Is raising your own Meat Chickens worth it? We break down the numbers!
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- Today we will discuss our most recent batch of cornish cross chickens. We will discuss how we packaged them, the cost that went into it and if it is worth it or not. We hope this content will help you in deciding if this is worth it to you or not.
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After battling Psoriasis for years, I discovered the power of quality food and its positive impact on my skin condition. This sparked my desire to raise my own quality food. So come along with our Family as we transition from urban living to small self sustaining family farm. Learn from both our successes and failures in hopes it may inspire others to try new things. We entered into this journey with no prior experience and hope to provide many laughs and learning experiences. We learned most of how to do what were doing from watching others and hope to be able to provide a similar learning opportunity to anyone else who may benefit from this. Thank you for coming along with us on this journey and we hope it is enjoyable for you and your family.
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As a math teacher I must say, you are doing an incredible job with your daughter. That right there is real math and literacy education at it finest. Congratulations man. 👌🏾
Sweet I’m a teacher now ☺️. Just kidding, but I really do appreciate it. Real world practical applications I think helps them better get stuff and the reasons why we need to learn stuff. Thanks for watching and thank you for your work in the school system. My wife’s a school teacher so I understand how hard it is to be a teacher in today’s world. Take care friend.
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This is how home school is supposed to work. I home schooled from 1990 to 2005 and we had a regular curriculum with lots of real life applications.
ThePhilomathe Agreed! I wish more homesteaders would do a video about this for their crops and their animals. It can be difficult to get a realistic idea of the real cost and or savings of some of these things. To see it broken down like this from someone who has a proven process is a huge help for your own calculations when trying to decide if it would be worth it for you to do it too.
According to my maff teacher, she say maff is rayciss.
It's not about the price. It's about food independence. (For me anyway.) 🙂
Agreed! Especially during all this Covid stuff impacting the grocery stores. It’s been so nice to skip many aisles without concern of shortage
I feel the same way🤜🤛
I'm on the fence, I definitely appreciate food independence, however I do like saving money as well.
@@outrageousacres sometimes it’s both. An added benefit of the food independence side is that YOU raised it so you KNOW what went into it and how it was cared for. Grocery store stuff you can only hope you’re not being lied to.
Very true - but $ budgets $ are still a fact of life especially now 3/11/22 ( thanks Joe / demorats ) - now, if you grow your own feed ( insert fireworks n stuff here )
Excellent video! I really enjoy seeing how others raise their own meat and the true value of it. We just got our pigs back from the butcher and we ended up with 400lbs of pork to add to our over 100lbs of fresh poultry we raised here and processed ourselves. I tell you it’s a damn good feeling to open up your freezers and see them full of meat you raised yourself. I love it. Keep up the great work brother
Absolutely! When then Covid mess was going on, it was so great not having to panic like most people were. Quality and food security and big reasons to keep doing it. We’re almost out of our pork, so I am really hoping our breeding attempt works so we can get back on track for pig processing.
I'm vegan but I fully support people doing what you are doing! they look nice. good skills for your daughter to learn too
Thank you. I have a ton of appreciation for someone who can accept and respect someone who may do something different than them. World would be much better that way. Thanks for watching and hope you have a great weekend.
Jonathan do you not fully support people who buy their meat?
And about how they know how and what their chickens are eating and how they are processed. All this stuff they are doing with our food that's causing all these diseases.
@@bunkerpeakoutdoors5717 I think its that they have a much better life raised at home than in industrial meat farms which treat chickens horrible. I agree with that sentiment which is why I have my own chickens
@@MrMorgan316 someone deleted their comment i was replying to. I raise chickens as well
I love this breakdown and the insights about the packaging. I also love that you went with the safe, conservative estimates on chicken prices because often people will go with the most outlandish cost to make it look like they are saving more and that just isn't genuine to me. Also thank you for giving the numbers with and without your equipment. It really helps to see the bigger picture if someone wants to do this once or make it a lifestyle.
