Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
How many kilos Would the eat a day ?
Pastured Poultry
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Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
No idea, sorry. Must be info online but I suppose it depends on what they can scratch and peck for themselves?
Organic free range varied from £10-£20 per bird profit when I did it 8 years ago. 1000 birds would eat 1 ton of feed per week.
Veryfruity
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125g day of feed for free range, 80% lay per day so 270 odd eggs a year
- Location
- Derbyshire
@Poorbuthappy Are you sending them out by courier?1
Glad you enjoyed the chicken
Amy's layers have moved into some of my my broilers' chicken tractors, so are "safe - ish", but are still on daily moves so still get that fresh grass and foraging, albeit with less room.
- Location
- Devon
We supply an online butcher in London.
Plus a few sold locally.
- Location
- Essex
There's definitely a living to be made, but how good a living depends on your ability to sell direct. Good visibility, parking and posh area and passing trade are all significant.
Personally, I'd rather collect the eggs than pluck and gut a dead bird.
Personally, I'd rather collect the eggs than pluck and gut a dead bird.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Do you have to kill em pluck em etc etc ?
- Location
- Devon
We get them done locally.
My neighbour will be doing them this season - he wasn't fully licensed last year so we had to go a little further.
Salatin is very keen on doing it "in house", and certainly, the cost is significant compared to your cheap supermarket chicken. However, with my neighbour already set up, and personally being up to capacity (
) in terms of labour, it made sense to outsource.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I’d love to give it a go but I don’t want to kill pluck etc etc .We get them done locally.
My neighbour will be doing them this season - he wasn't fully licensed last year so we had to go a little further.
Salatin is very keen on doing it "in house", and certainly, the cost is significant compared to your cheap supermarket chicken. However, with my neighbour already set up, and personally being up to capacity (
- Location
- Devon
Anyone local to you with facilities?
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Not that I’m aware of sadly.
- Location
- Devon
Maybe try the egg route as HVF says?
- Location
- Derbyshire
Ethical Butcher?
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Good lads. They were at Groundswell in 2018 & 2019
They sent us one of Poorbuthappy's (or, rather, Amy's) soy-free chickens to try. Absolutely delicious, completely different taste to any supermarket bird. Glad I didn't have to pay the full price...
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
What’s full price ?
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
We used to sell Christmas chickens up to 16lb at £1/lb back in 1982.......
- Location
- Devon
Err, the broilers are in fact mine
Eggs and pork is Amy's department
But yes he is pretty expensive. We're a fair bit cheaper sold locally, but still meet price resistance.
We're on a par with premium free range or organic locally, but I think London prices for those would be a fair bit more than here, so its a different market, with different costs.
The system is never going to compete with cheap supermarket chicken, but neither is the product comparable.
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Apologies and compliments to the farmer! Top chicken.Err, the broilers are in fact mine
Eggs and pork is Amy's department