Therefore, repelling others because they aren't farmers would be killing the potentials that would be awesome to uncover the fact that they are in one way or the other intrigued by the subject: farming.
Me and my husband have two different approaches on making money on our farm, both which have worked fairly well. We have the standard "shop" we're we sell fresh produce, eggs, and things such as cheese and fudge from our goat milk. The shop doesn't make a huge amount of money considering we're we live we have many neighbors who sell the same products but it's our SERVICES that really hit the jackpot. We have weekly classes on many different things involving the homestead life, we have cooking classes in which we teach people how to easily cook more healthy meals from the produce that they can grow themselves, we also have gardening and animal info/caretaking classes. We are the only one in the area with these opportunities so we get all the business🙂
As a small homestead I consider myself a great success when my egg sales covers the costs of chicken feed, plus a few free eggs per day for my family. If my numbers are correct that amounts to about 25 heritage breed hens and a few roosters. I'm on my way there! Great success here I come!
We have just started a small farm and so desperately want to make a full time income off of it. I am DETERMINED! Great info on giving classes. I hadn’t thought of that
Contrary to either of your's or John's conclusions, money can be made on eggs. It's all in marketing them, and developing a client base. This allows you to get top dollar for your eggs! If there are people out there who'll pay 50k for a car, and 15k for a car... there's people out there who'll pay $7/dozen for eggs, vs. $2/dozen. Research your feeding methods, shave costs, and think outside the chicken coop! All it takes is the right approach and it will happen, I did it the slow route myself and learned along the way. Only way I can keep any eggs in stock now is buy more chickens, and build more nest boxes. Egg price hikes don't even phase those who want quality. So show your clients superior quality, and they'll pay superior prices!
John was charging premiums, still had trouble getting much profit. But at a smaller level it can be done, just hard to do at a business scale. Not impossible, but hard.
Doodley Squat what's the point of even keeping chickens? If you want a plant to throw your scraps then make a biodigester and never pay for cooking and some heating again. Ask for free oil and food scraps from restaurants.
For the bi product, called "eggs" You have the kinda time on your hands to manually do the extra work, more power to you. Me, I'll take advantage of natures free farm labor, and move onto bigger projects. Chickens just aren't for everybody I guess :)
Doodley Squat if you are so good doing marketing why even bother producing eggs. You are selling at 7 dollars same eggs I sell at 1. Just buy my eggs and resell it. Then you will have time to sell hundreds of other products and make billions. Do I sound dumb?. You also sound dumb thinking everyone can sell freaking eggs at 7 bucks.
I grow fodder from wheat and barley seed to feed my chickens. this increases your profit margin by huge amounts. when you break it down its around $.05/lb of feed, you feed 20% of your flocks weight in fodder per day and you can see how this can greatly increase your profit margin. Also fodder fed chickens produce the best tasting eggs you've ever had along with being organic and knowing exactly what your birds are eating because you've grown it yourself. Fodder growing systems are simple and easy to build, plans can be found on youtube. I built mine for about $100 using wood I had around our farm and wash tubs bought from the dollar store, water pump and timer.
Actually, you're just adding water to the dry grain by doing this, since there's no soil involved. Much of the carbohydrate energy in the grain is being used up in its growth. There is a nett LOSS in doing this. Chickens do better on the whole grain. Their crops are made for grinding and digesting grains and seeds. You need to work out what the Dry Matter Content of any livestock feed is, and compare them and the cost per each unit, before deciding that one is cheaper than another. Grain is about 90% Dry Matter; "fodder" grown from that grain is only about 10 - 15% Dry Matter. So the animal or bird will need to eat about 8 times the total weight of green feed to supply the energy, protein and minerals in dry grain.
MrSpencers5 Another way I have seen to feed your chickens for free is to start a compositing. And they can eat the bugs that come and any left over food rhsts thrown in.
Eggs work if you can produce them without inputs. Interestingly, this means that the Hen produces a better egg = more valuable product. Coupled with chickens' ability to improve pasture for free, and hey - win win.
You are right . I always let them free range in the day time . In winter I feed grasses grown under a light in the shed or garage it's good for them and I grow enough barley and bran and oats to feed them . Or I should say I did . Sold them all . I'm am currently raising parent stock to breed red sex links . Red chickens that are laying age ho for around 20 25 dollars a bird .
Nice I'm not very good with technology lol. But it's not really hard . There us plenty onnu tube and Google info . Sunflower fodder is really good high In protien. I always at it to the Dry mix. I only use organic feed grains when I feed grains . I'd you feed whole oats and wheat soak it first over night so they can break in down better . Really drafts are bad in winter and for baby chicks drafts will kill then fast the chicks . So make sure you have no drafts in the brooders until they get feathers .
