I don’t have all the numbers in front of me, but they could very well be more expensive than they would be profitable were I to sell.

I know I paid $57 CAD for slaughter, packaging & freezing. Might estimate around ~$60 for food over 6 weeks. I forget how much each chick cost, but probably $40-ish dollars total. So if each bird sells for $8 (+/-) times 20 that is only a break-even proposition for six weeks of work, checking and/or feeding and watering 3x per day. It’s fine if it’s just for personal use, but I’m done trying to pretend that’s a viable economic situation to make a living off of (especially relative to what I can earn doing computer work at home — which I do farm/garden as a supplement/hobby to now)

That said, I’m not at all into the numbers game anymore this year. I did leave a lot of trails and financial analysis for a first year farm startup, which you can pick up the threads at here:

And I wrote this as my hypothesis before starting:

I can confidently say that while my analytical approach and basic theories are right in that ebook still, the numbers are wildly divergent from my lived reality. One day I’ll update that book I suppose with a new edition — but likely not any time soon.