Do You Make LOTS of MONEY Selling Backyard Chicken Eggs?
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- Selling backyard chicken eggs for profit? Depending on how many chickens you have on your homestead will determine how much money you can make from backyard chicken farm fresh eggs.
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It's our first year out, we have less than a dozen layers. The idea for us isn't to get rich. But we save all the egg money for chicken feed and supplies. We charge the same as standard eggs in the store. So far our chickens are feeding themselves and giving us eggs at no cost. So win win. I don't count our labour though and some people will I'm sure. For us it's all about self sustainability.
Yes, that’s the best way to do it, make money back that you can put back into the chickens!
I really start doing this with my extra eggs
Yes that's our ambition as well. If we can just break even we consider that a win!
Several things I could add. Hens really drop off egg production after their second year. If you're feeding hens that are 3-3 1/2 old, your just feeding pets. If you want to have self-sustaining flocks, you can hybridize with a different breed rooster, but it is important to get a new rooster every year to avoid inbreeding. Keeping a purebred flock is not a necessity. Buying hybrid egg layers will ensure the most eggs but DO NOT keep a rooster of the group for breeding. Putting an LED bulb on a timer in the coop when days get shorter will keep production high in winter. Set timer to come on in early morning (approx. 3:30) and to go off at daylight so that they have 14 hrs of light. Been keeping and breeding chickens most of my 71 yrs. Like to help other people who are just learning about them.
Great information! Just starting out here and need ideas how or where to sell our extra eggs. Also how to sell the extra roosters.
@@guyhickson7332 There is a large Hispanic population in my area. They come by regularly to see if I have roosters for sale. They use them to make tamales (which they sell). Other foreign people in your area can also be a market for ready-to -butcher roosters. Eggs go to friends, neighbors, family, and coworkers. Don't be afraid to ask top price. If you're selling fresh eggs, they deserve top price.
My hubby amd I are going to start a small scale hatchery next spring with 5 different breeds of chickens. Any advice?
@@issuesthatmatter2825 If you have never hatched chickens before, then I can only say first thing is to buy your incubator of whatever size you want. No, first decide how many chicks you want to hatch. You see, there are many choices to be made, even if you have hatched eggs before. Make those choices based on your experience and information gathered here on TH-cam. I would say the first decision is what breeds you're going to produce, whether for fun or production. Big difference! Feel free to contact me if you are seeking more info from me, personally.
@@ronatwell5379 Who are you LOL.........I think you need a channell
Had 19 hens, 1 rooster. I now have 20 adult chickens and now have 10 chicks. Definitely not getting rich but certainly made enough money to cover the cost of feed and thus our family gets free eggs. We got 17 eggs yesterday.
I like that turf idea. Had no idea theyd go for that. Saves having to restock new nesting materials
We have about 30 hens. Any extra eggs are traded at a larger farm store in the area for veggies we are not growing. We have enough people wanting healthy foods in our town the eggs go fast at the store. We also have a goose who has laid about 40 eggs so far this fall. We are doing what you are talking about with milk, garden, fruit trees, and such. You are on the right tract. Great to find your channel and cheer you forward.
Thanks for the kind words! We are trying our best and would love to focus and start our business
I love to hear that some people still understand how to barter for goods. We did that a lot back in the day
The bumpy shells usually come from stressed hens, or if they have a defective shell gland. Mine laid bumpy eggs when they had respiratory problems caused by bronchitis. Watery whites typical of older hens can also be an issue, you can still eat the egg.
I have always found that egg production pays for itself and a little more. The real profit with layer hens is in the work they do and the manure they make. I have a henhouse on a trailer which I move all around the farm. I use portable electric fence netting, although I never use the electricity, I surround an area with the coop in it and use the chickens to weed and eat bugs inside the corral. It is a great way to start a new garden or tend an apple tree or an asparagus patch etc.
So many chicken raisers forget the value of the compost for growing a productive garden
Does it work? I will use this year I have chickens
Thanks for the informative video!
