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3937, Business idea that needs some feedback.
Posted by dlknight, Tue Oct-06-09 08:50 PM
This is about selling meat chickens. I would take preorders for how many whole chickens people wanted. I would feed them, keep them in a kennel so they would have plenty of room to range. To keep from having to be licensed. I would presell the chickens and basically offer to do the butchering from free. You can purchase day old chicks for less than $2 each. A cornish game hen would be ready to process in 4 weeks, a fryer would be like 6 weeks, and a roaster at 8 weeks. See each cornish game hen for $10, each fryer for $12.50, and each roaster for $15. I have the fenced in range areas already. The only upfront cost to me would be ordering the chickens and the food. I have all my own processing equipment. I only have 11 layers right now but I could order more and actually sell eggs. I started taking preorders last year for tomato and pepper plants I started at home. I had 24 different varieties of tomatoes and 14 different pepper plants. I sold for $3.00 ea. I just did this from my wifes work. In two weeks we sold about $120 worth and there are not that many people working with her. If you bought 4 plants you would get the 5th one free. We have had great comments from the people who bought our plants. Back ot the poultry. I can also do turkeys. I am thinking the minis called White Midgets and a couple of other different breeds.

Well that is it so what do ya'll think?