Thank you for sharing your experience! We’ve been thinking about farm business and different ways to make money on it. Now we’re calling 20 farmers who would like to stream their animals and sell calls with them. You only need a smartphone with a camera and Internet connection, and a funny animal that you’ll stream.
you shouldn't call or assume him a capitalist. He's taking the time to produce and edit these videos that are ultimately helping us learn more about farming. I still don't like the music tho
Sheila B i may try that, but I need hen saddles first. Had to separate my roo cause he was too rough on them. Will be adding 5 more hens to my 8 later this summer when they are old enough. Maybe that will disperse it enough to try again.
Another pretty untapped market-depending on your area- is a farm preschool program. In my area farm preschools are 4 hours or less and have zero licensing requirements and makes BIG money. Like $1,000/mo per kid. I’m a preschool teacher and like farming/animals as a hobby so when I opened my own farm preschool I found the real desire for parents in my semi-urban area to send their kids to a farm preschool.
This is a older video but I will go ahead and say that I if you can sell farm fresh eggs for $3.00 a dozen, you can make top dollar $6-$7 for free range chicken eggs with high levels of omega3s, its as simple as growing some flax and adding more labor into working the ground but it tends to pay off well if your willing to go the extra mile. We have found flax to be a good way to help reset a garden from most bug problems anyway, then we have fresh flax seed to sell to people and we feed to our animals which in turn adds the needed value for our eggs to become profitable. :) happy farming all!
Thank you for sharing your experience! I'm facing the same challenges in Brazil and it's good to know that it is not an underdeveloped world's problem only. Right now I'm changing my small farm vocation from veggies to meat trying to make the business self-sufficient, while feeding the family with good natural food. Thank you again
Too many eggs...? Make Lemon Curd, (or any curd for that matter). You can sell it on, way above margin 1000 glass jars cost little so its ingredients, energy and time. Easily sell good stuff at $4 a jar. Get a stall, also do it with Honey, you can rock up and sell stuff at a stall...
I have actually made a large profit margin with meat rabbit breeding stock. Just selling rabbit meat produced a slight profit...but selling breeding stock made huge profit margins
Yes it does. Its nice when i can sell a live rabbit for $20 but only sell a dressed one for $5. Plus i dont have to worry about all those laws and the money involved in being compliant with those laws.
Great video, thanks for sharing. I have goats, both meat and layer chickens and meat rabbits but raise them for our own meat more like a hobby than a business. Here in western WA feeder pigs are expensive also. Two years ago we bought them for 125 a piece. Too much meat for 4 people so we are going to try just one this spring.
Thanks for the info, I have a small farm, love my farm fresh eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables. Farm fresh chickens are the best also but a lot of work and we get attached to them, so we're sticking with eggs for now and they are great bug control. Love my goats too!! I might try pigs this year. Red Barn Farm
Agriculture and farming will continue to be a bog deal as long as food continues to be a big deal. Food is essential for good health and wellness. This is how farming will continue to thrive.
Another possibility for meat sales that exists today which did not exist 25 years ago, is goat and lamb. If you live close to a city that has decent Middle-Eastern or Mediterranean immigrant populations, you can capitalize on serious shortage of these meats here in the US. From a health-food perspective, the CLA content of these meats is much higher than beef, hog, turkey or chicken. So there also exists a niche market in the health-food-minded population. But you need to do the research yourself and find or create some literature, so you can market it effectively.
Homesteady - I'm curious about whether your TH-cam videos make nay money? You obviously spend a reasonable amount of time working on them, and they are about the small farming you do, so I would think they're part of your homesteading enterprise.
I have liked farming all my life because I grew up on a farm for my grandparents. Surprising am not farming but I own a 4 Hector farm where I live. Am 45 years and I work as an art Lecturer but my heart burns for farming everyday and I really want to earn a living making my own money from farming. Possibly I want to make my self the last person in my family to be employed. I want my descendants to be self employed through farming. My interests are in: bananas, goats, dairy cattle, chickens and dogs. How can I make this a reality?
Said the same thing on John´s video about this. Not to be rude, but you guys need to do more research on ´free´ food for chickens. There are fairly easy things you can do that are no more work than feeding ´feed´ but are almost free. Worm Farm composting, Comfrey, duckweed and barley fodder.
I buy grass raised (I didn't even know there was grass raised pigs). The taste is unbelievably different. To be honest, I never liked eating poem, but this pork I will eat very occasionally. As far as farm classes I couldn't personally do it just because I'm not very good at lecturing people. Great video!
Taking away the profit side of business, I believe that breaking even after feeding your family and covering the cost of upkeep is a wealth in of itself. Self sustaining and save money going to the grocery store.
Thank you for your thorough, yet concise, information and advice. I find your knowledge and experience indispensable due to the current events in the world. Best wishes to you and your family.
cool video. I was recently thinking about selling extra veggies. I looked at some prices and realized i probably grew a couple grand worth of Kale alone last year. (organic). Interested to see your upcoming pasture pig video.