We started a farm in Indonesia. We have about 30 hens and 8 roosters. Currently now we get around a dozen eggs per day, and we sell them at $5/dozen. Feed cost is about $1/day. So we’re making profit $4 per day.
We’re able to reduce feed cost significantly by free ranging our chickens in the tropical forest. Lots of bugs and grubs.
We’re also hatching more chicks this year due to increasing demand for eggs.
Kalau boleh tau keep jenis apa mas?
My parents sell in a largish city in NC, and they make $8 per dozen. They sold 96 dozen eggs last week! They feed them non GMO feed, and they're pasture raised. They were going for $6-7 even when egg prices were more normal. Last week the other farmers said they needed to go up to $8. No one minded it.
damn i sell my eggies for 5 bucks to my large family and same non gmo pasture raised
@@joea6234 The area their farmer's market is in is a richer area. They get prices that just 45 minutes away in my town things would never sell for. I'm glad for them though. Caring for as many animals as they do and keeping up the farm is very time consuming and expensive when doing it on a large scale. If they don't get a high enough price, why spend their lives growing other people's food. They can do their own work if they aren't willing to pay for it. I'm trying to get started in selling chicks and eggs, and it's already cost me roughly $1000. It's not cheap buying lumber for enough pens, feeders and waterers, good stock to start with, etc. I probably won't bring any profit for several years, and by then my coops will probably need some repairs, and my incubators may not work. I hope they do, but either way, it's expensive to start farming!!
@@frugalmomofmany no yea all the power to them lol i wish i lived in a richer area, I do it as a side gig
96 dozen? Is that a lot of chickens because that's definitely a lot of eggs
@@AdAstraLabs yeah. I'm not sure how many chickens they have, but it's a lot. They farm with my brother and sell at two different markets. They work all the time!
We get $5 a dozen for ours here but they are organic. We break even. When I had more chickens I made a profit but we are on a smaller plot of land now. Odd shaped eggs are normal in young hens or molting hens.
Thanks for the insight!
We sell eggs $8 a dozen that's what they pay here in erath Louisiana and it cost $17 a week to feed 9 laying chickens getting about 14 eggs every other day
Four dollars! It’s $7 in Oregon for farm fresh organic eggs!
I bet in a major city where I work I could sell them around that price
Here around Camas, Washington, farmers are selling eggs between $4.00 up to $6.50 a dz. I been selling mine by the size of the eggs instead of giving random sizes in the dz egg cartons. Ex large $5.00 Large $4.75 medium $4.50 so it just depends who you buy your eggs from.
I noticed at the Walmart the other day they had large organic eggs $8.58 and that really surprised me the egg prices were that high in the stores!
At the price I’m selling egg , I’m far from even breaking even. Definitely loosing money every month. But I buy my chickens the very best feed I can find regardless of the cost and even with the chickens free ranging from sun up to sun down they still go thru about $275.00 a month in feed alone. Sometimes higher when I buy the chickens meal worms or soldier flies, etc. They get a little apple cider vinegar in their water once a week along with other minerals and vitamins now and then trying to make sure the chicken stay healthy and strong. I probably spoil my chickens more than other farmers raising chickens? But I never intended to make a profit selling my eggs anyway. Selling eggs hopefully offsetting the full cost of raising the chickens is good enough for me.
I don’t think most people understand how much cost goes into raising chickens unless their raising chickens themselves! Like many things people do or make, the time and effort they put out with whatever their doing ? If they were expecting a normal wage for their time, they often not even be getting minimum wages! That’s also why some people have learned not to build or make things till they have special orders for an item first. Simply cause once it’s made everyone wants it for practicality nothing! Custom orders the only way in many cases a builder or whatever being made can turn a profit!
So I suppose I’ll have to train my chickens to only lay eggs after someone makes a order for eggs! 😂
I have noticed now a few different times where Walmart at least had absolutely no egg’s whatsoever on their shelves. I don’t know how long the shelves set empty though?
