Gotta get me my patch of dirt

[sarahbyrdd]

One of the farm blogs that I read broke down the $$ on raising chickens for meat:

"Since this is the first year I am only buying feed and birds (already had all the supplies and a barn) the cost to raises this clean meat is only 1.99 a chick and two or three fifty pound bags of chick feed. It comes to about 40 dollars in chicks, 30 dollars in feed (max) and three dollars a bird to have them processed and packaged. Which comes to a grand total of $130 for 160 pounds of free-range chicken from a sustainable farm. Making each bird cost about $1.23 a pound. Not too shabby."

coldantlerfarm.blogspot.com/ "Cornish's Rock" on 3/14. 

Her math is backwards, but I still like those numbers.  And consider that this is her first year and she's probably paying more on feed and chicks this year than she will in subsequent years.  Of course, this is the best case scenario and everyone should plan for disaster: scienceblogs.com/casaubonsbook/2011/03/inconceivable_why_failure_shou.php

Comments

[kragore.livejournal.com]

I follow her too, and I'm trying ever so hard to convince the folks to do a few dozen meat birds... but it's hard - they are there with the location, and me, the one with the drive but no location, is way far away.

[sarahbyrdd.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, I'll just keep living vicariously through other people's blogs, and tending to my windowsill of herb pots.