Got 40 Cornish cross yesterday to be processed on Oct 21st. Learned lots of information from David H. on cost of feeding them out.
Roughly, it takes 12lbs of feed to finish one. At .30 cents a pound for non-certified organic feed from Ohio, that is $3.60 a chicken. Add in 1.00 each to buy the chicks. It takes 134 miles roundtrip to pick up the chicks and feed, and another trip to process them and that totals to 268 miles. Divide that by 15 miles a gallon and multiply by $2.79 a gallon for diesel and then divide by 50 birds (40 chickens and 10 turkeys) to be processed. That comes to $1.00 a bird for the fuel cost. Lastly, add in $2.48 a bird to have it processed.
So these birds cost me 8.08 each not including my labor.
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