I personally try to not take on more customers than I can supply eggs for. Rather not have to turn existing customers away not having eggs for them. But if I see other people wanting eggs then I’ll add to my folk where my chickens hopefully will lay more eggs. I started with eggs only 8 chickens and now up to 44 chickens and the flock been growing every year for the last 4 years!
Eventually hoping to grow more fruit frees and vegetables to help come closer to breaking even. Again not trying to make a profit, I be happy just covering my overhead costs!
@@ghostridergale Wow! I understand about the cost. I spoil my 2 chickens who are not laying for the winter. 😳 I buy organic ingredients at Bob’s Red Mill or Natural Grocers and make my own because every time you buy 20lb feed sack it’s $60. Plus grubs, grit, oyster shell, bedding…unfortunately my girls turn their noses up at vegetables.
I need to try soaking grains again. They didn’t like it last time.
Around here eggs in the grocery store are around $5 a dozen. Local farmers are selling them for $5 to $6 a dozen. I haven't bought eggs from the store in ages. I wish I could go back to raising my own eggs, but my situation makes it very difficult. So, I buy from our local farmers instead.
That’s like $10 now
As long as the money covers the feed and we have eggs for the family, I'm happy. Plus you get compost which is a big bonus.
I do not sell my eggs, I do however give them away. To family and friends, some neighbors. My chickens (have 35, 2 of those are special needs) are a joy and I do not want It to become a job. Plus, I don't want to deal with issues come along with selling eggs or chickens. 😃
Yeah we give away quite a bit, it’s nice to help out!
I agree
you right but you need to buy feed for chickens and it's not fun. it's sucks!
That’s exactly what we do. We have a pastor at the church who adopted five special children and have two of their own and they have special needs and use 12 dozen eggs a week so we help them out by just giving our eggs to them.
The only problem with giving them away to family and friends is that they come to expect and depend on it, and then it becomes work. And then you're just working for free
I want to get some silkies. Not for the eggs, but to have as garden pets. I love your chicken coop. It's the most unique one that I have seen so far and it looks able to keep out predators. Great information given and such a great idea using the turf. A lot to think about for when I get my own!!! Thanks💜🐣💜
My kids got silkies and we loved them, let me warn you they have many predators, I wish I knew - even during the day they would disappear;(
The bumpy egg.... Idk but Doug and Stacy just put a recent video out about the toxic feed from tractor supply (and whatever other black label the feed company sends it to) and that the chickens are not laying because of it
I get about a dozen eggs a day from my hens I give them to my brothers family and several neighbors. Several of the neighbors think about me when they are baking and make me pies and cakes another gives me some of his honey I prefer that over cash. Didn't set out to trade eggs just had eggs to spare and started gifting them.
From Google
As a hen ages, the whites (or albumen) in their eggs naturally gets thinner, and since it's more difficult for the shell to encase a watery substance, the shell can end up with bumps and ridges. Heat stress can also cause a wrinkled egg surface, as can poor overall nutrition, or a defective shell gland
We have close to 50 chickens, guinea fowls, ducks. Some of them are boys of course. We feed our birds with organic food only and we let our son to sell the extra eggs in the neighbourhood for years now. He can keep the money that he makes, as we don't do pocket money. Even if that money would be put back into feeding our chickens, we would still not make enough to feed them. Especially not in winter. We don't keep chickens because we want to make a profit. We do it because we enjoy keeping them, we enjoy their mega healthy, organic and free range eggs, we also enjoy their meat. We enjoy when the eggs are hatching. And we absolutely enjoy the fact that egg selling make our son to work and earn his little money since age 6. He delivers the eggs to his customers in the mornings, chats with the people and handles the money. Very good for him and the neighbourhood. It also makes us feel great to we know that our neighbours eat mega healthy and fresh eggs. Surely these amazing eggs helps them to stay healthy. 🤗🤗🤗 Keeping chickens is like the best ever stress relief, or like meditation. It is simply fantastic. So good for you. It is worth it, even if it does not make you rich.
Feed them egg shells too, great value in the shell. Numerous reasons for a bumpy egg; excess phosphorus, age, heat, infection, etc.
are they ok to eat?
