Would it be a good project to breed a few chickens and sell them as family pets for eggs?

Question

As they are becoming more and more popular in my village.

Answer 1

Hi,

If they are becoming popular in your village, do you see anyone buying your eggs as apposed to buying them from someone else?

What you need is something different from the rest of your village so people will buy yours first.

You can buy chickens that lay blue eggs! They are called Cream crested leg bars, and even better they can be sexed at day olds, so there's another reason for keeping this breed........ you can sell your neighbours day old female chicks too.

You don't need chickens ,have you considered keeping japanese quails for egg production? They lay just as many eggs as chickens, cheaper to house, cheaper to feed, easy to look after, but best of all, you can charge twice as much for the eggs!! Quail will lay eggs in less than 8 weeks old, (chickens don't lay until after 20 weeks old)

Quails eggs are becoming popular, so be the first in your village to keep them, sell the eggs and just count the profits.

Answer 2

Village?

uh-huh...do whatever you can do to legally feed yourself and your family.

Be aware of chicken p**p which is toxic in water suppplies. It has to go somewhere. Where will it go?

Answer 3

You could do although you must ensure they are given the appropriate types of vaccinations before selling them.

Answer 4

It might -you probably won't make much off of it, but it would be fun, and it's easy to do.

It's much more profitable for the companies that churn out thousands of chicks a week -I don't know if the people in your area have that kind of service availiable to them though.

Answer 5

Sounds good, ask around the village first - you don't want hundreds of chickens with nowhere to go!  And will you sell them as chicks or point of lay hens?  What would you do with cockerals?  And bear in mind it would be cruel to sell chicks to people who don't know what to do with them, they need brooder boxes and heat lamps and special food etc.  Just do some research first - sounds like a great idea though!