Oh my, watching that method of butchering a chicken is torturous! I grew up on a small farm, and my mother trained us how to butcher the old hens by skinning, instead of doing all that plucking. All you do is make a small hole near the base of the breastbone, and split the skin up to the neck and down to the vent. Then, "undress" the bird, pulling the skin inside out down the wings, cutting the big wing feathers off that one side of the bone. Takes a second or two. Repeat with the other wing. Then, "take the pants off" the chicken. Just pull that feather-skin mess off, inside out, down over the legs, to the second joint. Whack the underside of the joint with the butcher knife, and cut off the feet, which are encased inside the skin. Drop the entire package into a 5-gallon bucket. cut carefully around the vent, and open the tummy area large enough to slip the hand in. Pull out the entrails, dropping them into that same bucket. Insert the hose into the bird, and give it a good rinse. Pitch the finished bird into a bucket of clean cold water, and without missing a beat, reach for the next dead bird. The whole process is very quick. Why bother with the skin? It's not that full of nutrients, is it?
Watch them butchering a duck. That's A LOT OF WORK that could be solved by just skinning them. And since quails are always skinned, I don't see why larger birds aren't.
Yes. Your are correct. It is not easy making money on eggs, chickens and so on. To make it work you could easily end up working in a way that make your old job seem less stressful. For me, the way to go is to make some egg, meat, fruit and greens for myself. Trade a little with other small producers and give some at gifts when you have enough.
Selling eggs is profitable right now. It’s cheaper to buy farm fresh and that’s the way people are going. People prefer farm fresh. It’s all about marketing.
ann k its vayable besenes becouse its easy to establish, manange, its not expensive & you can get quality & quantity yields especiall in pure organic production
Man i see this same thought from others in eggs but o made money on my eggs. The peofit wasnt huge but with as many chickens we have laying we had extra by a long shot it was something we didnt count to make any money at all off of. Just sort of an added small income. Since we free range a lot it cuts the feed expense way down. But i would see if we were trying to turn a profit off eggs alone we might have a problem there. Just dont make that the center of your profit . Center your homestead around your needs not profits thats sorta what makes it worth it right there. I sold dozen after dozen after dozen of eggs tho. Which was great because it was way more than we needed so basically i used what we made off the eggs as our feed purchase revenue . As long as i can offset my feed costs that makes it much more desireable. Then again im not really trying to make a business out of this. I just dont know if i want to take it to that level. I could! But should i?
@@RobertJamesChinneryH no such thing as being too business-oriented. You have to be business-oriented. At least most of us do. The fact of the matter is the projects I do on my place have to produce either savings or income. I can't afford for my little Homestead to be a constant outlay of cash. So all my projects are geared towards one of four goals. Goal #1: making a little profit so that I can keep doing what I'm doing. Goal #2: save me some expenses elsewhere, so I don't have to spend money elsewhere, so that I can keep doing what I'm doing. Goal#3: make some Capital Improvements to my place so that when things come up I can handle more of the problems myself and thus save or make more money. Capital Improvements should also big geared towards paying off when I go to liquidate this location whether it be for retirement for relocating to a bigger place. Goal #4: teaching my family to be more independent and better at managing their time and money. So hopefully they can have a better life. I guess I would have to add a fifth goal in there somewhere. The goal of just enjoying my life some. But I can only do that if I succeed at the first three goals. I don't have thousands and thousands of dollars to constantly throw away losing money on a hobby.
I buy free range organic eggs up here in Canada for 6.50 a dozen ...these farmers produce a specialty item and everyone wants these lovely eggs! farmers clean up and make lots of money from a humane quality product. Eat just one of these eggs and the cheap ones taste like garbage even in a cake mix. I wont use cheap eggs. The person on this video has obviously been to business school or talks in those phrases. I suggest he goes into factory farming.
I would love to know more about sheep farm and wool. I really want to have sheep(wool/meat goats) , wooly goats, alpaca, angora bunnies, and meat/milk goats. I would love to spin my own wool but not dye it. Or just sale wool as is too raw. I can’t find much good information about the wool business. I know the more you do with the wool the more you get out of it. But I would love more details. I don’t mind even having some other meat on the farm.
You are selling your chickens wrong. I sell my male day-old chicks to reptile breeders for $.50 each, which cuts down on overall grow-out costs (and noise!). I sell fliers for $7.00 each which have been raised on a 20% homegrown fodder diet, which makes the feed-to-meat ratio affordable, and free range during the day with compost-supplemented scratch during pen-time. I also raise ~20% of my grains (sorghum and the like). 100% organic, and AFFORDABLE. (I charge $3.00 more for butchered birds...).
Hola hola desde Pacific Ocean - Latitud 0° - Ecuador. Hello! Hello? I need help! With goats. 10 of them. To produce all its derivateds. Any suggestion bud?