@@whoahorseywhoa4685 I wouldn't eat them. You just need to figure out what they are lacking.
@@tleereece7942 I meant for the dog
In the sixties my grandparents sold egg from their Rhode Island Red hens and delivered them weekly to customers. They used and recycled gray pasteboard egg cartons.
That’s awesome! Love hearing these stories
I’ve been thinking of selling some of my chicken eggs recently but I’m definitely going to wait to buy more chickens. In the meantime I’ve been using the egg shells of eggs we used as fertilizer for all my plants and it’s great !
Enjoyed the video. Informative, & very consistent with our experience, too! Thanks so much for a great & accurate video. God bless y'all!
Glad it was helpful!
Good sir, there is no such thing as "too many" when doing chicken math! Thanks for the video.
Don't forget to feed those animals. The shells also. My dogs get raw eggs and I run the shells through a coffee grinder. I only do that because my dogs don't eat the shells very well if I don't run them through a grinder but the shells are very good for the dogs. I will also feed the shells back to the chickens too.
Don’t know if you’re putting your egg shells in the oven cooking them to kill all the bacteria that’s in the egg shells? If not, you’re risking both your dogs and chickens getting salmonella and possibly other sickness? I didn’t know myself to cook the egg shells at first. Luckily none of my chickens got sick before I learned and always bake the egg shells now. We grind our shells up in a Ninja processor that’s used strictly for the chicken and keep the vita mix for our own uses.
Don’t forget to give your chickens Oysters shells and grit ( tiny granite pebble) too! I have all the different calcium materials in separate feed containers from their feed and let the chickens decide which ones they want to eat?
If your chickens haven’t started to molt yet? Be sure to give your chickens a little extra protein that helps the chickens grow their feathers back.
Many things I didn’t know when I first started raising chickens, I learned as I went along with reading as much as I could online. Problem with using the internet for information is everyone has a different opinion what you should or shouldn’t do. Then of course some just give bad advice on purpose just for their own kicks I guess? Got to be careful what you read? Not everyone giving advice has your best interest at heart! If numerous people give the same advice I’m hoping it’s good advice to follow!
@@ghostridergale I wash the egg before I crack it for the dogs. I've been doing this for 18 years and had no issues. I feed all my chickens, grower feed from the minute I get them. They have oyster shell on the side. so they molt very quickly, and not very heavily because of the extra protein, and they have hard shells because of the calcium they get. Chickens are tough. People get all fancy with them but you don't have to. I happen to ferment their feed most of the time. Some people think that's great. Some people think it's worthless, but I choose to do it. We all do for our chickens what works. My dogs and cats have been on a raw diet for over 18 years and they have never had issues with it.
I have a dehydrator and you can scramble your eggs. Put them on a tray in the dehydrator and dehydrate them and then grind them into powder. Then seal them in a jar
what do you do with them dehydrated? just reconstitute when ready to use? and what kinds of things would you use them in then? thanks!
Great video and really good advice. I've done the math and figured out there is little to no profit selling chicken eggs.
Those lumps or bumps on your eggs are usually calcium deposits. It might be that you are feeding your hens too many supplements.
I give my chickens a few different choices of calcium products in separate containers and let the chickens pick which calcium they want to eat? Crushed Oyster shells, baked crushed egg shells, and usually another calcium supplement that is in 3 different containers.
I’ve read not to mix calcium in with their feed, cause chickens may accidentally eat too much calcium in with their feed? Figure if the chickens don’t want/need it, they won’t go out of their way to eat it? But I do get some eggs now and then that have calcium deposits on their egg shells. Not very often though! Least the egg shells are good and strong! Hate when I get a really thin egg shell that it breaks just trying to pick it up! Fortunately I don’t get those very often. I think I get them soft egg shells many times when a chicken just starts laying eggs for the first time. Along with tiny eggs that I refer to as egg farts! 😂 I have many different breeds so I get all kinds of different shapes, colors, and sizes of eggs too!