Thank you, I’m glad it helped. I try to provide some videos that answer many things I was unable to find. I try to be as transparent as I can. I appreciate you taking the time to watch. If I can be of any help, ask away. I’m not an expert, but I’ll try to share what I know. Take care.
Well that $30 savings will turn to over $120 when you start hatching your own. Minus any extra feed over the time to raise
This is very correct. Eliminating cost of the chickens themselves does make a big difference.
from one farmer to another: start feeding your flock snails and pumpkin seeds as supplements for your commercial feeds. It will *dramatically* cut feed costs for your flock and allow you to raise a bigger flock without as much inputs.
Snails. The snail meat is for both broilers and laying hens, while the crushed snail shells are a obvious source of calcium for laying hens.
Snail shells are an alternative to crushed oysters shells (a mixture of oyster, mussel and clam shells).
crushed snail shells can be combined with crushed chicken egg shells for diy chicken grit too!
You don’t even have to raise them or anything, a few beer bucket traps works for flocks under ~60
Hulless Pumpkin Seeds are adored by chickens, pheasants, quail and even pigeons. great source of protein and fat with 84%-88% digestibility.
If you compost your byproducts (offal, feathers, heads, feet, necks, etc) and mortalities: non-legume Seeds Crops are a great way to recycle protein.
You can do sunflower seeds, canola seeds, etc
but I like hull-less pumpkin seeds because you can harvest in the fall. if you have a quarter acre to spare for them you’re looking at ~1,800 plants and a yield of 300-to-500lbs of pumpkin seeds.
replace up to ~1/3 (30%) to about ~1/2 (50%) inclusion rates, if you care about maximizing mass and weight gain in 10 to 13 weeks time
but if your flock is free range, you do really even have to worry about maximizing each individual bird to industrial/factory farmed weights.
Thank you for the detailed information and explanation. There’s always things to learn. Appreciate it.
Thank you for this, I’m considering getting chickens just for our family.
It's not about the cost. It's about the knowledge attained. Skills that will be needed. Look at what the child is learning.👍
That is a really good point. What seemed so odd to her at first now is normal and actually preferred. I don’t event force her to be involved, she chooses to and it’s actually more fun when she participates as we always end up with some laughs. Thanks for watching.
What a thorough breakdown of prices and ROI ! Awesome video and I love how you invite your daughter to be a part of this process! Love it :)
Thank you and thanks for spending time with us. She’s my little buddy and I love having her tag along when I’m doing things.
Raising your own meat (if you are able) is almost ALWAYS a good idea.
The meat tends to be better for you, you are insuring your food supply and it's good to not be dependent of a supply chain.
The last few months we have seen chicken disappear from the stores so now is a great time to point out the value of having your own supply.
As time has progressed and that has happened in the world, it definitely has further verified my reasons for doing this. Thanks for watching and appreciate the feedback.
Just the fact that your children are learning is priceless
It is awesome to see how much she likes to help at times and what she has learned. I appreciate the comment and for spending time with us.
I’ve been telling my wife and others I wanted to do this instead of buying from store just to know what I’m eating. Thank you for the video also I wife sent me this
I wish you best if you try it. The biggest mistake I think people make for their first time is they get way too many. Id suggest 10-20 max for your first batch. To me that’s a good manageable number.
...keeping chickens is not like keeping a pet tho. And TIME is a big factor as well.
@@midnull6009 me and my family had chickens all our lives and honestly its less work than having a dog for example and cheaper too
I've always wondered what the cost difference ends up being. I think it's also worth mentioning the space needed, the daily tending, and the time it takes. All of that needs to be factored into the end result.
Those are all good things to factor in. Fortunately one can raise a good number of birds in a small area it just depends on your preference for management. I like to give mine lots of room to roam.
the time involved would eat up any savings. the main reason for raising your own is being able to have control over quality with cost being down the list.