How to make money on a small farm....eventually. Buy land with good clean running water or spring water. Build a cellar. Grow grains and distill whiskey. Age the whiskey in the cellar for ten years before you sell it. Farm operations can only be profitable if they are economies of scale, involve intense value-added processes, or deal in high-value cash crops. Like weed. Or if you have inherited property. If none of that is you, don't quit your day job!
Interested in hiring out teams of goats for land clearing or areas that can't use conventional mowing such as solar arrays and also renting out bee hives to farms to increase yields.
Dont pay attention to this video.im a full time small holder and im in ireland.which is alot harder to succeed in.look at some British videos of the same topic.
I find it better to fry up all the exra eggs and feed them to the animals. rather than barely break even by selling them for $2 a dozen...which is going rate around here.
I’m trying to buy enough investment properties to live off rental income. I want to start a small farm more for personal use. More for tax reasoning and overall clean eating. Any advice?
What about a goat dairy farm, the product being milk, cheese and butter? I wonder how well it could grow as a specialty product sold primarily to restaurants.
+donald wycoff there is definitely a good market for goats milk and cheese. Making it a large enough size to sell to restaurants is a little more work to get the facilities you need. But hey, if you love it, go for it!
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Hmm how i wished everyone commenting was into farming ...and not just speaking because they have mouths....God bless your hard work Justin Rhodes
Apparently, farming is quite difficult but it touches everyone in one way or the other. Those who are in it can attest to it. Therefore, repelling others because they aren't farmers would be killing the potentials that would be awesome to uncover the fact that they are in one way or the other intrigued by the subject: farming.
LOL! Well said Emperor Selasi!
Me and my husband have two different approaches on making money on our farm, both which have worked fairly well. We have the standard "shop" we're we sell fresh produce, eggs, and things such as cheese and fudge from our goat milk. The shop doesn't make a huge amount of money considering we're we live we have many neighbors who sell the same products but it's our SERVICES that really hit the jackpot. We have weekly classes on many different things involving the homestead life, we have cooking classes in which we teach people how to easily cook more healthy meals from the produce that they can grow themselves, we also have gardening and animal info/caretaking classes. We are the only one in the area with these opportunities so we get all the business🙂
Fudge? You mean feces?!?! I don't think you can make fudge from a goat 🐐 you might have a lawsuit on your hands pretty quickly 😬
@@jabroski69wtf??
@@jabroski69btw you can sell feces. it’s called manure.
I’m a 12 year old boy who wants to farm pigs and makes some money for college so I can be a elk farmer when I’m older
Well now your fourteen how did it go?
Hey 15 year old, how is your farm?
Hopefully everything is going great with your farming .. don’t ever give up on your dreams.!!
You go kiddo! Whatever you want to do with your life, you can do it! Don't give up! ❤️
Progress report?
As a small homestead I consider myself a great success when my egg sales covers the costs of chicken feed, plus a few free eggs per day for my family. If my numbers are correct that amounts to about 25 heritage breed hens and a few roosters. I'm on my way there! Great success here I come!
We have just started a small farm and so desperately want to make a full time income off of it. I am DETERMINED! Great info on giving classes. I hadn’t thought of that
Hey,i hope you are well.. how is it going for you? If you dont mind me asking
Contrary to either of your's or John's conclusions, money can be made on eggs. It's all in marketing them, and developing a client base. This allows you to get top dollar for your eggs! If there are people out there who'll pay 50k for a car, and 15k for a car... there's people out there who'll pay $7/dozen for eggs, vs. $2/dozen. Research your feeding methods, shave costs, and think outside the chicken coop! All it takes is the right approach and it will happen, I did it the slow route myself and learned along the way. Only way I can keep any eggs in stock now is buy more chickens, and build more nest boxes. Egg price hikes don't even phase those who want quality. So show your clients superior quality, and they'll pay superior prices!
John was charging premiums, still had trouble getting much profit. But at a smaller level it can be done, just hard to do at a business scale. Not impossible, but hard.
Doodley Squat what's the point of even keeping chickens? If you want a plant to throw your scraps then make a biodigester and never pay for cooking and some heating again. Ask for free oil and food scraps from restaurants.
For the bi product, called "eggs" You have the kinda time on your hands to manually do the extra work, more power to you. Me, I'll take advantage of natures free farm labor, and move onto bigger projects. Chickens just aren't for everybody I guess :)
Doodley Squat if you are so good doing marketing why even bother producing eggs. You are selling at 7 dollars same eggs I sell at 1. Just buy my eggs and resell it. Then you will have time to sell hundreds of other products and make billions. Do I sound dumb?. You also sound dumb thinking everyone can sell freaking eggs at 7 bucks.