Since my chickens free range sun up to sun down and I have roosters too. The hens also hide at times and lay on eggs around the 5 acres in different places till their eggs hatch. Always a surprise when a hen shows up with 3-13 baby chick following behind the hen!
I have a couple that are laying eggs with the same bumps. I don't use any additional supplements. I don't know if it's the same chicken every time either.
Raise chicks and sell them. You have to diversify, or you are right, zero profit or at a loss.
Hi ,
Your realistic view and suggests are highly appreciated .It will help me alot in my project at home!
Many thanks!
Great advice, luv your channel; real life stuff. 🤓
I appreciate that and you for watching!
Laws on selling your own chicken eggs vary by State. South Carolina.
Eggs can be sold from the farm or place where they’re gathered without any further regulation.
Eggs sold to other businesses or at locations other than where they’re produced, must be washed, graded, sized and properly labeled.
An Egg License from the SC Department of Agriculture is required.
That is true!
Making your own chicken feed can save you a substantial amount of money, especially if you fermentation or even better SPROUT the grains and seed you're giving them! There's lots of videos about it.
In California $18.99 for 18 pack of organic free range eggs. I personally have 13 hens, 1 special needs and 3 roosters. I’ve been giving our extra eggs away to family and neighbors but I’m toying with the idea of selling my eggs just to cover feed and bedding costs.
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Nothing wrong with making a profit, not just to break even. Giving away free eggs is not a smart thing to do.
Great video, thank you for the real insider’s view :). Eggs is a great source of omega-3 fatty acids, vit. B, lecithin, exceptional protein and many more very important nutrients for our body.
We used to sell eggs, more hassle than it was worth. We ended up scrambling the extras and feeding them to our dogs
The egg is ribbed for her pleasure 😂
Thanks for the insight and all of the helpful information that you share! ❤
No problem Diana! Thank you for watching and commenting, we appreciate that a lot!
Okay I just literally laughed out loud
Bahahaha!!! This is GOLD, girl! 😆
😂
Too silly.
I got 140 birds now with molt and time change I get 48ish large-jumbo eggs day. I sell for $5 dozen on large-jumbo. $3 on medium 18 packs. I sell out sometimes wife has no eggs. I go thru 50 pounds of food day. Time and materials to build coops. Oyster shells profit takes while. Plus egg cartons I buy online 500 at time comes out to .40 cents Sometimes I reuse cartons if I get them back. Good video brother
I am buying eggs $1 each from our friends that have their own backyard chickens. I am willing to pay these money because I know that these eggs are a nutritionally packed food that will help my body to function good and to avoid paying for pills to Pharma. I am doing Keto with IF and I eat 4-5 eggs daily.
Wow 😯 12 dollars a dozen! No thanks!😂
So helpful and realistic thank you! 🙏🏽
Glad it was helpful!
I just wanted to answer your question about the eggs spirals like that. I have to do with your calcium, they're either running too rich or they don't have enough. Also that's the reason why you can use eggshells as a fertilizer in your garden.
If that hen went through molt and took a break from laying a while, sometime the eggs are weird at first. If it doesnt get better, she may have some kind of blockage in her duct, but I wouldnt worry yet. Take care.
Thanks for the tips Jason!
I paid $6.89 for 18 extra-large eggs at the grocery store last night. I sure wish I lived in the country, but down in these parts, (South Texas, (USA) San Antonio metro) we received less than 12' of rain last year.
That is just crazy!
$8.29 for 18 eggs at Wal-Mart and those are not organic! (Virginia). Still building my coop, hope to finish soon.
Damn dude, hit me up. I'm between uvalde and del rio. I've sold pretty well to folks in San antonio
Thank God my chickens malted a few weeks ago. It is 3° here tonight and there's snow on the ground. And it's going to be much colder the next couple days. I always feel bad for the chickens that are molting during the winter. I have to go out and collect eggs two or three times a day right now or they will freeze.