@@RockyCreekHomestead curious do you slaughter and process your chickens yourself, do you send them out to be processed, or do you have someone come to your home on processing day? I'm only asking because around here processing adds anywhere from $3.50-$7.00 to the cost of each bird if you don't do it yourself or have the equipment (which also figures in) to do it yourself. If you're raising water fowl for food you're going to be hard pressed to find anyone willing to process them for you.
The quality of the meat is considerably better then typical store bought meat also
@@simdoughnut659 I do process myself. The first year I hand plucked and the second year I saved up to buy a plucker. For the last two years I’ve done 30-40 per year. I do them in two separate batches or 15-20 each. There’s no one local that processes poultry where I’m at. I also process sometimes by skinning which doesn’t take anything but a knife.
It’s great to have a feed mill nearby. When I did this last year I paid 38dollars for one bag of organic Newcountry feed.
Wow $38 would make it hard to make a profit. Breaking even at least gave you a homegrown product that didn’t break the bank. The feed mill definitely does help me save money.
10 months later chicken isn't so cheap! Glad I found this video, I'm debating on chickens or rabbits for meat
Very true. Rabbits are a great option as well. We have 3 and have breed them twice. Very easy to raise and reproduce. Id say you couldn’t go wrong with either.
Do both or find a friend to do one and you can trade. But rabbit is pure protein no fat
Where did you buy the custom labels?
Video about chickens turned into a video on how to home school a child. Great job on both!
Thank you, I’ve learned if you allow them to help they tend to be more accepting of this lifestyle. I wish at times I didn’t work full time and could do stuff like this all the time. Thanks for watching.
Fantastic break down!!! We can't wait to start raising our own poultry!!!
Thanks buddy.
Its worth it to me for sure, because I know exactly what I’m feeding my family. And my granddaughters wont “develop” early, from all the added hormones! We barter and exchange with friends also. And the overall cost isnt bad at all! 🥰
The health reasons is actually my #1 reason. Raising and eating my own food significantly reduced my psoriasis. Many people would ask about the cost so I thought I’d try to break that down as well. It’s amazing what all goes into modern food sometimes. Thanks for watching and thanks for bringing another reason why this is beneficial to my attention. I hadn’t thought about that part especially with raising my children. Take care.
@@RockyCreekHomestead well, you blessed me, so turn about is fair.😉
I go to Costco get a roasted chicken for $6.00 . Same price as a big Mac.
You got a point Kroger, Meijer all sell rotisserie chickens for $6-7
The importance of oversight. You learned a valuable lesson for the price of a chicken. I would hazard a guess that your chickens are healthier than store bought. That is a value that would be hard to calculate.
Agreed! Appreciate you watching and I am confident the quality and health of these chickens are better than most grocery story chickens.
Well no chemicals in your food mean it's priceless!😂
Valid point. Thanks
No matter what shows uo...It makes me happy to see dad get kids involved
Thanks, it’s is more fun when they help out. I’m lucky to have great kids who like to learn new things
Also, if you raise eggs, or sell pasteurized frozen chickens etc, you have the tax advantages against other income.
And if you make any part of your operation business just raising eggs, you can get your states retail sales license ( which allows you to collect and remit sales tax) but also sales tax exemption certificate which lets you buy everything used for the business wholesale which can cut your cost tremendously.
Just wanted to thank you for sharing. Most importantly, that good dadding. Your daughter will have wonderful memories with you. Best-
Thank you. I enjoy it when she helps out. Sometimes she’d rather do kid things, but I get lucky sometimes and she wants to be my help. We appreciate you spending time with us. Take care.
We raise meat chickens because we don't want to contribute to the inhumane conditions within most of the chicken farms and processing factories. The humane treatment of the birds themselves far outweigh any saving or expenses and the effort we put in raising the birds is a pleasure.
The modern processing and farming is very much some of the reasons we raise them this way. The cost factor is only a small piece of the overall reasoning behind it. Appreciate you watching.
Hey man thanks for sharing. As a kid who plans to have their own farm one day, this really puts things into perspective!