Thanks im planing to start farm
I grow fodder from wheat and barley seed to feed my chickens. this increases your profit margin by huge amounts. when you break it down its around $.05/lb of feed, you feed 20% of your flocks weight in fodder per day and you can see how this can greatly increase your profit margin. Also fodder fed chickens produce the best tasting eggs you've ever had along with being organic and knowing exactly what your birds are eating because you've grown it yourself. Fodder growing systems are simple and easy to build, plans can be found on youtube. I built mine for about $100 using wood I had around our farm and wash tubs bought from the dollar store, water pump and timer.
Cool idea, I will need to look into that soon!
barley seeds are hard to come by here in the philippines
Actually, you're just adding water to the dry grain by doing this, since there's no soil involved. Much of the carbohydrate energy in the grain is being used up in its growth. There is a nett LOSS in doing this. Chickens do better on the whole grain. Their crops are made for grinding and digesting grains and seeds.
You need to work out what the Dry Matter Content of any livestock feed is, and compare them and the cost per each unit, before deciding that one is cheaper than another. Grain is about 90% Dry Matter; "fodder" grown from that grain is only about 10 - 15% Dry Matter. So the animal or bird will need to eat about 8 times the total weight of green feed to supply the energy, protein and minerals in dry grain.
MrSpencers5 Another way I have seen to feed your chickens for free is to start a compositing. And they can eat the bugs that come and any left over food rhsts thrown in.
MrSpencers5 do you have a video of your fodder system?
Pigs were known as the "mortgage makers" 20+ years ago. They do not make what they once did, but then everything is tighter.
Eggs work if you can produce them without inputs. Interestingly, this means that the Hen produces a better egg = more valuable product. Coupled with chickens' ability to improve pasture for free, and hey - win win.
You are right . I always let them free range in the day time . In winter I feed grasses grown under a light in the shed or garage it's good for them and I grow enough barley and bran and oats to feed them . Or I should say I did . Sold them all . I'm am currently raising parent stock to breed red sex links . Red chickens that are laying age ho for around 20 25 dollars a bird .
@@robertmoore1123 hi Robert. Link me to more details on how chicken rarering works. I love and would like to try especially natural chickens.
Nice I'm not very good with technology lol. But it's not really hard . There us plenty onnu tube and Google info . Sunflower fodder is really good high In protien. I always at it to the Dry mix. I only use organic feed grains when I feed grains . I'd you feed whole oats and wheat soak it first over night so they can break in down better . Really drafts are bad in winter and for baby chicks drafts will kill then fast the chicks . So make sure you have no drafts in the brooders until they get feathers .
Thank you for sharing your experience! We’ve been thinking about farm business and different ways to make money on it. Now we’re calling 20 farmers who would like to stream their animals and sell calls with them. You only need a smartphone with a camera and Internet connection, and a funny animal that you’ll stream.
your not trying to make money from farming your trying to make money from youtube subscriptions......a true capitalist, good for you !
Cough cough riverdale (jingles jangle)
You know you make money from views not subs
he is trying to make money on both. farming and blogging.
you shouldn't call or assume him a capitalist. He's taking the time to produce and edit these videos that are ultimately helping us learn more about farming. I still don't like the music tho
Well jingles you have all the same opportunities so go for it!
I found that selling my eggs as hatching eggs brought in a decent profit.
Sheila B i may try that, but I need hen saddles first. Had to separate my roo cause he was too rough on them. Will be adding 5 more hens to my 8 later this summer when they are old enough. Maybe that will disperse it enough to try again.
Man I pay 6.99 for pastured eggs.
For hatching eggs it’s 3 bucks each
This was really informative thank you. I just bought property in CT a few yrs ago and are ready to start the farm adventure. Definitely following. 🎉
Another pretty untapped market-depending on your area- is a farm preschool program. In my area farm preschools are 4 hours or less and have zero licensing requirements and makes BIG money. Like $1,000/mo per kid.
I’m a preschool teacher and like farming/animals as a hobby so when I opened my own farm preschool I found the real desire for parents in my semi-urban area to send their kids to a farm preschool.
This is a older video but I will go ahead and say that I if you can sell farm fresh eggs for $3.00 a dozen, you can make top dollar $6-$7 for free range chicken eggs with high levels of omega3s, its as simple as growing some flax and adding more labor into working the ground but it tends to pay off well if your willing to go the extra mile.
We have found flax to be a good way to help reset a garden from most bug problems anyway, then we have fresh flax seed to sell to people and we feed to our animals which in turn adds the needed value for our eggs to become profitable. :) happy farming all!
I've enjoyed falling down into the TH-cam rabbit hole watching your videos. Subscribed. Thanks for sharing your farm.
