Tally Prices and amount of feed. Amount of meat

We went through 8 1/2 bags of feed which brings it to 425 lbs of feed for 25 Freedom Rangers feed up to their 10 week old hatch dates. They were 10 weeks exactly on the day of processing. They were fed the Purina grower throughout their life along with some free ranging the last few weeks before processing. Trust me when I say, they STILL ate a lot of feed even though they were eating grass too. A 50 # bag of Purina grower is 12.59 per bag so that totals up to right around 109.00 and the cost of processing was right at 102.00 4 bags of pine shavings 4.59 for 3 cubic feet of shavings. we did lose one bird on the way to the processing plant so that throws off our totals by just a few bucks. But below you will find the totals for all 24 remaining birds.


55.00 Price of chicks Ordered from JMHatchery
+109.00 Feed
+102.00 Processing (1/2 of them quartered 1/2 of them eighted)
+ 18.36 Pine Shavings
+ 20.00 Heat lamp use
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314.36 TOTAL COST

Amount of actual meat we brought home was 87 lbs (bones in of course). So....

314.36 total cost
/ 24 birds
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= 3.61 per pound which isn't bad considering these are chemical free and pretty close to organic

13.10 per bird is what we paid to raise them and feed them and process them.

Give me your thought on this if YOU raised meat chickens.