That last egg looks like a dummy wood egg. We use golf balls instead. Works the same. We love our chickens and ducks. 😊
You probably need 150 to 300 chickens and get $4 to $5 a dozen to make money plus you need to replace layers after 2 yrs to keep your production up plus if you can grow your own corn oats wheat and soybeans as well as black oil sunflowers to feed them you could probably make a good profit especially if you use there manure to fertilize their feed
to me chickens are a hobby of love with a healthy kick they give you great mental health. time to just unwind to set and watch them then the eggs super good protein plus good cholesterol. so win win sometimes peace of mined and body coast just a little. family and friends are happy to
Such incredible animals. You give them leftovers and they give you all the eggs you could ever want. Our sweethearts give us 4-5 eggs a day for our family of 5. Doesn't sound like a lot, but its 150 eggs a month!
calcium deposits
Sometimes hens may lay eggs that appear rough or bumpy to the touch. They may look like they have deposits on the shells. These lumps or bumps are usually calcium deposits and may indicate that you are over supplementing your hens.
The big money comes from selling the layers at $40 per bird at 6 months and food source being mostly from free ranging the birds. We just started raising goats as well on our homestead and they are great for the milk butter and cheese but over all are a royal pain in the ass
Fermented feed is cost effective and beneficial for your flock for digestion
If there is debris of any kind in the oviduct as the shell is being formed, calcium can be released to enclose that debris. That will result in rough patches or bumps on the shell. More common in older hens, they can also be the result of improper nutrition. Google'd it LOL.........bumpy ring around chicken egg shell
Finally getting some chickens this year, I eat about 8 every morning for breakfast so it gets pricey
The bumpy eggs is from too much calcium in thier diet or over crowding and from what I can tell you don't have a overcrowding issue so check your feed it may have a higher calcium content.
You can also preserve the eggs with the water glass method
Sometimes when a Chicken or two starts laying eggs they have noticable irregularities on the shell, but they seem to go away. At least that's what I've experienced with my Hens. God Bless You & Your Family & Homestead Animals 🙏✝️🙏
Just a hunch but the chicken with the twisted egg might be because the intestinal tube may be twisted at a curtain point in her process of developing. If she's laying daily I won't worry about it. Don't mind keeping the odd ones for myself
As a kid my mother had 10 chickens and we collected the eggs after school one 9f the chicken laid the egg either my pillow or my brother pillow, my mother had reservals egg made out of stone to leave at the nest this way the chickens alway went to that nest
Tr8ed it to see if it work for you.
It is that bumpy because the hen is low on calcium. If you give them calcium once a week it will be good for them.
Thank you!
I made enough selling eggs to cover the feed cost, and have some eggs left over for our household to always have them available after selling all we can.
That is awesome!
Great video. Realistic perspective on things. Farming seems like hard work that pays off eventually. Moreover, in differing revenue streams. Im game... no pun intended.
Hard work but it’s fun once you start getting the hang of it!
Well, if you have a flock of 32 hens and 8 roosters (40 total), you will end up with approx 30 eggs/day depending on the breed. For example, I don't expect a hen to lay an egg 365 days per year, due to molting, etc. However, great producers like ISA browns, or RIR do lay close to 300 eggs /year. Even those who lay around 270 eggs/yr are providing you almost an egg every 5 days/week or about 250 eggs /yr conservatively. Do I make a profit on eggs? No. I share with our church due to inflation to elderly folks, and those with kids. Its the right thing, even if feed increases, I am still provided for as they do chip in to help me with my needs as well. Its a win win.
You're such a humanitarian.
Have you tried fermenting that grain chicken feed you're buying can actually increase the amount of food you get the chickens like a more
I know it would be expensive but invest in a freeze dryer that way you can store your extra eggs.
We would love one! We are going to look into a good freeze dryer next year
My sister just purchased a freeze-dryer. We plan to freeze-dry our extra eggs. Of course, it's going to take a long time to off-set the cost. Best.
They're only like $3,000. Not worth it.
Bumpy eggs usually mean just extra calcium in their bodies. Not an issue 😊
I see synthetic grass in the nesting boxes. How's that working out? How's clean up? Does it get too hot in the summer? Don't know if you have a video addressing this already. Thanks. Have a great day.