+Goodgame Bees & Homestead rabbits will be an up and coming episode as well 😊
Welcome to new channel “COZY FARM “ THANK YOU 😊 👍✊✌️
Thank you for sharing your experience! I'm facing the same challenges in Brazil and it's good to know that it is not an underdeveloped world's problem only. Right now I'm changing my small farm vocation from veggies to meat trying to make the business self-sufficient, while feeding the family with good natural food. Thank you again
Too many eggs...? Make Lemon Curd, (or any curd for that matter). You can sell it on, way above margin 1000 glass jars cost little so its ingredients, energy and time. Easily sell good stuff at $4 a jar. Get a stall, also do it with Honey, you can rock up and sell stuff at a stall...
I have actually made a large profit margin with meat rabbit breeding stock. Just selling rabbit meat produced a slight profit...but selling breeding stock made huge profit margins
do you mean rabbit pet quality?
aw you sick Fuck lol
Robin De Guzman no. Rabbit MEAT!
why to kill !!! just because they can't speak or take actions
Yes it does. Its nice when i can sell a live rabbit for $20 but only sell a dressed one for $5. Plus i dont have to worry about all those laws and the money involved in being compliant with those laws.
Great video, thanks for sharing. I have goats, both meat and layer chickens and meat rabbits but raise them for our own meat more like a hobby than a business. Here in western WA feeder pigs are expensive also. Two years ago we bought them for 125 a piece. Too much meat for 4 people so we are going to try just one this spring.
Awesome! We wanna do meat rabbits soon!
Thanks for the info, I have a small farm, love my farm fresh eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables. Farm fresh chickens are the best also but a lot of work and we get attached to them, so we're sticking with eggs for now and they are great bug control. Love my goats too!! I might try pigs this year. Red Barn Farm
Thanks for sharing your experience with us,love you guys
Thanks for the info, we're looking to get our farm business going as soon as we get to the homestead. Your videos are really helpful!
How do you go about starting the classes? Also, how much do you charge? How do you get more people to come?
6 jalapeno pickeled eggs in a mason jar=$6.99
Value added is absolutely the way to go.
Agriculture and farming will continue to be a bog deal as long as food continues to be a big deal. Food is essential for good health and wellness. This is how farming will continue to thrive.
Another possibility for meat sales that exists today which did not exist 25 years ago, is goat and lamb. If you live close to a city that has decent Middle-Eastern or Mediterranean immigrant populations, you can capitalize on serious shortage of these meats here in the US. From a health-food perspective, the CLA content of these meats is much higher than beef, hog, turkey or chicken. So there also exists a niche market in the health-food-minded population. But you need to do the research yourself and find or create some literature, so you can market it effectively.
Homesteady - I'm curious about whether your TH-cam videos make nay money? You obviously spend a reasonable amount of time working on them, and they are about the small farming you do, so I would think they're part of your homesteading enterprise.
I have liked farming all my life because I grew up on a farm for my grandparents. Surprising am not farming but I own a 4 Hector farm where I live. Am 45 years and I work as an art Lecturer but my heart burns for farming everyday and I really want to earn a living making my own money from farming. Possibly I want to make my self the last person in my family to be employed. I want my descendants to be self employed through farming. My interests are in: bananas, goats, dairy cattle, chickens and dogs.
How can I make this a reality?
I’m goin for it
Nice one.. Thank you for sharing. Starting something soon.. For now, I will be planting in buckets as I have no land
hi, i'm also a small Farmer, these tips are helping me a lot. thank from brazil
Said the same thing on John´s video about this. Not to be rude, but you guys need to do more research on ´free´ food for chickens. There are fairly easy things you can do that are no more work than feeding ´feed´ but are almost free. Worm Farm composting, Comfrey, duckweed and barley fodder.
I buy grass raised (I didn't even know there was grass raised pigs). The taste is unbelievably different. To be honest, I never liked eating poem, but this pork I will eat very occasionally. As far as farm classes I couldn't personally do it just because I'm not very good at lecturing people. Great video!
It is Stardew Valley in real life :D
Taking away the profit side of business, I believe that breaking even after feeding your family and covering the cost of upkeep is a wealth in of itself. Self sustaining and save money going to the grocery store.
Thank you for your thorough, yet concise, information and advice. I find your knowledge and experience indispensable due to the current events in the world. Best wishes to you and your family.
the best way I found to make money on a small farm is to plant money trees, the $100 bill variety
What are money trees?
I know... I can’t make jokes...😭😂
A mini ranch with all the amennaties;farming, goats, chicken's, fish farming, training gym and gallery!
cool video. I was recently thinking about selling extra veggies. I looked at some prices and realized i probably grew a couple grand worth of Kale alone last year. (organic). Interested to see your upcoming pasture pig video.
+ILBackyardFarm very cool! Growing and selling are 2 different processes, if you can master both you'll kill it! (Or kale it... so punny...)
Oh my, watching that method of butchering a chicken is torturous! I grew up on a small farm, and my mother trained us how to butcher the old hens by skinning, instead of doing all that plucking.
