How To Make Money Raising Egg Laying Chickens

Saving money and earning money from chickens is not always easy. We have discussed in past episodes of the podcast how it can be challenging to make money from egg laying chickens. But in this video I present a new idea for earning a nice income from your flock.

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[onlineoffgrid]

We bought 50 chicks 🐣
Sold 20 at point of lay
and keep 30 for ourselves and have regular customers for our eggs
We have lost a couple of hens along the way but are certainly in profit
Chickens are a nice way to start on the homestead not too much out lay at the start and if nothing else you at least get free daily fresh eggs

[HumanityAwakenZ]

The biggest cost with raising chickens is feed. You can cut your feed down by 3/4 conservatively. Look up composting chickens and black fly larvae. Integrating those two system not only cuts your cost but helps make more money with the other two products and your chickens will have a more diversity of food and extra protein. Hence healthier chickens

[JaredHempfield]

If you supplement them with hemp seed they will go crazy for it and the omegas transfer into darker yolks. Seeing not enough people know the benefits of eating hemp seed you can find it on clearance a lot. Great video and good idea.

[purple_leaf]

we have a large family, started with idea of 16 (after initial 6-9) and we had so many customers begging for eggs, we now are at 26. ~~20eggs a day. not all lay yet. we sell and use what's leftover. customers are more important to keep coming and happy:) thx for great video

[isabelladelatorre]

Perfect! I'm buying 20 chicks! Yes I have a lot of experience I have been raising chickens since I was 10 I'm 13 now.

[cindimitchell]

I bought 10 chicks at 3.50 each. Have been feeding them for 8 months. They are just now producing small eggs. About 2 months ago I bought 20 chickens at point of lay for 4.50 each and was producing 15 to 20 eggs a day from the first day. In my estimation, it was much cheaper to buy chickens for 1.00 more each than to feed them for 8 months without anything to show for it. I am getting 1.5 to 2 dozen per day and selling the eggs (Jumbo's) at 4.00 per dozen

[sarelswart]

Plant a couple of Moringa trees to feed your chicken and double your production of eggs...

[jjsmama]

We only have 4 hens right now and we get a dozen eggs a week. It's great! I have heard fermenting feed is a great way to reduce your feed cost and it keeps the chickens healthy.

[donnmann]

Use a worm bin to grow worms, do black soldier fly bin, grow sun flowers also well. Build compost piles in the run to bring bugs in. Mix all those together and your feed cost will be almost nothing then selling eggs would be pure profit. Just my way to do it. I do like the raise to laying. I might do that next year!

[fdorsey]

Love this, we have had a small flock in the city for 10yrs, moved to a 30acre farm and crunched some numbers, and realized that eggs do not make money when you factor in the feed cost.

[brendajohnson]

I love this idea. Thank you. We have had 20 chickens for a year for ourselves. My husband decided to try it for profit so we are upping the amount. I brought by breed. We have 91 chickens and an incubator a brooder box and a nursery. The teens graduate to a coop and the adults have a camper trailer turned into a coop for room and growth of course. We are bo longer buying chickens. We hatch 42 chickens at a time. That's where your idea is going to benefit us I think. I ferment the chicken food. These are very exciting ideas. Thanks again, so much.

[littlewillowhomestead]

After watching this video we did this late last winter early spring.. we never kept the chickens past 12 weeks we did a few breeds but the most sought after were Easter eggers they sold first.. second were the barred rocks, which surprised me.. I ordered 65 chicks and sold 3/4 of them.. it was profitable.. we are going to breed, hatch and sell a few rare breeds including Easter eggers, this next season.. 😬 I pray it goes as planned.. we also plan on selling rainbow hatching eggs in the future as we now hv Easter eggers, black copper Marans, welsummers, whiting true green and whiting true blues.. just need a couple more roosters 😊 Thank you for helping our family make a little money..

[Lizzard]

Remember to supplement your chickens from all other aspects of your farm. The biggest cost is food so we pull from the garden, kitchen left overs, grass clippings, extra dairy, and we pasture them and let them devour all the grass they can eat. Also taking the time to do fodder can triple the output of your grain feed.

[MrRobbieDanger]

I've stumbled upon your podcast and YouTube channel in the same day completely by chance. I'm enjoying the content.

[LGroh]

We boost our egg income by having a fertile house (our original house which we've outgrown) those eggs are $2.00 each! We also mix our own grain mix( whole grains are cheap) and use garden waste, mustard greens grow very well here, you can only eat and sell so much! Another thing I do is keep an eye out for fodder crop deals, usually after hunting season, they are awesome for the chickens. They love the sprouts!

[sweetheartsmom]

Here is what I have run in to at work; Everyone I work with talked big about wanting farm fresh eggs; However when I actually began to bring eggs to work, they seemed horrified; they are brown??? Did I wash them well with bleach?? You are charging $3 a dozen??? I can buy eggs at Wally World for $1! Really you didn't wash these in bleach yet? how can you eat them then? OMG there is something wrong with them! the yolks are orange!!!

[hb]

I shared this video with a friend. We loved your honesty, and adorable little girl

[mita]

hey, I purchased my birds from the red barn in Long island NY for 19 cents a piece in Easter and purchased one bag of feed...it's been 2 yrs and they lay alot of eggs I feed them extra bread, veggies from the garden, sunflower seeds, oats mostly left overs like rice, beans, potatoes and I sprout beans in the winter for about 79 cents per bag, I've made money selling eggs cause I supliment the feed with other types of food I just purchased 8 acres this year so next year I'm gonna try raising about 40 hens along with having a rooster so they can produce fertile eggs and I won't have to buy them anymore...free hens...more money made...I buy one bag about every 6 months. hope this helps.

[heyphilphil]

If you are in a urban setting if you get your food from free food scraps from grocery stores etc and purchase more than half your flock as Easter Eggers and olive Eggers (about 25-50 hens lay decent), save the eggs for a Friday egg sale.... you can charge $8+ a dozen for green eggs to Ritzy whole foods urban moms. Having a egg sale on Fridays or whatever day....holds back the product enough to have a lil egg sale and create a feeling that people have to go to you on a certain day otherwise they won't get them.... And alot of the times people will sign up for a waiting list. I can't keep green eggs on the shelf. And in the end your sales can pay for their feed....if it's not that profitable certain months...and saved money is made money in my eyes.

I worked on a small farm in California in a urban city and urbanites would line up for fresh backyard eggs. So there is a business At least a small business to help pay for their food.

In Iowa you couldn't charge that much. Everyone's got chickens. But in the Bay area rich people in Tesla's will pay alot of money for green/blue eggs (novelty) and take their kids in the chicken coop to see the chickens. I've found you are selling an experience not just the eggs. Then you can make a lil cash....like I said at least be in the black and pay for their feed.

[jbaker]

I have found that surplus eggs are more valuable given as a donation to homeless shelters. I use the donation for tax credits while helping the community.

Also give some thought to raising bees. They have the best labor vs profit that I have found. Most hives break even in their first year. Honey and beeswax do great around here.