Have a friend with a special needs son who needs 2 teeth pulled and will undergo anesthesia and kid you not they have him paying 12,000$ cash to do the surgery so I feel your pain! I hope you find something reasonable and they do a good job

Look into deep bedding for smell, also keep them fresh water and food for at least 12 hours a day, if you want to go further look into putting rabbits over the top of them and Bam you got high protein meat, eggs, and an absolute great fertilizer for a garden!

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Same breed whole different lifestyle and health

Roaring river is pretty awesome with hiking and outdoorsy stuff like trails and such, and it's only an hour and a half from (Springfield)

Yes, but as you mentioned I went over most cost I didn't add in maintenance, I also didn't add in help butchering, brooder costs and electric also bedding costs I just did quick math to show that I'm not making millions but yes batch 2 makes almost double what I bring in on batch 1 and batch 3 all the kinks are worked out for the year and the weather can be better if it's not super wet or super dry lol there are a lot of variables that can't be accounted for but batch 1 doesn't make much, batch 2 makes a little and batch 3 generally sets us up to make much needed improvements, update equipment, maybe someday expand or hire some help so yes there is money being generated but 99% goes towards the farm and making it better like I said not getting rich but expanding is always happening like I mentioned we want goats for kids and dairy, we want more egg layers, we want more pigs, we want better buildings equipment and one day I'd like to quit my off the farm job that subsidized the farm and just farm but in order to do these things money has to be made and I have to work really hard at producing the best products I can and sell them to people like you but as of right now off the farm I make 45k and on the farm I break even with updates and buying and selling animals to make my dream come true of having a regenerative and prosperous farm!

Well you're wrong though? I have to buy the feed in bulk for the next batch then I have to purchase the chickens? I accounted for the original birds and then the next batch? When you buy an animal that doesn't reproduce you have to make the purchase again? Which comes from the profit of the last batch?

Because after selling 500 birds you have to buy them again to sell again

Also if you send me an email I can send pictures of the process in which the birds are raised and go more into detail of how it works!

Yes but when living in Tyson and Georges country finding a local option trustworthy is the hard part but these chickens aren't exactly free range they're raised in a Chicken tractor 12'×12' to help with predator loss and to control where they go on pasture this breed of chicken is lazy and lethargic but it produces the most meat the fastest due to genetics and breed so it's the most cost worthy option for an 8 week grow time most other birds would be half the size in double the time so the outdoor Chicken tractor allows protection exercise sunlight bugs fresh grass we rotate 6 tractors with around 84 birds in each one moved across the pasture 2x per day

Nature's best but currently working with a local mill to find a more local option for feed that can hopefully reduce cost!

I completely understand but being chickens they are fed a non GMO and organic grain (not grass fed) and it's roughly 28$ a bag so doing the quick math of 500 birds is 1,572$+1/4lb feed per day per bird is 125lbs per day ×6weeks is roughly 5,250lbs ÷ 50 = 2940$ + average cost of water and a 10% loss (which is standard for chickens due to predators and a fast growing chicken raised outside) then my labor of raising the chicks which is roughly 2 hours a day then butchering day which I offer for free is around 6 hours per 100birds so hours of labor and care is 139.

1,572+2940+50 =$4562 total cost

500birds - 10% = 450birds

450birds × 25$ = $11,250

11,250 - 4,562 = 6,688

6,688 - 4562 = 2126

Profit is 2,126 labor hours 139 $per hour =15.29

I'm not getting rich by any means!

We are about an hour and 20 minutes outside of spring field!

We raise the Cornish cross breed and we are located in Southwest Missouri (25 minutes outside of Rogers Arkansas)

We put our Cornish cross chickens on pasture after the last frost of the year and they move across the fresh spring grass daily getting sunlight, bugs, worms and Fresh Air!

Well on whole chickens I'm at 6$ per lb we are currently raising a premium pork (Mangalitsa) which is a Hungarian swine breed with great marbling and is considered by many to be the Kobe of the swine since it is a slower growing breed it does cost more to produce but you will never have pork similar to it and our beef comes from a neighboring farm who raises grass fed beef and a whole beef will cost around 3,500+ butcher fees they are also going to be marketing sheep in the near future like I said we can discuss further options if you're interested!

Prices vary on everything deals can be made on bulk purchases for the chicken.

10whole birds - $300

20whole birds - $550

40 whole birds - $1,000

All cut up - will vary and be sold by the pound this year chicken breast for example will be 18$ a pound and legs and thighs 15$ a pound.

This seems high until you break down what I spend as stated before we are a non government subsidized farm so our cost is in our product instead of a government bailout program!

(Disclaimer all livestock, poultry, is purchased alive) we offer on farm butchering for the poultry for free!)

Food project in this case, means the consumer knows where it came from, how it was raised, the diet, and local instead of big market government subsidized and pumped full of vaccines and steroids for super growth these animals will be raised in fields with hay and grass, so by all means there is nothing free about the process because as before mentioned I cover all my cost uncle Sam don't foot the feed bill, pay for heat, water, and give me big checks to help me with anything I cover all costs and by doing so I give the best product I can and a product that is raised openly raised ethically and lived it's life as good as possible in turn There is less pollution, less diesel and oil consumption, less wasted meat and produce, more locally grown animals and won't be contributing to deadzones, will be using 99% of our waste as compost the reason I call it a project is because it is exactly that, we want to try these methods of Zero waste and local grown pasture based foods we also know the importance of making money and producing the absolute best quality meats possible to keep the consumer happy and wanting more!