All you do is make a small hole near the base of the breastbone, and split the skin up to the neck and down to the vent. Then, "undress" the bird, pulling the skin inside out down the wings, cutting the big wing feathers off that one side of the bone. Takes a second or two. Repeat with the other wing. Then, "take the pants off" the chicken. Just pull that feather-skin mess off, inside out, down over the legs, to the second joint. Whack the underside of the joint with the butcher knife, and cut off the feet, which are encased inside the skin.
Drop the entire package into a 5-gallon bucket. cut carefully around the vent, and open the tummy area large enough to slip the hand in. Pull out the entrails, dropping them into that same bucket. Insert the hose into the bird, and give it a good rinse. Pitch the finished bird into a bucket of clean cold water, and without missing a beat, reach for the next dead bird.
The whole process is very quick. Why bother with the skin? It's not that full of nutrients, is it?
Watch them butchering a duck. That's A LOT OF WORK that could be solved by just skinning them. And since quails are always skinned, I don't see why larger birds aren't.
Chicken skin is often preferred intact by consumers. We never skin our chickens. It just loses a ton of flavor and moisture when it's skinned.
Is selling eggs profitable now?
Get a scolder propane setup with automated plucker machine. You'll won't need the butcher on poultry.
Yeah, you cant make money buying feed for chickens and than selling the eggs. You have grow the feed. Thats were the profit are at.
you can make money on eggs. it's about marketing, and cutting feed cost.
I sell eggs and in the future vegtables
Yes. Your are correct.
It is not easy making money on eggs, chickens and so on. To make it work you could easily end up working in a way that make your old job seem less stressful.
For me, the way to go is to make some egg, meat, fruit and greens for myself.
Trade a little with other small producers and give some at gifts when you have enough.
My pigs have plowed and turned my pasture into productive tatter and corn fields
Selling eggs is profitable right now. It’s cheaper to buy farm fresh and that’s the way people are going. People prefer farm fresh. It’s all about marketing.
Have you ever tried to skin chickens I find it much easier than plucking . We bake or boil our chickens so the missing skin is no problem for us .
How about goat are they profitable and Can I start this business?
Great vid thanks for sharing...I'm planning to quit my job and raise chicken and goat.instead .hope i can make it
ann k and..... How did that turn out?
ann k its vayable besenes becouse its easy to establish, manange, its not expensive & you can get quality & quantity yields especiall in pure organic production
I wanna do that aswell
Man i see this same thought from others in eggs but o made money on my eggs. The peofit wasnt huge but with as many chickens we have laying we had extra by a long shot it was something we didnt count to make any money at all off of. Just sort of an added small income. Since we free range a lot it cuts the feed expense way down. But i would see if we were trying to turn a profit off eggs alone we might have a problem there. Just dont make that the center of your profit . Center your homestead around your needs not profits thats sorta what makes it worth it right there. I sold dozen after dozen after dozen of eggs tho. Which was great because it was way more than we needed so basically i used what we made off the eggs as our feed purchase revenue . As long as i can offset my feed costs that makes it much more desireable. Then again im not really trying to make a business out of this. I just dont know if i want to take it to that level. I could! But should i?
you re the best creator
Great video! thank you
Professional, concise, and useful. Subscribed.
way too business oriented
@@RobertJamesChinneryH no such thing as being too business-oriented. You have to be business-oriented. At least most of us do.
The fact of the matter is the projects I do on my place have to produce either savings or income. I can't afford for my little Homestead to be a constant outlay of cash.
So all my projects are geared towards one of four goals.
Goal #1: making a little profit so that I can keep doing what I'm doing.
Goal #2: save me some expenses elsewhere, so I don't have to spend money elsewhere, so that I can keep doing what I'm doing.
Goal#3: make some Capital Improvements to my place so that when things come up I can handle more of the problems myself and thus save or make more money. Capital Improvements should also big geared towards paying off when I go to liquidate this location whether it be for retirement for relocating to a bigger place.
Goal #4: teaching my family to be more independent and better at managing their time and money. So hopefully they can have a better life.
I guess I would have to add a fifth goal in there somewhere. The goal of just enjoying my life some. But I can only do that if I succeed at the first three goals. I don't have thousands and thousands of dollars to constantly throw away losing money on a hobby.
I buy free range organic eggs up here in Canada for 6.50 a dozen ...these farmers produce a specialty item and everyone wants these lovely eggs! farmers clean up and make lots of money from a humane quality product. Eat just one of these eggs and the cheap ones taste like garbage even in a cake mix. I wont use cheap eggs. The person on this video has obviously been to business school or talks in those phrases. I suggest he goes into factory farming.
I would like to hear about making money from sheep (both fiber and meat).
Good future idea! Will look into it.
agree
Go to mysmallfarmexpert.com there is a really good series on sheep.
i have a little merino sheep farm
Man inflation tho egg are worth gold!!!!