I’m glad it was a help to you. Thanks for watching and best of luck with the future farm
If you buy from the store you get a product. If you do it yourself you get food
Let food be thy medicine..
Great breakdown. We’ve only really grown chicken for ourselves…but we always consider the cost of raising them just part of our grocery bill.
Thanks. That’s a great way to look at it. Everything adds up, so I think it’s great to break it down and make sure it’s worth it or if something needs to be done differently in the future.
Besides labor, which is real, there are materials and the additional time to assemble.
…of course there’s also losses (not including the rotten loner left outside the freezer).
Love that you took the extra time to involve your kiddo in the process. Good stuff!
Thank you. I enjoy it when she helps out. She’s taken to this far better than I’d expect. Appreciate you watching.
incubate your own eggs and you'll save even more.
I really appreciate the people who really break down the numbers.
I hope this was helpful.
You forgot to include capital overhead time
Another awesome video!! Now to convince my wife! We are just starting with laying hens/chicks. She’s not on board yet with meat chickens.
Laying hens is a good starting point. If you decide to give it a try with meat chickens, I wouldn’t do more than 5-10 for your first batch unless you already have a plucker. Hand plucking took us a long time and doing 20+ that way was rough.
Thank you for this video. I’d like to follow suit, but I don’t think I can kill them. My husband says he can’t either. Im the vegetarian, so the meat is for my husband. My daughter would have to come down from Indiana to kill them. 😟 She said she could do it. Just something we’ve been theorizing. Killing an animal, I really don’t think I can. Don’t think badly of me.
I respect everyone’s opinion and how they wish to live. It’s definitely not a good moment and something I very much dislike doing. The only light is it gives me a much greater appreciation for their life and try my best to use as much of it as I can or have knowledge to do safely. I appreciate the feedback, dialogue and your time spent watching.
Waiting one more week makes a huge difference
Yeah we pay over $5/lb for our local organic pasture chicken.
We have a dozen layers now. This spring we are going to do some meat birds! I just gotta do all the processing without the wife being exposed. She's not ready for that. Haha
😂 my wife has nothing to do with the processing. She’ll eat it all day but doesn’t want to see any of the process to get them in the freezer. If your doing it on your own, I would suggest not doing more that 15 at a time. That seemed to be my max solo. I wish you the best of luck with your meat birds. Let me know how it goes.
I would have liked to seen labor included. Even if just for yourself, you might consider keeping track of how much of your time you spend on raising and processing them. If selling chickens is something you would want to do in the future then a true cost of goods sold would be beneficial.
I agree with that idea. Selling will be in the far away future. I need bigger space and better equipment as I’m really only able to raise 15-20 at a time here. That wouldn’t be enough to make it worth it currently. My daily efforts are about 20-30 minutes a day which does add up. Good perspective to consider if reach a point of selling.
@@RockyCreekHomestead Also would like to see initial infrastructure investment (housing/feeder/fencing/bedding/etc.) as that will heavily impact profitability margins.
What about time and effort? Or structures/land/security/vet? Taking that into account is the true ‘apples to apples’ comparison. Probably adds hundreds. Not saying you’re not doing a good thing, cause I would love to do this as well, but this comparison is definitely missing things that would lead the average person to appreciate the cost of high quality food.
Fortunately I only spend about 15 - 20 min a day tending to them. I built my structure for about $120. I don’t use a vet for our poultry. There isn’t one around for them so anything for them I do on my own and if it’s not something I can fix, they get culled. There are added expenses as you’ve pointed out but fortunately for us those have been minimal
that is a wonderful breakdown! thank you!
Thank you very much.
That's free range chicken, no added water like commercial chicken, no antibiotics etc
Definitely better than anything in the store. Thanks for watching
I agree that this is a great breakdown. Cant wait for you to put together a processing area, dedicated to the chickens. 😆 Will you process the pigs too?
I am not quite ready to process the pigs on my own. My processor is very affordable and does a great job. With me working full time, it’s just easier right now to use him. Down the road when things slow down, I do plan to attend a processing class and maybe build the courage to do so myself.
