Cornish Cross Spring 2018 Cost/Profit/Loss or Freezer Meat

[baymule]

I got 30 Cornish Cross chicks this morning, one was dead, leaving 29. They cost $1.60 each. We got week old CCX chicks at TSC a few days ago for FREE. We got 25, one died leaving 24. So now we have 53 CCX chicks.

I will post cost, any sales, and freezer meat.

Y’all join in @frustratedearthmother @NH Homesteader @Mini Horses (you know you want some) and anybody else that is raising CCX chicks.

 

[baymule]

Our customer that bought 10 chickens from us asked for more chicken. She wanted 2 packages of breast, 2 thighs and 2 drumsticks. I packaged the breast 3 pieces, thighs and drumsticks were not cut apart and packaged 4 to a package. It came to 14 pounds, cost $78.

So scrolling up to drag down some numbers...….

Total cost was $358.40

Sales $198.72
New sales $78

Brings our cost down to $81.68

We kept for ourselves 175.7 pounds of chicken, minus the 14 pounds we just sold, brings it down to 161.7 pounds for ourselves. This reduces our cost for the chicken we kept for ourselves to fifty cents a pound!

Not too shabby. We had chicken wings tonight. Delicious!

 

[baymule]

We kept our two little grand daughters last night and today. The 3 year old wasn't too enthusiastic, but the 18 month old was all about the chicks. She "helped" me clean the tub, clean the brooder, feed and water them. They both were so much fun.

 

[CrealCritter]

Our 3 year old granddaughter L O V E S chickens.

 

[tortoise]

When my DS2 was just a bit over a year old, he barely talked. He would say a word once, and never again. One of his first real words was "chicken"! We were sitting down to supper and had chicken. DS said "chicken" looking at his supper and then turned around 180 degrees and pointed at the chicken wallpaper border in the kitchen. He had already connected chicken the meat with chicken the animal. And he hadn't even seen butchering yet! . Smart baby!

 

[baymule]

Woohoo! I've lost track, how many left to do?

ZERO!! ZERO!! ZERO!!


I could pee my pants.....finally done with fricken chicken!

 

[CrealCritter]

Their all to young to stink - so yeah they are cute for a couple of days aren't they?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I bought my 12 meaties and a bag of starter feed for them on Tuesday.
12 Meaties @ 1.99 and a 50 lb bag of starter for 16.99. My total investment so far is 40.87. At this point my cost per bird is already $3.40.

 

[baymule]

Our neighbor Robert took some of our scrap lumber home and made me shavings with his table saw. He used a planer blade. I have to tell you, that is the best stuff for the "little stinkers"!!! It is absorbent, I scrape it up with a putty scraper, put it in a bucket and take to the compost pile. Beats newspapers.

For the brooder, I put newspapers in the tray below. I grab stacks of the free papers for the chicks. Even changing daily, they get nasty and gross.

I am liking the black horse water tub and pine shavings!

 

[baymule]

When we slaughtered 30-something Delaware roosters (never order straight run) I cut off the breast meat and packaged it. I cut off the leg and thigh meat and canned it. I simmered the bones and backs and canned the broth. I canned the backs and necks with cooked rice for dog food.

I think I'll be busy for awhile........

Thank you Bubba-Gump!