I would love to know more about sheep farm and wool. I really want to have sheep(wool/meat goats) , wooly goats, alpaca, angora bunnies, and meat/milk goats. I would love to spin my own wool but not dye it. Or just sale wool as is too raw. I can’t find much good information about the wool business. I know the more you do with the wool the more you get out of it. But I would love more details. I don’t mind even having some other meat on the farm.
I'm interested in this too
thank you for this info, keep it up! we are also doing homesteading and farming
So you made a video on how to make money on a farm when you yourself make very little?
Still useful, some people want to small scale farm
wow good luck... i will try this farming... but in fruit trees
Came over here VIA TSP... Keep up the good work
+Quebecker thanks for coming over!
hi, from your experience, how many acres of land does it take to support a family? 5 people, enough to live on
Very informative. Thank you
Great video thank you
What about the goat and sheep again hobby farming? Would it be profitable?
It sucks for me because in my country, we have stricter rules about keeping pigs then using soft and harddrugs.
Whoa. Where you live?
@@truthismyreligion6391 the Netherlands
Thanks John this helped a lot
Hi Aust, I love your podcasts and videos! You should do a video on raising rabbits for meat!
+LaSirenaKai we almost did rabbits this year... decided on turkey. Maybe next year 😉
@Bill Bradley not if you raise them on pasture
if you can cut the meat yourself that would be adding to your bottom lime its $1.00 a pound where I currently live.
We have 2 mother goats and just had 2 kids each I have hens and ducks and one silkie hen with 2 chicks
You are selling your chickens wrong. I sell my male day-old chicks to reptile breeders for $.50 each, which cuts down on overall grow-out costs (and noise!).
I sell fliers for $7.00 each which have been raised on a 20% homegrown fodder diet, which makes the feed-to-meat ratio affordable, and free range during the day with compost-supplemented scratch during pen-time.
I also raise ~20% of my grains (sorghum and the like).
100% organic, and AFFORDABLE. (I charge $3.00 more for butchered birds...).
really good, honest advice. thanks for your video.
All goats are very nice
You say you sell the eggs why don't you just raise the new chicks instead of buying in new birds every time
Different reasons, sometimes to avoid all the roosters, sometimes because we want different breeds, always depends.
Pigs vs goats or lambs? Which one is more profitable?
love the way you put it well done.
Hola hola desde Pacific Ocean - Latitud 0° - Ecuador. Hello! Hello? I need help! With goats. 10 of them. To produce all its derivateds. Any suggestion bud?
How to make money on a small farm....eventually. Buy land with good clean running water or spring water. Build a cellar. Grow grains and distill whiskey. Age the whiskey in the cellar for ten years before you sell it. Farm operations can only be profitable if they are economies of scale, involve intense value-added processes, or deal in high-value cash crops. Like weed. Or if you have inherited property. If none of that is you, don't quit your day job!
Interested in hiring out teams of goats for land clearing or areas that can't use conventional mowing such as solar arrays and also renting out bee hives to farms to increase yields.
Dont pay attention to this video.im a full time small holder and im in ireland.which is alot harder to succeed in.look at some British videos of the same topic.
Nice video ❤❤❤❤
Did you tried fertilized duck eggs through mail?
thank you so much...
what is a good animal to grow as an alternative to pork with an equal level of gross?
good question. not sure but look into cattle, goats, and sheep
amazing farm you have there
you inspire me to start farming 😊
whats the size of your farm, btw ?
here in Bolivia we buy plucked whole chickens for $1.25...
sure bro, I have small broer goat farming business.
so may you plz help me with strategies of growing the business
Do you have any tips to help my start my pig farm
i want to know if you need liscenses to have mini farms if you are just doing it for yourself. I live in Canada
My small stock farm would b successful if there weren't the stray dog factor we always have to be pumping cash for restocking water fence mending
I find it better to fry up all the exra eggs and feed them to the animals. rather than barely break even by selling them for $2 a dozen...which is going rate around here.
Ouch... that's a tough price to work with :(
Usually 2 around here too. I only sell extras accasionally and feed eggs that are too old to the animals.
Oh, you're in Connecticut! I'm from there. What part are you from?
Then came 2023 and eggs are $6 per dozen
thanks this video helped me very very much.
I’m trying to buy enough investment properties to live off rental income. I want to start a small farm more for personal use. More for tax reasoning and overall clean eating. Any advice?
What about a goat dairy farm, the product being milk, cheese and butter? I wonder how well it could grow as a specialty product sold primarily to restaurants.
+donald wycoff there is definitely a good market for goats milk and cheese. Making it a large enough size to sell to restaurants is a little more work to get the facilities you need. But hey, if you love it, go for it!
Awesome video. Thank you for sharing.
+Daybird Aviaries 👍
thank sooooo much for the video its awsome
agree