Should of watched the whole video for cleanup, lol
Glad it was answered for you!
Chicken math is real, it's supposed to be 1🐔+1🐔=5🐔.
My husband did common core chicken math, I got 14 for eggs he got 129 🤯🤷♀️.
Gotta have one half of the relationship try to talk the other one down all the time from getting more ! Haha
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Nice beautyful video with lovely music 😊😊😊
My ultimate goal is to get free eggs for my family. 25 birds, sell 5 dozen to cover feed and the rest are free. Sounds good on paper lmao we shall see if it plays out that way.
I just give my extra eggs to friends family and of course my awesome neighbours ❤
In my area people don't buy farm eggs. 1. It's weird to know where your food comes from. 2. They're cheaper at the grocery store. I only charge $4.50 here in Western PA United States. But for whatever reason they feel it's safer and cheaper to get them from the grocery store.
Crazy...as soon as they hear that their friends are buying backyard eggs then that's what they will want.
They don't know what they are missing, that golden yolk so tasty !
Fertile eggs are going for 25 to 35 dollars a dozen online. People wanting them to hatch🐣🐤
Definitely more profit than selling eggs. Better yet, sell eggs to hatch and to eat. It's pretty crazy because you can wash fertile eggs and they won't hatch, then sell them to eat. You don't want to sell fertile eggs for the same price as eggs to eat.
Hi I'm getting breeding stock to cross breed good egg layers and hatch out some heritage breeds and cross them for a barn yard chicken....that will also be good free range breeds also .. i have rural property and plan on seeding meadows with forage foods berries grasses grains fruit and nuts and a vegetable garden for my family. And chicken's like black berries and green briar . .I also use wild edible plants that grow readily like lambs quarter.. a thorn patch area also gives them cover to hide from hawks ETC other seeds good to plant chicory , flax , chia ox eye daisy ,all heal and dames Rocket that's in the mustard family...some clover and alpha. But first to have something growing winter rye ...for the cold months...and some bug lights but low enough so they can clean and eat the bugs and have a photo switch to cut it off during the day ...also looking into raising crickets , soldiers fly's and meal worms and worms for composting and feed for the chickens use everything...put the maure from the chickens back into the soil and the number of chickens depends on what is needed to have a balanced eco system...so too many is not good and too little is not good so to gradually hatch and keep select laying hens is imperative to getting. The right balance and being profitable. .by growing the food you feed your chickens. Cutting and storing hay and grain for winter ...and improvising to find methods that work and are sustainable....like you did refeeding eggs to your flock .. now the strange shaped eggs I suspect are maybe in the diet but if only a few hens are laying those eggs could also be genetics and not use those to sell or hatch out those eggs less you want more hen's laying those kind of eggs... I've had some hens lay eggs with sharp bumps the sometimes would cause the hen's to bleed from these bumps...... This is why commerical laying breeds like the white leghorn have nice uniform eggs is they only hatch the hens eggs that are the best ..and the same when gathering seed to replant...or breeding livestock use only the best to propagate with ! Hope that info is helpful ,.wish me luck ! Happy Farming!
Or you could just get a rooster and start selling hatching eggs there's a huge market right now for the backyard flock a lot of these major chicken hatcheries lost a lot of their breeders we need to be sharing each other's genetics there's a huge market for hatching eggs on social media right now.
We have heard that, we might try that more this year and see how it goes
Stressed and/or older hens will have more watery albumen, which is harder for the shell to encase. If de-crowding the problem hen doesn't resolve it, she is simply past her prime.
On the business side, if you sell eggs, you should also start a business as a LLC. You need to have INSURANCE! If someone gets sick and accuses you of selling a bad egg you can get sued and lose everything. Be smart out there!
We did start one just incase, plus for TH-cam we had to anyways
Nope. At least not here in texas, you aren't liable if they get sick, but your cartons need to have a warning and safe handling and cooking instructions on them to sell
@@jamestomlin5525 Like anyone would go to the doctors to test to see if your eggs made them sick.
