These are the financials for the first nine months of 2016. They should all be going up as the weather was beautiful and the chickens can free range this entire summer period. On average I had 24.6 laying hens (0.3 decrease, I am down to 23 hens) giving me 8.2 eggs/day(decrease 0.2 eggs/day) for a productivity rate of 33% (1% increase). I am going to blame some of this lousy productivity rate on piss poor egg collection. I would go days without collecting eggs and the chickens would step on them and break them. I also had 2 or 3 hens laying out in the barn and I missed collecting most of those eggs just because I could not find them! I am feeding on average 155.6# chicken feed/month(decrease 2.7 #/month) for a grand total of 1400# this year already (450# increase). My monthly feed bill is $36.86/month (decrease $0.78/month). My feed costs are $1.94/doz (decrease of $0.03/doz)with my total cost of production at $2.16/doz (decrease of $0.14/doz). My chickens are consuming 0.63 lbs food/egg produced (decrease 0.01lbs/egg), spring is here and gone with chickens free ranging for all they are worth and their owner doing a lousy job of egg collecting. Did I mention that the child used to have to go get eggs most of the time also? It is costing me $0.15/egg (no change) in feed. I have collected 1491 eggs to date (increase in 744 eggs). My total feed costs are $331.73 (increase of $105.92) and my extra expenses are $0. I currently am profiting $142.97 (increase of $106.08) for the year! After much discussion it was deemed that I should endeavor to collect eggs on a daily basis. I will work on this.
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