Today's prices on chicken makes me walk away a lot of the time. I have seen prices of $15:00 and $16:00 at Kroger, Aldi,Sam's, and Costco. Last year I was buying two chickens at Sam's for $12:00 to $14:00 . I want to raise my own but I live in the city were it is against the law . Keep keeping on.
Wow I hadn’t paid too much attention at our local grocery stores. I was at a local farm that sells recently and they were charging I think $25 for a 4.5lb bird. It’s a lot of work but I definitely think it’s worth it in the end, especially during these times
Seriously, well done! I have a brother from another mother in Arkansas who raised 40 of the same birds for me and my family. I paid 5.00 a lb and am very glad to have done so!!. We had created a dish and called it "Sweet Arkansas love" for my Piggs and Twiggs smoked foods business while we had visited them a couple years ago. I had since then tried to recreate the dish and have not been able to...until we went back to visit and had no problem doing so....as it was the chicken itself that made all the difference. I had tried 4 different local so called "organic" chicken and just could not get it right. What a difference it makes and I could careless that it cost more, sooo worth it! Thanks for sharing and really, nice work on this video!
Now I want to try some sweet Arkansas love 😆. I do believe there a home raised chicken seemed to produce a much more flavorful bird. I mostly began raising my own food to improve a skin condition but since have found so many reasons why it’s beneficial. Smoking the chickens is my favorite way to cook them. I really appreciate the kind words and thanks for spending time with us.
you need to include your electricity(brooder)/water etc. But you're on the right track.
We've started to grow some supplemental feed for our chickens and ducks this year, as both conventional and organic feed costs keep rising. Beets, hulless oats, spring or winter wheat, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, etc. You can use your cover crops like field peas and buckwheat after they've done their thing by donating them to the birds. We plan to not even thresh the wheat, just use it as a straw and feed in one. These crops don't take up much more room than we already devote to production veg, and we're looking forward to the savings. We also shove feed crops in when there is an open space here or there in a bed, and always give the birds kitchen scraps, as our old timers will attest. It's all about creating a full circle homestead for us.
That’s awesome. It sounds like you have a great system or idea of how you plan for it all to go.
The most important variable was left out. How much total time was invested to get them to the table? doing it as a hobby is one thing, doing it to save money is very different! If I can earn $300 in 3-6 hours as a plumber, that is the entire savings of raising them! I can go to a local store and buy true pasture raised chicken in all 3-6 hours of labor. Can you raise all this chicken in 3-6 hours of labor?
Man sounds like I need to become a plumber.
If you had a rooster and hatched your own the out of pocket first time is more but you don't have to keep buying chicks to raise. So the next time around you wouldn't have the $90.00 or whatever to spend on them.
We actually hatched some chicks this year and I plan to process the roosters from the hatch. Hopefully all will go wel
I’ve used a large soup pot for scalding chickens with a portable hot plate.
Didn’t use a cone, just a block of wood and axe.
Plucking after scalding was easier than expected. I can see if you are doing a large flock kill, a plucking machine would be worthwhile, I’m only killing 2-4 at a time.
Oh yea, If I’m only doing a couple birds I don’t wast the time breaking out the plucker. Hand plucking quicker and not bad. It’s a big help though when doing 15+ at a time. Hot plate is a great idea. I didn’t think about that.
Freezer electricity bill and labour time.but you get good meat not with some bad meat.
Don't cut all at once like factory let them grassing when you need meat cut one and eat, that will save bills.fresh meat.
I’ve been lucky that I haven’t seen a noticeable increase in our electric bill. I’m sure it has increased, but it hasn’t been any amount that stuck out to me. When my egg layers hatch out too many roosters, I manage them in a way like you’ve stated. I let them do their thing until it’s time to thin them out and I just process them 1 at a time, here and there. Good perspective and things others should still consider. Take care
You forgot the biggest cost... labor. It's still worth raising your own.
