Sunday, August 4, 2013

Prices of items needed for chickens

I went to IFA this weekend to price out chicken supplies (Utah, fall of 2013).  Here's what I found:

chicks:
Chicks ($4 from mypetchicken.com plus shipping $36)
reflector $14
bulb $4
chick feeder $2.49
chick waterer $1.75
chick food 5 lbs for $6 or 50 lbs for around $20

Chicks eat about 10 lbs of food per chick for the first 10 weeks.  For my 3 birds, I'd need about 30 lbs of starter feed.  So costs for the chicks is $43 not counting the chicks themselves plus the bedding plus the electricity to run the bulb (I might use news paper and boxes which would be free to me).


Chickens:
feeder 7.49
oyster shells 3.09
waterer 27.00
chicken food $19.49 for 40 lbs
pine shavings $11 for 12.5 cu. ft.
metal trash can (to store food and bedding)
Coop $250 ?
Run ?
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So initial costs of  chickens is $44.  Chickens eat about 1.5 lbs of feed per bird per week, so I would need 4.5 lbs of feed a week.  So food would run about $9 a month.  Shavings would be about $3 (assuming 16 sq ft coop, and having to add 4" a month).


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