g'day g'day we are 20 days in to the
chickens for profit so at the time of
the recording it's now the 20th of May
and if you've just joined us on this
journey that the month of May and I'll
probably extend him to June and July but
for the moment I'm just gonna stick with
May I'm doing a series called chickens
for profit and I'm going to show you a
few different ways to make money out of
chickens on a small area so I'm not
going to go into ways that require sort
of 2,000 laying hens so what I've got
behind me these are some chickens I
brought in from a hatchery I end up
buying in 300 of them which was like
nine days ago or something and I think
I've got about 60 left to sell so this
was just one way you can make money on a
small area by buying in chickens and if
you've been following along the journey
I want to give you a little bit of an
update and answer a few questions that
people have had so one of the things
I've wanted to do with this series is
make it real so I've bought in 300
chickens and the ones behind me that
they were sold but someone cancelled the
order so I want to share some of that
with you of some of the real-life things
I've got another 200 coming next week
but I got smart I did it differently the
other 200 just so I'm not trying to keep
track of every order I just created an
online store on a website and people
could buy online so they're fully paid
for upfront so it's going to be unlikely
I get any cancelled orders if they've
already paid for them so these are some
of the tips I want to give to you if
this is something you want to do to make
some income so one of the other things I
want to cover is in this example when I
say I've made it real with the 300
chickens I'm selling these to people I
don't know I haven't gone out to the
chicken Caravan email list the chicken
Caravan youtube channel or Facebook page
and said hey by the way I've got
chickens it's not secretly that I've
sold two hundred and fifty to a friend
down the road that pre-ordered these 300
chickens the most I've sold to one
person is thirty chickens so that's 10%
all the other orders have been less than
30 chickens so some people will come and
they'll buy two chickens others six
chickens for ten a lot of them are small
sales and I wanted to share this with
you because this is something you can do
so a bit of feedback in no particular
order if it's seen in the original video
I actually had this trail under the
cover over and I was brooding the
chickens in here and the reason the
reason I showed you how to the reason I
showed you had a brood chickens in here
is to say you could use a box trailer
and brood chickens in it now when they
get to a few days old you sort of reach
in to try and grab a chicken and they
run away and it's not amazing access I'm
or did that to show you some other
creative ways to do chickens
oh I've also shown you by using just an
ordinary fan heater it can heat up that
area quite warm for the chickens but
moving forward if you're going to do
this on a regular basis I would show you
how to do it with and you've seen in
other videos how we use the Eco grower
you can put down the sawdust floor you
can step in - it's the out of the wind
and rain and you can do that out in the
paddock and you can use a cheap plate so
the trailer was good but not very
user-friendly to sort of go in and reach
reach for chickens and such because I've
sold most of them I've now put the
remaining chickens in this little
brooder in this little brooder box and
yeah so they'll be picked up soon the
other thing so I did mention I had a few
canceled orders that was a little bit
annoying because people I had either
can't sort of lower a bit of a no-show
I'll be there on Friday I didn't come so
now I've done it through an online store
that's gonna be a lot less likely to
happen someone said about logistics and
how do people pick them up
so I wanted to create a very seamless
pickup process so after that that had
ordered their chickens I gave them
options of a few days with different
time slots they could pick pick them up
so for instance I might have said on
Wednesday between 3:00 p.m. and 4:00
p.m. you can pick them up at this
address please bring the right money and
a box or a cage to pick them up in and
also would you like a bag of feed that's
ten dollars so I'd ask for all that up
front so I don't have someone coming say
well I've got a $100 note I don't have a
box or a cage that's cutting into my
time so I can help sort of six or seven
people in one hour
pick up the chickens the right money
they've got a box and then that they can
go again
so I'll just finish off this video with
a few stats so so far this month my
costings to buying the chickens and also
the feed has been fifteen hundred and
forty five dollars my total sales has
been over two thousand two hundred so so
far that's a net profit this month of
six hundred and sixty-seven dollars
I've still got chickens to sell I'm not
counting the ones that they haven't been
picked up and paid for so so far this
month six hundred and sixty-seven we're
only into day twenty of the month part
of those sales was fertile eggs one
dozen and more did that for the case
study I could have sold a lot more
fertile eggs but I wanted to show you
you could sell fertile eggs I've sold
three kilo bags of feed I've sold
fourteen of them and I think two hundred
and fourteen chickens so that's where
day twenty of chickens for profit so
continue to follow the journey either on
Facebook or YouTube and at the end of it
all well I'll try and do it soon I'll
show you the actual spreadsheet and show
you each individual sale and I might
even turn it into a webinar where I can
go over it over like a thirty minute
period and do all the breakdown and and
show you what my ads look like and show
you that where I'm selling it on gumtree
anyway you
a great afternoon day morning whatever
time you are watching this video and
I'll talk to you on the next video thank
you