Thanks
Seeing the shocking increase of eggs in the USA the price of chickens is next Grow your own at least you know what your chickens eat
Totally agree. I’m working on a plan to get a breed of chicken that’s more dual purpose too and establish a self sufficient cycle to prevent having to order meat chickens all the time.
Meh... you can get 18 rotisserie chickens for about 10 bucks a piece. The "value" is really nil. The only offset is that they can produce eggs while you're waiting to harvest.
I don't do it to save money at the store....I do it so I don't have to depend on the store. At some point some of us will not be welcome in stores. Yep it does help. Thanks for information
This is great point. When grocery stores were short during peak of Covid it was quite peaceful knowing I wasn’t bothered at all. Well with the exception of the toilet paper crisis 😒
The cost is only part of it good meat and eggs is another also the satisfaction of completing such a task plus it’s fun
Absolutely 👍
You’d save a lot more if you produced the food. Corn soybeans and over stuff
That is correct. Unfortunately I don’t have the space to do such. Luckily my mill is very close by.
Great job guy! It’s super you are bringing your daughter along on this and sharing with others who don’t have a clue because they haven’t been raised in a farm or even had grandparents they visited in the summer. We are losing so many skills as in huge amounts of knowledge. It’s in books in the library, public, state, etc and though much is online, there is huge volumes not scanned online yet.
Look at the National archives, university, extension service, USDA, … there is lots of material on everything. Small business Administration. It goes on forever, BUT here is the issue, people have to read it instead of taking advice from wannabe experts. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel.
Where did you get your labels made?
I ordered them from www.texaspoultryshrinkbags.com . I haven’t ordered their shrink bags yet as I still have a lot from strombergs site.
I averaged your weight of chickens to the cost of chickens in my area and for me 84 pounds of chicken meat would have been 584 with tax. So that’s amazing you have the opportunity to do this. My average cost of a whole chicken that weights 4 pounds costs me 7 dollars after tax in my area. I wish I could do this.
That’s neat to hear what it is in other areas. I’ve learned feed costs can greatly vary from area to area which can greatly impact costs. It’s a lot of work on processing day but it’s been so worth it. Cost savings is nice, but knowing we have steady supply of meat is even nicer. These shortages in the grocery stores further made me realize this. Thanks for watching and appreciate the comment. Take care!
If you are looking for profit, then why are you using commercial feed? free range or DIY maggot farming at the least
Its always worth making and growing own food. 100% devoted and not cheat with store bought feed.
If I had the time and land to grow my own food I would love to but unfortunately I’m limited by space and working full time with lots of overtime. I don’t view feed from my mill as cheating but more a good compromise.
@@RockyCreekHomestead its always worth DIY.. no need to explain were all working harder nowadays and just trying to get ahead. keep on pushing ( it sounded discouraging to hear the COST$ ) when we all know it can be much lower with little more input. take care
Anything is worth not supporting the grocery store cartels
The whole food system has gotten crazy.
I bought my first 25 broilers for 15cent a piece the other day I'm so excited
😮 that is a smoking deal!! That is awesome. I hope everything goes well. Are they Cornish cross?
A friend of mine asked to get some chick's with my last batch and raze them for her. I told her I'd have to charge her $22.50. She said I payed $17.00 for a sad discussing bird from the store last week $22.50 per bird is fine, Canadian dollars of course. Last year the processers put price tag's on my birds some of them came to $26.00. He also told me my birds were some of the nicest he'd seen, I had some weighing 8lb's.
Ever tried heat shrink bags ? Put the chickens in the bag and dip it in hot water and the bag shrinks around the chicken. I've seen video's of them from Country View Acres, they look slick 😎
That’s awesome. These bags were the heat shrink kind. That’s the only way I’ve ever packaged them to this point. Now that I’ve got the processing part down fairly well, I’m trying to figure out the best cutting and packaging way. That part is still to be determined.
Yard bird tastes a hell of a lot better than the stuff you get from the grocery store
That it does. Countless reasons why I choose to raise my own and that’s is definitely one of them. Thanks.