My kids eat half a dozen eggs a day lol we love them and go through over a dozen a day sometimes.
man this is beautiful.
It all depends on feed prices and free range areas
The bumps/ ripples in the eggshells has to do with too much calcium in their diet. No problem to the bird it’ll just make stronger eggshells that break less or pop open when boiling them.
Question Where did you find the nesting box on your coop?
You can find way to make your feed more economical by looking for cheaper or next
to nothing ways to keep
chickens.
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I’m turn my 8 chickens in a little business for my daughter and now i have 18 and plan to add minimum 20 more maybe up to 50 this is my plan 😂. Is start like that I SALE ORGANIC EGGS
6🥚for 3£ or 12🥚for 5£ with home delivery no more far then 3 miles and is work . Now i have to many subscribers buy weekly eggs for me but not to many chickens , soon i will make happy all my subscribers . Is not big money but this chicken buy toys for my daughter 🙃
I'm not 100% for sure but an egg that looks like that I would think it would be time to start making sure they're getting their calcium a bigger dose of it maybe put some oyster shells out
Thanks for that tip!
@@AcresOfAdventure one other thing I just thought of is Newcastle disease can cause that keep an eye out for weird colors of green in your chicken poop and if you have Newcastle they'll be a good chance you have the chicken cold also this is something you might want to research even though I don't think this is your problem I know one of the warning signs is eggs that look like that.
any weird eggs with bumps or stuff like that is due to a calcium deficiency. Give them oyster shells to help alleviate having eggs that are deformed.
Hi Tom. Can you tell me where you got that nesting box? We only have 3 free chicks(2 pullets, 1 rooster right now, we do plan on more. I want to raise Cemani chicks for sale locally. I do need a good nesting box and it rains a lot in the PNW. Thanks for time and teaching this grandmother a thing or two. Wish I was young again.😅
I've tried searching for these nesting boxes online and cannot find them anywhere. We had a local guy in MI make our coop and it came with it.
Hatching chick's and selling them is a great way to make some extra cash.
Ordered a turf mat from Amazon. Thanks.
Where did you get your astroturff? What length is it?
Thank you brother!
$3/dz. is simply either undercharging or that's just your local market.
We might, might break even. We have 60 chickens & ducks combined. Everyone is free range and try to give them as little feed as possible or they get lazy and just want feed. Lol. Feed is expensive!! Cartons are expensive! We charge $5 a dozen. In the summer we'll get 10 dozen a day.
Where did you get your nesting boxes??
Pigs don’t require cooked eggs. However, I’ve been cracking them into pails and serving them . I noticed you threw the whole raw egg including shells to pigs. Does that work? It would save me a step
They will eat them raw no problem!
So nice. Here in my country I makev a diferent way
Amazing work
How many people have done this ❤
Understanding you live in MIchigan. I live about 20 miles North of Flint. If you don't mind, could you tell me the area of Michigan you are in please?
These eggs have a very rough, corrugated-looking surface. This happens during plumping, the process where nutrient rich fluids are pumped into membrane-covered eggs before the shell is laid over the shell membrane. When plumping is not controlled properly and terminates before the process is completed, corrugated eggs result. This abnormality is more common in older hens but can be seen in younger birds. Heat stress, salty water, poor nutrition, and mycotoxin contaminated diets all can cause corrugated eggs. Depending on the severity of the roughness in these eggs, they may be downgraded to Grade B because of eggshell quality.
older hens often lay bumpy eggs ,she could have Reproductive illness ,good and daily layers often do,it’s one of biggest killers of your older daily laying hens ,hens like Lohmann browns ) french purchased many and called them ISA ISA are in fact really Lohmann Browns ,and the assorted other hybrids that lay daily ,I usually get contraceptive implants for my older hens ,they are still great flock members they teach younger hens and are often one of top hens keeping peace in the flock ,hybrids live an average of 5 years ,I don’t resent them they have been great layers and deserve a free from laying retirement .
My family had chickens when I was little and none of them were that clean freshly laid, they have crap and feathers on them