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Is selling eggs profitable or worth it? A deep dive into a small egg business
If you would have told me 20+ years ago when I first started raising laying hens that eggs would be newsworthy, I would have laughed. But here we are in 2025 and eggs are making headlines! Go figure! When I first started in the egg laying business, it was simply for my own use and to sell a few with the hopes of making a few dollars. But I was very laid back about it and basically set prices based on store bought prices, not really paying attention to my expenses. They were great eggs and folks enjoyed them. But a couple of years ago, I decided that enough was enough and I needed to know what these eggs were costing me and how much profit I was actually making. It was time to treat this like a business! It is time to get real!
Self Sufficient Homestead with Poultry
A self sufficient homestead can look different for every person who chooses to live this lifestyle. Breeding and raising birds from your own flock and incubating meat chicken hatching eggs, hatching chicken eggs for laying hens and hatching turkey eggs may help to achieve goals of a self sufficient homestead. In this article I explore this possibility.
Raising Cornish Cross Chickens - Is 8 weeks the most profitable timeframe
I raise pastured poultry and I love this method of housing for the Cornish Cross. However, how long I leave them out on the grass has always been a bit of a debate. As a one meal sized bird, reflected in online teachings and commercial production, is typically desired, it is recommend that the Cornish Cross be only raised to eight weeks of age and then processed. The claim is that this is the point when you start loosing money if raised longer. I question this and so in 2024 I set out to determine if this was in fact the case. The data I collected and the subsequent analysis gave some interesting results.
Deep Bedding and Deep Litter Method in Cold Climates
If you have done any research into keeping poultry and other animals, the use of deep bedding as made popular by Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms is sure to come up along with other influencers who mimick the method. Although I can not disagree with the principles of deep litter and deep litter method, I feel they are forgetting one key component for cold climate dwellers, extreme cold air temperature and its influence on the success of the method.
Success...Finally! Hatching chicken eggs
In my persuit of being able to hatch my own meat bird chicks and laying hen chicks, I have been using my new incubator for hatching chicken eggs. The success has been dismal for the first two hatches, but I finally think I figured it out and ended up with a reasonable hatching success. It has certainly not been without its disappointments. Hatching chicken eggs is not always easy.
Trying Pastured Poultry for first time with DIY Moveable Chicken Coop
I have always raised laying and broiler chickens in fixed housing because I always thought it to be easier. And although they do get grass as I bring the grass to the birds, I do have to clean their pens. So this year, I am going to try using a moveable chicken coop AKA chicken tractor that I build myself to house some pasture raised chicken. And it only cost me about $115.00 CDN.
Incubating Chicken Eggs
I have been incubating chicken eggs for many years. In hopes of improving self sufficiency, I have been incubating more than usual this year. But like most things, it doesn't always go as planned. It has been an interesting year, but learning along the way and not giving up is key. But will I be successful this time incubating chicken eggs?
Poultry and a Self Sufficient Homestead. Is it doable?
A self sufficient homestead can look different for every person who chooses to live this lifestyle. Breeding and raising birds from your own flock by incubating meat chicken hatching eggs, hatching chicken eggs for laying hens and hatching turkey eggs may help to achieve goals of a self sufficient homestead. In this blog article I explore this possibility.
Poultry and a Self Sufficient Homestead
A self sufficient homestead can look different for every person who chooses to live this lifestyle. Breeding and raising birds from your own flock and incubating meat chicken hatching eggs, hatching chicken eggs for laying hens and hatching turkey eggs may help to achieve goals of a self sufficient homestead. In this article I explore this possibility.
Breeding and Raising Poultry on a Self Sufficient Homestead
A self sufficient homestead can look different for every person who chooses to live this lifestyle. Breeding and raising birds from your own flock by incubating meat chicken hatching eggs, hatching chicken eggs for laying hens and hatching turkey eggs may help to achieve goals of a self sufficient homestead. In this article I explore this possibility.
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