Knowing where your food comes from, how it was feed and treated will always out way relying on someone else. I only have 5 chickens that I use for egg production and freeze dry (scrambled) the extras in batches of 36 for long term storage.
Freeze drying is definitely something we’re wanting to do in the near future. Awesome way to store a lot
I admire your ambition. It is a lot of work to do what you did with your chickens. Raising chickens is not cheap. Your chickens look great, both alive and processed.
Thank you. I try to raise them as best I can with why we have available. If it allows us to save money as well that’s great but my main goal it to provide a good healthy quality product for my family. Thank you for the kind words and for watching.
cool
My local Walmart sells whole chickens for $6.58 that’s $125 for 19 chickens.
That’s a great experience for your kid. Awesome parenting. Thanks for sharing.
My wife and I just binge watched 5 of your videos, we love the channel! We are are wanting to switch to the shrink bags as we have always used zip lock bags in the past. Do you recall what size bags you used for your birds? Thank you! Keep up the great job with the content!
I believe they’re the 10”x18” from this link www.strombergschickens.com/product/heat-shrink-bags-broiler-size. I also have heard great things of the bags from www.texaspoultryshrinkbags.com/wwwtexaspoultryshrinkbagscom.html but I have only purchased labels from them. I hope this helps. Thanks for the support and spending time with us, we’re glad to have you.
THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO 👍 WE JUST STARTED OIR HOMESTEADING AND TH-cam JOURNEY AND STARTED WITH 7 Nigerian dwarf milk goats triple registered ,16 chickens various breeds ,and have 10 AYAM CEMANI EGGS IN THE INCUBATOR DOING GREAT 👍 And coming in 5 days fingers crossed 🤞 it will all go well with them,they are very a rare ALL black breed chicken ,very beautiful.just got 16 acres and clearing it for pastures for livestock and maybe cattle 🐮 one day soon.
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That’s a lot to start with, awesome job. Ayams are super cool. We have a few. Our rooster is so much louder than the others though. Appreciate you spending time with us.
@@RockyCreekHomestead They will be here in four days yay!!! 🙌 🎉 🐔 🐣 🐥 I will hope to get at least one rooster out of the 10 from @whitehouseonthehill and setting up fencing and coops currently for them all
I love these cost breakdown videos! I am not a homesteader just yet but I’m hoping my husband and I can start next year once we buy some land ☺️
That’s great, I wish I began so much earlier. I hope you’re able to find a great piece of land. Best of luck with the search and don’t hesitate to reach out if questions come up. Thank you and take care!
Time invested makes your cost way above average store prices but you can also buy a Ford for a lot less than a Mercedes 🤷🏻♂️ homesteading isn’t so much about money
5-6lb whole chickens sale for about $6-7. So on average 18 chicken will cost me $108. I eat a lot of chicken and pork thanks to inflation.
It's great to see your daughter helping you. It does create a bond and she will highly develop her math skills.
Thanks for sharing your experience my man
Thank you, I really enjoy when she helps. Thanks for watching too 😊
With your time, your coop, the electricity for the heat lamp, the plucker if you bought one, the ice you used to cool them off, you're costs are much higher. If you value your time at 10 dollars an hour and you put 10 hours into then thats another $100.
But it's a solid deal still
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Including everything is the only way to do it. Sometimes people forget some of their cost. You also have capital costs per year to include ie chicken coop, tractor, etc. but that equipment is kept for years. IRS has a guide for livestock raising etc and how to capitalize.
The commercial chicken like Costco for example, requires a lot of labor that is paid for. Therefore you would need to add labor of your chickens for a fair comparison. I know for you its a love to do this but you prob have a lot of time invested in feeding, watering, cleaning, construction, driving to get supplies. I’m not suggesting your incorrect, just keeping it real.
Only if there is nothing else available. Eight bucks at grocery store as opposed to six months of feeding, watering, cleaning after and worm medicine.
