Market Farming

[robert schuler <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>]

Bob I raised chickens in NJ for forty years, I gave up a few years ago 
because I
don't have enough time to devote to the birds and also because there is very 
little
profit in poultry. Feed is very expensive even when I made my own it was not 
cost
effective. Chicken tractors are sloppy dirty and attract rats and other 
varmints to
your yard. Keep your birds indoors on a deep dry litter and let them out to 
run once
a day. Don't ever clip their wings, chickens can not fly more than 10 feet, 
and
clipped wings throws them off balance. Stick with brown egg type birds like 
RI or NH
reds, people always will pay more for brown eggs.    Good luck
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.

bob111higgins AT comcast.net wrote:

> Sorry about the empty message.
>
> Can I ask on this list, can anyone cite @ production costs for eggs? Can I 
> add
> to the small income from my operation by raising 50 layers, or is it so
> marginal that I would need a huge operation to just make a few dollars?
>
> My plan would be to keep the chickens in portable coops in one of the fallow
> sections of my garden (fenced in, wings clipped, little veggie-eaters that 
> they
> are), and rotate their location as the sections rotate in and out of 
> production.
>
> Any thoughts? Thanks so much.
>
> Bob
> Red Brick Farm
> Hopewell, NJ
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