Chicken farming

[Teddy6677]

Looking at different options of diversifying and considering poultry. I know chicken farms ar popping up like mushrooms but with the change in supermarket regulations about free range chickens, I believe it could be good opportunity.

What would everyone believe be the best thing to get into, eggs or broilers?? Do you know of any large firms that be looking to help set up and offer some sort of franchise? Any tips or advice would be much appreciated.

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[Pieces_of_Eight]

Poultry is all about scale, as the margins per bird are so tiny.

Were you thinking of an add on to existing enterprises using spare labour, or a whole new enterprise?

 

[Deutzdx3]

A local company where I am used to have a lot of chickens. They still supply eggs but buy them off a big egg producer locally, take them
Back to their warehouse and stamp and box under their own brand and supply out. That would save the outlay and housing of chickens. They stopped with the chickens because what the previous chap said. Economy of scale. The company they buy eggs from 3 miles from their warehouse are the 3rd largest egg producer in the uk. Makes sense to buy from them and cut out the hassle of the animals.

 

[RWG Contracts]

A local company where I am used to have a lot of chickens. They still supply eggs but buy them off a big egg producer locally, take them
Back to their warehouse and stamp and box under their own brand and supply out. That would save the outlay and housing of chickens. They stopped with the chickens because what the previous chap said. Economy of scale. The company they buy eggs from 3 miles from their warehouse are the 3rd largest egg producer in the uk. Makes sense to buy from them and cut out the hassle of the animals.

They should be stamped before they leave the farm they where laid at

 

[Deutzdx3]

Maybe they have an agreement of some sort in place. Not sure. I know they have a lorry go
In each morning to collect lots of eggs to then package and sell locally on a pretty large scale. They might well be stamped using the original farm id with the other company’s name on the box. I would go and buy some but we just got 6 chickens at the weekend and are overwhelmed with eggs right now. ‍

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

I would try less than 50 layers and sell from my premises or door to door in my spare time. With no paperwork or labour to worry about, margins would be ok.

However, I'm up against a village and have spare time. What I don't have is space for more hens.

 

[Chasingmytail]

to make money from eggs you need numbers. I had a very small commercial organic pasture raised egg business. There is a good margin but I couldnt grow the business without investment then the thought of shifting all these eggs. I would never venture into a unit until I had experience of running a small flock and seeing the down sides. Personally I couldnt stand any industrial style unit. If we were farm gate Id go for a vending machine style. Door to door was too time consuming and miles clocked up.

 

[The Business Barn]

Hi there,
It might be worth having a look at Lloyds Animal Feeds - www.lloydsanimalfeeds.co.uk/diversification-opportunity-2.
Best wishes,
The Business Barn team

 

[Daniel]

Hi there,
It might be worth having a look at Lloyds Animal Feeds - www.lloydsanimalfeeds.co.uk/diversification-opportunity-2.
Best wishes,
The Business Barn team

Publishing margin over purchased feed and no other costs is grossly irresponsible though, don't fall for the marketing guff.

 

[case 5140]

broilers, i used to look after 95k as a part time job!,easy job.Eggs are alot of work,... both big money to set up......