No wages for you or staff
My wage is 80+ lbs of chicken
Always enjoy your videos. Thank you. No need to hit the meat market at the grocery store and you know what the bird was fed and how healthy it was before processing.
GREAT little helper you have there too. Very nice hand writing.
Looking forward to more of your videos.
Thanks buddy, it sure is nice having the confidence and security in our food we raise.
You can't put a price on something you eat let's face it store poultry even organic raised are you 100 % sure no corners are cut. Raise your own butcher your own you then know 100 % what you gave that chicken.
Your very accurate. My appreciate for my food has increased so much. Raising the meat chickens is honestly one of my least favorite thing to do each year but it’s oh so worth it in the end. Thanks for watching
@@RockyCreekHomestead I've been out of the homestead game for some time now moved to city to be closer to hospital and my son's schooling but th8nking on doing some urban homesteading lol
I started working at a slaughter house… have never wanted to buy finally did am really glad that I can go cut chicken heads all week for a paycheck never thought I would enjoy it but I do
My wife and I are semi retired. We are raising chickens for eggs and meat. We have an incubator. We are trying to provide eggs and meat for ourselves, by breeding and hatching our own. We have also started breeding rabbits.
Awesome. Keep up then good work.
Hi! Where did you get your labels made? Thanks!!
I just bought 4 egg layers I have a small yard no way I'm saving money lol between building the coop 100 buck water food feeders probably in 200 total before I got 1 egg but I really do enjoy them. I don't have any spiders or bugs in the yard and they are pretty funny.
Congrats on the new chickens. I definitely don’t profit off of my egg layers either. I can’t imagine our place without them now. Thanks for watching.
Could you label the bags before putting the chicken in? It might help the label adhere to the bag a little better.
I had never thought about that before you and another person mentioned it. As cheap as they are, I do plan to give that a try next time I process. Hoping it works because that would be so much easier. Thanks for the suggestions.
How is chicken cheap when President Biden is making sure the prices stay high?
Save money by breeding your own chicken to not spend money each generation and grow feed.
Nice breakdown of the costs. I bet the areas where the chickens were at looked mighty green after you got all that rain. The next challenge would be having enough freezer space to hold all of the frozen chicken but that comes down to proper planning more than anything. :)
Freezer space is definitely something to plan for. We eventually purchased a second freezer as we continued to increase the amount we raise. Thankfully we got an upright freezer for the second one. It’s so much easier to access food in versus our deep freeze
I'm getting dual purpose chickens to process a few annually and may consider meat birds in the future. Your processing equipment should be added in at a 4-5 year replacement cost or 20-25% each year. Another reason to eat your own is the animal welfare in commercial chicken houses, its disgusting.
Thanks for providing some insight. Our #1 reason is for the quality and then for animal welfare. Cost really isn’t at the top but is often asked by people
Why didn't you answer that childs question at around the 4:13 time?
I think most people are just wondering why chickens when they are so cheap and why not other poultry such as ducks or pheasants quails etc?
For me I just personally enjoy chicken and pork the best which is why my set up works well for me. I've had the others such as duck and quail but for me I just didn't care for them as much.
Yes it cost some to get set up but you have to look at the long trum years down the road is better for you and your family and there family.
I been raising chickens my entire life ever since my parents started farming. Raising chicken keeps me up and motivated. Watching a baby chicken grow up into proper size to harvest is good for your money given how much cost of living is rising so fast in the USA. However recently I been wanting to grow some chickens to help me fertilize my backyard with their poop so I can grow some crops in the future. LOL.
That poo sure gets the job done. Our ground isn’t very good here, but I ran my egg layer hens at what ended up becoming my garden for 2 years. We’ve done well with our garden and I think they had a lot to do with that.
don't eat meat.
Oh man, I couldn’t ever do that.
Where do you get the custom labels from?
You have to also factor in your labor because your time is worth money. Either way, you're food-independent and that can be worth more than gold!
Independence and better quality is always the most important. Thanks for watching