Make Money Selling Live Chickens
If you have been considering keeping chickens for your own purposes perhaps you ought to consider the possibility of making money selling live chickens.
As I'm sure you know you could also sell eggs.
If you are still just thinking about keeping chickens now would be a good time to think about the possibility of making money from chickens as well.
When you plan the size of the coop and run you can make both a little larger to accommodate more chickens for your little business.
One of the purposes of keeping chickens is so you can be sure you are getting organic eggs and meat.
Therefore, when offering live chickens and eggs to sell you can offer the chickens as being organically fed and the eggs from organically fed chickens.
When you build the coop just make sure it is large enough so each of the chickens will have 4 sq.
ft.
of room within the coop.
This is very important because if you do not the roosters and chickens will attack each other to make room for themselves.
You will also need to make sure there are plenty of feeders and water dishes depending on how many chickens and roosters you will be accommodating.
The rule of thumb for each feeder and each water dish would be 2 to 4 chickens each.
You will also need to be sure there are enough nesting boxes for the chickens to lay their eggs.
There again two to four chickens per box.
You will also have to be sure there are enough perches for all of the chickens and roosters and they all need to be the same height.
They should also be placed higher than the nesting boxes, but not directly above them.
When measuring the size of the run you must be sure that each chicken and rooster has at least 6 1/2 sq.
ft.
in which to roam.
There again it is very important, the more room they have the better and if they don't have it they will attack each other.
Chickens are sociable but they need their space.
There is definitely a market for selling live chickens and eggs.
More and more people are planning to keep chickens.
Hence your opportunity to sell live chickens.
Of course, not everybody wants to keep chickens but would like organic eggs.
This is definitely something to consider if you are going to be keeping chickens anyway.
With the price of everything going up these days certainly a few extra dollars coming in would, no doubt help.
As I'm sure you know you could also sell eggs.
If you are still just thinking about keeping chickens now would be a good time to think about the possibility of making money from chickens as well.
When you plan the size of the coop and run you can make both a little larger to accommodate more chickens for your little business.
One of the purposes of keeping chickens is so you can be sure you are getting organic eggs and meat.
Therefore, when offering live chickens and eggs to sell you can offer the chickens as being organically fed and the eggs from organically fed chickens.
When you build the coop just make sure it is large enough so each of the chickens will have 4 sq.
ft.
of room within the coop.
This is very important because if you do not the roosters and chickens will attack each other to make room for themselves.
You will also need to make sure there are plenty of feeders and water dishes depending on how many chickens and roosters you will be accommodating.
The rule of thumb for each feeder and each water dish would be 2 to 4 chickens each.
You will also need to be sure there are enough nesting boxes for the chickens to lay their eggs.
There again two to four chickens per box.
You will also have to be sure there are enough perches for all of the chickens and roosters and they all need to be the same height.
They should also be placed higher than the nesting boxes, but not directly above them.
When measuring the size of the run you must be sure that each chicken and rooster has at least 6 1/2 sq.
ft.
in which to roam.
There again it is very important, the more room they have the better and if they don't have it they will attack each other.
Chickens are sociable but they need their space.
There is definitely a market for selling live chickens and eggs.
More and more people are planning to keep chickens.
Hence your opportunity to sell live chickens.
Of course, not everybody wants to keep chickens but would like organic eggs.
This is definitely something to consider if you are going to be keeping chickens anyway.
With the price of everything going up these days certainly a few extra dollars coming in would, no doubt help.